It’s Monday. It’s time for the roundup. I’ve only got three goodies for you, but are they ever good.
- Coming soon to a Playstation near you: progressive website frequenter Martin Dufresne is designing a video game, and needs, he says, “Egregious SHORT quotes by allegedly Great Men and current antifeminist activists. French essayist Benoîte Groult assembled a full book of such quotes in 1993–’Cette mâle assurance.’ Do you folks know if anyone has done the same for English speakers? Do you have a groaner or two you want to share?” If you do, pass them on to Martin at his Facebook site, or throw them down in the comments section and we’ll pass ‘em on.
- This is exciting for the change agents among us. About a week and a half ago at Change.org, blogger Amanda Kloer wrote a post about the fact that credit card company Diners Club had teamed up (sorry, partnered) with a Vietnamese mail-order bride company to offer men a payment plan of sorts, allowing men to buy a Vietnamese woman on credit. As Kloer’s most recent post indicates, her article–and the deluge of protest mail received by Diners Club–forced them to back off and sever their deal with Vietnam Brides International.
- You know how L’Oreal (yes, that L’Oreal) and UNESCO have been getting together (oh, sorry again, partnering) to fund women scientists’ research? They’ve just put out a Women and Science booklet, which includes “new profiles, from interviews with young women at the start of their science careers, tell their stories of passion and persistence —what drives and excites them about their work in the sciences.” I’d like to get excited about this, but judging from what blogger Ms. Ph.d. has to say over at Young Female Scientist, things ain’t quite that shiny, happy for women in science at this point.
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