Quickies
Skepchick Quickies 12.13
- Are beauty standards higher for men now? – “These new beauty standards for men grab our attention because they’re so novel, but in no way does that mean they have surpassed what’s expected of women, either on-screen or all too often in real life.”
- Reporting domestic violence to an employer – From Andy, the Ask A Manager site asks its readers to weigh in.
- Dry cleaner puts “Choose Life” message on its hangers – From the department of WTF.
- Did you back up your computer before 12/12/12? – Too late, I know, but I had to include this for the “Neptune is the planet that rules leaks” bit. From Michael.
Pictured is one of my personal favorite examples of male beauty, Daniel Craig.
those coat hangers are the strangest bit of viral marketing for trainspotting that i’ve ever seen.
And the money quote:
“… let’s not let the evidence get in the way of pretending the gender that spent thousands of years with the right to own the other is suddenly an oppressed class because of a handful of decades of feminism.”
Amandam,
I’m not surprised they put the “choose life” slogan on coat hangers really. They’ve done it with just about everything else at this point.
That astrologer is a quack. Neptune isn’t the “planet that rules leaks.” That’s Uranus.