Brains and Brawn: Krista Scott-Dixon

What do you get when you combine feminism, art, fitness and a women's studies PhD? Krista Scott-Dixon. She's a feminist who teaches at York University and runs a fitness/ weight lifting website for women. She recently published a book titled Doing IT: Women Working In Information Technology. Her fitness tips, essays on technology and humor can be found on her website Stumptuous.

You can read a really interesting interview with Scott-Dixon at PrecisionNutrition. It covers everything from fitness, to feminism, eating disorders, and growing up in a science minded household.

Boardgame Creator Outlines Cure For Feminism

Henry Makow, Ph.D is a man of many talents. Not only did he invent the popular boardgame Scruples, he also knows how to cure feminism.

If you are a feminist who feels hollow and empty, here are some of Makow's tips for reform.

* Stop being "smarter, better, faster" than the men you meet. To some extent, a woman self effaces and lives through her husband and children. Find a man you naturally look up to, respect and trust. Don't waste time with boys. Men want power; women want love. Heterosexual union involves the exchange of the two: female power (in the worldly sense) for male love (his power expressed as love.)

* Two people don't become one by fighting over the same territory. Generally speaking, the man "makes the house, the woman makes the home." This division oflaborr is natural and complementary. Learn how to be a homemaker and mother. Develop your personality and skills to be more desirable as a wife and companion.

Makow also has some somewhat curious and confusing references to femisinism's involement with "Josef Mengele's research on how to make a human slave at Auschwitz". I guess I missed that memo when I signed up for the global feminist conspiracy.

You can read more of his article at savethemales

Science vs. Religion

Will science need to start mimicking the prophetlitizing strategies of religion to win back the minds of America? Some think it does.

I do think that if we're going have any success in turning the tide of religious fundamentalism that (despite the outcome of the midterm term elections) is sweeping the nation, we need to "take off the gloves" as the article suggests and have more honest dialogue. Just because an idea has been around for 2,000 years doesn't grant it immunity from criticism, questioning or dissolution.

On the other hand I am worried about the sometimes harsh and condescending attitudes of people like Richard Dawkins. Science is not a singular pristine idea. Science is, unfortunately, informed by the individual prejudices held by those doing the inquiring. And science has not always been kind to those who were not white and male. Both science and religion have made some faux pas along the way, and I feel like science has to admit its own imperfection before trying to instill itself as the new secular messiah.