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How Blind Can Sighted People Be? Having spent so much time among the blind trying to decode their decoding of our sighted world[1], I am particularly sensitized to the increasing cultural use of somewhat arbitrarily chosen colors to represent everything...

Welcome to 21 century feminism I have just returned from spending a few quiet days in a small city in Panama. My reward to myself for a month of hard, but gratifying, work. Teaching a class in Gender and Peace,...

Gender Equity I have just finished teaching an intense and stimulating course on the topic of Gender and Peace to an eager and dedicated group of graduate students at the United Nations University for Peace campus in Costa Rica. They...

A Deeply Misunderstood Eight Letter Word Why is there so much support for equality for women and men and so much fear of the word that describes this belief, feminism. Let me try my hand at some explanations and hopefully,in...

Or do we have the ability to alter them? My grandfather was an immigrant who found refuge in the United States, sailing right past the Statue of Liberty into New York harbor. He was only 14-years-old and made the journey...

What Is Gender Anyway? Gender is a human code invented by the human mind and communicated culturally and personally to every one of us. It has been considered by many to be a performance or what is sometimes called an...

A Feminist Perspective The current practice of psychotherapy can seem like a confusing psychological marketplace because it is in a process of profound change, paradigmatic change, change in our understanding of what change is. Neuroscience has made an important contribution...

The Blindness of the Sighted There is a mysterious alchemy involved in what we call normal sight, the well-functioning eye/brain duet. Every human eye has a blind spot near the center of the visual field. This is not about peripheral...

The Old-Fashioned American Tough Guy As I wrote originally many years ago,[1] traditional masculinity is built on the shaky foundation of having to be ready at every moment to be proven. To be brief and succinct, the proof goes like...

Those Who See Are Also Blind A boy was seriously hurt in a car crash and his father, who was driving, was killed instantly. The boy was rushed to the hospital to undergo surgery. As the surgery team assembled, the...