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<title><![CDATA[Sometimes, just SOMEtimes, men can be rather cute.]]></title>
<link>http://amyha.wordpress.com/?p=549</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday night, renowned chef Miss Belle decided to grant us a huge favour and cooked bún riê]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last Saturday night, renowned chef Miss Belle decided to grant us a huge favour and cooked<strong> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BAn_ri%C3%AAu" target="_blank">bún riêu</a></strong> for dinner. And is that sound I'm hearing right now your jaw clanging on the floor, like mine did? Because Holy Vermicelli! There's a page for bún riêu on Wiki! ENGLISH Wiki at that, too! I did a google, kinda hoping, but not even expecting, to see it on Vietnamese Wiki. But wow! Can you ever stop being amazed by this wonderful creation of the Wacky Wide Web?  Seriously, I think the new English medical dictionary, whenever they decide to revise it, should include this new "disorder": <strong>Wikaddiction</strong>. Symptoms include the patient's spending endless hours clicking on one blue word after another, until they forget what topic they were researching on in the first place. Advanced symptoms are recognised when they start to Ctrl-left click instead of merely click, and begin to write their own blogs with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink" target="_blank">embedded links</a> scattered all over the place Wiki-style, with most links being Wiki entries themselves.</p>
<p>Anyway, where was I? Oh, yeah, bún riêu, the lesser-known (but in no way less delicious) sibling of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%E1%BB%9F" target="_blank">phở</a>. (Wikaddiction. Ping!) So at one point, all 5 of us girls were in kitchen, clamouring over each other to, well, <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/59/3/toomanycooks.html" target="_blank">spoil the broth</a>.  The two guys are in the living room discussing God knows what, but my guess is computers. We can't help it. It's an <a href="http://amyha.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/more-blogs-about-blogs-and-whitened-asians/" target="_blank">Asian thing</a>. However, it's important to emphasise that <strong>modern </strong>(Asian) guys have learnt to be willing to help out with the cooking, even if it's just the dishes. So listen up young (Asian) guys! Girls don't care much for your pimped up Nissan 300SX that makes noise like the earth about to crack, that has floor so low that when we squeeze into your back seat, our knees get to go up and have an intimate meeting with our chins. These days your ability to cook, or help in the kitchen, or even pretending to offer assistance, would definitely earn you a tick.</p>
<p>So our two lovely (modern) chaps would pop their heads through the kitchen door every now and again to ask if there was anything they could do. Only to meet with impatient replies from all the layyydies that it's ok, it's ok, just go and play in the living room. (Yes we actually did say "play"!) That was not only because there was nothing for them to do -- with 4 overly eager sous-chefs, Belle was already finding it hard to concentrate. But it was also because, listen carefully, <strong>we are modern girls</strong>. And modern girls have long successfully convinced themselves that yes, they can do it all and have it all. Career woman, style icon, AND domestic goddess. And later in life, perfect wife and mother. Ah the phenomenon of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s" target="_blank">the Noughts</a>. And so there, in that kitchen, that small simple kitchen, laid out before your eyes was my draft for a future magnificent break-through research in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_equality" target="_blank">gender equality</a> in the new decade. Ha ha.</p>
<p>That night I had brought Belle a bouquet of gorgeous orange Asiatic lilies and a new glass vase wrapped in tissue paper. During all the hooha in the kitchen, at one point I noticed the guys talking rather seriously over a pink shoebox, something along the lines of "Yeah... um... yeah... I think it'd work," but didn't pay them any notice. Until way later when I searched for the flowers to put in the vase, I noticed this hilarious sight: the shoebox was flipped open, wrapped around by some cling-wrap, popped up on a table, against the wall, so that it served as a makeshift vase!, that contained no water, obviously. The bouquet was carefully placed inside, leaning at the wall.</p>
<p>If you'd been there, you'd have joined me and burst out laughing until we doubled over. And I'm now regretting not taking a photo of the "genius" effort at improvisation. It was just SO CUTE! Not the same kind of cute you get when you stare unblinking at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Hackett" target="_blank">Grant Hackett</a>'s six-pack until your eyes start to water. But the kind of cute that comes from when your Dad tried to repair an electrical cord. And after 2 hours Mum came in to check on the progress and found that he'd rolled about 200 metres of tape around the joint, and made it look like a huge beehive with a tiny line going right through the middle. The kind of cute that make you think for a split second, perhaps falsely, that men are just as adorably naive and clumsy as children. If it wasn't for the fact that one of our two friends is married, and the other is like a big brother to us, I'd have rushed over to pat them on the head and kiss them on the cheek, then give each a "Great Job" sticker with a little flower on it so they could whack it on the back of their hands!</p>
<p>And that concludes another session of my endless rambles. You can rest now. :)</p>
