Crossing my Metaphorical Desk
Someone decided they would try and charge seniors for 'wear and tear' on concrete pathways within their own retirement homes.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/seniors-made-to-pay-200-to-use-path/story-e6frg15c-1226186561605
Reasons NOT to donate to the Salvation Army: primarily it's a homophobic organization who gives only to those they deem worthy.
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/11/why_you_shouldnt_give_to_the_salvation_army.php?utm_source=front_page&utm_medium=best_of_box&utm_campaign=Best_Of
Ten unique cemetaries. :)
Someone has re-made the Antikythera Mechanism... who knows what for.
:)
An Op-Ed about Black Leading Men in Movies. All leads go to white men - and Will Smith.
Also, Association of Black Women Historians releases a statement against the book and the movie 'The Help," saying it distorts, trivialises and ignores the experience of black domestic workers.The book and novel support and encourage cliches and stereotypes which minimize the domestic workers' lives and bypasses/sweeps past the inherent racism and abuse. I can across this link in reference to how the story is co-opted into the Hollywood style of telling it from a white person's POV even though it is a black person's story.
This also led into a very brief dip into TV tropes. The Vasquez is a reference from Aliens to a woman who is competent, capable, and prepared for the situation in hand (and usually coloured), but often ends up dead rather than the pretty, feminine lead. Michelle Rodrigez said "... people can call it typecast, but I pigeonholed myself ... Saying no to the girlfriend, saying no to the girl that gets captured, and eventually I just got left with the strong chick who's always being killed." That sentence alone says a lot about the roles women are allowed to play in Hollywood films.
This also lead into Waif-Fu (it was a brief foray into TVtropes, I promise!). Yes. There's not a lot I can say about that except yes. Waif-Fu it is.
Somewhere along the way I also picked up a link for Women On Boards. It's a topic that interests me greatly, since in a way Boards seem to be where policy and ideology for organizations are developed, and if we want to shift our general work places to be a little more women-friendly, then Boards are one place we need to examine and perhaps get onto. I've been very proud that WASFF has had over a third women for the last few years, and when Iattended a Women on Boards meeting, they were saying the magickal change point is one third. Anything less than one third, a Board is likely to maintain it's status quo, however once over a third of the board are women, then slow changes start to occur. I find that interesting in that I wonder if it's that anything less than a third is a token gesture, or is it a power bloc issue? Perhaps it's more of a sign than a signifier; as in, it's not causing the change, but it's a sign that the changes have been occuring? Who knows! :)
A webpage of harshest rejection letters for famous books.
That's it for now! I have a house to clean up after a 4yo birthday party :)
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/seniors-made-to-pay-200-to-use-path/story-e6frg15c-1226186561605
Reasons NOT to donate to the Salvation Army: primarily it's a homophobic organization who gives only to those they deem worthy.
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/11/why_you_shouldnt_give_to_the_salvation_army.php?utm_source=front_page&utm_medium=best_of_box&utm_campaign=Best_Of
Ten unique cemetaries. :)
Someone has re-made the Antikythera Mechanism... who knows what for.
:)
An Op-Ed about Black Leading Men in Movies. All leads go to white men - and Will Smith.
Also, Association of Black Women Historians releases a statement against the book and the movie 'The Help," saying it distorts, trivialises and ignores the experience of black domestic workers.The book and novel support and encourage cliches and stereotypes which minimize the domestic workers' lives and bypasses/sweeps past the inherent racism and abuse. I can across this link in reference to how the story is co-opted into the Hollywood style of telling it from a white person's POV even though it is a black person's story.
This also led into a very brief dip into TV tropes. The Vasquez is a reference from Aliens to a woman who is competent, capable, and prepared for the situation in hand (and usually coloured), but often ends up dead rather than the pretty, feminine lead. Michelle Rodrigez said "... people can call it typecast, but I pigeonholed myself ... Saying no to the girlfriend, saying no to the girl that gets captured, and eventually I just got left with the strong chick who's always being killed." That sentence alone says a lot about the roles women are allowed to play in Hollywood films.
This also lead into Waif-Fu (it was a brief foray into TVtropes, I promise!). Yes. There's not a lot I can say about that except yes. Waif-Fu it is.
Somewhere along the way I also picked up a link for Women On Boards. It's a topic that interests me greatly, since in a way Boards seem to be where policy and ideology for organizations are developed, and if we want to shift our general work places to be a little more women-friendly, then Boards are one place we need to examine and perhaps get onto. I've been very proud that WASFF has had over a third women for the last few years, and when Iattended a Women on Boards meeting, they were saying the magickal change point is one third. Anything less than one third, a Board is likely to maintain it's status quo, however once over a third of the board are women, then slow changes start to occur. I find that interesting in that I wonder if it's that anything less than a third is a token gesture, or is it a power bloc issue? Perhaps it's more of a sign than a signifier; as in, it's not causing the change, but it's a sign that the changes have been occuring? Who knows! :)
A webpage of harshest rejection letters for famous books.
That's it for now! I have a house to clean up after a 4yo birthday party :)