Quickies
Quickies: Fatherly housework, teleportation, and censored yearbook photos
- Dads who do housework have more ambitious daughters – “Maybe you’ve told your daughter she can grow up to be an engineer or CEO if she wants to, but she may not really believe it if her dad doesn’t cook or clean, a new study suggests.” From nowoo.
- Students at Utah school upset to find yearbook photos altered – Some of the high school girls found that their yearbook photos had been altered to appear more “modest.” From Michael.
- Scientists report finding reliable way to teleport data – From Amy.
- A punk idol’s truther meltdown – From Angela.
- Cute Animal Friday! From nowoo, a pug who has his own way of running. And I’m just going to use Daniela’s description for these, since it’s amazing: “Baby whiptail stingrays look like cute kitten ravioli!“
“Female students at a Utah high school want to know why their yearbook photos were altered to show less skin without them knowing about it.”
Why?
In no particular order: sexual repression of men, patriarchy, sexism, religion, nosiness, misogyny and the pretense that women shouldn’t have any sexuality.
Make sure you look at the side by side images. Whoever edited those photos is a major creeper.
Hm. I may not have been looking at them very deliberately, but I’m about twice the age of the girls in question, so don’t blame me for not ogling. What part was creeperish? I may have missed it.
What I associated this with was those women in the Temple in Utah who went over the outfits the brides were wearing and “fixed” them by putting opaque cloth under any transparent fabric, covering shoulders and crap like that.
Someone browsed through all these images of underage girls searching for cleavage and then sat down with Photoshop painstakingly painting over their chests. That is super fucked up.
Also, “fear of sexuality”. In so many stories from the US, there’s this undercurrent of desperately trying to pretend that children and young people (especially girls) are not sexual beings. It’s so weird.
“cute purple kitten ravioli” OMG!
The person who altered the photos reminds of the behavior described in the current Reasonable Doubts podcast: Inside the Mind of a Religious Sexual Abuser
http://freethoughtblogs.com/reasonabledoubts/2014/05/06/episode-128-inside-the-mind-of-a-religious-sexual-abuser/
Trigger warning for graphic descriptions of sexual abuse.
So, we have science to tell us that “walking the walk has more impact than talking the talk”. Colour me surprised.