<p>~muffins~</p>
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<title><![CDATA[As any fule kno...?]]></title>
<link>http://trickylittleimp.wordpress.com/?p=214</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>trickylittleimp</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[A very interesting piece on the foully named Women&#8217;s Hour on BBC Radio 4 today about male and ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://trickylittleimp.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/molesworth.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-217" src="http://trickylittleimp.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/molesworth.jpg?w=146" alt="" width="146" height="137" /></a>A very interesting piece on the foully named <a title="Women's Hour, with Listen Again link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/" target="_blank">Women's Hour on BBC Radio 4 today</a> about male and female teachers and how adults in general impact on the development of boys and girls. As teachers, apparently women overly verbalise whereas men use silence and non-verbal direction. Boys react better to fewer words said in lower voices. Now, is this about a gendered neurological difference (eg to sound and incoming communication)? Or something about effective and ineffective teaching?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The expert, Celia Lashlie, author of <em>He'll Be OK, </em>says the boys performed brilliantly when left with a silence to fill. But the girls want it filled and do fill it. Men do the non-verbal, women almost nothing but. Lashlie says that boys often report just feeling 'wrong' in primary school, because of the lack of male role models in the school (and later down the line, a lack of "good men" role models in wider public life has other negative impacts). A line in her book from a boy goes like this: "If you tell your mum something voluntarily, she'll just ask a whole lot of questions. It's rude to say "Enough", so it's best just not to talk at all."</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://trickylittleimp.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/molews-2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-218" src="http://trickylittleimp.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/molews-2.jpg?w=104" alt="" width="104" height="99" /></a>Recognition all round...? So what's it all about? The other programme guest was Prof. Carrie Paechter, author of a book called <em>Being Boys; Being Girls</em>. She talked about a study where parents underestimated 10 month-old girls' ability to climb/crawl up a slope and over-estimate boys' abilities. How terrifying to think that subconsciously, (some) parents think their girls can do less than they would if their child was a boy (or in cases like this, involving the physical, do so to be more protective, perhaps).</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">But if it's down to mums and dads, we all know you can take two girls brought up in the same family and one will be a tom boy and the other a baby-doll-loving pink-fetishist; as many a shrink will say, eg Oliver James in <em>They F*** You Up, </em>even identical twins are brought up very differently - each upbringing is on a case by case basis and each parent reacts differently to each child.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Is it fair to say that some of it's nature, some nurture? I'd say so. But the important thing is not the "how we got here" perhaps, but the fact that there is difference that needs to be recognised if adults are to do the best by each child, helping it reach its best (for which I mean happiest) potential.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[சுதா மூர்த்தி]]></title>
<link>http://kathambamaalai.wordpress.com/?p=492</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>The Visitor</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Today I was searching for Sudha Murthy to locate her contact details, when I came across this blog p]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I was searching for Sudha Murthy to locate her contact details, when I came across this blog post that kind of touched me.  Probably many people have heard the story before, but here it is again:<br />
<a href="http://worldofdilip.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/infosys-narayana-murthys-wife-sudha-murthys-experience/" target="_blank">Infosys Narayana Murthy’s wife Sudha Murthy’s Experience</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Monday "It's a wrap!!"]]></title>
<link>http://oldskoolmark.wordpress.com/?p=94</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>oldskoolmark</dc:creator>
<guid>http://oldskoolmark.ta.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/monday-its-a-wrap/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Man&#8230; You know ur day is bad when the post you almost finished hangs and you have to redo every]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://oldskoolmark.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/images2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-95" src="http://oldskoolmark.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/images2.jpg?w=124" alt="" width="124" height="89" /></a>Man... You know ur day is bad when the post you almost finished hangs and you have to redo everything.... ah wells.... At least Monday is over!!</p>
<p>Not much to wrap up this week, but we'll just do a quick run through for those who drop by here once a week...</p>
