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A response to “Miss Representation 8 min. trailer:” Changing gender stereotypes by increasing visibility of female athletes

Submitted by jmorgant on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 7:13pm
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The trailer for Miss Representation by filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom describes the power of the media, acknowledging that people learn more from it than any other single source of information. The media is the primary force that shapes our society: “politics, national discourse, and children’s brains, lives, and emotions” (Jim Steyer, CEO, Common Sense Media). Upwards of one billion people use the Internet every day (Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Consumer Products, Google); images are widely available and accessible without restrictions.

 

The messages disseminated by the mainstream media are pervasive, and more often than not emphasize and perpetuate harmful gender stereotypes. According to Miss Representation, women hold only 3% of clout positions in telecommunications, entertainment, publishing and advertising and comprise just 16% of all writers, directors, producers, cinematographers and editors. Because women are generally not the ones deciding how they are represented in the media, they are often shown as sex objects, valued by their looks rather than their achievements. As a result, “girls are taught that their value is based on how they look, and boys are taught that that’s what’s important about women” (Jean Kilbourne, EdD, Filmmaker, Killing Us Softly).

 

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The Stories We Tell Ourselves: The Beginning of a Book about Sex and Gender for Trans* and Intersex Kids

Submitted by jfwright on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 5:37pm

I've decided to create a tumblr URL for this project. Not only is it more public that way, but I also have an easier time loading images.

http://thestorieswetellourselves.tumblr.com/

The blog is not currently password protected. If I chose to create a password for this blog, I'll comment on this webpaper.

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THE STORY OF PLAY

Submitted by KT on Mon, 03/14/2011 - 9:30am

 
                                                                                                                       


Diffusion: Heterogeneous mixtures

 Diffusion: Heterogeneous mixtures

 

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Thinking more about depression as "adaptive"

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Wed, 08/11/2010 - 3:09pm

""I suspect there are features of the higher order organization of neurons that need to be included among the "underlying rules" to achieve a better understanding of depression, both conceptually and for therapeutic purposes."  ... PG, An expanded neurobiology of depression, June, 2009

Coordination without a leader: flocking

 Coordination without a leader:

Exploring a model of flocking behavior

Paul Grobstein and Laura Cyckowski

August 2010

 Is the front bird a leader? | Is there a leader at all? | Coordination as an emergent property of a distributed system | What's actually going on in the flocking model? | And in general .... ?

Evolution as Reproduction with Variability

 Evolution as Reproduction with Variability

Paul Grobstein
July 2010
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Ashley's Sudoku Journal

Submitted by Ashley Dawkins on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 1:15pm
Ashley's Sudoku Journal
Date Feelings/Results Reflections
7/13/10 here I go!  
   frustrated  I don't like doing this on the computer!
   30 min  the median was 6 min.
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The Menu of Wits: A Five-Course Prix Fixe Meal

Submitted by jrlewis on Thu, 05/06/2010 - 10:23pm

If a course syllabus is a menu for a classroom experience, then here is my summary of the House of Wits Course 2010.  Each dish is a culinary representation of the James family member it is matched with opposite.  Anyone with allergies to pragmatism or relativism should avoid the preparations of William James.  They will result in a strong reaction.  They are arranged in reverse chronological order as the course primarily was.  Note how all the dishes work together... do they form a coherent meal?  Are their clashes in flavor?  Repetition?  All this is designed to bring out the family dynamics of the James.  Enjoy the meal!!!  And feel free to comment on your favorite dishes and personalities. 

 

 

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