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Atlantic Runs Screed Against Working Families

In a recent article run by the Atlantic, Marty Nemko "makes assertions that fly... more

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Normal women prefer sexist males over girly men

Many women will tell you that one of the most irritating things about life is that alpha males - great silverbacked gorilla types - strike us, maddeningly, as being rather more attractive than their kinder, gentler, more considerate dwarf-monkey counterparts. We know intellectually that it shouldn’t be so, since the gorillas are often sexist pigs (just to mix the animal metaphors); but when push comes to shove and we’re picking a boyfriend rather than a friend, few of us find beta males especially appealing.

In real life as in Georgette Heyer, the reprehensible, oddly sexy brute fares rather better than the sensitive flower. Now it turns out that the unreconstituted, sexist male chauvinist is not only more attractive to many women, but earns more money and is more professionally successful than the kind man who sympathises when you have period cramps and offers to make you a nice cup of camomile. Not fair, is it?

The Journal of Applied Psychology has just published findings from a University of Florida study based on interviews with more than 12,000 men and women. Between 1979 and 2005, they were questioned regularly about how they viewed male and female roles - whether they believed a woman’s place was in the home, whether employing women led to more juvenile delinquency(!) and whether it was the woman’s job to take care of the home and family.

Sexist men, the scientists found, made an average of $8,500 (£4,600) a year more than men who viewed women as work-place equals. Meanwhile, feminists earned more than their more traditionally minded female colleagues (but not a great deal more - £800 a year, on average). And while there was only a small difference between the pay packets of “egalitarian” men and women, sexist men’s wages outstripped everyone else’s.

Surprised? Me neither. It’s one of those stories that, even without being corroborated by the figures, has the horrible ring of truth about it: we’ve all worked in an office where the sexist monster is (a) very good at his job and (b) gruesomely and guilt-inducingly attractive despite his antediluvian attitudes.

The existence of such men is why sexism persists: it is obviously wrong on every level, as many an industrial tribunal will attest, but the combination of power and, shall we say, lack of political correctness can be a potent one - which is why everyone in Britain fell in love with Gene Hunt, the hulking great throwback in the BBC series Life on Mars, which was set in the 1970s. On paper the character was entirely despicable; in full flow he made his intelligent, evolved, sensitive sidekick look like a ladyboy. Men wanted to be Hunt; women wanted to be with him. This says a great deal about men’s sense of being emasculated at every turn in modern Britain - a complaint that is, I think, pretty
much justified and needs to be addressed before it does considerable damage.

http://www.stlouis.us.mensa.org/Be%20honest_%20we%20all%20love%20the%20sexist%20alpha%20male%20_%20India%20Knight%20-%20Times%20Online.pdfMany women will tell you that one of the most irritating things about life is that... more

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The Puffy Face

Ashley Judd Slaps Media in the Face for Speculation Over Her ‘Puffy’ Appearance
by Ashley Judd Apr 9, 2012 4:45 AM EDT

Ashley Judd’s “puffy” appearance sparked a viral media frenzy. But, the actress writes, the conversation is really a misogynistic assault on all women.

The Conversation about women’s bodies exists largely outside of us, while it is also directed at (and marketed to) us, and used to define and control us. The Conversation about women happens everywhere, publicly and privately. We are described and detailed, our faces and bodies analyzed and picked apart, our worth ascertained and ascribed based on the reduction of personhood to simple physical objectification. Our voices, our personhood, our potential, and our accomplishments are regularly minimized and muted.
That women are joining in the ongoing disassembling of my appearance is salient. Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it. This abnormal obsession with women’s faces and bodies has become so normal that we (I include myself at times—I absolutely fall for it still) have internalized patriarchy almost seamlessly. We are unable at times to identify ourselves as our own denigrating abusers, or as abusing other girls and women.

A case in point is that this conversation was initially promulgated largely by women; a sad and disturbing fact. (That they are professional friends of mine, and know my character and values, is an additional betrayal.)

News outlets with whom I do serious work, such as publishing op-eds about preventing HIV, empowering poor youth worldwide, and conflict mineral mining in Democratic Republic of Congo, all ran this “story” without checking with my office first for verification, or offering me the dignity of the opportunity to comment. It’s an indictment of them that they would even consider the content printable, and that they, too, without using time-honored journalistic standards, would perpetuate with un-edifying delight such blatantly gendered, ageist, and mean-spirited content.

