by Carl Howard | Jan 6, 2016 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Charity and Philanthropy, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Medicine, Race, Resources, Food and Environment
[CN: All the things] Dear noodly overlord, I know that 2016 has already started but you’re as generous as the FSMas season is long. I know that if you look at it from one way there’s never been a better time to be alive. Last year was the first year child mortality...
by Carl Howard | Dec 22, 2015 | History, Race, Resources, Food and Environment, Travel
One genre that does well online is photo-essays about food around the world. The food is often fascinating but the pieces can also elicit some interesting and simplistic reactions from the online audience. The form I’ve seen this take is people from wealthy...
by Carl Howard | Nov 24, 2015 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, History, Race
Last year, the Sydney siege prompted many to demonise people with mental illness and to claim that the perpetrator couldn’t have been a true Muslim (see my post about it for more). With the recent attacks in Europe (and it’s all about Europe), this is recurring on a...
by Carl Howard | Nov 16, 2015 | Ethics, History, Race
Instead of a direct answer, a parable. Conversation the first: Alice: Australia has a gender wage gap of 17.9%. This is caused by sexism! Bob: [Pats Alice on head] Au contraire my naive friend! Actually, there are some excellent reasons for the wage gap that are the...
by Carl Howard | Nov 3, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, History, Resources, Food and Environment
In a village north of the Longgang Zhen (the town) in Yangxin county. The hand-painted white text on the wall (below the pig-breeder’s ad) apparently threatens village women who’ve exceeded the two-child limit with tubal ligation. [CN: Reproductive coercion, crimes...
by Carl Howard | Oct 27, 2015 | Feminism and LGBT, Sex
An article from The Age was crying out for a look: How online porn is warping the behaviour of boys with girls. Porn is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, there is conservative moral panic about things that aren’t really a problem (see an old post about the “Center...
