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:...Against Patriarchy: Tools for Men to Further Feminist Revolution*
Against Patriarchy: Tools for Men to Further Feminist Revolution* By Chris Crass For all of us who are men who believe in social justice, who want healthy and beautiful lives for our loved ones, and who are working for positive change in the world, let us commit or...Mansplaining, explained: ‘Just ask an expert. Who is not a lady’
Author Rebecca Solnit admits that even penning a book titled ‘Men Explain Things to Me’ doesn’t stop some men Jessica Valenti theguardian.com, Friday 6 June 2014 Rebecca Solnit is a prolific author (she’s working now on her sixteenth and...NOMAS Says ‘Happy Birthday’ to Dr. Phyllis Chesler
I have always admired Phyllis Chesler as one of the earliest founding mothers of second-wave feminism. She has also been the embodiment of a special role which I admire, and have always aspired to: a feminist social scientist. Her work over the past forty years has...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.