December 2010
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New Year's Resolutions
Stop picking the skin off my lips and the heels of my feet.
Actively search for and partake in new experiences, instead of just being open to them.
Be brave.
Be persistent.
Never give up.
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Think women have achieved equality? Think again. →
We Can’t Be Equal While:
Gender Roles
Men are the default and women are the Other (and therefore lesser).
Being called “girly” or a “sissy” or “pussy” are some of the worst insults you can give a man.
When a woman shows confidence in herself, she is said to “have balls”, or conversely she is a “man-eater”, “ball-buster”, or a “bitch” because she was “too” assertive.
Men are beat up,...
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Faces
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Lipstick Feminists: In Sweden, Equality Starts in... →
lipstick-feminists:
http://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/Education/Pre-school/Reading/Equality-at-daycare/
Turning theory into practice
Trödje pre-school started working with gender pedagogy in 1996. Pre-school teacher Ingeborg Bergvall says: “We keep the children under observation to see which abilities they need…
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Miley Cyrus doesn't owe you an apology →
New York’s pop radio station 92.3 has already referred to her as “every parent’s nightmare” and E! more tactfully called the incident “reputation-damaging.” Adding fuel to the fire, Cyrus’ childhood friend Nicole Mullen-Holm Monday gave an interview to Radar online in which she referred to her former pal as “a liar who bullied girls and was a...
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Soft Shock (Acoustic)
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Fashion Triumph: Deflecting the Male Gaze →
LEANDRA MEDINE, a fashion blogger who lives with her parents on the Upper East Side, was thumbing through the hangers in her bedroom closet on a recent Monday morning, pulling out the sort of items that she calls “sartorial contraceptives”: a blouse with erect shoulder pads from Zara; a floral, curtainlike blazer by Zimmermann; high-waisted lime green trousers by Opening Ceremony; drop-crotch...
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“Women marinate in a patriarchal culture, and we’re taught from a very young age...”
– Jezebel commenter tall-in-heels, 3 Reasons Why “Erotic Capital” Is Bullshit (via rachelhills)
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FACT OF THE DAY: Most of the laugh tracks you hear...
volcanoes:
adailyriot:
melfinastar:
unsettling.
I can’t stop laughing. I just keep looking and laughing even more.
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The Morning Benders - Patient Patient
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My mom just sent me the most random assortment of...
- my acne medication
- toothpaste
- a red pen
- a green highlighter
- 2 boxes of floss
- staple remover
- 2 Chinese mosquito healing things
- another Chinese mosquito healing thing
- 3 packs of Green Tea that I’m pretty sure she stole from work
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“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a...”
– Mark Z. Danielewski (via mlq3)
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Tracing the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving →
For almost a century scientists have used puzzles to study what they call insight thinking, the leaps of understanding that seem to come out of the blue, without the incremental drudgery of analysis.
In one classic experiment, the German psychologist Karl Duncker presented people with a candle, a box of thumbtacks and the assignment of attaching the candle to a wall. About a quarter of the...
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Inside Influence: Why Good People Do Bad Things →
The research I’ve described to this point demonstrated that when people observe that their peers have violated one social norm, they are more likely to violate a related but different social norm. But could observing a seemingly small violation in the environment actually cause a person to steal when they otherwise wouldn’t have? To address this question, the researchers placed a stamped and...
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Being Persuasive Across Cultural Divides →
The study found that in westernized cultures that included the US, Canada and the United Kingdom, Citibank employees tended to take an individual market-based approach when deciding whether to help out a colleague. In essence when deciding whether they should help they would first ask themselves, “What has this person done for me recently?” They felt most obligated to comply if...
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DJ Tripp - How Low In The House (Ludacris vs Steve...
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