women

Why don’t women buy men jewelry? Or, more importantly, why I hate Christmas jewelry ads.

December 14, 2011

After seeing this commercial:   “Why don’t they ever show women buying men jewelry and having the jewelry face?” “Are you serious?” “What?” “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard?” “But why? If more ads showed women buying men jewelry, it would become more acceptable? What if I bought you jewelry?” *crazy stare* “No.” “What if I bought you a man ring?” “Still no.  I don’t even like to wear my wedding ring.” “What about a necklace?  Like a chain?” ...

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The Rise of the Schmuck

November 15, 2011

I started reading Confederacy of Dunces on the train this morning.  It is so, so good and so, so funny. I am bummed I didn’t know about this book earlier. One of the things it reminds me of is my own novel, which starts thusly: From the moment he spilled his apple juice on his pants on 7:30 from JFK to Tel Aviv, cruisng over Munich, Michael Shtulman knew he would die airborne.  He always looked for omens to tell ...

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Why Every Woman Should Know How Her Blog Works or,Why Women are still marginalized.

November 7, 2011

This Saturday, I attended WordCamp Philly at beautiful Alter Hall, which is a conference for people who hate spending time outdoors. Also it’s for people who enjoy using WordPress to build their website. (Like me! This site is built with WordPress! Also with sweat and tears.) See?  Here I am in my natural habitat:   There were four tracks, one for beginner users, one for intermediate, one for WordPress developers, and one for WordPress designers.  I consider myself intermediate, maybe at the edge ...

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Wearing engagement rings to interviews

August 23, 2011

Suzanne posted a link from Huffpo advising women not to wear engagement rings to interviews. To which I said, And trust me, I’ve interviewed A LOT over the past year. And to which people replied, basically, “Don’t give other people a reason to judge you.” Although there was one HR pro that said she didn’t give a crap. But is this really a problem?  Honestly? Or just another way to give women anxiety about how they present themselves in the ...

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How loud can you scream? Thanks to either nature or nurture, I found out yesterday!

July 21, 2011

A couple weeks ago, Mr. B and I were having a discussion about women that stemmed from this post wherein a woman got skeeved when an unknown-to-her guy in an elevator with her asked her up to his room late at night and then Richard Dawkins got involved and basically got all Male White Priveledge up on her in some comment section and it’s a long story but it boiled down to the fact that women are creeped out and on ...

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