Fashion Power Tripping

There was a recent stir at the Golden Globe awards pertaining to Emma Thompson and high heels...
Interesting commentary article:

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/high-heels-make-sexist-men-feel-randy-9086394.html
What are your thoughts about this, guys?
 
As for me, I'm particularly more interested in the day when women rally against skirts and also get rid of symbols (such as toilet signs) that force this primitive/ inefficient garment on women to make them "sexy" even in winter and form sexual identities.

It might be worth doing a cross-cultural study to find a correlation between these signs/symbols and skirt prevalence. Now, the main challenge is obtaining a dataset to analyze, although I think Google images of symbols and sales figures from online stores (e.g. Amazon, E-bay) can be used. Anybody out there wanna collaborate for a paper on this one?

P.S. No offence meant to Kilt-wearing people 

Public Understanding of Science

Hi guys,

Please be sure check out my new article on environmental attitudes published in Public Understanding of Science. Thanks.

Cross-section analyses of attitudes towards science and nature from the International Social Survey Programme 1993, 2000, and 2010 surveys, doi: 10.1177/0963662513503261 

Abstract

This paper explores public attitudes towards science and nature in twelve countries using data from the International Social Survey Programme environment modules of 1993, 2000, and 2010. Analysis of attitude items indicates technocentric and pessimistic dimensions broadly related to the Dominant Social Paradigm and New Environmental Paradigm. A bi-axial dimension scale is utilized to classify respondents among four environmental knowledge orientations. Discernible and significant patterns are found among countries and their populations. Relationships with other substantial variables in the surveys are discussed and findings show that the majority of industrialized countries are clustered in the rational ecologist categorization with respondents possessing stronger ecological consciousness and optimism towards the role of modern institutions, science, and technology in solving environmental problems.