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The Male Privilege Checklist

1. My odds of being hired for a job, when competing against female applicants, are probably skewed in my favor. The more prestigious the job, the larger the odds are skewed.
2. I can be confident that my co-workers won't think I got my job because of my sex - even though that ( Read more... )

I am up to my ears in notecards and I've barely made a dent in my research for my independent study. I have waited way too long to really get going on this. I have a bag full of books and this is going to take forever. I have a system but aaaugh. Notecards suck because you have to write on them which takes longer than typing. However, there's no ( Read more... )

I've started reading At The Root Of This Longing, by Carol Lee Flinders - the book Kate and Lara have both been urging me to read for awhile. I like it. Every few pages I read something that hits home. My notebook of quotes is quickly filling up. Here are some things to ponder.

"Reality was all that she'd asked for. Of Holy Writ she'd had her fill ( Read more... )

So I met with Robin today about my independent study...and she loaded me up with so many books (I put them in a huge duffel bag) that it's physically painful for me to walk with them. I made it to McCain (really slowly) and now I can't make it back to my apartment with them because 1)I can't make it up stairs very well, and 2)I also have books from ( Read more... )

"The image of the feminists as inhuman, fiery maneaters, whether expressed as an offense against God or in the modern terms of sexual perversion, is not unlike the stereotype of the Negro as a primitive animal or the union member as an anarchist." -Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, 80

"From the lives they saw their mothers lead, from their own ( Read more... )

I just read a mention of a woman I did for an obscure historical biography for maughan's class last year - st. hildegarde of bingen. the first woman to publicly write about and discuss the female orgasm. awesome, yeah?