Shield-maidens, fact and fiction
Ed West has a post up about the pervasiveness of shield-maidens in modern dramatizations of the Viking culture: The hunt for the kick-ass Viking girlboss. In terms of how it […]
Women at war
The new Wheel of Time television show has a scene where an Aiel woman totally smashes a half a dozen male soldiers with her skilled usage of her spears (this […]
Going beyond the sex “grip strength” binary
Jesse Singal brought this piece in Deadspin, She’s Got The Strength, But Who Has The Power?, to my attention. Some very interesting sections: When we shove the concept of athletic ability—strength, for instance—into the same black-and-white binary that we try to put gender into, we’re wrong. There is no stark line separating what men can […]
In grip strength a woman in the 90th percentile would be at the 10th percentile for men
In relation to the title of this post, it is more accurate to say that a 35 year old British woman who is in the 90th percentile, at 39 kg, would be at the 10th percentile in 35 year old British men. But she would be at the 50th percentile for a 70 year old […]
The “sex difference factor”?
There’s a new paper in PLoS ONE, The Distance Between Mars and Venus: Measuring Global Sex Differences in Personality*, which suggests that by measuring variation of single observed personality traits researchers are missing larger underlying patterns of difference. The Distance Between Mars and Venus: Measuring Global Sex Differences in Personality: In conclusion, we believe we […]
Female race consciousness as prudence
Big Think has a post, Do Women Value Ethnicity Over Income in a Mate?:
The results are striking. An African-American man would have to earn $154,000 more than a white man in order for a white woman to prefer him. A Hispanic man would need to earn $77,000 more than a white man, and Asian man […]