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Teenager Stereotypes
Small town/HS = jocks & cheerleaders as pop culture lets us believe. Larger school = fewer cliques/stereotypes don’t always apply Why do teens’ bedrooms on TV always have a poster of EVERY band?...
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Some Considered And Well-written Articles About Disordered Eating
The Anorexic Statement by Rachel Cusk at New Statesmen The Female(?) Athlete Triad: How An Evolutionary Advantage Can Turn Its Ugly Face On Both Sexes, from Suppversity is part one of a series of...
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Interesting Stuff About Viruses
I didn’t take biology at school, and I somehow missed some of the most fundamental lessons on the ways in which humans can get sick. I probably couldn’t tell you, for instance, whether any given...
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Women and Marketing
Get To Know The Feminist Film-maker Who Vandalises Commercials, at Bitch Media Dear Advertising Agencies: This is what your ads for women look like, from Upworthy Future Questions In Women’s...
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Listening To Music As You Work
I once worked in a souvenir store in New Zealand, where the owners made retail staff listen to the same 12 tracks on repeat. I worked 10 hour days. They refused to let us listen to anything else,...
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Danger, Perceived Danger and Cycling
I lived with my parents during my university years. My parents owned a house right next to campus. In fact, they lived closer to campus than most people got a park, so it seemed stupid to move out. The...
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Physical Expressions Of Love and Other Things
I Have Some Questions About Hugs from Thought Catalog Strange And Fascinating Courtship Traditions Around The World from Flavorwire The Art Of Kissing: A 1936 Guide For Lovers, found by Brainpickings....
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Who Needs Hallowe’en?
Happy belated Hallowe’en. It’s not really a thing here in Australia, but door-to-door begging is slowly catching on. If you don’t answer your door, it’s still possible to avoid it. Almost. But then...
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The World Under A Microscope
The other day a fly sat on my shoulder. I turned my head slowly, hoping to squish it eventually, and was looking it in the eye. This was even more creepy than you might imagine. For both of us. Under...
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On Grandparents
Wisdom of grandparents helped rise of prehistoric man: As more Homo sapiens lived beyond the age of 30, scientists say, they passed on knowledge and skills to the young, from The Guardian [E]ven as...
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Word of the Day: Pluripotent
How old are you? What about your teeth? Your hair? Your big toe? I suppose this is common sense if you think long and hard about the nature of biology, but scientists have worked out that even...
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On Tickling
There are two types of tickling. 1. knismesis is caused by a light movement across the skin, the feather-type of tickle 2. gargalesis is provoked by the stronger pressure of poking and other...
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Must women be ‘fierce’ now, too?
If you are a woman there are a number of different ways of dealing with sexism in the workplace. 1. Find yourself a different workplace. Last night I watched a documentary from The London Markets...
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On Violence
“The violence which governed the ordering of the colonial world, which tirelessly punctuated the destruction of the indigenous social fabric, and demolished unchecked the systems of reference of the...
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On Objectification
Anyone who’s aware of this phenomenon has probably heard the term ‘objectification’ in terms of white women. There’s a good reason for that. There’s also a bunch of other kinds of objectification,...
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A Christmas Creepy Post
I will never apologise for putting up a Christmas tree too early or too late or not at all. Christmas creep is justifiably annoying, but one thing I’ve noticed recently is the cultural commentary...
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Everyone’s Afraid Of Teenage Girls
When I taught in a girls’ high school, I generally had two reactions when sharing what I did for a job. The first was, ‘Oh god, I could never teach teenage girls. (Teenage girls are hideous.)’ The...
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Types Of Bias
Welcome To The Future Nauseous from Ribbon Farm, on normalcy bias Survivorship Bias: “Simply put, survivorship bias is your tendency to focus on survivors instead of whatever you would call a...
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The Best Age To Read A Book
The 20 Stages Of Reading By Lynda Barry Jo Walton asked Is There A Right Age To Read A Book? and follows up with What Is Reading For? after a number of commenters seemed to prescribe reading lists,...
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On Freedom
If you listen to the theologian and philosopher St Augustine, real freedom doesn’t mean the right to do anything whatsoever. It means being given access to everything that is necessary for a...
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