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Maslow and Feminist Privilege
I first learned about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in a high school marketing class. The traditionally pyramid-shaped diagram illustrates a psychological theory on how people prioritize their needs. First comes the basics (food, water, shelter), followed by safety, then companionship/ … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday?
I missed my blogiversary! Shows you how much I was paying attention…. Turns out, it was December 22nd! Now you know, and believe me, next year I expect gifts. Total Posts: 373 Most Commonly Used Tags: gender, body image, politics, … Continue reading
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Sunday Scraps 36
1. HAIR: I love this essay on Jezebel by Autumn Whitefield about the social and personal implications of short hair on women. Maybe, as she suggests, the expressed male preference for long hair comes from conditioning, not from some sort … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Body Image, Gender, Hollywood, Media, Politics, Really Good Writing by Other People
How Biased Am I?
I decided to put myself to a little test. I was inspired by Jennifer Dalton’s artsy media analysis profiled on Jezebel. She does some neat visual stuff with the gender breakdowns of talk show guests. For example, she calculated that … Continue reading
Sunday Scraps 24
1. CHICAGO: @Astro_Ron has been tweeting pictures from outer space. This is Chicago. 2. JOB PROSPECTS: For Lack of a Better Comic tackles the predicament of an English major in this job market. 3. DOMINATRIX: It’s fun to hear Terry … Continue reading
XKCD Agrees
I’m tired. It’s been a long week. I’ve decided that microwave-made nachos = dinner. At 10:30pm. While I watch Colbert. It’s that kind of day. This week has been dominated by stupid shit anyway, like the whole Abercrombie brouhaha with … Continue reading
Filed under Really Good Writing by Other People
Liebster
This is essentially the equivalent of a chain letter. Whatever, in sixth grade chain letters were the shit, so here goes. Ms. Stephanie at The Conscientious Reader has nominated me for a blogging award called The Liebster. It means “beloved” … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Books, Really Good Writing by Other People
The 8pm Ban
Every month, GOOD Magazine recommends a 30-day-challenge, “a monthly attempt to live better.” For August, the challenge was to turn off the internet at 8pm. TV-watching was still kosher (thank God), but no blogging, tweeting, Facebook-stalking, emailing, Google Reader-reading, etc. … Continue reading
Sunday Scraps 22
1. GENDER: Sociological Images caught a great example of gender assumptions in kids products, this one more insidious than most. The boy backpack is for a pilot, the girl backpack is for a pilot’s assistant. 2. COLBERT: Stephen Colbert picked … Continue reading →
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