<p>So I talked about <a href="http://oldskoolmark.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/asia-chicks-and-the-future/">Asia, Chicks and the Future</a>. First thing i learnt about using a title and using tags that contain "Asia" and "Chicks" can lead people looking for different things to my site. For example, some of the terms used to come to my site were "Asian chicks", "Hot Asian Chicks".... You get my point... careful tagging and headers are important... I don;t want my blog to be the top search for a porn search...</p>
<p>Asia is kicking ass, we're huge and unstoppable. Unfortunately or fortunately, we're so diversed its hard to groups us in any one same group.... So with various sites looking for more information on Asia, or like Michael likes to say, the swede  sitting in Hong Kong looking to do a PR campaign in Asia, what's he to do?</p>
<p>Well, you can start with this awesome <a href="http://comm215.wetpaint.com/?t=anon">wiki</a>, PR and social Media Across Asia, which I've been using for my Yahoo! stuff... Fantastic info spoonfed to you huh?</p>
<p>I discussed the use of social media and how its applies differently to the each gender... Sex and the City provided a great example of the widgets on facebook, the online games, etc... It was tuned to appeal to the fairer sex... What appeals to guys? James Bond's been working pretty well, excpet to marketers who see it as THE ultimate product placment movie... lol...</p>
<p>The futureof social media? I'll Just stick to this line "Technology changes, humans don't"... No point putting a bill board in the middle of the desert and no point using bloggers who you know can destroy your brand...So simple yet so bloody hard... Wait till we drill down to ROI after that... haha...</p>
<p>Then we have <a href="http://oldskoolmark.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/plurking/">Plurking</a>!!!! I talked about the differences between Twitter and possible benefits a company can get using it.. Of course, it might ave some disadvantages... You gotta find the right guy to do this... A microblog is an on going conversation... Doesn't carry on from 9-5 only, it's after 5 and weekends too... Slow response can incur the wrath of some consumers and you certainly don;t want that... which brings me back to the point of taking a step back... Why use a microblog? What do you hope to achieve? Can we maintain this?</p>
<p>Lastly... we have introducing Fury friends part 1 and my introduction of Vivian's dog Lucky!!! Yes, i have a soft spot for our fury friends if you haven't realized, but hey, to me they're worth it... Look out for the feline edition soon!</p>
<p>To end of here's the trailer of Marley and Me!!!!!! Like omg!!!!! Wohooo, see you tmr for "JUST FOR FUN TUESDAY!!!"</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/JulBrGFfsZ0'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/JulBrGFfsZ0&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Asia, Chicks and the Future]]></title>
<link>http://oldskoolmark.wordpress.com/?p=72</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>oldskoolmark</dc:creator>
<guid>http://oldskoolmark.ta.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/asia-chicks-and-the-future/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Asia
Has anyone seen the class wiki of Social Media and PR across Asia? It&#8217;s awesome, I used i]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Asia</strong></span></p>
<p>Has anyone seen the class wiki of <a href="http://comm215.wetpaint.com/?t=anon">Social Media and PR across Asia</a>? It's awesome, I used it today to find out some figures on internet and mobile penetration rate in Malaysia, India and Philippines.</p>
<p>As i'm a little lazy to register to comment on Read Write Web, I'm gonna trackback to them to promote our wiki. They've initiated <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/openweb_asia.php">OpenWeb Asia</a>  to try to reach out to Asian Tech. Since one of the major obstacles was language and culture, our wiki gives a good inside into the general media landscape and the social media landscape, which enables you to build bridges with Asia.</p>
<p>There's also customizable ads at target groups and now <a href="http://www.watblog.com/2008/06/04/people-online-launches-ad-network-targeting-asian-community-in-britain/">a network</a> is forming to group up various groups, races, etc online behavioral pattern. Wonder if people at People Online (No pun intended) are interested in our wiki?</p>
<p>So what're you'll waiting for, ppl who wanna connect with Asia. We hear you, we want you to connect, come talk to us. It's a social era after all! Best of all, the wiki is written by Asians and its in ENGLISH! (Trust e, i know how frustrating it is to come across a language you cant read and you know the content you need is in there.)</p>
<p>In addition, if our wiki hasn't covered some stuff you're curious about, take a look at my blog roll to ask some of our marketing and corporate communications experts on the markets here... There, I've helped everyone out with a simple post! Include us in your <a href="http://www.openweb.asia/">RSS Feeds site</a>! Lol...</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Chicks</strong></span></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-73" src="http://oldskoolmark.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/images.jpg?w=92" alt="" width="92" height="144" /></p>
<p>Remember my post on <a href="http://oldskoolmark.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/gender-difference-and-appeal-in-social-networking-sites/">gender differences and social net working sites</a>? Then there was a <a href="http://comm215workingpages.wetpaint.com/thread/1474344/Gender+Differences+in+social+networking">discussion</a> on my class working wiki thread... I still stick by my stand that there is a difference in behavior, and it is important.</p>
