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Peg Tittle
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Aug 05 2022
Smartphones and Pictograms: A Regression to the Primitive
Given the size of smartphones, one is reduced to using one or two digits to create a message (compared to the ability to use all ten digits when using a laptop/keyboard). That probably explains the increase in the use of pictograms: touching a happy face from a menu of emoticons is easier than inputting the …
Jul 30 2022
“For All Mankind” (an apple tv series)- absolutely appalling
I know. Given the title, I never should have bothered. And I certainly shouldn’t’ve expected, let alone hoped, for anything remotely alternative (the series is billed as ‘alternative history’). Alternative to the male dominance, the white male dominance, the relentlessly juvenile competition and all the rest of disgusting masculinity (when the Soviets landed on the …
Jul 20 2022
Reasons You were Not Promoted that are Totally Unrelated to Gender
Another brilliant piece at McSweeney’s: Reasons You wee Not Promoted that are Totally Unrelated to Gender
Jul 15 2022
The Evil of Touchpads: Menus
I recently rented a cottage on the Bruce Peninsula and found myself infuriated by the tiny device to control the smart tv: to search for a specific movie in Netflix, you had to swipe across and across and across, back and forth, to move the cursor along the alphabet arranged in a long 26-characterer single …
Jul 10 2022
The difference between women and men
Can’t stop staring at the picture of Serena Williams and Andy Murray. It seems to sum of the difference between women and men. https://nypost.com/2021/07/10/trans-women-athletes-have-unfair-advantage-over-those-born-female/
Jun 30 2022
Why won’t men shoot free throws like …
See article here at a great site for, of, men examining masculinity (it’s about time!).
Jun 25 2022
Trans describing (loss of) male privilege
This kind of thing makes me thing EVERY man should be trans for a year. https://archive.ph/JnYTd
Jun 20 2022
on women having kids or not (from Joan Smith’s Different for Girls)
“If having children and grandchildren is so universally rewarding, why is it selfish to deny oneself the pleasure of parenting? If, on the other hand, bringing up children is an arduous task … why do [people] feel sorry for people who don’t do it”? (88) “… the real objection to women who decide not to …
Jun 15 2022
It’s Long Been a Man’s World. Can Women Save It?
Nicely written piece here: It’s Long Been a Man’s World. Can Women Save It? (Try to ignore the stupidly chosen second image; guess that’s what happens when google’s search engine practically DEMANDS images before it’ll rank your work …)
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