1. "

    It turns out procrastination is not typically a function of laziness, apathy or work ethic as it is often regarded to be. It’s a neurotic self-defense behavior that develops to protect a person’s sense of self-worth.

    You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability — which is pretty much everything.

    But in real life, you can’t avoid doing things. We have to earn a living, do our taxes, have difficult conversations sometimes. Human life requires confronting uncertainty and risk, so pressure mounts. Procrastination gives a person a temporary hit of relief from this pressure of “having to do” things, which is a self-rewarding behavior. So it continues and becomes the normal way to respond to these pressures.

    Particularly prone to serious procrastination problems are children who grew up with unusually high expectations placed on them. Their older siblings may have been high achievers, leaving big shoes to fill, or their parents may have had neurotic and inhuman expectations of their own, or else they exhibited exceptional talents early on, and thereafter “average” performances were met with concern and suspicion from parents and teachers.

    "
    David Cain, “Procrastination Is Not Laziness” (via lilywhite-electricblue)
  2. missrep: “…the research used actual quotes about women candidates from media coverage of the 2012 elections and demonstrates that when the media focuses on a woman candidate’s appearance, she pays a price in the polls. This finding held true whether the coverage of a woman candidate’s appearance was framed positively, negatively or in neutral terms.” Research on Appearance Coverage of Women from Name It Change It

    missrep:

    “…the research used actual quotes about women candidates from media coverage of the 2012 elections and demonstrates that when the media focuses on a woman candidate’s appearance, she pays a price in the polls. This finding held true whether the coverage of a woman candidate’s appearance was framed positively, negatively or in neutral terms.”

    Research on Appearance Coverage of Women from Name It Change It

  3. "[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than females on the Math section but females achieved higher scores on the Verbal section. ETS policy-makers determined that the Verbal test needed to be “balanced” more in favor of males, and added questions pertaining to politics, business and sports to the Verbal portion. Since that time, males have outscored females on both the Math and Verbal sections. Dwyer notes that no similar effort has been made to “balance” the Math section, and concludes that, “It could be done, but it has not been, and I believe that probably an unconscious form of sexism underlies this pattern. When females show the superior performance, ‘balancing’ is required; when males show the superior performance, no adjustments are necessary.” "

    “Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org

    And then people urge me everything is fine, of course it is, when you’re ignoring statistics that is.

    (via cwnl)

    Fun fact: SAT tests predict college performance pretty well for men, but they strongly underpredict college performance for women. http://spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/12/20/1948550612469038.abstract

    HMMMM

    (via brute-reason)

    I think I’ve reblogged this before, but that study needs to be shared.

  4. uhmmm hi Grace I don't know if you like stuff like this at all but GO: TAG, you’re it! The rules are to state ten random facts about yourself. Then send this to the fifteen nicest people on tumblr.
    theknopeway

    So I don’t usually like putting these on my blog but it’d be a nice way to start putting more of myself on here

    so here we go

    1. I’ve been to three conventions in my life: LeakyCon 2011 [Harry Potter], VidCon 2012 [YouTube], and a Star Wars Convention in 2008. All three were great. The communities at conventions are incredible.

    2. I grew up in Texas, which has been a surprisingly important part of my identity. It’s lent me strange points of pride: my brother has taken a bb gun into our backyard before to try and scare off destructive raccoons; I can do a pretty good West Texas accent; I said the Texas pledge as well as the American pledge every day at school.

    3. I played the oboe for eight or so years before setting it down to pursue other things.

    4. Whenever I’m home I carry pepper spray.

    5. Rumo and his Miraculous Adventures is my favorite book of all time. It’s incredibly creative and the action scenes are absolutely fabulous. Five stars, would recommend.

    6. I currently run this Tumblr (NSFW) for the Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health, where I interned this last semester. I’m gonna have to relinquish the reigns soon, though, and that makes me sad. But I’m so grateful to have gotten the chance to manage it at all.

    7. I can seriously go on and on about how important online communities are, particularly for sex education.

    8. I have two plushie squids in my room, both of which were made by my friends and given to me as birthday gifts. One also functions as a hat.

    9. I made and wore a gold mockingjay pin costume to the premiere of the Hunger Games movie. I recognize I looked sort of ridiculous, but, y’know. I had fun.

    10. My childhood cat was named Stripper (pronounced stripe-ur). One of my AIM URLs at the time was StripperLover13. The pun was intentional. I thought it made me sound cool.

