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" That's the first thing I heard when I picked up the phone. Sounding frustrated and hopeless on the other end of the line, my client Sarah continued. "If you knew how hard I've been working, you'd understand. You'd know I wasn't making excuses. " Sarah first contacted me after a friend of hers had successfully lost weight through my online coaching program, just six months after having a baby. More from Shape.com:You Don't Have To Run To Get In Amazing Shape8 Reasons Why You Should Lift Heavier WeightsUnbelievable Diet Rules Backed By Science Once Sarah understood why her approach to cardio was holding her back, we adjusted her plan and the pounds starting coming off again (seven pounds in one month, to be exact.) Your Workout Is Always The Same Your body is an amazing machine.
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But for every child who grows up surrounded by Disney products ranging from Broadway musicals to princess tiaras, there are countless controversies surrounding the content of Disney’s films, its notoriously cutthroat business practices, and the way the Mega-Mouse impacts culture—often negatively. One of the most outspoken online proponents of a critical take on Disney is Feminist Disney, part of a growing Tumblr community of social justice bloggers and anti-fandom critique blogs. At Feminist Disney, which often functions like a “Yo, Is This Racist?” Commentary blog, readers ask creator Mari Rogers to weigh in on everything from Disney's notorious treatment of its employees to the blandness of its perpetually beautiful blonde princesses. Before she began critiquing Disney regularly, Rogers was a women's rights activist in college—one with a soft spot for princesses. I sent this paper to JK Rowling explaining how the wizarding gene could be singular, autosomal, and dominant despite the protests of a bunch of fans who stopped learning genetics after Punnett squares. Warning: Contains science.
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It is a foolish sort of logic, bred by Orwellian elitists in ivory towers. Two comments in TODAY, one fueled by the illogic of the other, demanded that Singaporeans stop complaining unless they have constructive suggestions to offer. The Singaporean Fairytale: A Critical Reading, or, MAKE IT STOP I DON’T EVEN– Utility Journal: Tip Sheet: Tea. There are plenty of reasons to drink tea, and knowledge is power when it comes to getting the best from your own.
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Then I got married. Marriage is great—but it rocked everything I knew. I quickly realized my basic goal in life, prior to getting married, was to simply remain undisturbed. This “disruption” came suddenly and was disguised as a 5-foot-nothing Swedish-Filipino woman. I am a feminist « pissedoffladies. I’m a feminist.
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I’ve been a voracious reader my entire life, and in the past ten years, I’ve studied two languages, German and Japanese, in-depth, while delving into two others, Arabic and Spanish, for shorter, less dedicated stints. Now, I make a living out of trying to explain the labyrinth of the English language to Japanese high school students. I like words, to put it plainly. And though there are about a million reasons that I’ll call myself a lover of words, one of the main reasons lies within words that are untranslatable into any other language. Every language has them, words that just don’t resonate correctly when you try to put them into a tongue other than that which originally expressed them. The thing is, most of these words don’t describe concepts that are completely foreign to society.
Geek Masculinity and the Myth of the Fake Geek Girl. I’ve been thinking about fake geek girls–or, more, the tenacity with which the geek community has latched on to the bugbear of the fake geek girl. Even in a community with a reputation as argumentative, the intensity and volume of the vitriol directed at the fake geek girl is unprecedented. It’s flat-out weird. So, what makes the fake geek girl such a threatening spectre? What, exactly, does she threaten?” Geek” is a gendered noun. When a label is gendered, it carries all the attendant baggage. Take a moment to think about what that means–to women, but also to men; and particularly to the way men are taught to see women. Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning : Shots - Health News. Chinese schoolchildren during lessons at a classroom in Hefei, east China's Anhui province, in 2010.
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