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  1. Not sure where you're getting the outside student angle; it explicitly says in the article that the complaints were informal and anonymous. She can claim that everyone in her classes like them, but she's not a mind-reader. Regardless, she's not losing her teaching position so the people who don't have an issue with her views can still go to those classes. She's just not going to be in the front-facing student service role, which honestly just makes sense; if you hired a receptionist at some imaginary business who kept pissing people off and was driving customers away, would you be inclined to keep them on? Except in this case, she's not even getting fired; they're just pulling her back from an administrative position where she was not able to fulfill her duties without pushing people away from the faculty.
  2. Reading up on it the situation there seems more nuanced than you're painting it here. She didn't lose her job, she's still employed as an associate professor and I can't see anything to suggest that her ability to research or publish has been infringed. In general these types of roles don't actually garner you any extra pay; they just get you a release from some of your teaching responsibilities, so her bank account isn't going to be weeping. She has simply been removed from a service role as a Chair of Undergraduate programs. Obviously I'm not intimately familiar with how the University of Alberta's admin works, but to me that sounds like a role that would place her in direct contact with a lot of students, including trans-people (this is how it would work at my uni). If she was making students uncomfortable in that role, I don't see why it is outrageous to suggest that maybe she take a step back and focus on other areas of her job.
  3. Honestly, it just seems like a more specific term for the specific issue they're talking about. You could just say women, but that ignores the fact that not all women menstruate, either because they haven't hit puberty, they've hit menopause, they're on birth control or some other drug, or they have some other medical condition that prevents menstruation. So you could say women who menstruate if you must insist upon disavowing the acknowledgement of transmen for whatever reason, but where does this leave intersex people who have a functioning uterus alongside a set of male genitals (or at least male appearing genitals)? Or what about people who have Persistent Müllerian duct syndrome (I'll fully admit I only just found out about this after a quick google) in which a, by all reasonable standards, biologically male fetus develops a womb and thus goes through the whole menstruation thing? Obviously these cases represent the minority, but they do exist and I don't really see why the extraordinarily tiny amount of effort it takes to change one word in a headline is worth "rightfully" taking issue with.
  4. Pretty weird to quote the guy running concentration camps in the movie as the voice of reason.
  5. I didn't even know they were showing stuff yet.
  6. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/417403/avatar-producer-jon-landau-on-his-return-to-new-zealand
  7. At least there haven't been any Sixers games to bring you down.
  8. Movies Ponyo - 4/5 - Was holding off on this one cause I thought it looked stupid but I actually really enjoyed it so what do I know. TV As mentioned earlier, The Last Dance is good stuff. Looking forward to the next two episodes tomorrow. What We Do in the Shadows coming in with the extended Ocean's 12 reference which is always welcome. Finished Seven Worlds, One Planet with my man Attenborough. Really good stuff. My mum keeps getting annoyed at them for bummer endings with how everything is fucked and all that but it really do be like that so I appreciate the messaging. Books The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf - 4.5/5 - Enjoyed this one a lot. Was only peripherally aware of the guy from some other books I read recently but the deep dive into who he was and what he did was really interesting. He had a unique way of approaching the world around us and it's crazy how much his fresh perspectives influenced a lot of the way we generally consider the world today. Huge influence on guys like Charles Darwin and John Muir who went on to have their own huge impacts on the way we consider nature. Why Evolution is True by Jerry A. Coyne - 3.5/5 - A little preachy but I appreciated how it got into the nitty gritty of the science of evolution. I think Your Inner Fish (which I read a couple of weeks ago) had a more interesting perspective on a lot of the science presented in here but overall they compliment each other quite nicely if you are interested in learning more about how life came to be and all that. Currently reading Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators by William Stolzenburg. Another interesting book! Also kind of a bummer but that's just the reality of most ecology related things these days.
  9. Now do what the list would be like if my list was counted twice!
  10. Started watching The Last Dance, which could be alternatively titled as "Fuck you, Jerry Krause." Good stuff so far. I've missed basketball.
  11. Can't be. Jake just said: Which, if I recall correctly, would eliminate Alita. I haven't checked the numbers myself but I remember being told it would make at least a couple of billies?
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