December 2010
What's Fair Game?
dearoldlove:
Loving me because I’m smart is like loving me because I’m pretty: still patronizing.
WatchSheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders | Video on TED.com
“Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a...”
– Murder in Mesopotamia, Agatha Christie (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
3DD – Celebrating the beauty of breasts… in 3-D. →
Kelly Reemtsen’s Ladies (NOTCOT) →
“You should return the kindle and get me a strap on.”
– My woman, she’s so fucking hot. (via cureforcabinfever)
Performance Expectations Subject to Gender Bias →
While gender expectations in the workplace have shifted substantially in recent decades — with more women as CEOs, more men as nurses — gender neutrality on the job is far from a fait accompli.
A new study examines perceptions of people in high-powered jobs and finds that they’re likely to be judged more harshly for mistakes if they’re in a job that’s not normally associated with their...
Don't Underestimate Female Stalkers →
It is a common delusion that women are usually victims while men are more likely to be criminals. Men are considered more aggressive by nature and that’s why female Jack the Ripper, female Hitler and female Boston Strangler have not been introduced to the public (yet). However, when it comes to stalking women show no less potential for harm than men do.
Color Me Bad
dearoldlove:
I miss looking into your eyes. What color were they, again?
An affront to the eyes of God - Roger Ebert's... →
“Mary, give me one of your Kleenexes,” my mother told my aunt one morning long ago when we were entering Holy Cross Church. She held a bobby pin in her lips, reached up to part her hair, and fixed the Kleenex on top of her head. My Aunt Mary already had her handkerchief in place.
“Why do you have to do that?” I asked.
“Because we are going into the house of the...
