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Sharing ideas and provocations on living single while happy. Reflecting on the social psychology of stereotypes and other cultural phenomena.

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Painful Realization

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Rachel
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I humbly regret    not seeing what you saw    not trusting your word even       though i know you experienced it    not starting to unlearn sooner    not understanding until i saw the numbers    50-50 is not the same as    30-70 And then …
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Posted in Activism, Politics | Tagged personal responsibility, racism, sexism, transforming oppression, white privilege | Leave a reply

Singlism and Sexism Interact

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Rachel
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Reading an article on the underlying framework that can help evaluate affirmative action, I realized why single women are viewed so much more negatively than single men. It’s the interaction of sexism and singlism. Wasserstrom wrote in 1977 describing the …
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Posted in Feminism, Quick note, Singles By Choice | Tagged marriage, sexism, singlism | 9 Replies

Studying Singlism

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Rachel
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I’ve been thinking a lot about singlism lately. In fact, my first philosophy paper uses it as an example prejudice. While writing the paper, I was mulling over why I should study singlism with all those other prejudices and biases …
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Posted in Feminism, On research, Singles By Choice | Tagged Bella DePaulo, couplemania, matrimania, sexism, singlism | 13 Replies

Updates on Gender, Science and Discrimination

Posted on July 7, 2008 by Rachel
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There are a couple of interesting recent studies that provide updates to the gender and science discussion between Harvard professors Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke both pointing toward Spelke’s side of the argument that most, if not all, of the …
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Posted in On research, Science | Tagged gender gap, sexism | Leave a reply

Gender, Science and Discrimination

Posted on June 20, 2008 by Rachel
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A post over at the Feminist Philosophers’ blog talks about an amazing woman, Alia Sabur, who is the world’s youngest professor in the history of academia. She also happens to be a Muslim. JJ ends her post stating that in …
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Posted in Feminism, On research, Science | Tagged Elizabeth Spelke, gender bias, sexism, Steven Pinker | 4 Replies

“Lost Boys” loses girls

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Rachel
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As the mother of a teenage boy, I was eager to read the article Lost Boys in the June 2008 edition of the Monitor. I was rather disappointed. The article ignores that despite the supposed educational gap, men still earn …
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Posted in Activism, Feminism | Tagged sexism, singlism | Leave a reply

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