  5. I feel like I’ve been owning the “conjectures” part of my URL but really tanking the “conversations” part. I don’t want to stay so passive. I need to start actively engaging with this material if I want to learn how to talk about these issues effectively.

    So this summer I’m gonna make an effort to include more original content. 

    Please do let me know if what I’m saying is problematic. I haven’t yet written much partly due to a fear of being offensive. I’m more aware now, but I still recognize that I have heaps and heaps of privilege to work through. So let me know if I fuck up. Or if you disagree. Or whatever! I’d like to have actual conversations. 

  6. My Tumblr experience is such that I can go from reading an article about the complexities of the term “Person Of Color” to watching a video of One Direction from their concert the night before.

  7. "He showed the words ‘chocolate cake’ to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: ‘celebration.’"
    Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (via dark-rye)
  8. thenewwomensmovement: thescarletwoman: thisisrapeculture: xtremecaffeine: and-other-good-intentions: So I saw a post on how American Apparel markets unisex clothing, but I couldn’t actually find a unisex section on their website. I did however notice this. The sweatshirts one is particularly illuminating. Selling men’s clothes to men, and selling women’s bodies to… ? American Apparel is really fucking horrible for many, many reasons, but here’s another example. American Apparel’s advertising is a PERFECT example of the way that we sell products to men through advertisements and sell women’s bodies to men even though they’re being used in advertisements for women’s products. It’s a fantastic example of how the female body is treated differently than the male body, how it’s seen as intrinsically sexual, and how this is totally normalized within our culture. To be clear: i’m not saying there’s anything wrong with women’s bodies being sexual, or women being seen as sexual beings. We are sexual beings! What I am saying is that there’s something deeply problematic when that sexualizing is only happening for women, and when that sexuality turns into objectification through a male gaze. To illustrate, here’s a screencap from the AA homepage right now: because a picture of a woman’s ass that she is spreading with her fingers and the slogan ‘get wet’ is not an objectification of women’s bodies for the male gaze AT ALL, and we would totally see these types of images and ads for male swimsuits too! -________- 

    thenewwomensmovement:

    thescarletwoman:

    thisisrapeculture:

    xtremecaffeine:

    and-other-good-intentions:

    So I saw a post on how American Apparel markets unisex clothing, but I couldn’t actually find a unisex section on their website. I did however notice this. The sweatshirts one is particularly illuminating.

    Selling men’s clothes to men, and selling women’s bodies to… ?

    American Apparel is really fucking horrible for many, many reasons, but here’s another example.

    American Apparel’s advertising is a PERFECT example of the way that we sell products to men through advertisements and sell women’s bodies to men even though they’re being used in advertisements for women’s products. It’s a fantastic example of how the female body is treated differently than the male body, how it’s seen as intrinsically sexual, and how this is totally normalized within our culture. To be clear: i’m not saying there’s anything wrong with women’s bodies being sexual, or women being seen as sexual beings. We are sexual beings! What I am saying is that there’s something deeply problematic when that sexualizing is only happening for women, and when that sexuality turns into objectification through a male gaze. To illustrate, here’s a screencap from the AA homepage right now:

    because a picture of a woman’s ass that she is spreading with her fingers and the slogan ‘get wet’ is not an objectification of women’s bodies for the male gaze AT ALL, and we would totally see these types of images and ads for male swimsuits too! -________- 

  9. angryasiangirlsunited:

    Lucy Liu at the 2012 NYWIFT Muse Awards (x)

    (Proper) Representation matters. 

  10. YAHOO! DO NOT MAKE TUMBLR FAMILY FRIENDLY. THIS IS THE PLACE FOR OUTSIDERS, NOT PRODUCTS OF SOCIETY. THE LAST THING WE WANT IS FOR YOU TO MAKE IT FAMILY FRIENDLY.

    satyabear:

    onlyslightly:

    juniebjoneses:

    Yeah, I don’t necessarily want tumblr to be family friendly, but “a place for outsiders”?? You need a better argument than that, people.

    Also, lol at the fact that this poster thinks people on tumblr are not “products of society.”

    jfc did anyone say that they were going to make it “family friendly”?

    I don’t think so. I saw a screenshot of a tweet where Yahoo said they were “excited to make Tumblr more family friendly”, but I couldn’t find the original. I think it was doctored.

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