Sadly, we still default to granting more respect to men than women.
8 studies: we're >2x as likely to call male politicians, athletes, teachers, and authors by their last names. It matters: surnames signal higher status.
It's long past time to use consistent standards.
In disagreements, it's not always our message that misses the mark. It's often our language.
5 studies: in arguments, "we" is more persuasive than "you."
"You need to rethink that" feels like an aggressive attack. "We need to rethink that" sounds like an open invitation.
America has a lot of faults as a country but we absolutely went off with garbage disposals in our kitchen sinks. “just use a food catcher?? scrape the food into the trash???” thank u Europe but we actually put loud finger-ripping chainsaws in our drains god bless❤️
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“The list of things that can get you killed in public is expanding every single day,” writes @rgay. “It only takes running into one scared man to have the worst and likely last day of your life.” https://t.co/E4O0FUDTa1
Can pickleball save us? For my piece in this week’s New Yorker, I travelled to Florida, Queens, and Dripping Springs, Texas, to find out—and returned feeling strangely optimistic.
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The trial has proven to extremists that if you rally around a beloved public figure or institution, blanket them in a protective sphere of outrage and misinformation, and successfully weaponize fandom culture — you can push whatever narrative you want into the mainstream.
Every so often you get numb to living in generally dystopian times, and then a new wave of the global pandemic hits, a school shooter kills his classmates with a gun his dad bought on Black Friday, and a theocratic court moves to throw out reproductive rights all on the same day
A fabric womb, dated 1760.
In 1759 king Louis XV commissioned pioneering midwife Angélique du Coudray to teach midwifery to rural women to reduce infant mortality. Between 1760 to 1783, she traveled rural France and it is estimated that she trained 4000 students during that time.
Ce weekend C’est la 1ere edition femme #ParisRoubaix2021, la 1ere gagnante recevra un prix de 1535€ tandis que le 1er gagnant homme lui recevra… 30 000€ !! Changez rien @amaurysport@UCI_cycling !
Réservations, organisation, valises: la charge mentale des femmes ne prend pas de vacances. Et comme d'hab dans ce genre d'article on conseille aux femmes de lâcher du lest et d'arrêter de stresser tout le monde, pas aux hommes d'en faire + https://t.co/zI0BkEeI5a