Recently, I started a new job. To someone as prone to anxiety as I am, this was a stressful experience. Meeting new people, hoping people like you…it’s a freaking nightmare! And it’s not helped by the fact that I seem to speak my own language. More than once I’ve been on the receiving end of blank looks when I say things like “Intertubz” and “what the what.”
A guest post by Aurora Vesper:
Our culture has a problem with rape myths. They’re pervasive, they’re anti-feminist, they encourage victim-blaming, and, perhaps most importantly, they’re false. They are more akin to superstitions than they are anything else. What am I talking about? I’m talking about these ideas we have floating around in our cultural psyche about what rape is, what it looks like, who the victims are, and how to prevent it. We’ve more than likely all heard at least some of them, and, we’ve almost undoubtedly seen them implicitly frame a discussion without our conscious awareness. And if you’ve been around feminist circles for any length of time, you know them and what harm they do. If you don’t, here’s a couple of many resources that cover’s the subject broadly.
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We work really hard here at Teen Skepchick to write about and post awesome things related to science, skepticism, and feminism. But there is so much more. Seriously. We’re up to our eyeballs in cool pictures, videos, and articles that we just don’t have time to post about. What’s a weblog to do?
The rumors are true. Teen Skepchick is looking for writers. Are you interested? We can’t pay you, unless you consider good times and being surrounded by lots of smart young people to be pay. WHICH I DO. In that case, you’ll be a metaphorical bajillionaire in no time.
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What exactly does it mean to be color blind? People have varying misconceptions about this–the most common forms of color blindness doesn’t mean that you can’t perceive any color, or that you see the entire world in grayscale. What it really means that their total color space is skewed.
That is, the color blind are incapable of seeing the entire rainbow as everybody else sees the rainbow. I’ve given a couple examples of what this set of color pencils might look like if you were color blind. What’s the biology behind this?
What a rainbow of pencils would look like with normal vision. Images from Colour Blind Awareness.
There’s a great article up over at Pandagon right now about why some people find women’s sexuality scary, and it really hit home for me because it focused on the fact that many people who look to limit women’s sexual choices have a strong emphasis on how absolutely different men and women are. I’ve actually been in the process of writing a distinction paper about the religious extreme of this position, gender complementarianism, which says that God made men and women inherently different, and that each one needs to act according to his/her position or the whole world will fall apart (including our relationship with God).
Some parents love television and some people hate it, but there’s no denying that it plays a large part in almost every child’s development today. However, this blog post isn’t about whether kids should watch TV or not- it’s about the sorts of programmes that are on offer. Are there really shows out there which are both educational and fun? Or does one have to be sacrificed for the sake of the other?
