Monthly Archives: January 2010
Apparently Diamonds Aren’t Forever
Halle Tecco has an interesting, albeit thin, piece up at HuffPo about the waning interest in diamonds as engagement/wedding rings. She sites the ethical issues, as well as questions about originality, style, and the symbol of ownership. This is quite a shift, although not as large as you might guess when you look at the [...]
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Psychiatry’s Bias Problem
The Association for Women in Psychology (AWP) is continually analyzing and advocating about bias, particularly gender-related, in psychiatric diagnosis, but they’ve got their eyes on the prize these days: the DSMV, set to be published in 2013. For those who aren’t familiar, the DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is essentially the bible [...]
Tagged Activism, Disability Rights, Psychology, Sexism Comments closed
Blogger Asks “How could humans do this to themselves?” in Haiti
“Imagine that I’m a caveman,” writer and former basketball player Paul Shirley urges his readers in a recent post on the devastation in Haiti over at FlipCollective. As you continue reading, he makes it very easy: While the earthquake was, obviously, unavoidable, the way in which many of the people of Haiti lived was not. [...]
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Deconstructing Chris Matthews
Chris Matthews on MSNBC: “I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.” There will undoubtedly be a lot of conversation about Chris Matthews potentially well-intentioned, albeit totally misguided, attempt to talk about the ways in which Obama’s leadership affected him last night. He’s already attempted to clarify, talking about how miraculous he found it [...]
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