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Men are often praised for losing their cool in the workplace, but everyone else can’t show anger without losing the respect of their peers, according to three studies by Yale University psychologist Victoria Brescoll and Eric Uhlmann.

And to mitigate this damage, they must to explain why they were upset. But it doesn’t bode well for men to explain why they were angered.

I wonder if the study from a former Hillary Clinton Congressional Fellow (Uhlmann) considered race and other social factors in their analysis.

Of course, white men are rational and everyone else should be presumed emotionally liable until proven otherwise. And yet, when a man explains himself, his peers lose a little of their credence in his reasoning ability. Perhaps, his actions are a little less justifiable - he is used to getting his way without needing to explain himself.

A recent study from the University of Wisconsin hoped to answer this timely question as Clinton campaigns for the presidency, “Are women voters more likely to vote for female candidates?”
Answer: Not just because they’re women. Obviously.

Women generally voted based on information about the candidates and their positions on important issues: “Evidence suggests women voters are often more likely to support women candidates than are men but that this support is not automatic and is often based on additional considerations beyond candidate sex.”

The relationship was significant but was mediated by many other factors. And in fact, women were no more influenced by sex identity than men were. [and what about people who would not fit into those categories?]
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This is obviously satire, but I want to point out that their estimate of the Iraq death toll is low. While there are around 90,000 documented deaths, the deaths of many people go unrecorded. A January 2008 study in the New England Journal of Medicine estimated that 151,000 Iraqis died violent deaths because of the Iraq war through June 2006.

Representation?

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To add critique would be too excessive for something which speaks so clearly for itself.

But really, how is that not satire? “You don’t have to be ugly in heaven.” HA. All that false earnestness = hilarious!

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I really hate how media paint women as frigid and assume men are libidinous. An article on CNN Health (currently, the most viewed on CNN) notes that 40 million people in the US have a sexless marriage, meaning they have sex fewer than 10 times a year. And yep, it’s women’s faults. Women feel so entitled to work that they think they no longer need to sexually please their husbands for some measure of financial stability.

The article takes its cue from Anita H. Clayton, M.D., who must really hate herself (though not as much as Coulter), and her article “Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy.”She assumes that women are the ones who don’t want to have sex and that they are the ones that need to change. This is misogynist bullshit.
According to Louanne Cole Weston, M.D. of WebMD, “When people wrote in about the discrepancy of frequency and desire, about 40 percent of the time it was men wanting less.”

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Do not vote for Clinton if you care about women’s rights. She doesn’t give a fuck if Arab women die.

Do you remember when gravel called Clinton out on Iran?

Clinton responded like an arrogant jerk. She was the only democratic candidate to vote for the Sept. 2007 bill, which designated the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, part of Iran’s army, as a terrorist organization.

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The new anti-choice movement attempts to revive an earlier time when men made all the decisions for women:

“As a sidewalk counselor, I wait outside abortion clinics until the men come out to use their cellphones. I tell them I’m not there to judge them. I’m there to help,” said Valentine, 20, one of about 800 participants in the District yesterday for the annual conference of Students for Life of America. “Sometimes they break down and cry and go back and bring out their girlfriends to reconsider.”

oh, gloria steinem. clinton sucks because she loves corporate handouts–look at her health care policy, too.

but is obama better than clinton? if at all, only slightly. well, he is on palestine but just because he hasn’t been around long enough, so he hasn’t risen above ambiguous.

After trying hard to court Israel, Obama only received a response that was hesitant and cautious: “He is an unknown,” said Diane Dubey, a member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Pro-Israel Lobby.

then is it about sex-identity? perhaps, or it may just be that very ambiguity that makes obama attractive to many people–so young and fresh and curious. he’ll talk to anyone (that’s good!).
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this election coverage leaves me… bored. It’s even putting the candidates to sleep, but maybe they just need some nose candy,

This is hilarious–published in volume The Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Corporate Thinking from the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Design: Researchers asked couple dozen college students (for research credit) to pretend that they owned a small business and were interviewing potential employees. The participants were 19 ovulating women with an average age of 19years and 15 men with a mean age of 22years; all of the participants were heterosexual and righthanded.
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Dude rode a unicycle and noted responses. His conclusion: testosterone in males makes them aggressive and thus inspires humor. Humor Develops From Aggression Caused By Male Hormones, Professor Says.

The study, available from the British Medical Journal, is more fun to read than the articles about it.

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