NY Times: Male Studies vs. Feminism

Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2010-04-14 16:41

Blog entry here. Excerpt:

'Education | The academic gender wars got a bit more spirited last week, Inside Higher Ed reports, with the creation of the above-named interdisciplinary effort, announced at a conference at Wagner College on Staten Island, to study malehood in all its power and powerlessness. Quote:

Lionel Tiger, a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University, said the field takes its cues “from the notion that male and female organisms really are different” and the “enormous relation between … a person’s biology and their behavior” that’s not being addressed in most contemporary scholarship on men and boys.

“I am concerned that male-averse attitudes are widespread in the United States and that masculinity is becoming politically incorrect,” said Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of “The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men.”

The culprit, said Dr. Tiger, is feminism: “a well-meaning, highly successful, very colorful denigration of maleness as a force, as a phenomenon.”

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please click on the facebook link and make sure its not going into my personal facebook account. When I use the link --- it opens my personal account!

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Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2010-04-14 16:54

please take the link down regardless if it opens my account. I'm a bit paranoid.

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Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2010-04-14 16:59

All set. Actually I am not so sure that was the case for you, anthony. The link to the Facebook group in question is right there in the blog entry. You may have just thought, after logging in, that that is what it was (ie, a direct link into your acct.). As sketchy as FB is security-wise, it won't let people hot-link right into an account without a login first [or so I think :)]

Nonetheless, be vewwwy careful what links you submit. Usually I can catch that sort of thing but if I miss it... same thing for action items linked from web sites where they do you the favor of pre-filling in your various kinds of data, like name, address, etc. This is a huge security issue on many sites all over the Internet. Always make sure you preview the links you send anyone, including me.

Usually reviewing and editing the URL for extraneous information is a good idea. The rule to follow is this: anything after the '?' in the URL *may* not be necessary. Test by removing key-value pairs in the URL that follow the ?, each of these separated by ampersands, to make sure that the URL still works. A key-value pair looks like this, for example: something=somevalue. So an example URL is this:

http://www.site.com/path/path2/somepage.html?someval=123&anotherval=567

In this case you'd remove &anotherval=567 and see if the URL still opened the desired page. Next you'd remove ?someval=123 and see if the page still opened. If you can use a URL that just has a base URL, as in:

http://www.site.com/path/path2/

or a URL that ends in .htm, .html, .asp, .aspx, etc., or some other page-type extension, then it's better and safer anyway, for example:

http://www.site.com/path/path2/somepage.html

Facebook has some pretty serious security issues in general and anyone using it or sending links to it ought to be aware of them. See:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_3_facebook_settings_every_user_should_check_now.php

http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/12/facebook-privacy-new/

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2010-04-14 17:49

I'll definitely be more careful in the future

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Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2010-04-14 18:46