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This seems like it’s not a huge issue- but it is. Cultural expectations need to change. I have read numerous magazine articles or seen tv chat show spots about “how to get your husband to help around the house without nagging.” The “solution” is frequently up to the woman to stop “nagging” and frequently praise her husband/partner for the work he does do rather than focusing on what he isn’t doing. This is a horribly patriarchal attitude because it equates housework with “woman’s work” as opposed with “work that needs to get finished.” Men are not encouraged to coax/praise women into doing household chores … women are just expected to do them without complaint. For men, helping out around the house is looked at as a favor … for women, it’s simply an expectation. Marcotte nails the issue here. Please read and share.
The Empire Line by artist Gavin Fernandes, explores the politics of clothing and its relationship with class and caste in 19th century India ruled by the British Raj. (2007) (via wired)
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There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be “dumb,” according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults….
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"Theater asserts that all of human life is universal. Love, Honor, Duty, Betrayal belong and pertain to every culture or race. The way they are acted out on the playing field may be different, but betrayal is betrayal whether you are a South Sea Islander, Mississippi farmer, or an English Baron. All of human life is universal, and it is theater that illuminates and confers upon the universal the ability to speak for all men."
August Wilson, “The Ground on Which I Stand.”
oh my GOD
"A man who assisted in autopsies in a big urban hospital, starting in the mid-1950s, describes the many deaths from botched abortions that he saw. ‘The deaths stopped overnight in 1973.’ He never saw another in the 18 years before he retired. ‘That,’ he says, ‘ought to tell people something about keeping abortion legal.’"
“The Way It Was” — Mother Jones Magazine — Abortion before Roe v. Wade. (via deltumbles) (via homotronic)
Trigger Warning: Article describes molestation by a backalley abortion provider. (via prolifehypocrisy)
Wow.
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