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Patriarchy, in its purest form

30May07

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 [...]

Observation

30May07

I 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 The women all seemed either withdrawn or uninterested in speaking up.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

29May07

Feeling 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

28May07

Anxiety 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. [...]

This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System

25May07

*beep*
(sorry for clogging your RSS readers, but I’m testing some stuff.)

Quarter

24May07

felixpops: 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 [...]

Awesome Things To Do In Life #4: Comment card like you mean it

20May07

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

17May07

Dinner 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

17May07

WARNING: 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 [...]


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