Gender – Page 14 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Safety must never be paramount

2013-12-05

A comment on the assertion that "safety must be paramount" for a group (here: female journalists). Safety must never be paramount. Here's why.
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Activism … and Taste?

2013-12-04

An intentionally provocative poster about gender discrimination regarding the highest price there is in journalism. Followed by an explanation why I created it -- and a question whether it is in bad taste.
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Biases in Research

2013-11-25

Strange how you can completely miss discrimination, but seem obvious in hindsight after you see it. Some examples, including a report on post-docs and a study on cybersexual harassment.
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Ideology and Laws

2013-11-18

A few comments on a quota for women (for high status jobs only of course), and why it is a very, very VERY bad idea (to put it nicely).
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Biases in Reporting Research: Or, how you can screw 1/3 of the affected population

2013-11-11

A look at the science news cycle in the context of the Academic Impostor syndrome (based on a tweet I stumbled upon, see left). Nice how you can neglect a large part of the population in public discussion.
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Doing Damage with Ads with “Positive” Purposes: The overjustification effect

2013-10-26

Why adds that point out the obvious can really damage a social cause.
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How Ads bias your perception, or: how an ad campaign for a good purpose can be really bad

2013-10-22

A look at a very bad ad campaign that does not understand what it criticizes and actually hurts people.
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The Incompetent Whore Strikes Again (Gilmour posting 2)

2013-09-28

Having people to pay for art that does nothing for them is bad enough. But it can get worse -- being told you should like bad art. Since when does political correctness triumph over aesthetics, or even worse, over personal preference?
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Teach what you love (unless it’s male writers?)

2013-09-27

The old saying that you should do what you love, or that teaching is something worthwhile, apparently does not hold true if you love male writers. A rant.
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Beauty and Thick Skin

2013-08-10

If you are a visible public figure, you get a lot of criticism. Instead of moaning about it and making it about sexism, how about growing a ... thick skin? Also: Donglegate.
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BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.