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I plan to close the steampunk caption contest voting poll tomorrow and declare a winner — Vote now if you haven’t!
A reader reacts to Mainspring — They liked it.
A reader reacts to “In the Forests of the Night” — They really hated it.
Mad Men: 1955 — Mmm. The chromocritic.
Male and female ability differences down to socialisation, not genetics — Behavioural differences between the sexes are not hard-wired at birth but are the result of society’s expectations, say scientists. (Via The Edge of the American West.)
Dear Rev. Graham: Obama was not born a Muslim and neither is anyone else — Those Americans who insist on seeing Obama as a Muslim are othering him, and probably are using religion as a proxy for race. Since the Civil Rights movement, it has been unacceptable in the United States for a public figure to engage openly in racist discourse, as shock jocks Dr. Laura and Don Imus discovered. But apparently it is still all right to be a religious bigot, so Islam is being scapegoated by the Republican Party, as its ability openly to play on racial fears is being increasingly constrained.
?otD: What would you do if this were the last day of your life?
8/22/2010
Writing time yesterday: 3.5 hours (revisions)
Body movement: 30 minute suburban walk to come
Hours slept: 8.25 (solid)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 4/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)
Currently (re)reading: Destroyer by C.J. Cherryh
Posted: 6:35 am Sun August 22 2010 |
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Cora
August 22nd, 2010 at 3:52 pmI will be very glad to finally see the back of that whole “men’s and women’s brains are completely different” nonsense. Sexism dressed up as pseudo-science is still sexism. And it’s hurting men and women both.