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[Dec. 10th, 2008|04:06 pm] |
You are a Marilyn -- "I am affectionate and skeptical."
Marilyns are responsible, trustworthy, and value loyalty to family, friends, groups, and causes. Their personalities range broadly from reserved and timid to outspoken and confrontative.
How to Get Along with Me
* * Be direct and clear
* * Listen to me carefully
* * Don't judge me for my anxiety
* * Work things through with me
* * Reassure me that everything is OK between us
* * Laugh and make jokes with me
* * Gently push me toward new experiences
* * Try not to overreact to my overreacting.
What I Like About Being a Marilyn
* * being committed and faithful to family and friends
* * being responsible and hardworking
* * being compassionate toward others
* * having intellect and wit
* * being a nonconformist
* * confronting danger bravely
* * being direct and assertive
What's Hard About Being a Marilyn
* * the constant push and pull involved in trying to make up my mind
* * procrastinating because of fear of failure; having little confidence in myself
* * fearing being abandoned or taken advantage of
* * exhausting myself by worrying and scanning for danger
* * wishing I had a rule book at work so I could do everything right
* * being too critical of myself when I haven't lived up to my expectations
Marilyns as Children Often
* * are friendly, likable, and dependable, and/or sarcastic, bossy, and stubborn
* * are anxious and hypervigilant; anticipate danger
* * form a team of "us against them" with a best friend or parent
* * look to groups or authorities to protect them and/or question authority and rebel
* * are neglected or abused, come from unpredictable or alcoholic families, and/or take on the fearfulness of an overly anxious parent
Marilyns as Parents
* * are often loving, nurturing, and have a strong sense of duty
* * are sometimes reluctant to give their children independence
* * worry more than most that their children will get hurt
* * sometimes have trouble saying no and setting boundaries
http://www.helloquizzy.com/results/are-you-a-jackie-or-a-marilyn-or-someone-else-mad-menera-female-icon-quiz/?fromCGI=1&var_ABC=3&var_XYZ=2 |
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[Oct. 29th, 2008|10:59 pm] |
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Your result for The Spanish Test... The Native Speaker
You scored 90% educado. If you aren't hispanic, then you've done a great job learning. You know specialized vocabulary, and you can pass for un hispanohablante. !Felicitaciones! |
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[Oct. 29th, 2008|10:51 pm] |
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Your result for Howard Gardner's Eight Types of Intelligence Test... Musical
"This area has to do with rhythm, music, and hearing. Those who have a high level of musical-rhythmic intelligence display greater sensitivity to sounds, rhythms, tones and music. They normally have good pitch and may even have absolute pitch, and are able to sing, play musical instruments, and compose music. Since there is a strong auditory component to this intelligence, those who are strongest in it may learn best via lecture. In addition, they will often use songs or rhythms to learn and memorize information, and may work best with music playing in the background.
Careers which suit those with this intelligence include instrumentalists, singers, conductors, disc-jockeys, and composers." (Wikipedia) |
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[Oct. 29th, 2008|10:11 pm] |
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Copy this sentence into your journal if you used to be in a heterosexual marriage but you're not anymore because your marriage was whack, yet even after all that the idea of same-sex marriage being a threat to your wack-ass heterosexual marriage is the biggest bunch of shit you ever heard. |
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| 'cause Anna said so |
[Sep. 24th, 2008|08:41 pm] |
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
"Bring her to me."
"She's too sick to travel."
I heard the doctor muttering to herself, but I couldn't make out the words.
"Pooh,"the doctor said. "Oh, very well, Miss Stackhouse. Tell me what the problem is."
I explained as best as I could. Jason was moving around the kitchen because he was too nervous to sit still.
From "Definitely Dead" by Charlaine Harris |
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| How many have you read? |
[Jun. 26th, 2008|11:21 am] |
The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.
01. Look at the list and bold those you have read.
02. Italicise those you intend to read
03. Underline the books you LOVE.
04. Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've only read 6 and force books upon them.
( Read more... ) |
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| Men Explain Things to Me |
[Apr. 16th, 2008|12:58 pm] |
This is long, but damn is it good.
