Update. "We evaluated how the #gender composition of top-cited authors within different subfields of research has evolved over time…Men outnumbered women 1.88-fold among all authors, decreasing from 3.93-fold to 1.36-fold over time. Men outnumbered women 3.21-fold among top-cited authors, decreasing from 6.41-fold to 2.28-fold over time." Imbalances varied greatly by discipline. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.25.542328v1
Update. In political science, "journal articles authored exclusively by female scholars score 27% lower on average [on Altmetric Attention Scores, AAS] than exclusively male-authored outputs. However, men are also more likely to write articles with an AAS of zero. These patterns are shaped by the presence of high-scoring male 'superstars' whose research attracts much online attention." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41304-023-00431-y
Thoughts on watching the Duggars exposé series "Shiny Happy People":
Why there's David Zaslav, now in the news as an éminence grise behind Chris Licht at CNN, as CNN tries rebranding itself as the alternative FOX. There's David Zaslav, in the thick of things as the Duggars vault to fame on the Discovery network, of which he's CEO.
What's that about, the Zaslav link to both of these stories?
Those who respond, "Well, they have a right to their peculiar religious beliefs," spectacularly miss the point. The point is that they intend to impose these beliefs on you and me by law, and they are working tirelessly to achieve that goal.
Spot the people of color in the footage of IBLP gatherings or young IBLP folks being groomed for political power. I challenge you to find them in any of that footage.
I cannot forget: at the very same time that Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and their son Josh were making political hay by attacking LGBTQ people as a threat to children, Josh was downloading child pornography and had molested his own younger sisters -- and Jim Bob and Michelle knew and hid all of this.
Discovery made the Duggars, hand-picked and gave them iconic status. Why?
Of all the families Discovery could have chosen to hold up as iconic, why the Duggars -- a right-wing Republican white Christian fundamentalist family in the small-town South? These are the people the media constantly chide us for not listening to in the Trump era. But there they are front and center on Discovery for years before Trump….
The cornerstone of the movement, its raison d'être: the absolute unquestioned right of men, straight ones, to own, control, command, the absolute obligation of women and everyone else to submit and obey.
One reason this movement continues to have such sway in US society is that many of us who are not part of that cultic world unquestioningly accept these cultural presuppositions based on gender stereotypes.
One of the most stomach-churning aspects of the series is watching women in the IBLP network groom girls to be the kind of women the men leading the movement want: utterly submissive, hanging on men's every word, uttering mindless nothings in litte-girly voices, dressing in infantilizing outfits to please male eyes.
"The number of Americans who think there are only two gender identities increased from just under 6 in 10 (59%) in 2021 to nearly two-thirds (65%) in 2023."
The culture wars, especially the relentless attack on transgender human beings, are having a predictable effect in a culture long wedded to the idea that gender is binary, biologically fixed, and that "traditional" masculine roles should be defended or things will fall apart. Religious ideas are key here.
"The survey report, 'The Politics of Gender, Pronouns and Public Education,' comes amid national political debates over gender identity, battles over public-school curriculums, and recent waves of legislation restricting transgender rights and discussion of LGBTQ topics in schools by state legislatures and school boards."
"This is part of a lecture by Brian D. Earp, PhD (University of Oxford) for an online course hosted by the Alden March #Bioethics Institute of the Albany Medical College. Recorded May 7, 2023."
Uberoi, M., Abdulcadir, J., Ohl, D. A., Santiago, J. E., Rana, G. K., & Anderson, F. W. (2022). Potentially under-recognized late-stage physical and psychosexual complications of non-therapeutic neonatal penile circumcision: a qualitative and quantitative analysis of self-reports from an online community forum.
Kundgebung gegen queerfeindliche Gewalt in Hannover
Am 27. Mai fand in Hannover der diesjährige CSD statt. Ein Tag also, an dem für die Rechte und die Sichtbarkeit queerer Menschen auf die Straße gegangen wird.
Doch ausgerechnet an diesem Tag kam es zu einer Vielzahl queerfeindlicher Übergriffe auf CSD-... https://radiocorax.de/kundgebung-gegen-queerfeindliche-gewalt-in-hannover/
Headed for the governor’s desk, #SB14 shows that the Legislature has no idea what #healthcare for #trans kids even is.
Correspondent Nancy Goldstein returns to the Observer to bust myths about #gender-affirming care... not to mention the idea that the #Republicans care, at all, about children:
So, you think you might, maybe, possibly be trans, huh?
Yeah, that’s scary as hell, isn’t it?
Questioning your #gender is hard, scary, and is often really, really confusing. This week on #StainedGlassWoman, we're presenting a scientific, systematic process to help you find a real answer to that question--and I'll explain the science at every step.
So come on by and maybe find the answer you've been looking for.
“There’s no question that Ron DeSantis’s attacks on democracy represent an aggressive, fascistic step towards the evangelical vision of american christian theocracy. There should also be no doubt that it will fail.”
One of #Australia's largest medical insurers will no longer cover GPs and private practitioners against claims arising from 'gender transitioning treatments' for patients under 18-years-old.
“We don’t think we can accurately and fairly price the risk of regret.”
MDA National’s president said the decision was made in response to legal cases, including the high-profile inquiry into, and subsequent closure of Tavistock – Britain’s only children’s #gender clinic.
Exploring Transgender Law and Politics - Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (signsjournal.org)
Exploring Transgender Law and Politics...