Over the past few months in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, I can’t help but feel like there’s been an increasing awareness paid to community. What it means to be part of one, how do we come together as one, how do we build one in an increasingly digital age?
So many questions that people are now asking themselves as though they’re waking up from a haze. For so long people have been going…
omg I’m doing research for one of projects for college, and apparently, girls learn better when they’re in an all girls class, but boys learn even worse when they’re in an all boys class, because all the negative things become even stronger of there are no girls to act as “buffer”
get rid of the boys and let girl learn in peace, i couldn’t care less about them
It’s not our job to be a “buffer”
Separate boys from girls then, they don’t have to be acting like mothers at age 12, if boys ruin the education of others boys, um, idk, fix their behavior maybe?
I work at uni. My program is very competitive. Like you need a 92% or more to get in. We get 10x the applications than we can accept. So. This means our program is 95% female. Simply because girls do better in highschool than boys. Its literally that simple. However. This is a HUGE deal in the administration! Because OMG all those poor boys with less than a 92% can’t get into our program and woe is me, those poor poor boys. Every year we meet to talk about ways to “rectify” this “problem”. One year they’re going to stop inviting me to these meetings. Because I always ask questions like “how do we get boys into the program with lower GPAs without denying girls with higher GPAs? And how is giving boys preferential treatment not sexist?” Keep going good ladies, I’m saving your seat!
This type of thing always happens when women are dominating something, protocols are changed to accommodate and benefit men, and if this strategy isn’t successful the field is devalued.
Keep the good work!
The amount of times I heard my grandfather talk about the ‘feminization’ of schools because he wanted to blame the system for boys under performing (or, more accurately: girls out performing the boys) instead of, ya know, boys’ entitled attitudes and overall piss poor behavior when at school.
When women fail at something: there must be something wrong with women When women succeed at something: there must be something wrong with the system
I think I’ve talked about it before on other posts, but I once had an anthropology class that, completely unintentionally, was all women and one man, and he dropped the course after two weeks. The other section of the same anthropology class, taught by the same professor, was mixed with men and women. So, since it was anthropology, she asked if it was cool if she took notes. She said right away that the all female class had a wildly different vibe, that we spoke and acted differently and had different social expectations of her and the rest of the class, and that we let students complete their thoughts before disagreeing, while the mixed class was highly traditional and almost entirely male dominated because every time a woman spoke, a man jumped in halfway through to “correct” her by saying the same thing. Its a very small sample size, but I think about this a lot
So all those “girls shoulders and knees distract boys from learning” policies…..
honestly michael b jordan singlehandedly redefined the art hoe look in this sole scene of black panther
an icon! a game-changer! everyone else step tf up!
i think the credit should also go to Black Panther’s costume designer Ruth B. Carter! let’s celebrate the black women that create all the things we love and enjoy.
you are absolutely 100% correct and this is the only comment i’m accepting on this post from now on
honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible
i also want to point out we know it tastes the same even after thousands of years b/c archaeologists who discovered two thousand year old honey tasted it. presumably right after they looked at each other and went “what the hell here goes nothing”
I’m pretty sure they also identify human remains by taste. Archaeologists are straight up freaks.
No, no no… you identify bone from rock or other substances by touching it to your tongue. If it sticks, it’s bone. The taste itself has nothing to do with it. And most archaeologists won’t lick human bones if they know they’re human.
…and I realize that doesn’t actually do much to prove archaeologists aren’t freaks.
mai nam is jane and wen i dig i fynde some roks both smol and big i put my tung upon the stone for science yes i lik the bone
I’m sitting with a bunch of archaeologists and we just laughed so hard we CRIED we’re getting tshirts with this on them
Also, once, Jacques Cousteau and his crew were working an ancient greek shipwreck and found a still sealed bottle of wine in the hold. Of course, being French, Cousteau had to have a sip.
To be fair we lick practically everything. We lick our rocks to see what type they are(though I swear to god Richard it’s not necessary if you just study the geological makeup of the dog site, you’re in west Tennessee it’s either sandstone or siltstone and everything is an artifact because there *is no bedrock*) and we lick our pottery to test the firing temperature (porcelain has the finest ceramic matrix and gets fired at the highest temperature, thus giving it a very non-porous structure and it won’t stick to your tongue), but I know very few archaeologists willing to do the bone lick test because there’s a million horrific illnesses waiting for you there and we all already have Lyme disease. I sure as shit ain’t licking a bone, I can tell it is/not a bone by LOOKING AT IT.
In Ye Olsen Days of anthropology, there was a theory that the older a fossil, the more porous it was (because the squishy stuff had been removed for a longer period see!) and thus the more it would stick to your tongue. AKA, old white dudes ran around licking a ton of fossils as a dating method. This lasted until the 1860s.
