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[jamescullen]

[jamescullen]

[thisiscommonground]

Finch

[lecretary]

Do Women Talk Too Much? (Hint: Science says no)

the stereotype that women talk more than men is infinitely amusing to me because men are literally incapable of shutting the fuck up

[lecretary]

i hope this post gets popular enough that i hurt a man’s feelings

[touch-my-cuboner]

It’s not a stereotype it’s a proven fact you femanazi piece of shit.

[verodwrath]

lmao there it is 

[madmaudlingoes]

You wanna talk proven facts? This shit’s been done, son: researcher Dale Spencer in Australia used audio and video tape to independently evaluate who talked the most in mixed-gender university classroom discussions. Regardless of the gender ratio of the students, whether the instructor was deliberately trying to encourage female participation or not, men always talked more—whether the metric was minutes of talking or number of words spoken. 

Moreover, men literally have no clue how much they talk. When Spencer asked students to evaluate their perception of who talked more in a given discussion, women were pretty accurate; but men perceived the discussion as being “equal” when women talked only 15% of the time, and the discussion as being dominated by women if they talked only 30% of the time.

Spencer’s conclusion, if I may parahprase: you only think we talk too much because you’d rather we were silent.

Don’t fuck with me, asshole, I’m a scientist.

[thejunglenook]

#PLEASE SOURCE YOUR RANTS #BECAUSE I LOVE TO READ SCIENTIFIC PAPERS AND RESEARCH  (x)

As a female scientist who happens to specialize in behavior I felt this post deserved some sourcing: The individual mentioned above is Dr. Dale Spender, an Australian feminist, author, and lecturer, and is from the chapter “Talking in Class” from her book Learning to Lose: Sexism and Education.

While Spender’s work is interesting, it must be noted that it does not necessarily meet the academic standards for research; she does not disclose her research methods or describe the content / teaching methods used in the classrooms being studied. (x) However, Dr. Helene Decke-Cornill of the University of Hamburg, notes that Spender’s conclusions have been supported by other studies (Kelly, 1988; Brophy and Good, 1974) (x)

For a succinct - and well sourced - article on this subject, please check out Language Myths: Language as Prejudice (Myth #6) available on PBS.org.

Also check out these additional references:

Bauer, Laurie and Peter Trudgill.  Language Myths. London & New York: Penguin Books, 1998. (x)

Holmes,Janet. Women, Men, and Politeness. London: Longman, 1995. chs. 2 and 6. (x)

Holmes, Janet. “Women’s talk in public contexts." Discourse & Society 3.2 (1992): 131-150. (x)

Hymes, Dell, ed. Language in Culture and Society. New York, 1964. (x)

James, Deborah, and Janice Drakich, ‘Understanding gender differences in amount of talk’ in Gender and Conversational Interaction. Ed. Deborah Tannen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 281-312. (x)

Spender, Dale. Man Made Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980. (x)

Spender, Dale, and Elizabeth Sarah, eds. Learning to Lose. London: The Women’s Press, 1982. (x)

Treichler, Paula A., and Cheris Kramarae. "Women’s talk in the ivory tower.”Communication quarterly 31.2 (1983): 118-132. (x)

Note: I was not able to fully access Spender’s writings and so I cannot judge the academic validity of that one particular study. What I wrote was merely another researcher’s interpretation based on the scientific method and standard practices when reporting scientific research. madmaudlingoes may have the source material based on their use of the numerical data. I do not own this book so I am just adding more sources in hopes to further strengthen their argument above. 