I hope the sharing of my thoughts can generate a new conversation: Why was a puffy face cause for such a conversation in the first place? How, and why, did people participate? If not in the conversation about me, in parallel ones about women in your sphere? What is the gloating about? What is the condemnation about? What is the self-righteous alleged “all knowing” stance of the media about? How does this symbolize constraints on girls and women, and encroach on our right to be simply as we are, at any given moment? How can we as individuals in our private lives make adjustments that support us in shedding unconscious actions, internalized beliefs, and fears about our worthiness, that perpetuate such meanness? What can we do as families, as groups of friends? Is what girls and women can do different from what boys and men can do? What does this have to do with how women are treated in the workplace?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/09/ashley-judd-slaps-media-in-the-face-for-speculation-over-her-puffy-appearance.html?obref=obinsiteAshley Judd Slaps Media in the Face for Speculation Over Her ‘Puffy’... more

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Pat Robertson to Man: ‘You are the boss’ of your wife over money (VIDEO)

Uncle Pat's been hitting the weed again... http://veracitystew.com/?p=33342

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Yes, Virginia, There is Sexism at the Golf Club

Well, the big day for the big boys at Augusta National Golf Club came and went without... more

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Bipartisan Women Start Election Year Sexism Watch

What could happen in 10 years if women who lead PACs and nonprofits on both sides of... more

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Rep. Joe Walsh, sexist coward

Illinois GOP lawmaker slams opponent Tammy Duckworth, a Black Hawk chopper pilot who... more

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Trayvon Martin Tragedy -- Again, How Would It Feel . . .?

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Big Pharma claims heart disease drug 'combats racism'

LOL. at junk science and deceptive journalism.

The article specifically states that "Propranolol had no effect on a different measure of "explicit" racial prejudice, religious and sexual prejudice, or prejudice against drug addicts" but the headline alleges that the drug "combats racism."

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Volunteers given the beta-blocker, used to treat chest pains and lower heart rates, scored lower on a standard psychological test of "implicit" racist attitudes.

Experimental psychologist Dr Sylvia Terbeck, from Oxford University, who led the study published in the journal Psychopharmacology, said: "Our results offer new evidence about the processes in the brain that shape implicit racial bias.

"Implicit racial bias can occur even in people with a sincere belief in equality. Given the key role that such implicit attitudes appear to play in discrimination against other ethnic groups, and the widespread use of propranolol for medical purposes, our findings are also of considerable ethical interest."

Two groups of 18 participants took part in the study. Each volunteer was asked to undertake a "racial Implicit Association Test" (IAT) one to two hours after taking propranolol or the placebo.

The test involved categorising positive and negative words, and pictures of black and white individuals, on a computer screen.

More than a third of the volunteers had a "negative" IAT score, meaning they were biased towards being non-racist at a subconscious level. This was not seen in any member of the placebo group.

Propranolol had no effect on a different measure of "explicit" racial prejudice, religious and sexual prejudice, or prejudice against drug addicts.

These were tested using a "feeling thermometer" psychological tool used for assessing explicit prejudice. Volunteers were asked to rate how "warm" they felt towards different groups on a 10-point scale analogous to a thermometer.

The scientists wrote: "The main finding of our study is that propranolol significantly reduced implicit but not explicit racial bias."LOL. at junk science and deceptive journalism. The article specifically states that... more

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Rushing In.

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The Voice of the G.O.P

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Women to GOP: not tonight, we have a headache

If you are a woman worried about conservatives legislating your rights, you need to... more

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Sex Wars: Mars Venus = Division

I'm told I'm a member of the patriarchy. I didn't run for the job, win... more

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Indecision 2012: 'Ruh Roh' Pizza Guy Edition (VIDEO)

Herman Cain, the ex-pizza guy, who is now under scrutiny for a settlement that took... more

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Is A Right Wing Agenda of Crushing Faith in Humanity For REAL?!Ironic News Report, Sept 23, 2011

This week's edition of the Ironic News Report makes you wonder! We also take on... more

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Porn is what the end of the world looks like

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Bare breasts, hijabs, and fried eggs: Offbeat Ukrainian Feminist Group Fights Sexism And Authoritarianism

But to “Femen” — a Ukrainian feminist movement with hundreds of... more

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'Obedient Wives Club' spreads across Asia

JAKARTA/KUALA LUMPUR - INDONESIAN Gina Puspita traded a career in aircraft engineering... more

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Unification the Key to the End of Nationalism, Genocide, AIDS, Imperialism Racism Sexism, Nuclear Proliferation, and Nuclear War

Ian K. Judge-Lord 10/16/2004-4/16/07 “Any society that would give up... more

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Holy Misogyny

Source http://souciant.com/2011/05/holy-misogyny/ By Joe Lockard One of the more... more

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