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On Sexual Harassment

Culture & Public Commentary2018.08.01
On Sexual Harassment
Me too Movement Recently the Me too movement has swept into China, and that is an encouraging thing; I only hope it won’t die young. As for Me too, I mentioned it in passing on Weibo, but Weibo’s limitations make it hard to fully articulate a point of view. I hope my remarks will not be too hastily interpreted as a rejection of Me too. In fact, of course I welcome Me too with both hands; even though I have raised the need to be wary of a Chinese-style slippery slope, in fact, even if it really did develop into some kind of “overdone” state, that would still be better…
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2018年8月1日
Must Anti-Discrimination Be Scientific? — On the “Google Ideological Echo Chamber” Incident

Culture & Public Commentary2017.08.14
Must Anti-Discrimination Be Scientific? — On the “Google Ideological Echo Chamber” Incident
Recently, a memo circulating internally at Google was exposed. The author argued that the company’s gender imbalance was not a problem at all, because women are naturally unsuited to being programmers; and if one really wanted to promote diversity, one should promote “ideological diversity” rather than gender or ethnic diversity, because conservative ideology is currently suffering from discrimination. After the memo was exposed, public opinion exploded, everyone turned on the employee, and Google decisively fired him. At first I didn’t think much of it. Of course I do not agree with this male employee’s remarks, and Google had nothing to say for firing him. But then I read some rebuttal…
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2017年8月14日
On Women Philosophers and the Top-Bottom Dichotomy

Philosophy & Thought2009.03.11
On Women Philosophers and the Top-Bottom Dichotomy
Here are some of the things I was forced to say in my comments after “I Won’t Date in a Café”; since I’ve written them down, they’re now black on white, and there’s nothing I can do about it. Given that this is no small topic, I’m setting aside a new post here for the archive. Later, my classmate Chern, who is even more evil than I am, said that mine was a “female philosopher cultivation plan.” That’s an interesting title, but it’s too liable to cause misunderstanding. My conspiracy is extremely complex: it is neither to seduce mm, nor to cultivate female philosophers, nor even to find an mm…
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2009年3月11日
[U.S.] Deborah Tannen: “Men and Women in Intimate Conversation” — ★

Culture & Public Commentary2008.05.23
[U.S.] Deborah Tannen: “Men and Women in Intimate Conversation” — ★
[U.S.]Deborah Tannen: *You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation*, translated by Wu Xingyi, Nanfang Publishing House, 2008——★ During my period of seclusion, I didn’t read very many books, and I don’t want to go through them one by one. This one book, however, I am willing to spend some time excerpting, since it also has a direct bearing on what I am going to write next. Of course, this book is by no means the only one that talks about the differences between men and women. Before it, there had already been highly publicized books such as *Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus*, and books of…
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2008年5月23日
On Feminism

Philosophy & Thought2007.03.08
On Feminism
It has been quite a while since I last really put pen to paper. The two books I finished reading, I was too lazy to jot down even notes on them; it seems my state has again fallen into a slump… Today is March 8, International Women’s Day, so let me write down some thoughts. I have said before that I am a kind of “female feminism of a male chauvinist sort.” If one were to look at some of the concrete views I call feminist, they might still seem, in the eyes of many women, to be utterly male chauvinist; yet I believe that male chauvinism is still this…
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2007年3月8日