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typingfrantically:

Let me talk to you about books.

Specifically, one book. This book.

This book should be a best seller. This book should be required reading for graduating from high school. Before you get that diploma, you read this book.

This book deals with debunking “Neurosexism,” which is a very fancy term for all of that evolutionary psychology bullshit that people spill about those “brain differences” between boys and girls.

This book debunks such myths as:

• Boys are better at math than girls
• Women make crappy lawyers/business CEOs/etc, as their brains are not cut out for aggression.
• Men make crappy counselors/primary school teachers/primary parents/etc, as their brains are not cut out for empathy.
• MEN ARE BUILT FOR GOING OUT AND HUNTING WHILE WOMEN ARE BUILT FOR STAYING HOME AND BABYMAKING IT’S NOT SEXISM IT’S JUST BIOLOGY
• And many other such myths.

Furthermore, this book covers topics such as: 

• Neurosexism and gender perceptions in multiple races (as this is not a singularly white experience, just as the western world isn’t a singularly white experience)
• Sex discrimination in the workplace, and how women are (or, more often, are not) allowed to behave
• How science is used (badly) to support many of these claims
• Experiences of trans* people, both through interviews and empirical studies.

AND FINALLY - It is all brilliantly researched, cited, compiled - and it’s easy to read! Cordelia Fine actually manages to be funny while writing this, which I think is important, because it makes all of this information infinitely accessible.

Delusions of Gender has reinforced what Oberlin taught me: The gender binary is stupid and arbitrary, and dangerous. And it is a self-perpetuating bias that needs to be addressed to be overcome.

Their heads are a chart, so I’m allowed to do this.

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Rephotographed found imagery. A few samples….potential work in progress.

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Way back.

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Circa 13. Awkward and a smart ass in the making..obviously. 

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Water sculptures by Shinichi Maruyama.

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Remember.

Truman Capote’s house

Truman Capote’s house (70 Willow St., between Orange and Pineapple Sts.), where he wrote both “In Cold Blood” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” is a relic of the nabe’s bohemian past. “February House,” playing at the Public Theater, pays homage to the razed rowhouse at 7 Middagh St. (now a field beneath the BQE) where W.H. Auden once boarded. Arthur Miller, Norman Mailer and Walt Whitman also lived nearby.

Jackass

So, a friend of mine said that it was fleet week and I have never heard that terminology at all.  I thought she said FLEA week and I thought she was really excited about going to flea markets. Two days later I realized I heard her wrong. 

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Karen Inderbitzen-Waller 

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