The Painful Cost of Disbelieving Women
The Painful Cost of Disbelieving Women by Barry Goldstein. A man in one of the batterer classes I teach couldn’t wait to bring up the Duke Lacrosse and Tawana Brawley cases to counter research that women rarely make false reports of rape or abuse. While many men in...Think It’s #NotAllMen? These 4 Facts Prove You’re Just Plain Wrong
by Melissa A. Fabello and Aaminah Khan, Originally published on Everyday Feminism, October 10, 2016 Dear Well-Meaning Men Who Believe Themselves to Be Safe, Thereby Legitimizing the “Not All Men” Argument, Let’s start here, even though this should go without saying:...Male Privilege Checklist
In 1990, Wellesley College professor Peggy McIntosh wrote an essay called “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”. McIntosh observes that whites in the U.S. are “taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring...Male Power and Control: Accountability Wheels
Male Power and Control: Accountability WheelsEpilogue: NOMAS Accountability and the Forging Justice Conference, Detroit, 2013
In 2013, NOMAS co-sponsored a conference with Haven in Detroit. The opening keynote presentation included a position on prostitution that seriously conflicts with NOMAS’s stance. Subsequently, NOMAS was charged with unethical decisions and behavior. The controversy...Latest from NOMAS Facebook
MEN OFTEN JUDGE women by their appearance. Turns out, computers do too. When US and European researchers fed pictures of congressmembers to Google’s cloud image recognition service, the service applied three times as many annotations related to physical appearance to photos of women as it did to men.
When AI Sees a Man, It Thinks 'Official.' A Woman? 'Smile'
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A new paper renews concerns about bias in image recognition services offered by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.