<p>Well, here's a movie that really mashed a great integrated channel campaign. From traditional to social, its one hell of a <a href="http://www.livingstonbuzz.com/2008/06/04/sex-the-city-a-marketers-dream/">money churning machine</a>. I feel embarrassed holding the Coke light now (Not a male chauvinist) with Sarah's legs dangling from it... So chicks are different with this movie as an example, check out the facebook apps and advertising targeted at them!</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>The Future</strong></span></p>
<p>Lastly, the future of social media and PR. I never really thought of it.</p>
<p>I guess this has been discussed quite often but everyone's talking has drawn me back to what I've learnt before...... Here're some interesting reads...</p>
<p><a href="http://communicate.os3.sg/?p=178">Michael</a> believes in going back to basics:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color:#800080;"><em>We have started with the technology, and forgotten the very things which make us effective communicators–starting with the desired outcome and then targeting audiences who are able to help us reach our goal. Of course the way we go about this today is by making sure we have something of interest and value to the target audience…but at the end of the day, the purposive nature of our discipline remains unchanged.</em></span></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://simoncollister.typepad.com/simonsays/2008/06/finding-natural.html">Simon</a> think we should be more authentic:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color:#339966;"><em>I</em></span><em><span style="color:#339966;">nstead of focusing our effort on converting people in roles that are traditionally siloed, should we – as PR consultants - instead be tasked with identifying an organisation’s natural communicators and empowering them (or helping their employer empower them) to speak authentically on their employer’s behalf.</span></em></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://nakedpr.com/2008/05/30/is-pr-a-lost-cause/">Jenifer Mattern</a> feels that PR should be self regulatory:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><em>I don’t think we’re at a point where we need industry regulation - and quite frankly, I wouldn’t trust any existing organization to handle it, as I don’t think there’s one that truly understands the broader concept of PR while being able to stay effectively on top of all of the new changes constantly brought on by technology.</em></span></p></blockquote>
<p>How are these 3 connected to the future? The future of social media and PR is that social media is just a medium, a powerful medium but just another medium. I guess at the end of the day if we follow Simon and be <span style="color:#339966;"><strong>authentic</strong></span> in our message, we wouldn't need <strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">regulations</span></strong> because its the truth. With that, we can once again not be caught up with the Social Media Hype. like Michael said, we can take a step back and f<strong><span style="color:#800080;">ocus on truly being the voice of the company</span></strong>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Are men and women different?]]></title>
<link>http://zyxo.wordpress.com/?p=123</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 19:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Image via WikipediaTo me it is pretty clear that men and women are indeed different.  Do not take th]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="zemanta-img" style="display:block;float:right;margin:1em;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Krankenschwester_Haeuslich0.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Krankenschwester_Haeuslich0.jpg/202px-Krankenschwester_Haeuslich0.jpg" alt="Nursing traditionally attracts more women than men" style="border:medium none;display:block;"></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="display:block;margin:1em 0 0;">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Krankenschwester_Haeuslich0.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></span></span>To me it is pretty clear that men and women are indeed different.  Do not take this the wrong way : I say nothing about value.  Different does not mean that one gender is worth more than the other.  Just that there are differences :</p>
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<li>physical differences : this is obvious, since millions of xxx websites earn money based on this difference.  Females are different from males . . . especially every twenty-eight days.  Women are built to give birth to children and feed them, men are on the average stronger to do ... what ?</li>
<li>psychological differences (= behavioral differences).  This is less obvious.  In all the fuss about equality of genders some say that there are no behavioral differences.  Well, although the statistical mean may be very different, I suppose there is a large overlap between man and women in their behavior.  Some women are simply stronger than some man and more fit to do heavy work, whereas some man are more talented in raising children than some women.  So I'd say, let every person do what he or she does best or wants to do.  But still, I am convinced that on the average there really are differences in behaviour between the two genders.<br />
It is said that men come from Mars and women from Venus, meaning that men tend to sit back and think to solve problems, while women have to talk about it.  If you never read <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Are_From_Mars,_Women_Are_From_Venus">the book</a> : do so, it explains a lot about marriage problems and how to handle your partner to come to a better understanding.
