Signal boost.
“One Million Moms: There aren’t a million of them and their board is mostly men. If they lie about who they are, they’ll lie about anything”
Quoted because it needs to be.
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Infographic: The Horrifying Gender Gap in Media Sourcing
Today’s lousy jobs numbers may go some way to refocusing the election on the economy. But despite the Romney campaign’s best efforts to make the economy central, and political scientists’ insistence that it’s the single best determinant of who will win in November, much of the political conversation has been about women’s issues this year. This week, it was sex-selective abortion; the week before, congressional Republicans tried to ban late-term abortions in D.C.. Earlier, there were battles over whether employers should be forced to cover birth control and the Planned Parenthood funding saga.
Those issues have been unavoidable for anyone paying attention to the news, but you’ve probably most heard about them from men. Though it’s hardly shocking or novel that men are overrepresented in media and punditry, it’s horrifying how true that is even for issues that primarily concern women, as the above graph shows.
Read more. [Image: 4thEstate]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ybd9phkj1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Infographic: The Horrifying Gender Gap in Media Sourcing
Today’s lousy jobs numbers may go some way to refocusing the election on the economy. But despite the Romney campaign’s best efforts to make the economy central, and political scientists’ insistence that it’s the single best determinant of who will win in November, much of the political conversation has been about women’s issues this year. This week, it was sex-selective abortion; the week before, congressional Republicans tried to ban late-term abortions in D.C.. Earlier, there were battles over whether employers should be forced to cover birth control and the Planned Parenthood funding saga.
Those issues have been unavoidable for anyone paying attention to the news, but you’ve probably most heard about them from men. Though it’s hardly shocking or novel that men are overrepresented in media and punditry, it’s horrifying how true that is even for issues that primarily concern women, as the above graph shows.
Read more. [Image: 4thEstate]
The sequence of events as Andromeda and the Milky Way collide, from today to 7 billion years into the future.
Happiness schmappiness.I think the pursuit of it, and our focus on it, is narcissistic. I don’t think that should be the goal in life. I think the goal in life is to have a good life — rich, fulfilled, filled with love — and have a sense that you are doing something to make the world a better place — and then happiness is a byproduct of a life well lived.
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| — | Psychologist Dan Gottlieb. (via nprfreshair) |
Josh Constine:
If you hate accidental auto-sharing, you’re in luck. Now you have to be watching or reading something for at least 10 seconds before Facebook apps can auto-share the activity to your Timeline.
A simple, good change. I’ve actually avoided clicking on things inside Facebook, worried that one would be a “landmine” — some bit of clickbait tied to Open Graph sharing. Why was I clicking on it in the first place? That’s another story…
I refuse to follow any links at all in Facebook. I’ve got it all buttoned up, apps turned off, and probably am considered a selfish old curmudgeon because I don’t accept all the demands to ‘friend’ people I don’t know. I have less than 100 friends, and plan to pare that back a bit. I don’t have it on my smartphone, either- because there’s no way to turn it off. And I really don’t like that at all.
Poor Benedict
Dying. Oh my gosh this is wonderful.
Paige please tell me you’ve seen this.
Looks like Benedict doesn’t ‘mind the gap’ at all.
There is no such thing as a human being. There are no human beings amongst you. A human being is not reading this sentence. Human being is a metaphor we are casting upon an ever-changing onslaught.
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| — | (via anti-teachings) |
In the last few weeks of my eighth grade year, I was invited to a party. It wasn’t for a close friend, and there were a lot of kids from my grade with whom I was familiar, but didn’t know that well. The night went on and many of the kids became inebriated. A group of…
I was something of a target as a kid- mostly because I was so awkward and self-conscious. I wasn’t pretty, but I was sharply brilliant, and most of the attacks on me were to put me in ‘my place’- wherever that was. As I gained clarity, competency, and confidence (after a martial arts course and metaphysical training and study), the overt attacks fell away. I have also aged out of the target zone, for which I am deeply grateful.
