28 March 2011
Context: One of the designers I work with was working on some promotional skins for 3rd party LinkedIn widgets. The LI brand identity often strikes me as being aggressively masculine...
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20 October 2006
Salon published an article the other day titled Feminism vs. femininity. It's a review of a book by Laura Kipnis. Femininity -- which Kipnis defines as "tactical: a way of...
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14 September 2006
Ann Richards died the other day. Salon's Broadsheet blog covered Richards' death with a list of 10 reasons why we already miss Ann Richards, from which the quote is excerpted....
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19 August 2006
Isn't there something funny going on when we have (1) a many-thousands-year-old tradition of telling women that their only acceptable sphere is the home; (2) a lot of prejudices against women taking the helm in the valued spheres; (3) almost zero men ever actually making the decision to handicap their wage-earning ability to raise children or take care of housework?
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