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Them Gullible Gals and Their Feelings

Oct 30, 2010 00:00

So I read/plowed through Sham: How the self-help movement made America helpless, because having been extremely cynical about self-help since I was, oh, about 8, sometimes it is nice to read largely citation-free psuedo-exposes that reinforce your own prejudices. Unfortunately, although I enjoyed the book to a point, and enjoyed the points, near the ( Read more... )

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minor_ramblings October 30 2010, 14:16:44 UTC

GOOD RANT. I'm another girl who was bored and unfulfilled by the softened aspects of education -- challenge is not a gendered concept, dude!

Salerno sounds like another 'Men's Rights' herald, which is not to say that men have no rights, and that in areas like family law there isn't some cause for concern at times, but I find most of that movement tends to boil down to 'I do not know who I am if I am not a gender stereotype, so stop making me question my assumptions and go make me a sammich''

bethos October 30 2010, 14:52:23 UTC

I am getting my girliness (what there is of it) all up in an extremely male-oriented and male-dominated profession and I swear 90% of the people in it with me are ALSO not oriented to math regardless of their genitalia.

tuval October 30 2010, 15:57:03 UTC

I would weep for my gender, but I fear I would be accused of being wussified by SHAM. Perhaps I should offer to use my superior gender-issued projectile urination equipment to pee on him after I light him on fire.

Sheesh.

asathena October 30 2010, 16:45:53 UTC

You're not a prospective writer you're a WRITER darnit!!

Publication does not equal Your Badge of Writerhood.

If you write, you be a writer. And you write. So you're a writer.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is a sucka'.

pikestaff October 31 2010, 18:17:39 UTC

I like your way of thinking.

asathena November 1 2010, 20:35:14 UTC

Just paraphrasin' Julia Cameron, actually. :3 She doesn't call anyone a sucka'.

pikestaff November 1 2010, 20:36:02 UTC

Now that you mention it... it does sound familiar.

pikestaff October 31 2010, 18:19:23 UTC

I approve of your rant.

I've been running into a lot of gender issues lately; it's always hard for me to appropriately sort my thoughts on the matter because it's so nuanced and thus it's very difficult to really talk about without somebody completely misinterpreting it all... but you did a good job on it.