Let me talk to you about books.
Specifically, one book. This book.
This book should be a best seller. This book should be required reading for graduating from high school. Before you get that diploma, you read this book.
This book deals with debunking “Neurosexism,” which is a very fancy term for all of that evolutionary psychology bullshit that people spill about those “brain differences” between boys and girls.
This book debunks such myths as:
- Boys are better at math than girls
- Women make crappy lawyers/business CEOs/etc, as their brains are not cut out for aggression.
- Men make crappy counselors/primary school teachers/primary parents/etc, as their brains are not cut out for empathy.
- MEN ARE BUILT FOR GOING OUT AND HUNTING WHILE WOMEN ARE BUILT FOR STAYING HOME AND BABYMAKING IT’S NOT SEXISM IT’S JUST BIOLOGY
- And many other such myths.
Furthermore, this book covers topics such as:
- Neurosexism and gender perceptions in multiple races (as this is not a singularly white experience, just as the western world isn’t a singularly white experience)
- Sex discrimination in the workplace, and how women are (or, more often, are not) allowed to behave
- How science is used (badly) to support many of these claims
- Experiences of trans* people, both through interviews and empirical studies.
AND FINALLY - It is all brilliantly researched, cited, compiled - and it’s easy to read! Cordelia Fine actually manages to be funny while writing this, which I think is important, because it makes all of this information infinitely accessible.
Delusions of Gender has reinforced what Oberlin taught me: The gender binary is stupid and arbitrary, and dangerous. And it is a self-perpetuating bias that needs to be addressed to be overcome.
Their heads are a chart, so I’m allowed to do this.
John Powers describes Lee Daniel’s post-Precious film Paperboyas a “Southern white trash thriller that’s basically like a Jim Thompson novel made by John Waters.”
It involves Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, urination, masturbation, Nicole Kidman, a murder plot and John Cusack.
THIS. Can it be set in Carroll County?
Movie Idea:
Dark Comedy set in the last days of Imperial Russia. The main characters are Nikolai II and his family. The plot mirrors there imagined trials and tribulations of a family haunted by there father’s ineptitude as a Tsar, the involvement of Rasputin, an ill crown prince, and lost daughters. More important than the plot would be intense character development that holds understatement and melodrama in tension.
I have such a hard time with this; because I’m so receptive of other peoples’ vibrations, I easily absorb their emotions and then they become my own and then I turn into this giant crazy ball of jumbled feelings
EDIT: I wouldn’t use the word “bitch” because it implies that women are inferior, but I agree with the accepted meaning of the term. That is to say that emotions should not imprison you, they should enhance you