( Read more... )
So many men, so little time; Rebecca Solnit left out hundreds more anecdotes of her own and her friends' experiences of being hectored to craft this tirade, which should in no way be taken as an endorsement of Hillary Clinton. She is on chapter eighteen of her next book. |
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[Apr. 12th, 2008|04:38 pm] |
You Are 20% Girly
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Um... you're a guy, right? If not, you're the most boyish girl in the world.
And for you, that's probably the ultimate compliment.
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[Feb. 11th, 2008|09:28 pm] |
Humor me. Ever since I got my nose pierced I've had this movie line (about a nose piercing)running through my head:
"Did that hurt, or is that ethnic?" |
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| Leonrard Pitts on Feminism |
[Feb. 6th, 2008|07:31 am] |
http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard_pitts/story/408165.html
Rejecting feminism makes no sense
By LEONARD PITTS JR.
lpitts@miamiherald.com
Brace yourself. I'm going to use a word that offends folks. I'm talking the ''F'' word.
Feminist.
This woman sent me an e-mail Monday, and it got me thinking. See, in describing herself, she assured me she was not ''a `women's libber'' -- the late 1960s equivalent of feminist. She also said she was retired from the U.S. Navy. There was, it seemed to me, a disconnect there: She doesn't believe in women's liberation, yet she is retired from a position that liberation made possible.
Intrigued, I asked my 17-year-old daughter if she considers herself a feminist. She responded with a mildly horrified No. This, by the way, is the daughter with the 3.75 GPA who is currently pondering possible college majors including political science, psychology and . . . women's studies. I asked her to define ``feminist.''
There began a halting explanation that seemed to suggest shrillness wrapped around obnoxiousness. Abruptly, she stopped. ''It's hard to explain,'' she said.
Actually, it's not. Jessica Valenti, author of Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters, calls it the I'm-Not-A-Feminist-But syndrome. As in the woman who says, ''I'm not a feminist, but . . . '' and then ``goes on to espouse completely feminist values. I think most women believe in access to birth control, they want equal pay for equal work, they want to fight against rape and violence against women.''
A once-useful term
''Feminist,'' it seems, has ended up in the same syntactical purgatory as another once-useful, now-reviled term: liberal. Most people endorse what that word has historically stood for -- integration, child labor laws, product safety -- yet they treat the word itself like anthrax. Similarly, while it's hard to imagine that any young woman really wants to return to the days of barefoot, pregnant and making meatloaf, many now disdain the banner under which their gender fought for freedom. They scorn feminism even as they feast at a table that feminism prepared.
Says Valenti, ``The word has been so effectively misused and so effectively mischaracterized by conservatives for so long that women are afraid to identify with it. They'll say everything under the sun that's feminist, but they won't identify with it because they've been taught feminists are anti-men, feminists are ugly.''
Deborah Tannen agrees. She is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University and author of a number of books on gender and communication, including: You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation. ``The reason, I believe, is that meanings of words come from how they're used. And since the word feminist is used as a negative term rather than a positive one, people don't want to be associated with it.''
With apologies to Malcolm X, they've been had, they've been hoodwinked, they've been bamboozled. And it's sad. I've lost track of how many times, visiting high schools or teaching college classes, I have met bright girls juggling options and freedoms that would've been unthinkable a generation ago, smart young women preparing for lives and careers their foremothers could not have dreamt, yet if you use the ''F'' word, they recoil.
`I am a feminist'
We have lost collective memory of how things were before the F-word. Of the casual beatings. Of the casual rape. Of words like ''old maid'' and ''spinster.'' Of abortion by coat hanger. Of going to school to find a man. Of getting an allowance and needing a husband's permission. Of taking all your spirit, all your dreams, all your ambition, aspiration, creativity and pounding them down until they fit a space no larger than a casserole dish.
''I'm not a feminist, but . . . ?'' That's a fraud. It's intellectually dishonest. And it's a slap to the feminists who prepared the table at which today's young women sup.
So for the record, I am a feminist. My daughter is, too.
She doesn't know it yet. |
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