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I know they have me sitting in a music area, but please, "No singing!"
For the same reasons as in Monty Python and the Holy Grail: neither the songwriter nor the singer are sufficiently skilled. With the addendum that we are provided with neither a backing orchestra nor a performer who believes in singing actual verses, rather than repeating half-lines.
There is something wrong with a system in which I'm drawing pie charts in Word because the outside vendor who does our art can't be counted on to read instructions that specify a pie chart with three slices, and the labels and percentages for each. (It is, I agree, entirely reasonable to supply them with examples for instructions like "pick up map from page 99 of old workbook".) On further consideration, the person who handed me this project agrees with me, so I don't have to make a more complex pie chart and a line graph.
For the same reasons as in Monty Python and the Holy Grail: neither the songwriter nor the singer are sufficiently skilled. With the addendum that we are provided with neither a backing orchestra nor a performer who believes in singing actual verses, rather than repeating half-lines.
I know they have me sitting in a music area, but please, "No singing!"
For the same reasons as in Monty Python and the Holy Grail: neither the songwriter nor the singer are sufficiently skilled. With the addendum that we are provided with neither a backing orchestra nor a performer who believes in singing actual verses, rather than repeating half-lines.
There is something wrong with a system in which I'm drawing pie charts in Word because the outside vendor who does our art can't be counted on to read instructions that specify a pie chart with three slices, and the labels and percentages for each. (It is, I agree, entirely reasonable to supply them with examples for instructions like "pick up map from page 99 of old workbook".) On further consideration, the person who handed me this project agrees with me, so I don't have to make a more complex pie chart and a line graph.
For the same reasons as in Monty Python and the Holy Grail: neither the songwriter nor the singer are sufficiently skilled. With the addendum that we are provided with neither a backing orchestra nor a performer who believes in singing actual verses, rather than repeating half-lines.
Someone yesterday quoted, in a comment thread elsewhere on LJ, a study
that they claimed showed that day-old human girls pay more attention to
faces, and day-old human boys pay more attention to mobiles.
I haven't checked to see whether there is such a study, much less looked
at the methodology or the robustness of the results. For the purposes of
this exercise, it doesn't matter.
The exercise is to think about how such a study would be interpreted in
a culture that was, and long had been, female-dominant, in which the
long-standing default assumption was female superiority. A culture in
which many moderns believed the sexes were equal, but old habits had
women in charge of most things and the not-so-occasional reactionary
defending that imbalance as the natural order of things.
My immediate thought is that, in such a society, the conservatives would
be saying "Well, of course. We know that women hold most political power
because they pay more attention to other people and what they want,
which makes them better at negotiating and persuasion. It's not
discrimination keeping men out of top management, it's that they're so
easily distracted."
that they claimed showed that day-old human girls pay more attention to
faces, and day-old human boys pay more attention to mobiles.
I haven't checked to see whether there is such a study, much less looked
at the methodology or the robustness of the results. For the purposes of
this exercise, it doesn't matter.
The exercise is to think about how such a study would be interpreted in
a culture that was, and long had been, female-dominant, in which the
long-standing default assumption was female superiority. A culture in
which many moderns believed the sexes were equal, but old habits had
women in charge of most things and the not-so-occasional reactionary
defending that imbalance as the natural order of things.
My immediate thought is that, in such a society, the conservatives would
be saying "Well, of course. We know that women hold most political power
because they pay more attention to other people and what they want,
which makes them better at negotiating and persuasion. It's not
discrimination keeping men out of top management, it's that they're so
easily distracted."
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Someone yesterday quoted, in a comment thread elsewhere on LJ, a study
that they claimed showed that day-old human girls pay more attention to
faces, and day-old human boys pay more attention to mobiles.
I haven't checked to see whether there is such a study, much less looked
at the methodology or the robustness of the results. For the purposes of
this exercise, it doesn't matter.
The exercise is to think about how such a study would be interpreted in
a culture that was, and long had been, female-dominant, in which the
long-standing default assumption was female superiority. A culture in
which many moderns believed the sexes were equal, but old habits had
women in charge of most things and the not-so-occasional reactionary
defending that imbalance as the natural order of things.
My immediate thought is that, in such a society, the conservatives would
be saying "Well, of course. We know that women hold most political power
because they pay more attention to other people and what they want,
which makes them better at negotiating and persuasion. It's not
discrimination keeping men out of top management, it's that they're so
easily distracted."
that they claimed showed that day-old human girls pay more attention to
faces, and day-old human boys pay more attention to mobiles.
I haven't checked to see whether there is such a study, much less looked
at the methodology or the robustness of the results. For the purposes of
this exercise, it doesn't matter.
The exercise is to think about how such a study would be interpreted in
a culture that was, and long had been, female-dominant, in which the
long-standing default assumption was female superiority. A culture in
which many moderns believed the sexes were equal, but old habits had
women in charge of most things and the not-so-occasional reactionary
defending that imbalance as the natural order of things.
My immediate thought is that, in such a society, the conservatives would
be saying "Well, of course. We know that women hold most political power
because they pay more attention to other people and what they want,
which makes them better at negotiating and persuasion. It's not
discrimination keeping men out of top management, it's that they're so
easily distracted."
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though it may take a while:
I happened to notice my reflection at work today, and thought "looking good." It still surprises me to think that in just ordinary going-about-my-day contexts (not being admired by my beloveds, nor yet being strong and visibly tattooed at the gym).
I happened to notice my reflection at work today, and thought "looking good." It still surprises me to think that in just ordinary going-about-my-day contexts (not being admired by my beloveds, nor yet being strong and visibly tattooed at the gym).
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though it may take a while:
I happened to notice my reflection at work today, and thought "looking good." It still surprises me to think that in just ordinary going-about-my-day contexts (not being admired by my beloveds, nor yet being strong and visibly tattooed at the gym).
I happened to notice my reflection at work today, and thought "looking good." It still surprises me to think that in just ordinary going-about-my-day contexts (not being admired by my beloveds, nor yet being strong and visibly tattooed at the gym).
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