The US Supreme Court has decided that workers have 180 days after their salary is set to file a complaint about unfair pay. After that, it’s too late. Your employer gets to keep the money they failed to pay you.
Now let’s imagine a woman, call her Jill, discovers 12 months after being hired [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Patriarchy, in its purest form
30May07Observation
30May07I didn’t realize this was happening until at least halfway through the meeting, and it was too late to change anything. The women all seemed either withdrawn or uninterested in speaking up. Making eye contact, which sometimes works to shift the tide of the conversation didn’t do a thing. I’m not sure [...]
A new way, a little different
29May07Feeling better. It’s weird how things just kind of stop. You spend weeks obsessing about something, and then one day you are sitting on the lawn and you watch a bird poop, and it’s over. You’re over it.
Anyway, I think my period of pregnancy eating is over. At least temporarily. [...]
Morning bell, release me
28May07Anxiety creeps up on me. I start reaching for comfortable things. I sit down amongst the web pages and browse. Someone is making homemade pizza. Someone is having friends over to sit around couches with their laptops and work on pet projects. Someone is going out dancing, flirting, kissing. [...]
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Quarter
24May07felixpops: i’d love to sit out in montana or wyoming for a week or two
me: I might do a week in Montana this summer
felixpops: shit, really?! that’s funny. i was looking at the new quarters the other day and found that i had a montana one
and the buffalo skull just got me all [...]
This photo depicts several examples of awesome, but the one I want to highlight in the fourth installment of my series on Awesome Things To Do In Life is the bag on Katie’s shoulders. Check this out:
This is a reusable bag that the UCSD bookstore now offers for a few dollars. [...]
I saw this on Facebook
19May07… and oh man, I really miss Pallas Athena Arena (a.k.a Shaowen and Jeff’s driveway). The slobber-encrusted Nerf balls, the Apurva Line, the canine fair-weather defender.
Dinner Coop
17May07Dinner coop at my place yesterday. I made Tabouleh and homemade hummus, and got fresh olive bread from Bread & Cie and a moderately fancy California-grown olive oil from Whole Foods. The bread at B&C is so good. I don’t know why I don’t go there every day. It’s a block away, I am [...]
Erasure
17May07WARNING: This post is about sexual assault.
Hoyden About Town is one of my favorite feminist blogs because TigTog and Lauredhel really get into the nuts and bolts of how sexist oppression works, how it spreads, and how we can fight it. Two recent posts are absolutely essential reading. They point out two frighteningly [...]
