February 2012
Definitions Explained Better Than I Ever Could.
racismschool:
This is an exert from the article Why There’s No Such Thing as Reverse Racism. It is a fantastic article and I encourage you to read it in it’s entirety. For now, I want to highlight the explanation/definition of three specific words.
Prejudice is an irrational feeling of dislike for a person or group of persons, usually based on stereotype. Virtually everyone feels some sort of...
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On institutionalized sexism…
Chuck Jordan wrote:
Still, it’s as simple as this: if you feel that you have to educate me that violence against women is not something to joke about, then you are assuming that I am a sociopath. People respond badly to being called sociopaths. The PA guys’ response to it was exactly how I would’ve responded, essentially: “it’s such absolute bullshit that you would even think that’s what we...
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parislemon:
Sarah Lacy talking about Google+ on PandoDaily:
We simply don’t need another social network, no matter how great your circles are or how badly Larry Page wants to have one.
Agreed. The problem, which Google really, truly does not seem to understand is that at the end of the day, they’re solving a problem which has already been solved. They may think it hasn’t, but it has.
It’s...
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Minimal Mac: Microsoft's Biggest Miss →
minimalmac:
Like the curtain finally falling from the Wizard of Oz to find just a small, frail, man pretending to be far more powerful and relevant than he really was. Microsoft’s biggest miss was allowing the world to finally see the truth behind the big lie — they were not needed to get real work done. Or anything done, really.
Bingo.
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Men who explain things →
Classic article by Rebecca Solnit on the societal construct when men explain things to women. Worth a re-read if you’ve read it before; a must-read if you haven’t.
Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being. Things...
On getting people to the point of finally...
Daniel Nye Griffiths wrote a good post. And then, in a comment to it, The Girl wrote something (even more) powerful:
Frankly, having thought a fair amount about this topic too, I don’t think it can be skipped. One of the more damaging aspects of the way that our society sets men as the ‘norm’ is that (as well as female experiences / women in general being devalued) when women...
