December 2009
9 posts
Dolly Parton "9 to 5"
Tumble outta bed And stumble to the kitchen Pour myself a cup of ambition Yawnin, stretchin, try to come to life Jump in the shower And the blood starts pumpin Out on the streets The traffic starts jumpin And folks like me on the job from 9 to 5 Chorus: Workin 9 to 5 What a way to make a livin Barely gettin by Its all takin And no givin They just use your mind And they never give...
10-Year-Old Won't Pledge Allegiance To A Country... →
malloreigh:
blownspeakers:
Via Queerty comes a story from the Arkansas Times about Will Phillips, an elementary school student who refuses to say the pledge of allegiance in school because of discrimination against gay people:
“I’ve always tried to analyze things because I want to be lawyer,” Will said. “I really don’t feel that there’s currently liberty and justice for all.”
After asking...
“When I see gangs of angry gay men roaming the street to beat up someone because...”
– Womanist Musings (via notemily) (via mollytov) (via malloreigh)
“Forget for a moment that women are some of the best ski jumpers in the world....”
– Dave Zirin, Women Ski Jumpers Grounded (via TMN)
This is a must read.
(via pterodactyls)
This whole fiasco just seems inane to me. Why the hell not have women’s ski jumping? Isn’t there a women’s branch of just about every other sport already? I’m not inclined to get up in arms about it because I...
Jean-Paul Satre stated that humans differ from human artifacts in that their existence precedes essence. How might this apply to a discussion of android essence?
“More importantly, we have found that people forget she is an android while...”
– Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro in an interview with the BBC.
November 2009
33 posts
“marriage, by the cultural logic of the period, returned the typists to her natural duties of wife and mother and relieved her from the ontological uncertainties and moral temptations of life in the commercial office.”
Keep 19. 157
'Humanness'
How do you define your humanness? Which of the following terms do you associate with human being?
-Rationality?
-Empathy?
-Creativity?
-Sentience?
-Pity?
-Intelligence?
-Power?
-Memory?
-Dominance?
-Consciousness?
-Manipulation?
- Empathy?
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inter/tidal.- submit submit! →
The feminization of typewriters and typing techniques was but one piece, unique in its gendered aspects, of a continuing enterprise that seeks to overcome problems of communication such as the threat new technologies pose to communication protocols. The purpose of gendering the typewriting was to insure it as a reliable and faithful means of communication.
-(McConnell 2008)
Move to make 'sexbots' illegal in Canada
From Sex-Dolls to Sexbots: An Analysis of Current Canadian Obscenity Laws and
Future Directions
Apart from serving the obvious and (private) traditional purpose of procreation, human sexuality has been an increasingfocus of popular culture with sexualized images appearing in magazines, television, film/pornography, and music.Sexuality, like gender, is a social construct, whereby sexual roles are...
Robot Code of Ethics to Prevent Android Abuse,... →
“The machines and the women mimic their humanity, but they never simply
become...”
– Plant, From: Mike Featherstone and Roger Burrows, eds
Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of
Technological Embodiment 45-64.
Sage, 1995
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“This,
however, is an impossible effort: man cannot become what is already more...”
– Plant, From: Mike Featherstone and Roger Burrows, eds
Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of
Technological Embodiment 45-64.
Sage, 1995
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'Feminine Identity'
In Plant’s article, the notion of a ‘Feminine Identity’ is brought up in her discussion of Mead’s research of the industrialization of textiles, which she writes, “shatters the scenery of female identity”. In the article, Plant discusses a specific sort of work as ‘feminine’ due to its manifestation within a historically gendered labour system (in...
“Many causes have contributed to produce the past derangements; & I shall in...”
– Plant. From Mike Featherstone and Roger Burrows, eds
Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of
Technological Embodiment 45-64.
Sage, 1995
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Might the creation of groups like 'Stitchnbitch', in which women make up a majority of group members, act to cement the gender divide? Can you think of any ways that women might interact with one another in a 'female space' that 'transgresses' gender stereotypes, or is this impossible? Does the designation of a group as predominantly 'male' or 'female' inherently produce exclusive conceptions of gender?
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http://stitchnbitch.org/ →
http://careers.guardian.co.uk/careers-blog/gender-p... →
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Stereotypical Successful Male Traits:
- Aggressive
- Competitive
- Rational
- Tough
- Competent
- Unemotional
How many women that aren’t celebrities are portrayed as strong, successful and feminine on television or the news in general? It’s no wonder women need to have a coping mechanism such as becoming the “conceptual man” in the workplace.
October 2009
22 posts
“At least we know one thing: it’s possible to have about the same number of men...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16digi.html?_r=1
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Section from Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
How might this tie in to the Margolis/Fisher article?
“The spirit of peace descended like a cloud from heaven, for if the spirit of peace dwells anywhere, it is in the courts and quadrangles of Oxbridge on a fine October morning. Strolling through those colleges past those ancient halls the roughness of the present seemed smoothed away; the body seemed contained in a miraculous glass...
Girls Gaming
In looking up ‘girls gaming’ on google this is what comes up:
http://playmagazine.com/thegirlsofgaming/index.html
… I thought it was an article on prominent female gamers, but it’s dedicated to featuring ‘sexy’ anime/gaming characters… strange.
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The Sims and IT Expertise
I support Hayes’ statement that The Sims (1&2) can be a possible entrée point for girls to experience the “productive” aspects of games and develop their IT expertise. In this game series, players get to design avatars, house décor, buildings and etc. with built-in tools, as Hayes mentions. In addition, several players, both male and female, go a step further to use their own programming tools...