January 2012
45 posts
“Why is it that when Republicans and Democrats need to solve the budget and the...”
– Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian on CNBC (via wilwheaton)
“I mean, I’m all for feminism… but I just worry that if women all join the...”
– Male, approx 50-year-old coworker to me, 23-year-old female. Made me feel like he was marginalizing feminism using the excuse of a (scientifically unsupportable) claim. When I suggested that the world was, if anything, overpopulated, he ignored this. (via microaggressions)
microaggressions:
At the company I’m working at this summer, I’m the only intern programmer who is female. Whenever I meet someone new who realizes I’m a programmer, they usually end up commenting at how lucky I am, because “software companies always want to hire women!”
Makes me feel like people in the industry will always see me first for my sex, and second for my technical abilities and...
“That scene felt off before it became apparent that it was an allegory: the...”
– alexandraerin: A 16 second review of the 2011 Doctor Who Christmas special (via notemily)
December 2011
27 posts
“Nobody tells an actor, ‘you’re playing a strong-minded man.’ We assume that men...”
– Meryl Streep, on being told that she often plays “strong-minded women.”
(via andyouhavetogivethemhope)
