Monday, November 27, 2006
Saturday, November 25, 2006
!diots
Hi everybody! Finally a few minutes to post something. I guess we'll try to give some background to Deborah Tannen's 'The Feminine Technique' as soon as we both got some thinking time available, specially concerning Christena Nippert-Eng's notion of gender as a sociological achieved attribute opposing to the sex attribute, which is biological ascribed. So, it seems that normally we balance between malish/femalish behavior according to specific needs, contexts, time of the day and whatnot, as the true evil chameleonic pricks/prickettes we really are.
In the meantime, I've been engaged in malish stuff, like reading this nasty Steve Shaviro article about Porn and Marxism (and everybody likes hates porn, right!?) Why Porn now?, it looks that everything comes down to the regular shopping spree. Richard Dawking's never ending crusade against all those oh so! reasonable and peaceful people engaged in religion, I'm an Atheist, BUT…, dog bless him, and last but not least, a first-class-cunts hi-tech sexist and hilarious gadget review blog for male idiots like me and you.
Now I'm going back to my manish affairs, be sure to go the feminine way on the comments,
ta da!
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
The Feminine Technique:
Men attack problems. Maybe women understand that there's a better way.
"Watch kids of any age at play. Little boys set up wars and play-fights. Little girls fight, but not for fun. Starting a fight is a common way for boys to make friends: One boy shoves another, who shoves back, and pretty soon they're engaged in play. But when a boy tries to get into play with a girl by shoving her, she's more likely to try to get away from him. A recent New Yorker cartoon captured this: It showed a little girl and a little boy eyeing each other. She's thinking, "I wonder if I should talk to him." He's thinking, "I wonder if I should kick her."
by Deborah Tannen
The Los Angeles Times
March 15, 2005
Deborah Tannen, a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, is the author of "The Argument Culture" (Random House, 1998).
see article here