Zen Groups Distressed by Accusations Against Teacher

In the council’s report on Jan. 11, the three members wrote of “Sasaki asking women to show him their breasts, as part of ‘answering’ a koan” — a Zen riddle — “or to demonstrate ‘non-attachment.’ ”

When the report was posted to SweepingZen, Mr. Sasaki’s senior priests wrote in a post that their group “has struggled with our teacher Joshu Sasaki Roshi’s sexual misconduct for a significant portion of his career in the United States” — theirfirst such admission.

Among those who spoke to the council and for this article was Nikki Stubbs, who now lives in Vancouver, and who studied and worked atMount Baldy, Mr. Sasaki’s Zen center 50 miles east of Los Angeles, from 2003 to 2006. During that time, she said, Mr. Sasaki would fondle her breasts during sanzen, or private meeting; he also asked her to massage his penis. She would wonder, she said, “Was this teaching?”

One monk, whom Ms. Stubbs said she told about the touching, was unsympathetic. “He believed in Roshi’s style, that sexualizing was teaching for particular women,” Ms. Stubbs said. The monk’s theory, common in Mr. Sasaki’s circle, was that such physicality could check a woman’s overly strong ego.

A former student of Mr. Sasaki’s now living in the San Francisco area, who asked that her name be withheld to protect her privacy, said that at Mount Baldy in the late 1990s, “the monks confronted Roshi and said, ‘This behavior is unacceptable and has to stop.’ ” However, she said, “nothing changed.” After a time, Mr. Sasaki used Zen teaching to justify touching her, too.

Dang they always find ways to justify misogyny.

girlgrowingsmall: The reason that this works is because, as the egg spoils, a gas forms inside the shell. That’s what causes it to float. The less fresh the egg, the more gas is produced, the more it floats. Rather ironic that “GTFO bitch I’m doing science” is the meme caption since Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, Lavoisier’s wife, was not only his primary assistant and colleague, but was also responsible for many of Lavoisier’s breakthroughs. The two of them worked as a team, even though Lavoisier got all the credit. Lavoisier was not good at hands-on laboratory work and relied upon his wife. She also translated English scientific texts into French for him, kept records of their procedures, drew diagrams of the laboratory instruments and equpiment, and helped him write and publish Elementary Treatise on Chemistry, which presented the idea of conservation of mass, a list of elements, and a system for chemical nomenclature. After his beheading during the French Revolution, she organized his papers for publish. 
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The reason that this works is because, as the egg spoils, a gas forms inside the shell. That’s what causes it to float. The less fresh the egg, the more gas is produced, the more it floats.

Rather ironic that “GTFO bitch I’m doing science” is the meme caption since Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, Lavoisier’s wife, was not only his primary assistant and colleague, but was also responsible for many of Lavoisier’s breakthroughs. The two of them worked as a team, even though Lavoisier got all the credit. Lavoisier was not good at hands-on laboratory work and relied upon his wife. She also translated English scientific texts into French for him, kept records of their procedures, drew diagrams of the laboratory instruments and equpiment, and helped him write and publish Elementary Treatise on Chemistry, which presented the idea of conservation of mass, a list of elements, and a system for chemical nomenclature. After his beheading during the French Revolution, she organized his papers for publish. 

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Father’s Age Is Linked to Risk of Autism and Schizophrenia

Older men are more likely than young ones to father a child who develops autism or schizophrenia, because of random mutations that become more numerous with advancing paternal age, scientists reported on Wednesday, in the first study to quantify the effect as it builds each year. The age of mothers had no bearing on the risk for these disorders, the study found.

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But the study, published online in the journal Nature, provides support for the argument that the surging rate of autism diagnoses over recent decades is attributable in part to the increasing average age of fathers, which could account for as many as 20 to 30 percent of cases.

I wonder how long they were trying to tie it to the mothers’ age, before someone was like “Hey, so I’ve got this crazy idea…” Because, you know, men don’t have biological clocks and their sperm always was, always is, and always will be perfect, unlike those rotten eggs which easily spoil that women have.

