The BBC has been forced to apologise after technical problems interrupted their broadcast of the 'Battle of the Sexes' clash between Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios.

they use this phrase "the sex that produces the large/small reproductive cell" which is being criticized because the fetus doesn't produce reproductive cells at conception, so it doesn't work for the first ~6 weeks. afterward, it seems like it does a better job of fitting people into a sex binary, since exceptions to this classification are rarer than chromosomal aberrations, it would seem.

The proposed remedy to prevent micromanaging gender, and to move more quickly toward gender equality, is to break down practices or behaviors that we code as masculine or feminine and to accept people as they are without the shackles of gendered expectations

shaming a man for not reaching that ideal has scant difference from the “toxic” masculinity of men we hear so much about

Masculinity needs to adapt appropriately to a 21st century containing both feminism and women who game

there are many more males than females who do not successfully reproduce at all

"ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER: If you take women who don’t have caregiving obligations, they’re almost equal with men. It’s somewhere in the 95 percent range. But when women then have children, or again are caring for their own parents or other sick family members who need care, then they need to work differently. They need to work flexibly, and often go part-time. They often get less-good assignments because their bosses think that they’re not going to want work that allows them to travel, or they’re not going to be able to stay up all night, or whatever it is. And so then you start — if you’re working part-time, you don’t get the same raises. And if you’re working flexibly your boss very typically thinks that you’re not that committed to your career, so you don’t get promoted. "

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"DUBNER: I’m just curious, what’s it like for you to hear the kind of stock political assertion about the size of the gender gap knowing that it misses all the nuances that you’ve just described?

GOLDIN: It makes me feel that I have to get back in my office and do better work, and write it up better, and state it with more force. But, I recognize that there are facts, there are truths, and there’s political action. So one simply has to recognize that there are good people out there who want to make the world a better place and they will push what they want even in the absence of hard evidence."

why do gender-segregated sports leagues exist?