May 2012
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Watchi bookmarked this video months ago. i don’t know why i never posted it here.
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April 2012
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I need feminism because
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I’m tired of being treated like my opinions don’t matter by most of my work colleagues because I’m female (even though all my work colleagues are female) because we live in a society where a man’s opinion is worth more than a woman’s opinion
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Sweden’s New Gender-Neutral Pronoun: Hen →
The idea of a gender-neutral pronoun isn’t revolutionary. While it seems acceptable to add new gender-neutral pronouns into languages where they did not previously exist, a nation-wide removal of gender differentiation seems like a step in the wrong direction.
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March 2012
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Cake and Frozen Yogurt in One Cup!? The Mind Reels →
this may be one of jezebel’s funniest posts ever. and the amazing quote by the WaPo is the froyo on the cake (cough cough pun gasp).
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The Empowered Employee is Coming; Is The World... →
In its early years, Toyota used this approach to help focus frontline assembly line workers on the challenge of identifying and solving problems (again, those nasty exceptions) as they arose on the assembly line and provided them with a work environment that included the tools and support required to be more effective at creating problem solving. Something amazing happened. Not only did...
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I Didn't Tell Facebook I'm Engaged, So Why Is It... →
David Kilpatrick uncovered that Facebook ‘could determine with about 33 percent accuracy who a user was going to be in a relationship with a week from now.’ […]
So why does Facebook care to know more about the nature of my relationship to Nick? The short answer is that Facebook wants to know as much as it can about my relationships, even though Facebook’s currentpolicy...
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“It is in the world’s interest to develop environments that fully engage...”
– Weili Dai, special to CNN
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Revealed: The best and worst places to be a woman →
1. Best place to be a woman: Iceland 2. Best place to be a politician: Rwanda 3. Best place to be a mother: Norway 4. Best place to read and write: Lesotho 5. Best place to be head of state: Sri Lanka 6. Best place to be a woman in the arts: Sweden 7. Best place to be a top dog: Thailand 8. Best place to give birth: Greece 9. Best place for economic participation: Bahamas 10. Best place...
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The name-pronunciation effect: Why people like Mr.... →
looks like i lucked out with silk.
Five studies provide evidence for the name-pronunciation effect: easy-to-pronounce names (and their bearers) are judged more positively than difficult-to-pronounce names.
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February 2012
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What You Need to Know About Napping →
It’s an infographic about NAPPING!
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20 Shameful Secret Single Girl Behaviors That... →
It horrifies me how accurate this list is. I just cried at my desk from laughing so hard. The real shame is that this woman just outed every one of my secrets.
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“My answer to that is, are you kidding? When is rape ever funny? Every topic...”
– Marnie Goodfriend, in response to whether she thinks rape jokes are funny
View my previous post on the growing prevalence of rape jokes in pop culture.
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The Nominees for the Best Performance of Gender... →
Women performers and the characters they played for us on screen didn’t just complacently inhabit gender; they flaunted, overturned, redescribed or revolted against it…
‘Masculinity’ and ‘femininity,’ these performances show, fall along a much longer line of traits and gestures, and also vary according to the actor/character’s race and class and their...
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Trending on YouTube: Am I pretty or ugly? →
Searching on YouTube for “am I pretty or ugly” yields almost 7,000 results.
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