Posts by giovanni tiso
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"There's been no change of criteria, but what she's seeing is that it's becoming a lot harder to get."
The classic doublespeak logic of disability services. It's like the ORS scheme: we'll take all children who fit our wonderfully inclusive criteria of need, but not above 7000. How will we manage to cap this number without failing people who meet the criteria? Don't worry. We have ways.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Danielle,
This discussion is making me wish I'd got to the end of Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences, which was, I thought, pretty eye-opening
See also her Let's say goodbye to the straw feminist, in convenient blog-post-length.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Lilith __,
But girls DO do math. Lots of girls excel at math! And probably many more would if everybody weren’t telling them, “you can’t do that, you’re a GIRL!”
I was agreeing with you.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Lilith __,
I have major issues with the pop-psychology “this is why men can’t load the dishwasher; this is why girls can’t do math” version.
Let's not dismiss it as pop-psychology though. One of the main proponents of "girls can't do math" is Steven Pinker, who is about as big a name in the field as they come. You could say that evolutionary psychology is practically wired to make those kinds of arguments.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
But there are multiple levels of privilege. You can be a poor white man and still retain privilege, like, I dunno, the privilege of not being sexually harassed on the street or having workers in the hardware store answer their questions directly rather than talking to their spouse (not that this happened to me recently or anything.) Privilege applies differently in different situations.
I'm just going to link to this post that my friend Dougal McNeill wrote earlier this year about (against) privilege theory. I think it's highly relevant here. Carry on.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Russell Brown,
I'll be the first to admit I found it quite hard to muster sympathy myself.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Russell Brown,
But, also, it’s some of the other, somewhat disturbing stuff, she’s written about her children.
That's a really poor article, and the examples she brings from the blog are either taken out of context or misunderstood (like, the author mistakes one son for his older brother, or identifies as the son somebody who was just a climbing partner.). There have been many good critiques of the post though. Like this one.
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to Jolisa,
As a stress baker with no time to bake today, all I can bring to this discussion is a copy and paste of how I coped last election. With carbs
You cast 45 votes? This is election fraud on a massive scale.
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OnPoint: Re: Education, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
Now it gets really difficult to plot.
This is in fact a classic example of the thick plotting.
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OnPoint: Because Statistical Rigour, in reply to Steve Parks,
Meanwhile, the Dom Post exclaims "NATIONAL STANDARDS: HOW YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL RATES
Praising Hartevelt's "good reporting" may be gracious but it is also quite misguided, since at the same time as he appears to be saying look, a school is not only those things, and you have to consider what it does for the most vulnerable, his paper sells the tables that directly harm the right to an education of those very same kids. It's hypocrisy of the highest order.