fuck yeah heteronormativity

Girls swept all three age categories in the competition, a contrast to generations past when women were largely excluded from the science world.

“Personally I think that’s amazing, because throughout my entire life, I’ve heard science is a field where men go into,” Ms. Bose said. “It just starts to show you that women are stepping up in science, and I’m excited that I was able to represent maybe just a little bit of that.” She will start her senior year of high school in the fall.

The research these girls did is amazing. I am a science major myself, and I will say it is always depressing to realize how few women are in the major and field that I work in. I am not posting this because it explicitly relates to gender, but just because it made me happy to hear about girls sweeping the science fair.

gadgetry:

teallikethecolor:

jeuxdeau:

thenjw | que-decir:

The romances in the game are not for “the straight male gamer”. They’re for everyone. We have a lot of fans, many of whom are neither straight nor male, and they deserve no less attention.

I love you, BioWare.

it looks pretty much like bioware loves you back.

“And if there is any doubt why such an opinion might be met with hostility, it has to do with privilege. You can write it off as “political correctness” if you wish, but the truth is that privilege always lies with the majority. They’re so used to being catered to that they see the lack of catering as an imbalance. They don’t see anything wrong with having things set up to suit them, what’s everyone’s fuss all about? That’s the way it should be, any everyone else should be used to not getting what they want. … And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least. And that’s my opinion, expressed as politely as possible.”

Slow clap.

gadgetry:

et-tu-dionysus:

[trigger warning on the article]
nefariousnewt:

onebigpear:

drmonkeyface:

turn-on-the-neon:

I’m literally shaking in anger and disgust. 

If you have the time, please. 

Signed, and shared.

Done.

Signed it earlier but forgot to reblog.

Tumblr, you know what to do.

The tone of this article really is unforgivable.

this is horrifying. every single part of this is horrifying.

(Source: kitteh-neon)

projectqueer:

BBC Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills was in Uganda recently filming a show called “The World’s Worst Place to be Gay?” where he met with M.P. David Bahati, the sponsor of the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill (a.k.a. the “Kill the Gays” Bill) that is still before that nation’s Parliament.

During Mills’s encounter with Bahati, Mills confessed that he was gay.

That’s when, according to Mills, Bahati “went mental“:

He explained: “He was scary. He ordered us to cut the cameras then brought a security guard. We ran off and he rang one of our guys saying, ‘Where are they staying? What are the registration plates? I want them arrested. They won’t get far’.”

Fortunately Scott’s colleague lied about their location, and armed police arrived at the Sheraton – where they had been falsely told the team were staying. The DJ continued: “I’d heard horror stories about people getting arrested and roughed up and who knows what. I was scared.”

(Source: queerwatch)

projectqueer:

On Tuesday, the Indiana House passed a constitutional ban on gay marriage for the second time.

The measure, House Joint Resolution 6, amends the original bill from 2005 and passed 70-26 with votes from all but one Republican and 11 Democrats, according to indystar.com. Though gay marriage is already illegal in Indiana, this would write a ban on gay marriage and any relationship “substantially similar” into the state constitution

The bill now advances to the state Senate. If approved, it will take another three years before the constitution is changed, as the constitution needs approval from two consecutive and separately elected legislatures. If the General Assembly adopts the resolution this year, it would have to do so again in 2013 or 2014 in order for the resolution to be placed on the 2014 ballot, according to WSBT . It will not be easy, if the Democrats regain control of the House and Senate in the meantime.

Rep. Eric Turner (R-Marion), who wrote the resolution, said, “The basic unit of society is the family, and the cornerstone of the family is marriage. Marriage is and should be between one man and one woman.” Turner believes the constitutional ban will prevent the state Supreme Court from overturning anti-gay marriage laws, as happened in Iowa courts.

Critics think this ban will instigate hate crimes and discrimination. “One of the most important things a state or federal constitution does, what it’s supposed to do, is protect the minority…from the tyranny of the majority,” Rep. Matt Pierce (D-Bloomington) said on Indystar.com.

woooods:

“…a troubling gender difference in attributional style. That is, boys are more likely than girls to attribute their failures to lack of effort, and girls are more likely than boys to attribute their failure to lack of ability. Carol Dweck and her colleagues have found that this difference results in part from boys and girls being subtly taught different ways to interpret both their successes and their failures (Dweck, et. al 1978). They observed teachers’ feedback patterns in fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms and found that despite the fact that girls, on average, outperform boys in school, negative evaluations of girls’ performance were almost exclusively restricted to intellectual inadequacies. In contrast, 45% of the criticism of boys’ work referred to nonintellectual factors… Dweck and her colleagues argue from these data that girls learn that criticism means they lack ability, whereas boys learn that criticism means that they haven’t worked hard enough or paid enough attention to detail” (Gilovich, 2011)