“Kodak slowly began to fix this bias in its film, but not out of any sense of racial injustice: it was a response to complaints from furniture makers and chocolate sellers that Kodak cameras couldn’t properly capture their products’ hues.”
“Kodak slowly began to fix this bias in its film, but not out of any sense of racial injustice: it was a response to complaints from furniture makers and chocolate sellers that Kodak cameras couldn’t properly capture their products’ hues.”
“But the syphilis story stuck. Even as newspapers trumpeted particulars of Graham’s passing (and there were many), her cause of death, like so many details about women in her line of work, never seemed to be worth investigating.”
“For papers that bomb, there was no difference; women and men ended up on papers with zero citations at equal rates. But for a reasonably successful paper (one that gets cited 25 times), women are about 20 percent less likely than men to end up on the author list.”
“There’s another previously underserved audience that’s responded to Wingspan: women. Stegmaier doesn’t have gender breakdowns of who’s purchased Wingspan, but he does note that the game’s official Facebook group is 40 percent women — which may not sound particularly high, but the group for Stonemaier’s other bestselling game, Scythe, is 90 percent men.”
“These people have always been this way. They do not seek to learn or grow, despite the startup mantra about ‘always learning.’ They do not see personal growth as anything other than buffing out the edges on their own sculpture — they do not want to get better in any way that does not optimize their own personal wealth.”
“For years, Judy Malloy would not get the credit she deserved for being one of the earliest pioneers of ‘electronic literature,’ as the literary hypertext movement came to be called: pieces by men writing later became more famous and better-studied.”
“If there is any reason for hope in the growing epidemic of long COVID, it is that some academic medical centers are taking these patients seriously and tailoring treatment to them. Medicine’s history with hard-to-identify chronic illnesses, particularly those that mainly affect women, has not been a good one.”
“Substack takes a small percentage of my subscription money, and that money goes to fund the writers they view to be better investments. I give them my money, and they use that money to pay men who have, in several instances, stalked or harassed either me or people I care about.”
“The concern trolling book lovers miss the point that other people’s bookshelves don’t exist to please or displease them: they exist because the owner of the rainbow shelves likes their books to be that way.”
“To love a book is to constantly interrogate it. … Every time you pick up a book and it is set in another world, written long before some social changes have been made, you have to ask yourself whether or not it is problematic that the orcs are a certain color, or why the villain is disabled.”
“[David Chang] didn’t really care about the moscato; he cared, it seemed, more about cutting me down in front of the staff I managed, so that they no longer saw me as their boss but, instead, as a small, easily flustered, puffy-with-tears young woman.”