June 2013
19 posts
R.I.P Jean Stapleton →
nytimes.com
“Jean Stapleton, Who Played Archie’s Better Angel, Dies at 90”NY Times
This show taught me so much about cultural divisions in the U.S. in the 70s. Thank you Jean for your gifts, and rest in peace.
my boyfriend’s first language isn’t english and he asked me how to say cut in past tense and i said “cut” and he let out a wail of anguish and fell to the ground
“Our fondness for stuff affects almost every aspect of our lives. Housing size, for example, has ballooned in the last 60 years. The average size of a new American home in 1950 was 983 square feet; by 2011, the average new home was 2,480 square feet. And those figures don’t provide a full picture. In 1950, an average of 3.37 people lived in each American home; in 2011, that number had shrunk to 2.6 people. This means that we take up more than three times the amount of space per capita than we did 60 years ago.”
—Living With Less. A Lot Less (via azspot)
“Guys on Reddit are very typically coming from STEM fields - a lot of engineers, a lot of programmers. I really think the complete lack of basic understanding of social justice on Reddit, the lack of understanding of how past oppression continues to exert force on the present, is reflective of a larger failure of a good humanities education. It’s reflective of the increasing early specialization we require of college and even high school kids. Their STEM curriculums don’t require much of a humanities or social science foundation, so they grow up completely unarmed with the tools required to think critically about society, and totally unaware of how social structures shape everyone’s lives - and it’s especially invisible to them as mostly white, middle-class, straight males.”
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“Why is Reddit so Anti-Women?” Fascinating (and highly sensical) approach here, underscoring what gets lost when education (policy) is viewed as strictly the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields (the globally profitable/innovation-driven ones) at the expense of social/cultural education. (via marathonpacks)
Yup.
(via gaysagainstgaga)
AND reinforcing the overall White maleness of STEM fields. Vicious cycle, that.
(via 14kgoldnyc)
(via firelordazula)
all im seeing is this
at least its better than this
May 2013
12 posts
I was feeling nostalgic for my old livejournal days so I thought I’d update here. I’m lying in bed just starting to feel sleepy, browsing storify and watching sappy videos, looking forward to free breakfast and a half-day at work tomorrow. Thinking about all the good things I have right now that I never thought possible a few years ago
