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Let’s talk about sexism in pop culture. Not sexist representations so much, although there are plenty of those, but the tremendous gendered imbalances in terms of who is creating pop culture, who is getting attention for it, and who is being heralded as a pop culture visionary. Because holy smackaroos, it’s a good time to talk about that right now. NPR’s Linda Holmes, who runs the fabulous Monkey See blog, wrote a great piece on Friday about the absence of women from the movies. Not the audience -- the actual movies. She noted that 90% of the movies showing in her area on Friday were about men or groups of men with women only in supporting roles, and that’s in D.C., a large metropolitan area with considerable cinematic diversity. That’s barely scratching the surface of an industry where there is a tremendous gender disparity in terms of who’s writing, directing, and producing. Jonathan Franzen: Big name male writer, also arbiter of whether sexism in publishing exists, apparently.
How to use search like a pro: 10 tips and tricks for Google and beyond | Technology
Search engines are pretty good at finding what you’re looking for these days, but sometimes they still come up short. For those occasions there are a few little known tricks which come in handy. So here are some tips for better googling (as it’s the most popular search engine) but many will work on other search engines too. 1. The simplest and most effective way to search for something specific is to use quote marks around a phrase or name to search for those exact words in that exact order. For instance, searching for Joe Bloggs will show results with both Joe and Bloggs but not necessarily placed sequentially. The exact or explicit phrase search is very useful for excluding more common but less relevant results. 2. If exact phrase doesn’t get you what you need, you can specifically exclude certain words using the minus symbol. A search for “Joe Bloggs” -jeans will find results for Joe Bloggs, but it will exclude those results for the Joe Bloggs brand of jeans. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Fuck You, Men's Rights Activists
Alright, I totally agree here (as a man) with your description of these reprehensible people. Fuck MRAs. They're reprehensible shits who hate women, and tacitly or actively endorse violence against women, and clearly have some incredible emotional issues they must contend with. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. I'm not sure any of those qualify as men's activists under the definition given here, but in the sense that they advocate for the rights of men, they might, and they probably shouldn't be subject to this sort of vitriol. Yeah, but fuck MRA's who fit under the definition given here.
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Partners Swap Makeup Routines for Genius 'MADE UP' Project
Fantastic campaign alert! Stop what you're doing and look at these photos from the MADE UP Experiment. Makeup is a HUGE part of gender performance - it's tied to femininity like blonde on a Barbie. We're taught to follow certain customs in order to be read as feminine, while men are taught to perform masculinity. These rigid gender roles limit self-expression and individuality, and lots of people are fed up with that. MADE UP is showing how the performance of gender is just that - a performance. The first set of portraits is taken of each couple in their typical date-ready makeup (or lack thereof). The couples' responses to the experience are also documented, which MADE UP says provides "insight into how these idealized concepts of gender and beauty affect relationships.” This experiment forces both subjects and viewers to examine ideas of beauty and gender roles as well as expressions of masculinity and femininity in their everyday lives. Thanks to madeupcampaign.com.
Nik's Learning Technology Blog: 9 Generic activities for exploiting infographics
Infographics are a great source of information and make reading information from the computer screen much easier, but just showing students an infographic and telling them to study it isn’t the most effective way to exploit the medium. Creating your own infographic tasks can be time consuming though, so in this posting I’m presenting a number of generic ideas that should work with a number of types of infographic. You can use these ideas with students to help focus their comprehension of the information and give them clear goals for engaging with the information in the graphics. I’ve used a selection of these tasks for the infographic based collection of lesson plans I’ve published for PeacheyPublications.com. The series title is - Lessons in Digital Literacy and I’ve used these lesson plans to help students develop critical thinking skills and their ability to carry out online research. Related links: Best Nik Peachey
Lego people are right to be angry – they have to live with Barbie | Ed Mayo
There is a trend towards anger in Lego faces, research has found. 'But to be angry about the right things … is a noble cause.' Photograph: Axel Heimken/dpa/Corbis Angry toys are on the rise. The character of toys, happy or sad, wise or deceitful, has always been more in the eye of the child than the physical expression of the object. With tie-ins, toys became one more way of making money out of global entertainment franchises, so it is true that their characters, or back stories, have become more developed. But as such, toys are big business too. It was in a colourful classroom in the southwest of England that a small circle of primary school girls gathered in a circle to talk about their toys. It is natural for dolls to evoke strong feelings. So, children use the fabric of their material world to grapple with age-old issues, such as fantasy, control and how to behave.
