March 2010
2 posts
Do you give too much unsolicited advice?
Hey, have you ever been told that you don’t listen to people?
What I want to point out to men who give out advice, is that you need to be sure that whoever you are listening to is at the “I want your help” stage of the problem-process. To give advice too soon is to tell whoever you’re slathering the advice on that the process they are in needs to pick up speed, and get to...
ok cupid + planned parenthood
Here is the match I want to see made: ok cupid and planned parenthood.
I imagine it working as follows:
You sign up, you get free dental dams/condoms
You wink, you get more
You message someone, you get more
You routinely get messages about different services they have at PP, and a special discount pass! (Maybe then chlamydia and gonorrhea wouldn’t be the number one and two infections in...
November 2009
5 posts
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Why do you want to be more lady like??
I have recently gotten a bit obsessed with the social goal networking site 43Things. It’s a fun community to be part of. Each member posts goals, checks off things they’ve done, and others can cheer you on, and write responses.
At the bottom of the page, there is a box that has a list of goals people are working on. I clicked on one that read: “be more lady like.” 12...
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Here’s what I think of Kathleen Parker’s Save the Males
“To invite readers (and myself) into that repellant landscape (hidden, but not...”
– Toni Morrison, on writing Beloved
+ + everything nice =
bogus social construction
October 2009
6 posts
“I myself have never been able to find out what feminism is; I only know that...”
– Rebecca West
What's missing from lesson plans: Race Matters in...
I teach before and after school in Southeast San Diego. I’m not one of those “do gooder” types, I just realized that you don’t need to go anywhere other than your backyard to help people, and I’d never say I want to save the world. So, when I moved back to San Diego in May 2009, I decided to do this job.
Let me begin by saying that it has taught me a lot about...
“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it’s to...”
– bell hooks
losing vowels: newspk or slng?
Flickr, tumblr, mastrkrft…
What did those e’s evr do to us? Is this Orwell’s 1984—but instead of losing words, we’re losing letters?
I think I’ve seen this in two chief places: the internet and DJ names… and maybe programming languages? These are all places where there are rich subcultures that create their own language. If you know that someone...