March 2011
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Once Upon A Time!
For those not familiar with the book blogging community, I wanted to tell you about a fantastic reading challenge! It’s called Once Upon a Time and it’s hosted by Carl at Stainless Steel Droppings. It’s a reading challenge that lasts throughout all of Spring that challenges you to read fantasy, folklore, fairy tales and mythology!! Doesn’t get any better than that and it’s SO MUCH FUN!! So head on over to Carl’s blog and sign up! I already have…here’s my sign up post.
“None of us really know how anyone else is internalising what we say”
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Quoted for truth!
“I’m not fond of the way our media expects the worst from people and acts surprised when it doesn’t happen”
—Is looting our default reaction to trouble? | Partial Objects
“Carnegie Mellon’s Linda Babcock showed people videos of men and women asking for a raise, following the exact same script. While both got more money, ‘people liked the man’s style and said, “Yes, pay him more.” But the woman? They found her too aggressive and demanding, and this can have real consequences for a woman’s career.”
—She’s just asking for it | MetaFilter
Oh My Darlin': Some Days I Love My Job More Than Others →
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In my seven years running Singled Out for Inpress, we have only had a Single-Of-The-Week-less column once before (a particularly thin week in 2005 or so, when I ran the postscript, “Single Of The Week is currently on leave”). Today, this is the whole column:
BRIAN McFADDEN JUST THE WAY…
“Our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference. Together, they wire gender. But the wiring is soft, not hard. It us flexible, malleable, and changeable. And, if we only believe this, it will continue to unravel.”
—Delusions of gender by Cordelia Fine
“even though they sincerely claim to hold the two sexes as equal, parents simultaneously devalue the feminine and limit boys’ access to it.”
—Delusions of gender by Cordelia Fine
“Cross-gender behaviour is seen as less acceptable in boys than it is in girls: unlike the term “tomboy” there is nothing positive implied by its male counterpart, the sissy.”
—Delusions of gender by Cordelia Fine
“As infants reach the toddler and preschool years, researchers find that mothers talk more to girls than to boys, and that they talk about emotions differently to the two sexes-and in a way that’s consistent with (and sometimes helps to create the truth of) the stereotyped belief that females are the emotion experts.”
—Delusions of gender by Cordelia Fine
