Socilogical Images from The Society Pages

The disease called “Perfection” and to followup The CURE for “Perfection” (Single Dad Laughing)

You just broke your child. Congratulations. (Single Dad Laughing)

Why You Must See Unretouched Images, And Why You Must See Them Repeatedly (Jezbel)

Photoshop of Horrors on Jezbel – all the posts tagged with #photoshop of horros

The Myth of White Male Geek Rationality – thoughts on bias and how white male geeks don’t think they have any

Snack Bags and a Regular Paycheck: The Happy Life of a Swedish Dad (Slate)
The bliss of an 18-month, paid, Swedish paternity leave.

The Gender Surcharge (Psychology Today)

Women who are not my role models (Penelope Trunk)

Is there any such thing as an alpha female? (Guardian)

Generation Y breeds a new kind of woman (Modite)

Even as Celebrities, Women Face a Double Standard (AlterNet)

The Shriver Report – As of 2010 women are half the workforce.  This study looks at this and other changes compared to a generation ago and how they affect our society.

Why We Need To Reimagine Masculinity (from Newsweek) – a discussion of the changes in the types of jobs in the US workforce

A Person Paper on Purity in Language

Useful Travel Skills (The Art of Non-Conformity) – The middle section makes one of my favorite points about logic.
“You might assume that logic is universal, since it is supposedly based on facts instead of opinions. But you would be wrong, as travelers inevitably discover, and the sooner you learn that logic is inseparably tied to culture and context, the easier your journeys will be.”

Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (AAUW)

Girls Underestimate Their Own Intelligence (Jezbel)

How CEOs’ daughters are helping close the wage gap (Geek Feminism) – When male CEOs have daughters the pay rate for women in the company increases faster than for men in the company, closing the wage gap.

“I Can Handle It”: On Relationship Violence, Independence, and Capability (Feministe) - A first hand account of the emotional side of abuse. Many commenters expressed how they’d be trying to explain the fog of abuse she describes.

Dogs and Smurfs (Max Barry) – about how little boys grow up learning that girls are special and different than your standard generic person… because the standard generic person is male.