Posts Tagged as ‘gender roles’

July 12, 2008

my review of Red Cliff:

Good.

Action scenes are many and some times overly long.
Some of the battle formations are well-loved Chinese tales. They may seem very weird to those not familiar with the stories.
Many historical inaccuracies, as reported by movie critics.
The one historical inaccuracy I noted was that in the film, Zhu Ge Liang is younger than Zhou Yu. But since [...]

April 25, 2008

well, I think men’s bodies are most flattering with no clothes on, so they shouldn’t wear anything on the streets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/fashion/24DRESSES.html
The problem with the main argument in that NYTimes article, that men like to look at women in dresses and thus women should wear dresses (oh no! the pant! how horrible! it helps women cross their legs - but where are the ultra-feminine dresses of the pre-second-wave-feminism era?!), is that then women should be making [...]

March 5, 2008

I hate days like today.

Blatant racism, immaturity, physical harassment, annoyance, further disturbance of my already-damaged ears. Oh, the joys of public education. Wait, and I thought I was in a good school system? This city/town is nationally ranked for a good education system, and the school has repeatedly won national awards and has an obscene number of Presidential Scholars. [...]

January 22, 2008

Bus drivers.

A friend pointed out to me that nowhere in this joke does it say that the bus driver was a man.
Talk about perceived gender roles! What a trap I fell into.
Reminds me of this (common) anecdote:
A father* and his son were both in a car accident. The father was killed, and the son was rushed [...]