Nick, I totally hear you on the competitiveness of men, even in a good-natured conversation it's like they are constantly trying to one-up each other. I've noticed that among the men I work with. Aside from that, they are all (posted to Not Oprah's Book Club: Guyland)
YES! I watched this program too and I was about to write a post on it too! It was pseudo-incestuous and very disturbing. What particularly disturbed me was the fact that girls as young as 5 are doing this. 5 (posted to Purity Ball: In Prime Time!)
If I chose to marry my lover, all of the previously mentioned sexist traditions will be modified in a feminist way: NO RINGS (and I was really horrified to find out that the Beyonce song says "you should put a (posted to Sexist wedding traditions)
I think about this issue all the time, as someone who lives in a city, without a car, reliant on PT. Don't get me wrong, I love the trolley system we have here in Philly, but I have the worst (posted to Taking Up Space)
Great post! I think you touch on a lot of important issues and the one in particular that I’m all over right now is the “divide and conquer” strategy that society has had against women since… well, I don’t know, (posted to Most emailed NYT article: Women on women workplace aggression)
Huh, I definitely got that tone out of some of the people quoted, but not out of the article itself. Well, at least we agree it's expecting some essential difference between women in the workplace and men in the workplace (posted to Most emailed NYT article: Women on women workplace aggression)
Ah. Well, I would say that each individual is responsible for her own mobility (or not). And the companies are responsible for creating a hostility-free environment. I never liked the idea that all "women" need to watch out for me (posted to Most emailed NYT article: Women on women workplace aggression)
This is a great post. I have been reading Phyllis Chesler's 'Woman's Inhumanity to Woman' and it has been very enlightening. The fact is that patriarchy sets us up as competitors for men and denies our (indirect) aggression. We don’t (posted to Most emailed NYT article: Women on women workplace aggression)
I love the way the article focues on women's bullying of other women- while admitting they are only 40% of bullies. Why the focus solely on women? Why not pay attention to male bullying as well? Is women bullying women (posted to Most emailed NYT article: Women on women workplace aggression)
