August 2010
13 posts
3 hours before my year-end performance review meeting
My boss asks me nervously and sincerely about which tie he should wear (he keeps a stash in his office, which is brilliant).
I think things will be ok.
I've got the cupid shuffle in my head
This is why I shouldn’t go to wedding receptions
From the online wallstreet journal. sigh. →
online.wsj.com
“Just 61% of the adult population, age 20 or over, has any kind of job right now. That’s the lowest since the early 1980s—when many women stayed at home through choice, driving the numbers down. Among men today, it’s 66.9%. Back in the ’50s, incidentally, that figure was around 85%, though allowances should be made for the higher number of elderly people alive today. And many of those still working right now can only find part-time work, so just 59% of men age 20 or over currently have a full-time job”
It's a scientific fact: gendered phrases are a tricky thing
A morning question, dear tumblfriends: It has become pretty common on the internet for commentary on pictures of positive masculinity (specifically in positive fatherhood positions) to sound like this “I can feel this one in my ovaries” or “this does something to my ovaries” or etc. Obviously mostly from female posters (mostly).
Keeping in mind that the content of their expression is always valid and I’m really, really not mocking the sentiment behind them, can dudes start posting positive maternal role models with comments like “oh my testes are a rumblin” or “my nuts just popped”?
Can we start this? I volunteer to spearhead the initiative.
“It was the middle of a tough primary contest, and Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) had convened a small meeting with donors… About 90 minutes into the meeting, “They say, ‘Bob, what don’t you get? Barack Obama is a socialist, communist Marxist who wants to destroy the American economy so he can take over as dictator. Health care is part of that. And he wants to open up the Mexican border and turn [the US] into a Muslim nation.’” Inglis didn’t know how to respond.”
—Confessions of a Tea Party Casualty (via catbird)
