if you can’t handle me at my worst, it’s okay because i can’t either
Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions.
Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time.
In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows:
The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.
In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts. This may sound outrageous, but think about how you react when precocious children dominate the talk at an adult party. As women begin to make inroads into formerly ‘male’ domains such as business and professional contexts, we should not be surprised to find that their contributions are not always perceived positively or even accurately.
— (via nmsuwsprof)
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Be sure to “full view” each page because (at least on my computer) the black in some of the pages is just GONE. Anyway, my design final. A comic attempting to address society’s failure of telling young boys (and girls too sometimes) that abuse/violence/bullying is NOT an appropriate way to show affection…
REBLOGGING AGAIN because I figured out what was up with the colors uhghhsdlkf
Yup. When I’d be just as horrible back to them as they were to me, *I* was the one who got in trouble for being unladylike.
Needs to be shared.
Les Miserables in Vogue
Influezna virus doily by Laura Splan.
Part of the ‘Doilies’ series, 2004.
Freestanding computerized machine embroidered lace mounted on velvet.
An actual doily. I’m posting an actual doily.
Diagrams from Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation: an abstract of the theories and diagrams of B. W. Betts (1887) by Louisa S. Cook, which details New Zealander Benjamin Bett’s remarkable attempts to mathematically model the evolution of human consciousness through geometric forms. From the Introduction:
“The symbolic forms which Mr. Betts has evolved through his system of Representation resemble, when developed in two dimensions, conventionalised but very scientifically and beautifully conventionalised leaf-outlines. When in more than two dimensions they approximate to the forms of flowers and crystals. …. The fact that he has accidentally portrayed plant-forms when he was studying human evolution is an assurance to Mr. Betts of the fitness of the symbols he has developed, as it affords presumptive evidence that the laws he is studying intuitively admit of universal application.”
Conics!
Anatomical Self-Dissections by Danny Quirk
Can you imagine this as a tattoo?
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Aponogeton madagascariensis (Mirb.) H. Bruggen [as Ouvirandra fenestralis (Pers.) Poiret] Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, vol. 82 [ser. 3, vol. 12]: t. 4894 (1856) [W.H. Fitch]
The network of holes in the leaves is formed by cell dying in a regulated pattern.
The pathway of cell dismantling during programmed cell death in lace plant (Aponogeton madagascariensis) leaves. Jaime Wertman, Christina CEN Lord, Adrian N Dauphinee and Arunika HLAN Gunawardena. BMC Plant Biology 2012, 12:115 doi:10.1186/1471-2229-12-115
This is neat. Strange what biology chooses to do sometimes.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mark9aJbgs1qgzqeto1_500.jpg)
The network of holes in the leaves is formed by cell dying in a regulated pattern.
The pathway of cell dismantling during programmed cell death in lace plant (Aponogeton madagascariensis) leaves. Jaime Wertman, Christina CEN Lord, Adrian N Dauphinee and Arunika HLAN Gunawardena. BMC Plant Biology 2012, 12:115 doi:10.1186/1471-2229-12-115
This is neat. Strange what biology chooses to do sometimes.
Dugong feeding behaviour
(A) Upon approaching the vegetation the oral disk is flared. This involves contraction of the snout along its entire length, pulling the orofacial ridge dorsally and laterally. Simultaneously, the pair of lateral furrows open and expand, resulting in the extension of the lateral flaps and a shape change of the oral disk from arched and convex to semicircular and flat.
(B) Perioral bristle movement (U1 and U2) begins near the midline, adjacent to the central crease. The upper lip (ventral margin of the oral disk) is lifted slightly to either side of the central crease of the oral disk to form a small, characteristic ‘M’ shape. The lip margin, where the U1 bristle fields are located, curls rostrally.
(C) Both U2 bristle fields are maximally everted rostrally near the midline, and each field begins to move laterally. Simultaneously, the raised peaks of the upper lip travel laterally in a wave-like action. At this time the lower jaw begins to open.
(D) At the ventrolateral corner of the oral disk the U2 bristle fields change directions and move caudally. During these events, the lower jaw continues to open and reaches its maximum gape. The L1 are everted to their full extent from the fleshy lower lip pad.
(E) The U2 bristles move medially to complete a circular motion that sweeps vegetation into the side of the mouth, and then return to their original position (rostral). As the lower jaw closes, the L1 bristle fields sweep vegetation caudally into the oral cavity.
Orofacial morphology and feeding behaviour of the dugong, Amazonian, West African and Antillean manatees (Mammalia: Sirenia): functional morphology of the muscular-vibrissal complex. Christopher D. Marshall, Hiroshi Maeda, Matsumitsu Iwata, Masami Furuta, Shiro Asano, Fernando Rosas and Roger L. Reep. Journal of Zoology / Volume259 / Issue03 / March 2003, pp 245-260 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0952836902003205 (About DOI), Published online: 10 March 2003 (pdf)
This has to be useful to someone. Please find this as amusing as I did.