newmodelminority: seriouslyamerica: White women make 79 cents to the white man’s dollar. Women as a whole make 77 cents to the white man’s dollar. African American women make 69 cents to the white man’s dollar. Latina women make 57 cents to a white man’s dollar. wageproject.org Depending on the industry White women earn more than Black men and Black women and Latino men and Latina women. #boom #moneyandcaste Uhhh…and what about Asian/Asian-American women (even though there’s huge difference between Asian ethnicities) and Native American women? I’m always saddened by the fact that within people of color conversations, Asian/Asian-Americans need to “prove” that they are a minority, and Native Americans just don’t seem to exist.  And what’s up with the pink dollars? Stanks of non-profit industrial complex; in the words of a friend, fellow blogger, and academic crush: “NPIC is the reason…messaging looks like this, all digestibly, femininely pink and de-politicized and intentionally made to seem non-threatening to the established structure of society.”
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newmodelminority: seriouslyamerica: White women make 79 cents to the white man’s dollar. Women as a whole make 77 cents to the white man’s dollar. African American women make 69 cents to the white man’s dollar. Latina women make 57 cents to a white man’s dollar. wageproject.org Depending on the industry White women earn more than Black men and Black women and Latino men and Latina women. #boom #moneyandcaste Uhhh…and what about Asian/Asian-American women (even though there’s huge difference between Asian ethnicities) and Native American women? I’m always saddened by the fact that within people of color conversations, Asian/Asian-Americans need to “prove” that they are a minority, and Native Americans just don’t seem to exist.  And what’s up with the pink dollars? Stanks of non-profit industrial complex; in the words of a friend, fellow blogger, and academic crush: “NPIC is the reason…messaging looks like this, all digestibly, femininely pink and de-politicized and intentionally made to seem non-threatening to the established structure of society.”
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seriouslyamerica:

White women make 79 cents to the white man’s dollar.

Women as a whole make 77 cents to the white man’s dollar.

African American women make 69 cents to the white man’s dollar.

Latina women make 57 cents to a white man’s dollar.

wageproject.org

Depending on the industry White women earn more than Black men and Black women and Latino men and Latina women. #boom #moneyandcaste

Uhhh…and what about Asian/Asian-American women (even though there’s huge difference between Asian ethnicities) and Native American women? I’m always saddened by the fact that within people of color conversations, Asian/Asian-Americans need to “prove” that they are a minority, and Native Americans just don’t seem to exist. 

And what’s up with the pink dollars? Stanks of non-profit industrial complex; in the words of a friend, fellow blogger, and academic crush: “NPIC is the reason…messaging looks like this, all digestibly, femininely pink and de-politicized and intentionally made to seem non-threatening to the established structure of society.”

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She won a gold medal because she’s pretty!

Two studies by University of Delaware Professor James Angelini published this month in academic journals show particular . The first details differences in coverage of male and .

“It’s all about luck with the females. It’s all about ability with the males,” said Angelini, assistant professor of communication.

And what about race?

  • When discussing African-American athletes commentators focused more on  and strength.
  • Asian athletes garnered a disproportionate number of comments about intelligence.
  • When discussing white athletes, commentators were more likely to mention commitment and composure.
longreads: A call for women and men to have a more honest conversation about work-life balance: Today, however, women in power can and should change that environment, although change is not easy. When I became dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, in 2002, I decided that one of the advantages of being a woman in power was that I could help change the norms by deliberately talking about my children and my desire to have a balanced life. Thus, I would end faculty meetings at 6 p.m. by saying that I had to go home for dinner; I would also make clear to all student organizations that I would not come to dinner with them, because I needed to be home from six to eight, but that I would often be willing to come back after eight for a meeting. I also once told the Dean’s Advisory Committee that the associate dean would chair the next session so I could go to a parent-teacher conference. After a few months of this, several female assistant professors showed up in my office quite agitated. ‘You have to stop talking about your kids,’ one said. ‘You are not showing the gravitas that people expect from a dean, which is particularly damaging precisely because you are the first woman dean of the school.’ I told them that I was doing it deliberately and continued my practice, but it is interesting that gravitas and parenthood don’t seem to go together. “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” — Anne-Marie Slaughter, The Atlantic
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A call for women and men to have a more honest conversation about work-life balance:

Today, however, women in power can and should change that environment, although change is not easy. When I became dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, in 2002, I decided that one of the advantages of being a woman in power was that I could help change the norms by deliberately talking about my children and my desire to have a balanced life. Thus, I would end faculty meetings at 6 p.m. by saying that I had to go home for dinner; I would also make clear to all student organizations that I would not come to dinner with them, because I needed to be home from six to eight, but that I would often be willing to come back after eight for a meeting. I also once told the Dean’s Advisory Committee that the associate dean would chair the next session so I could go to a parent-teacher conference.

After a few months of this, several female assistant professors showed up in my office quite agitated. ‘You have to stop talking about your kids,’ one said. ‘You are not showing the gravitas that people expect from a dean, which is particularly damaging precisely because you are the first woman dean of the school.’ I told them that I was doing it deliberately and continued my practice, but it is interesting that gravitas and parenthood don’t seem to go together.

“Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” — Anne-Marie Slaughter, The Atlantic

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