Gender stereotypes may still apply for business executives, as men and women are held to different standards.
via foldysox:
Isn’t it humbling to write hundreds and hundreds of words about sexism and gender and entitlement and then remember that “Flight of the Conchords” nailed the whole displacement-of-responsibility and nice-guy rage things in, like, four sentences?
I am literally watching this scene right now. It is actually on my television as i type.
What the 2012 electoral map would have looked like without Women’s Sufferage. Here’s how else the map would look different if other groups weren’t allowed to vote (and for a large part of American history they couldn’t)…
Killing Sexy Halloween: The Ethical and Practical Complications
“There’s always the mommy bloggers who get really angry, and then there’s people like me who get really angry,” says Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes and an expert on adolescent sexuality and self-esteem. But, Wiseman admits, the complaining about sexy Halloween ends with “limited success.” Young women keep buying, and wearing, suggestive costumes.
That’s probably because most of the anxiety about the sexualization of Halloween comes from adults—the very people teenagers are inclined to ignore. If sexy Halloween is going to die, girls themselves will have to kill it.
Texts from Hillary making a brief comeback during the debate:
Romney still uses binders? LOL
And the War on Women continues in Michigan
via think-progress:
This woman spoke out and was silenced.
![via theatlantic:
Sorry, Young Man, You’re Not the Most Important Demographic in Tech
If you’re a man between the ages of 18 and 35, you used to be tech industry’s most coveted prize. You were the one who decided what products failed and what products succeeded. That’s why companies like Asus tweet ridiculous, sexist stuff. That’s one reason why less than 10 percent of venture capital-backed companies have female founders and there is a massive gender gap in tech. The technology industry’s focus on men is reflexive and all too intuitive to the men who run the companies. And it’s built on a plain wrong reading of the reality of the market.
Read more. [Image: Shutterstock/Tracy Whiteside]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5bb7awZ0W1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
via theatlantic:
Sorry, Young Man, You’re Not the Most Important Demographic in Tech
If you’re a man between the ages of 18 and 35, you used to be tech industry’s most coveted prize. You were the one who decided what products failed and what products succeeded. That’s why companies like Asus tweet ridiculous, sexist stuff. That’s one reason why less than 10 percent of venture capital-backed companies have female founders and there is a massive gender gap in tech. The technology industry’s focus on men is reflexive and all too intuitive to the men who run the companies. And it’s built on a plain wrong reading of the reality of the market.
Read more. [Image: Shutterstock/Tracy Whiteside]
Things FoxNews has declared there is a “War On…”
- War on Christmas
- War on Marriage
- War on Easter
- War on Hanukkah
- War on Fall Holidays
- War on Halloween
- War of Fossil Fuels
- War on Salt
- War on the Constitution
- War on Sugary Drinks
- War on Spuds (vs. “nannystate”)
- War on Chocolate Milk
- War on Ladies’ Night
- War on Fishermen
War on WomenWar on Conservative Women
Things Wilco has declared there is a “war on”
Rush Limbaugh’s philosophy of Sex & Love (at least for women), now in convenient flow chart form.
via motherjones:
FLOWCHART: Do you ever have sex for, like, non-procreative reasons? Do you use birth control? Are you female? You might be a slut.
Full chart here.
