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Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Sep 25, 2017

“How Vector Space Mathematics Reveals the Hidden Sexism in Language”

“the relationships between words could be captured by simple vector algebra. For example, “man is to king as woman is to queen” or, using the common notation, “man : king :: woman : queen.” Other relationships…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Sep 4, 2017

“How Wall Street Bro Talk Keeps Women Down”

“Women on Wall Street widely report experiencing overt sexism. A bond trader friend received a smaller-than-expected bonus after refusing to sleep with her boss, and soon quit. Another friend sued her employer, a major bank, after it took away all her…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Sep 16, 2017

“The Struggle to Save Teen ‘Love Huts’ in Cambodia”

“There were consequences to the opinions of outsiders. History and memory have been revised, and meanwhile, the maiden huts have gone from Ratanakkiri. No one builds them anymore in Cambodia, says Ly Sam Oeun. The few that remain are in the…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Sep 8, 2017

“Sexism is Hard to Explain”

“I thought of the men on Reddit who call women cunts because some ladies don’t want the door opened for them. Every time I read the men’s wounded lash-outs, I sadly laugh at how they think the thing is the thing. The door isn’t the thing. For me, the incident this morning was a…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Sep 11, 2017

“In Connecticut, Calling for Help Carries Risks for Victims of Domestic Violence”

“Dilawar is one of hundreds of Connecticut women arrested each year along with the men who assault them under a procedure known as “dual arrests.” In theory, dual arrests are meant to hold…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Sep 24, 2017

“The All-Male Photo Op Isn’t a Gaffe. It’s a Strategy.”

“President Trump ran a campaign of aggrieved masculinity, appealing to men who felt their rightful place in society has been taken from them by a stream of immigrants stealing their jobs, women who don’t need husbands to support them…

Jess Brooks in Genders, and other gendered things

Sep 29, 2017

“No More Books by Men”

“There is a trick of Pavlovian conditioning that I’ve been using lately on my best girlfriend. She is a person who sends a lot of text messages and a person who does a lot of Crossfit, so that particular Venn diagram means that she is she a person who sends a lot of text messages about…

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