[gtfoctopus]

Got lonely so I focused on delighting in myself and now I don’t care enough about others oops

[thesolarpunkgardener]

[gtfoctopus]

Foot-thick adobe walls are the equivalent around here and uh, yeah, 100%. I don’t care if you have a modern-ass all-concrete box with huge glass panes on every wall. Your heating and cooling bill is through the roof and you’re going to be mighty uncomfortable no matter what season

[zegalba]

[kallumdesign]

[thisiscommonground]

Run Studio Run

[iamalivenow]

[gtfoctopus]

من النهر الى البحر فلسطين حرة

[psychotrenny]

And people keep trying to justify Israel's existence on the basis that it is somehow a safe place for the preservation of Jewish people and their culture and not only is that an awful argument for establishing a Settler Colonist Apartheid State but it's not even true. Like the state is politically and economically dominated by Ashkenazi Jews from Northern Europe and their descendants. While not as severely mistreated as Palestinians, there is still a significant disparity between the European and Non-European Jews in terms of income and education. Non-European Jews are still regularly subject to interpersonal bigotry (hell earlier this year there was a news story about a viral video where Ashkenazi girls in a Purim made a skit mocking the Mizrahi) and Israel government policies towards non-Ashkenazi migrants have done severe damage to their social structure and cultural traditions. Not to mention the fact that the whole reason why many Mizrahi migrated in the first place was to escape the violence caused by European Jews committing atrocities in their name, tearing communities apart as neighbours that had peacefully co-existed for centuries found themselves on opposite sides of this new ethno-religious conflict

There have even been attempts in Israeli history at the forceful assimilation or even biological reduction of non-European Jews; the kidnapping and adoption of Yemeni Jewish children in the 1950s is significant example of the former while the forced contraception of Beta Israeli (Ethiopean Jewish migrants) with the explicit intention of reducing their population's birth rate is an example of the latter. There's also very clear favouritism when it comes to recent converts; white Afrikaner converts are given the right of Aliyah while Nigerian Igbos are not. Like the fact of the matter is that Israel's fundamental nature is as a European Settler Colony, incredibly racist not only towards the indigenous Palestinians but the many Non-European Jews it claims to represent. It's an outpost of Western Imperialism, not a haven for the Jewish people. If it was ever meant to be the latter than it has failed miserably

[decayalectical]

It drives me insane how many people dont realise how often they break the law and that if the full force of it was ever applied life would basically be unliveable. Like between traffic violations, petty workplace theft, account sharing and piracy alongside how common it is to have been in posession of some illegal drug at some point in your life. People still manage to get away with thinking "criminals" are people who commit crimes not just populations that are surveilled enough to be routinely prosecuted

[oktavia-the-second]

Just remembering that time when like half the Australian government were not eligible to be in government and none of them even realised

[weaselle]

not only that, but because crime is penalized with fines there are ways in which society wouldn’t function correctly if everyone did follow the law.

think about how crazy that is. Parts of our society are structured so that if everybody did the right thing it would break the system.

off the top of my head i remember a debate in Santa Cruz when i lived there because they wanted to remove like 8 parking spots overlooking the beach to make that spot better for the public and i think safer for cyclists, and there was pushback from the city because those parking spots were metered and they needed the revenue from those spots

and everyone was like it’s 50 cents an hour on 8 spots, how much revenue could it be, and it turned out that what the city was relying on was the money from parking tickets on unpaid meters, which turned out to be quite a lot of money each year.

just one of the many ways that our system is designed such that crime is actually a necessary feature

[melodramas]

decolonizepalestine.com is an easy to navigate website run by two palestinians which breaks down common myths about palestine and provides a reading list organized by a wide variety of categories ranging from history and culture to media and censorship. it’s a good starting point to use if you want to learn more about the modern day situation in palestine and understand the truth behind myths that have been perpetuated about israel’s occupation of palestine.

[melodramas]

don’t just reblog this, please take time to actually read through the website. it’s the least you can do as palestinians are being killed by the thousands and world leaders are turning a blind eye to a genocide happening in real time. i’ve seen the headlines about the israeli airstrike on al-ahli hospital that killed hundreds of palestinians change in real time, with western media outlets refusing to call it what it is— a war crime. the tide seems to be shifting a little bit in regards to media making excuses for israel to commit these atrocities which is probably because of how much people are showing out for palestine.

please read and share and pray that we see a free palestine in our lifetimes.

[disease-deactivated20210414]

mosaic on a former carpet factory (1978) by s. lewkowicz kowary, poland

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