stereotypes | stereotypes
Jan.12.2012
She has not read the book, she does not care about people’s perceptions because they would not know, yet she sends out clarifications. I am disturbed by what she seems to have a problem with:
“I guess it's more interesting to imagine this conflicted situation here and a strong woman. But...
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Dec.21.2011
Okay, it may seem odd to some, but being gay is something I am truly grateful for. It is just one interesting element of my personae which gives me different perspective and varied life experience, and I wouldn't change it for anything. Unfortunately, not everyone who is LGBT can say that...
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Oct.21.2011
I have a vivid memory of a city bus ride I took with my father when I was eight years old. We were on our way to the science museum and there were some young black kids in the back of the bus acting up--nothing outlandish--just a few unsupervised pubescents being loud.
I could tell before he said...
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Oct.01.2011
One cannot trust the media to present us with real people, and the handlers of our most clever politicians are another species of fake image-makers who are clearly in the business of creating illusions rather than real people. Fortunately, we also have Halmlet-like commentators/analysts who...
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Aug.01.2011
Just over a year ago, I was in Belfast, Northern Ireland participating in the International Conference for Diversity in Organisations. Yesterday, I went to the Heritage Festival in Edmonton, Canada. Earlier this year, we participated in anti-racism training with the Centre For Race & Culture....
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Jul.26.2011
I broke down and washed my kitchen floor this morning. It ranks up there with all the other thankless household chores I loathe: cleaning bathrooms, and doing laundry. What's the point? It all gets dirty again, usually within minutes of finishing the job.
As I so often do, I let my mind wander away...
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Jul.20.2011
Wendi Deng does not like shaving cream and likes hubby Rupert Murdoch. Simple. Yet, there is this hyper reaction and all alluding to her Asian roots because she responded to some intruder who wanted to smack the News Corp chief kindly with foam at the hearings of the hacking scandal.
Reuters had...
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Jun.13.2011
I lost a friend this month
Not to cancer, an accident, or anything so drastic but to a narrow minded way of thinking
The sad thing is I was surprised but not really
Now you and I know that when it comes to maintaining friendships I'm about as good as ragweed on a nose with hay-fever tendencies...I...
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Jun.03.2011
Sexy, bad ass, naughty, dirty, clever, sweet, titilating, gorgeous, hideous, fiesty, and more comes to mind when you think of the pole dancing. But how about wrapping your mind around the idea that pole dancing was once considered acceptable and encouraged by the town elders. Don't believe me?!...
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May.26.2011
If you want to get rid of gender stereotypes must you do away with gender? Would you raise your child as a 'not boy' or 'not girl'? How does it help?
Storm is four months old and the parents have decided that their child will be ‘it’. This defeats the idea of empowering the kid to decide...
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