but I plan to start posting interesting articles again I swear! Junior year of highschool has just been rough, along with family issues…
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a Fox News contributor, tea party activist and personal friend of Sean Hannity’s said in a sermon recently published to YouTube that America’s greatest mistake was allowing women the right to vote, adding that back in “the good old days, men knew that women are crazy and they knew how to deal with them.”
In the video, published to YouTube in March, Peterson explains that he believes women simply can’t handle “anything,” and that in his experience, “You walk up to them with a issue, they freak out right away. They go nuts. They get mad. They get upset, just like that. They have no patience because it’s not in their nature. They don’t have love. They don’t have love.”
What the hell?
Women and men do not receive an equal education because outside of the classroom women are not perceived as sovereign beings but as prey…. the capacity to think independently, to take intellectual risks, to assert ourselves mentally is inseparable from our physical way of being in the world, our feelings of personal integrity. If it is dangerous for me to walk home late of an evening from the library because I am a woman and I can be raped then, how self possessed, how exuberant can I feel as I sit and work at the library? How much of my working energy is drained by by the subliminal knowledge that as a woman, I test my physical right to exist every time I go out alone.
Adrienne Rich, feminist writer who recently passed away. It is from a chapter called, “Taking Women Students Seriously” from her book called, On Lies, Secrets and Silence.
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Wait, let me back up.
Hi, my name is Cara and I’m a 21 year old woman. Every 28 days, give or take, I have a period. And it fucking sucks. Today, was one of those where I take from the 28 day cycle. I wasn’t due for another period for at least a week, but considering that…
You’re bad at this, Rush Limbaugh. You don’t even understand how babies are made, let alone how people can have sex without making a baby, and you would like the government to take over decision-making on these issues on your say-so. And you don’t get it. You biologically don’t get it. You just don’t understand it. You were absent that day. - Rachel Maddow
Oh Rachel, I love you for this segment.
This segment was flawless.
Finally- sorry for the delay! I found the Hayat Sindi video. She is very intelligent and thoughtful, and this video itself is inspiring. This is a prime example of creative thinking in action- going back to simple materials like paper to replace something that usually takes tons of lab equipment! Try to take the time to watch the video to the end- it’s only 10 minutes, and worth it.
I believe school has sucked the creativity out of me. My imagination was endless, as a young kid, but school taught me practicality— that something is not possible, therefore unthinkable. I find my brain has constructed a barrier to most of those “impossible” thoughts, and it takes…
I’ve thought this an awful lot as well… I’m also hesitant to criticize the ‘learn technical first, with rules’ approach because technical knowledge is needed to truly be creative with something. The best artists have had plenty of draftsmanship training, the best writers have read mountains of books themselves and know basic plot structure, and the best mathematicians can prove the theorems they use. The trick seems to be the ability to switch between free, creative outside-the-box thinking and practicality. Though the two shouldn’t be mutually exclusive, it’s difficult to let go of restrictions for design and then switch on the rules to re-evaluate it. But then I’ve had this issue mostly with engineering problems, so it may not be applicable to other areas.
In Case You Missed It of the Day: Speaking of which, Amy Poehler returned to Saturday Night Live last night to reunite with former Weekend Update co-host Seth Meyers for a special birth-control segment of “Really?!?” which delved into all the wacky, anachronistic mishegas the Republicans were up to this week.
On the one hand, I hope Amy returns to Weekend Update more often. On the other hand, I hope it’s not because there’s enough material to make this birth-control segment a weekly feature.
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preach, Amy. Preach
Just saw this somewhere else & liked it a lot. She says things that I often think but have no idea how to express!
Hayat Sindi! by National Geographic
Hayat Sindi is a native of Saudi Arabia and studied at Cambridge. She develops simple devices to make medical testing easier in the poorest areas of the world.
The background behind her looks like the TED conference screen- I’ll get on the website later in the week and see if I can find her talk.
