Michelle that is. The FFL (future first lady) fine, maybe, will be posting regularly on Blogher about her experiences working on her husband's campaign. What can say, I mean genius obviously, on the part of Michelle in terms of strategic political spouses and on the part of those insanely effective ladies over at Blogher.
The pink vigilantes: The Indian women fighting for women's rights
Intensely proud of her work, she says: "We have managed to stop women being raped and sent girls to school. Violence and rape against women is very common here, so we're trying to educate them so that they know their rights.
"In cases of domestic violence, we go and talk to the man and explain why it is wrong. If he refuses to listen, we get the woman out of the house, then beat him. If necessary, we do it in public to embarrass him.
"Men used to think the law didn't apply to them but we are forcing a huge change."
"We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get?" Based on this Op-Ed piece written by a woman in the Washington Post. I am going to hazard a guess that we can get pretty fucking dumb indeed.
This is a presentation Isabel Allende gave at TED, it's 18 minutes long, but click here and open it up to full screen, then give what she says your full attention - you will not be disappointed.
I don't usually untitle posts, but I have been having this really hard time with this trip, and wanted to write a long piece, and then Jane and I ended up talking about it via chat, and I don't have time to make up a pithy title even. So consider this the context for a longer piece that will hopefully come tonight. I don't have time to edit this so please excuse all typos.
4:17 PM me: are you actually awake right now?
Jane: yup
me: how's it going?
4:18 PM Jane: mega computr and work bullshit and super hyper manic
me: hmm
sounds unpleasant
Jane: not that bad
me: okay well that's good
Simon sent me this transcript to read and asked for my commentary. It's not by him, please be advised. He just wanted to know what I thought
Is There Anything Good About Men? by Roy F. Baumeister.
Just to give you a clue of what's in store for you should you decided to fight your way through the entire address:
That's an important first clue to how culture uses men. Culture has plenty of tradeoffs, in which it needs people to do dangerous or risky things, and so it offers big rewards to motivate people to take those risks. Most cultures have tended to use men for these high-risk, high-payoff slots much more than women. I shall propose there are important pragmatic reasons for this. The result is that some men reap big rewards while others have their lives ruined or even cut short. Most cultures shield their women from the risk and therefore also don't give them the big rewards. I'm not saying this is what cultures ought to do, morally, but cultures aren't moral beings. They do what they do for pragmatic reasons driven by competition against other systems and other groups.
Colophon Syndicate the feeling
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