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jfbSome links I've been thinking about this week, many of them from feministblogs.org:
Alley Rat: "Yesterday I had the eerie (and familiar) experience of being invisible."
Feministe, photoshopping: "What am I doing? I asked myself. With all of the writing Jill and I have done on beauty culture, here I was editing my photos before I released them to the world. I show the world my real face every day. Why was I so uptight about showing my face to my digital contacts?"
A popular science article this week described a neurological study on perception of vocal gender, indicating that "women's voices are more difficult for men to listen to, and process information from, than the voices of other men," mostly because we process women's voices with the parts of our brains that are concerned with melodies. A striking theory, but, it turns out, not what the study said at all. Here's what it said.
My old nemesis, the New York Times, published a piece on "girl crushes", apparently taking great pains to make clear that that feeling of breathless anticipation you get when you think about your special friend of the same sex isn't gay.
How beauty norms for women constrain male desire, from an atypical man's perspective, and a daughter's.
Ah, The Onion: First-Time Novelist Constantly Asking Wife What It's Like To Be A Woman. "According to Becky, Kitner asked, 'What type of food would a woman try to eat if she were trapped in a walk-in freezer? How about a piece of liver? Would that be it? If I were a woman, I think that would be just perfect. But I don't know. You tell me, Becky.'"
Sheerly Avni picks Ten Hollywood Movies That Get Women Right. I'm always happy when someone else likes Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman, but Fight Club is an odd choice.
How do police know if they should shoot a suspected terrorist in the head? The signs are eerily like autism.
The Pirate vs. The Giant Squid!
Alley Rat: "Yesterday I had the eerie (and familiar) experience of being invisible."
Feministe, photoshopping: "What am I doing? I asked myself. With all of the writing Jill and I have done on beauty culture, here I was editing my photos before I released them to the world. I show the world my real face every day. Why was I so uptight about showing my face to my digital contacts?"
A popular science article this week described a neurological study on perception of vocal gender, indicating that "women's voices are more difficult for men to listen to, and process information from, than the voices of other men," mostly because we process women's voices with the parts of our brains that are concerned with melodies. A striking theory, but, it turns out, not what the study said at all. Here's what it said.
My old nemesis, the New York Times, published a piece on "girl crushes", apparently taking great pains to make clear that that feeling of breathless anticipation you get when you think about your special friend of the same sex isn't gay.
How beauty norms for women constrain male desire, from an atypical man's perspective, and a daughter's.
Ah, The Onion: First-Time Novelist Constantly Asking Wife What It's Like To Be A Woman. "According to Becky, Kitner asked, 'What type of food would a woman try to eat if she were trapped in a walk-in freezer? How about a piece of liver? Would that be it? If I were a woman, I think that would be just perfect. But I don't know. You tell me, Becky.'"
Sheerly Avni picks Ten Hollywood Movies That Get Women Right. I'm always happy when someone else likes Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman, but Fight Club is an odd choice.
How do police know if they should shoot a suspected terrorist in the head? The signs are eerily like autism.
The Pirate vs. The Giant Squid!
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Date: 2005-08-13 06:21 pm (UTC)