It was immediately assume that they were an MRA or some such…
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WTAF
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In response to Discovery Channel’s latest ad campaign (which is very bro-ish)
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Hell of an accurate cartoon, that is…
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I just had to stop watching a doc on Netflix over this shit. It was about how your brain chooses to process or ignore different inputs.
It was all all all about tackle football.
So the presenter would say, “watch the quarterback” and then stuff would happen and he’d say, “ha! You didn’t notice we switched quarterbacks halfway through the scene!” and I was still trying to figure out which one was supposed to be the quarterback (usually I guess from knowing they’re usually smaller, but these players were all the same size).
The next scene we were told to watch a football being kicked through the goalposts, up in the air, and then told we didn’t “notice” two cheerleaders stripping off a layer of clothing. The ball was nowhere near the cheerleaders, unlike in the famous “gorilla” video using a basketball.
And that’s when I stopped watching, because it was just too much jock bro bullshit and poor examples.
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The quarterback throws the ball. I’m pretty sure that’s true in both the USA and Canada. Not sure about Australia. Then again, I don’t care much about sports
Speaking of which, what about all those countries out there that don’t even have gridiron football? That’s like all but three countries in the world.
I probably would have noticed anyway 
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Sarah McAnulty is one of my favorite recent-ish twitter follows. She’s really really into squid, and posts some pretty cool stuff on that topic. And she runs something called Skype a Scientist, which basically connects classrooms or other interested groups with working scientists willing to talk about their particular thing for a bit.
I learned of her twitter account via the Ologies podcast, which, if you’re unfamiliar with it, I cannot recommend enough. It is so good. Seriously. Even if you’re not into science-themed podcasts, it has a certain authenticity and charm that transcends genres (if I my be so dramatic).
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dudes literally can’t stand to see women succeed in tech.
I’m not saying all dudes, mind. Just that most dudes won’t do shit to stop misogynists. It’s such an epidemic that my supervisor, myself, and mates have started Creepwatch journals.
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three’s a crowd
fuck microsoft’s techbros and the managers who enabled it
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Yup. There was a spate of orthorexia articles (and the eventual health collapse that comes from being orthorexic) about a year ago I think? All the people interviewed were women.
Anorexic women have been known to be obsessed with nutrition since at least the 80s – it’s a well-established symptom of it. So is obsessive exercising.
What Dorsey’s doing should never have been reported in a sympathetic light – and, if reported accurately, will backfire on him sooner or later.
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I know Reddit is a deeply problematic site, especially with the hate and harrassment subs. But if you use it, I am trying to set up a feminist book club there:
https://old.reddit.com/r/feministheorybookclub/
Yes, I misspelled the url when I created it.
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This is why we can’t have nice things.
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To be fair, I can’t imitate swagger either 
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Yeah, was going to put some preamble about alphas etc. but I couldn’t formulate it.
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And also about how it’s really ill advised for a professor to try to imitate a high school football coach.
A fictional* coach, at that.
*I’m assuming she’s talking about the TV show, which is pure fiction, and not the book, which was narrative journalism
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Is it?
Just because he’s fiction doesn’t mean it isn’t real. Our stories shape us. The story says this man is successful, so those behaviours must indicate success. People respond the way they do, because the stories tell us that’s what you do when someone does that.
That’s why we need to be careful with the stories we tell. If we told more stories (not newspaper stories, not real life accounts, but narratives) where that sort of thing is shown to be toxic and a failure, if we choose to make those stories mainstream, our societal attitudes would see a shift.
Narratives work, because we can control the coding. Like I said, Coach Taylor was coded as successful. That is why representation is so important. If you can code other people (those who aren’t white, cis-het men) and other approaches as successful, it becomes an option to model.
Stories do more than reflect reality. They shape it. From the beginning, stories have been used as social control. Bad things happen to wicked, disobedient children, but good things come to clever ones who respect their parents. The evil prince is vanquished but the good one rules benevolently teaches that we will always have princes, some will be evil, but another will save us and it’ll be alright in the end. Look now at how many people are seeking the prince who will defeat the evil Trump and restore order. What if we’d grown up on more stories of people refusing to work for the bad prince and shaming his people, more stories where the prince needs a society more than society needs a prince?
One of the reasons stories get away with doing so much to us, is that we dismiss them as not being real. As frivolous. Remember the line about the devil’s greatest trick?
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All true! Also… Gaiman and Pratchtet would totally agree with you.
Anyway, I have a theory that stories (and making music) is really what made us human like we are, the ability to abstract out what we feel inside and express that to others via art…
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