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The View. Rio de Janeiro, April 2009
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I’d be remiss if I didn’t link to this performance because Régine’s dancing kicks major ass.
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Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. September 2009
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Jackass on a horse. This guy was about to get thrown off; that horse didn’t care for the water. Half Moon Bay, August 2010
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Water, because, well it is a rain forest. Brazil, April 2009
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Muir Woods. July 2010
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Monterey Bay. July 2010
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Man on a bike. Rio de Janeiro, April 2009
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What a common housefly
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Is there anything good about men? →
Fascinating read:
Research has compiled mountains of data on the stereotypes people have about men and women, which the researchers summarized as “The WAW effect.” WAW stands for “Women Are Wonderful.” Both men and women hold much more favorable views of women than of men. Almost everybody likes women better than men. I certainly do.
My purpose in this talk is not to try to balance this out by praising men, though along the way I will have various positive things to say about both genders… This is not about the “battle of the sexes,” and in fact I think one unfortunate legacy of feminism has been the idea that men and women are basically enemies. I shall suggest, instead, that most often men and women have been partners, supporting each other rather than exploiting or manipulating each other.
Later, what men are good for:
Culture relies on men to create the large social structures that comprise it. Our society is made up of institutions such as universities, governments, corporations. Most of these were founded and built up by men. Again, this probably had less to do with women being oppressed or whatever and more to do with men being motivated to form large networks of shallow relationships. Men are much more interested than women in forming large groups and working in them and rising to the top in them.
