Bakaness
Last time I went to the baseball fields, the man at the entrance told me there were no MATCHES. I specifically asked for the BASEBALL fields. Today there was a woman at the entrance. I asked for the baseball fields again. Are you here for the TOURNAMENT? she asks me. Yes, I tell her and she shows me where to go. For the next hour I was ( Read more... )

My presentation was ready in time! I found the article that helped me glue everything together the last moment, but I am finally satisfied. But I didn't get to present yesterday. Because most of the class was missing! (I will have to rant about strikes in Greece some other time) But I might enjoy some of your insights thanks to that!

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First of all, let’s start with some neurology. In an effort to concentrate I have started reading books loud more often. (I hope it helps my pronunciation as well.) I noticed that when I hear something, my mind can “replay’ the sound some seconds later and process it better. I have noticed that happen when I hear something somebody else says as ( Read more... )

It’s something obvious, but I hadn’t really thought about it until Mystique pointed it out to me: although Ayn Rand is a woman, her major characters are mostly men. Why is that? Didn’t she believe that women were worthy of becoming protagonists in her stories? Of course we’ve got Kira from “We the living”, my favorite one: Dominique Francon from “ ( Read more... )

I have to say more on the subject, because the more I read on it, the more fascinated I become. I just finished chapter 4 of my textbook "Gender: Psychological perspectives", Linda Brannon, Boston: Pearson Education, 2005. It is about Intelligence and Cognitive Abilities. 
As I had mentioned before, there are theories that claim that the brains of ( Read more... )

After exploring the various social stereotypes concerning men and women in the previous lesson, in Thursday our professor asked us the following question: "What makes a man? What makes a woman?" Meaning that if "sex" is just external characteristics and "gender" is a set of personality traits that separate men and women, which are the traits that ( Read more... )

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