I’ve been reading blogs for a while now, and there are a few posts that I remember really influencing me. One of these was by Jehanzeb from Muslim Reverie, called The Man Box (link here): A recent online discussion sparked a heated debate over the idea of platonic friendships. A video was shared about Steve Harvey, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sexism’
The Man Box
Posted in Feminism, Gender, Guest Post, Identity, Masculinity, Media, Patriarchy, Sexism, Sexuality, tagged Gender, Masculinity, Patriarchy, Sexism on April 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Science & objectivity
Posted in Reproduction, Science, Sexism, tagged Reproduction, Science, Sexism, Women on April 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Many of us were raised in contexts that valued science above all other ways of understanding the world. Science was above religion, above social “sciences”, above local knowledges. This was largely due to the fact that it was seen as more objective than any other form of knowledge. It was only recently that I started to question [...]
