‘The Grammys. Think. That they. Were the victim. Of Chris Brown. Hitting. Rihanna. In the face.’

“…analysts say more than social equity is at stake. A dearth of ideas and participation by women in the technology churn has business consequences as well.”

(Also, reading about what chauvinist boys-club assholes so many venture capitalists are makes me angry every time.)

Sarah Millstein on the lack of women speakers at conferences.

“Because some of you aren’t like me in your choices, there are profitable conferences with speaker rosters that look like roll call for the signers of the Constitution. But conferences that want to be taken seriously by people who take other kinds of people seriously need more diversity among the speakers to thrive. And conference organizers, whose goals often include highlighting new ideas, cannot simply recycle the same short list of well-known speakers from show to show.”

By Gina Trapani, head of ThinkUp.

“What's not clear is how people who don't code contribute their skills and expertise to making OSS software. Because it's not clear, they don't, and the software looks and feels like it was designed by engineers, for engineers—because it was.”

Charlie Sheen's history is full of abuse, as much of women as himself, and reality TV helps convince us that's fine.

Is it?

Why are so many women willingly giving up their identities and letting their children take over? And are our children being overly coddled as a result?

Palin and Perry, sittin' in a tree. "She kisses a girl—sure, okay. She likes it—um, and? Oh, and she hopes her boyfriend doesn't mind, because sexual autonomy is inextricable from the male gaze, and that's fucking awesome. 'I Kissed a Girl' is infuriatingly ass-backward: cynical adherence to outdated values made into titillation, snide calculation dressed up as the underdog, the same old bullshit disguised as rebellion."

"Almost fifteen years after my mandatory military duty ended, I went back to several Israeli army bases, using the medium of photography as a vehicle to re-enter this world."