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POPSGirls Score Just as Well as Boys in Math Tests My daughter used to complain that her high school math teacher would often call on a boy to answer a question than call on her when she had her hand raised in class. She knew nothing of the stereotype that females are not as good as males in math. She lived it. Follow the link and read the entire article for further interesting findings.
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POPSPride and Progress: How Far America Has Come In The Last 40 Years food for thought from Jonah Lehrer a bit more: "Over time, these conscious limits on language helped re-engineer our unconscious beliefs, allowing people to slowly purge themselves of obsolete stereotypes. (We tend to think of the unconscious as the domineering elephant of the mind, but sometimes the feeble rider manages to steer the beast in the right direction.) Of course, the unconscious remains a murky and biased place, but I think white Americans have shown that it can be amended, that simply altering the ways in which we refer to people can, over time, change what we secretly think of people."
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POPSHomeless USA Cup 2008: Where It's All About Goals Funding has come from various sources, including Washington businessman and philanthropist Ted Leonsis, who produced a documentary, "Kicking It," which tells the story of the Homeless World Cup. It is playing a short run at E Street Cinema in the District.
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POPSNader - One Trick Pony Admiration for past good deeds aside, Nader presents these days as bitter, self-absorbed, and out of touch. Now he's accusing Obama of attempting to "talk white". I'm not even sure what the hell he means by this except perhaps a twisted view into his own cultural stereotypes
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POPSThe UK's Cushy Prisons Interesting article. The challenging of cartoon stereotypes of prisons as hotels, criminals as monsters and the right function of prison being to punish and degrade as much as possible: the slow, bit by bit intervention of the rehabilitation element of a civilized judiciary.
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POPSHillary, We Hardly Knew Ye But the one in the concession speech was a compelling candidate; would she have won if she'd been this way the whole time? Did she lose by trying to be the things that stereotypes say you have to be to win as a woman, rather than being herself?
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POPSAbsolutly Ridiculous
Are there some people out there who won't vote for Obama because he's black...sure there are. Just like there are some people out there who won't vote for Clinton because she's a woman. If you want to pull the racism card, you have to counter with the sexism card as well. Both democratic candidates are at a disadvantage because of stereotypes and some form of bigotry. The argument about this being the first time white Americans have had the opportunity to vote for a black person is ridiculous as well. It's also the first opportunity for men of any color to vote for a woman. If I'm a white man and vote for Obama, does that mean I'm not racist but I'm sexist? C'mon, give me a break. People for the most part are voting for who they think will make the best candidate. Are some white people not voting for Obama because he's black...sure. Are some men not voting for Clinton because she's a woman...sure. But give people credit - there's a lot more people who are looking at the
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POPSCobb bar protested as racist for Obama T-shirts Among his recent musings: "I wish Hillary had married OJ," "No habla espanol — and never will" and the standard "I.N.S. Agents eat free." "I'm saying out loud what everyone in this town whispers," Norman said.
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POPSThe Bigot in your Brain Why might black faces, in particular, provoke vigilance? Northwestern University psychologist Jennifer A. Richeson speculates that American cultural stereotypes linking young black men with crime, violence and danger are so robust that our brains may automatically give preferential attention to blacks as a category, just as they do for threatening animals such as snakes. In a recent unpublished study Richeson and her colleagues found that white college students’ visual attention was drawn more quickly to photographs of black versus white men, even though the images were flashed so quickly that participants did not consciously notice them. This heightened vigilance did not appear, however, when the men in the pictures were looking away from the camera. (Averted eye gaze, a signal of submission in humans and other animals, extinguishes explicit perceptions of threat.)
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POPSAIDS in Africa, Defying "conventional wisdom" "Outside Uganda, we have few good models of how to promote fidelity, since attempts to advocate deep changes in behavior have been almost entirely absent from programs supported by the major Western donors and by AIDS celebrities. Yet Christian churches—indeed, most faith communities—have a comparative advantage in promoting the needed types of behavior change, since these behaviors conform to their moral, ethical, and scriptural teachings. What the churches are inclined to do anyway turns out to be what works best in AIDS prevention."
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POPS125 Best Foods in Your Supermarket Click on actual site next to clipped from: This is a list of 125 of the Best Foods for Men health and this one is particular should make all the difference in your world: . . You want to get her in the mood Proving that stereotypes do sometimes have a basis in fact: Italian researchers found that women who often eat chocolate have a higher sex drive than those who don't. 36. Best Dark Chocolate Ghirardelli Semi-Sweet Beautifully balances sweet with bitter, just like a good relationship should.
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POPSPublic Ignorance and Democracy Such as the nature of liberalism, conservatism, materialism, idealism, etc. "Public ignorance is not confined to political information. Sixty-nine percent of the public believe, according to a recent survey, that price increases are mainly caused by companies manipulating the market to raise their profits. Less provocative, but just as indicative of ignorance of economic affairs, only about a third of all Americans know that the Fed sets monetary policy, or even that the consumer price index measures price inflation. It is little wonder, then, that incumbent politicians are able to take credit for good economic times—regardless of the success, failure, or irrelevance of their economic policies—and that presidents cursed with bad economies usually are booted from office, even if their policies have been sound."
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POPSHillary's CUTTING OFF NOSE TO SPITE FACE! Now read this article of more Hillary nose destruction... http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/hillary-clin-10.html Hillary Clinton dissed party activists and MoveOn.org Apparently Hillary Clinton hasn't always been enamored with the rambunctious nature of the historic fight for the Democratic presidential nomination. Speaking to financial backers after Super Tuesday, she blamed the party's activists and MoveOn.org for her early primary and caucus defeats, according to an item over at The Huffington Post. "MoveOn.org endorsed -- which is like a gusher of money that never seems to slow down," the item quotes Clinton as saying (there's audio on the site).
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POPSAround the World for 12 Months Calendar series by Andrey Gordeev: A look through the windshields of a dozen international drivers, though it does rely a little too heavily on cultural stereotypes.
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POPSStereotyping Yourself Contributes to Your Success (or Failure) As it turns out, research shows that such performance failures cannot always be attributed simply to inherent lack of ability or incompetence. Although some have jumped to the highly controversial conclusion that differences in attainment reflect natural differences between groups, the roots of many handicaps actually lie in the stereotypes, or preconceptions, that others hold about the groups to which we belong. For instance, a woman who knows that women as a group are believed to do worse than men in math will, indeed, tend to perform less well on math tests as a result.
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