Here’s a look at an all-girl public elementary school in New York. I’m not a huge fan of sex-segregated schools, but watching what they do here – naming the classrooms after women of achievement, having women speakers who are doctors, lawyers, football players; promoting a girls-are-women-of-achievement atmosphere – makes for a good look at how […]
Whoever came up with this Dove campaign? Fucking brilliant. Here’s their latest: Onslaught.
Always makes me happy to see so many successful women in one place. Reminds me that I don’t see that kind of grouping often.
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Pure entertainment. Here’s an excerpt from the July 1943 issue of Transportation Magazine – some tips for male supervisors looking to hire women. “Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees: There’s no longer any question whether transit companies should hire women for jobs formerly held by men. The draft and manpower shortage
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None of these revelations [from men] of personal weakness seem to undercut the esteem in which these male critics are held. Nor has there been expressed an air of disappointment that they failed to live up to some bloodless, bileless ideal of who they are. Because stoicism is expected of men, their personal revelations —
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Um, I mean… REALLY??? WTF? One of the toughest things to find when you’re going to an SF/F art show looking for art that features tough female heroines is finding tough female heroines who are actually wearing clothes and looking like physcially tough female heroines. You know, the sorts of heroines whose outfits don’t make
First impressions and assumptions (from here): The family picture is on his deskAh, a solid, responsible manThe family picture is on her deskUm, her family will come before her career His desk is clutteredHe’s obviously a hard worker and a busy manHer desk is clutteredShe’s obviously a disorganised scatterbrain He is talking with his co-workersHe
No, I’ve never read the book. No idea why. Just never could get into it, which is sort of sad, you know, being a feminist SF/F writer who’s never read it. But I did manage to sit through the 3-hour miniseries, which I’d heard was really awful, so I wasn’t expecting much. All right, no,
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Because until the world is perfect, you sometimes still have to play dirty: Armed with my new tips and tricks, I laced up my skates and headed out to face the jungle that is childhood. When the boys confronted me again, I dared them to mess with me. One ballsy kid lunged towards me with
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