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<li>brain differences : New neuro-scanning techniques have shown that men and women actually use different parts of the brain when we process information and think about things (<a href="http://searchengineland.com/080321-071957.php">the article</a>)</li>
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But the one single most important difference I want to write about in my posts is the <strong>difference in procreative strategy</strong>.  On the internet it is hard to find any information whatsoever on this topic.  The only I found is the <a href="https://www.mega.nu/gender.html">post of Daniel Pouzzner</a> which gives a lot of information on the gender difference.  However the difference I mean is not as such in his text.<br />
Here it is : Given the fact that a women can have at most about 30 (thirty) children in her lifetime, a man can do a lot better.  Mathematically a healty man, starting at his fifteenth birthday can easily fertilize a few women every week.  If he keeps this up till he's 65 years old, he could have 52 weeks times 50 years times 2 women = 5200 children.  If we compare this to the 30 children of a woman it is logical that men's reproductive strategy can be very different from women's.<br />
The result of these different reproductive strategies is : different behaviour, and consequently : problems in marriages.<br />
In subsequent posts I plan to discuss some of these topics.<fieldset><legend>Related articles</legend>
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<link>http://thecalculus.wordpress.com/?p=59</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Chico</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[What is it about feminists, activists, Marxists, and the whole lot of them? The people argue with an]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is it about feminists, activists, Marxists, and the whole lot of them? The people argue with an indignant puss-on. These ideas have merit but boil them down and you'll find nothing more than anger mixed in with an ideology.</p>
<p>What's annoying is this camp of 'open-minded progressives' is that they look for the exploitation, oppression, or victimization, <em>everywhere</em>. Sometimes they reach for it. The expression, "<a href="http://womenshistory.about.com/od/mythsofwomenshistory/a/rule_of_thumb.htm">rule of thumb</a>" as commonly used in society is meant as a general guideline for whatever context. But the myth is rooted in a story of beating a spouse no bigger than a male's thumb. Of course feminists in the 1960s ran with it and pointed to society, crying the sexist elements of oppression and exploitation. So anytime you use it, you're sexist or ignorant pig? Even in casual conversation, those types of phrases makes you a bad person?</p>
<p>Or this retard position: a woman can't go out and have sex like a guy. She's a slut if she does and a guy is King Kong. It's like that <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/06-6330.ZS.html">crack versus cocaine sentencing debate</a> people try to pull. Oh the BS!  It's all unhealthy! Guy or girl, fooling around with an unapologetic tempo gets you a doctor's appointment.</p>
<p>Besides sociological research suggests <a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-58459537.html">it's women who perpetuate the double standard</a>. Guys may initiate it or take note of it, but don't care after five minutes.  Honestly do you really think Joey looks at your mini skirt says, "what a slut."? Please. You just got Joey's attention, if anything.</p>
<p>When it comes to rape, a lot people are afraid to challenge these groups because of the sensitivity of the issue. I understand. Rape victims are <strong>not </strong>responsible to what happened to them. And to blame the victim is not anyway helpful or insightful to preventing/treating rape.</p>
<p>But what they want to bring up is the point males get rapped too. I remember learning in it Social Deviance class in college about it, and the class made it out that both women and men are at risk, but rather equal risk. But do the real world math. For the majority of rape cases, the victims are women.</p>
<p>It's like saying Jermone "the Bus" Bettis, 6-foot, 255 pound man and one of the Olsen twins have no difference in risk. 'All the same and can't judge' stupid nonsense they try pull. Just do the math and go with the odds. The overwhelming majority of reported rape cases, like date rape, are women being victimized by males, particularly in the context of alcohol. I am not saying all cases, but oh just around 95.99% of the them.</p>
<p>When you get into these arguments or debates, everybody gives them a pass. "Oh she's passionate, or he's fighting for a noble cause." Please. Scratch the surface and find out that they are just angry. I mean, angry at their parents. Some abuse or neglect went on, or brutalization at the hand of an ex-boyfriend, coupled with some intelligence and you get a mad protesting feminist. We can't say she's crazy or nutty because she uses feminism as academic paradigm and thats somehow legit. Because she gets a pass, she can be angry all she wants because that's perceived as passionate.</p>
<p>It's the same pass we give over-zealous religious people when they argue about nonsense like Plan B or morning-after pill, which works exactly like the Pill, is an abortion (but actually its one of the major factors of reducing abortions in this country). They connivence sane people of their retarded arguments, which in turn, makes you look like an asshole for not sympathizing. "Well he's a deeply religious man. That's his beliefs. We can't judge."</p>
<p>Oh yeah? <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Jed">Brother Jed</a> on speaker circle, same sanity as Dali Lama? The guy screams at you for wearing shorts on a hot day and says you are going to hell for enticing lust in men. Dali Lama wrote a book on happiness. Still the same huh?</p>
<p>I'll get to you Hippies and Marxists soon enough....</p>
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<link>http://interweave.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/warriors-and-lovers/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Don Sizemore, LCSW</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Men and women are different.  Anyone who has been in a heterogeneous relationship knows this.  In fa]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Men and women are different.  Anyone who has been in a heterogeneous relationship knows this.  In fact, the word heterogeneous means exactly this; "consisting of parts or aspects that are unrelated or unlike each other."  No wonder marriage can be so difficult!  The way a man and woman argue is one specific way that we are different.  Dr. John Gottman, a marital researcher has documented the different physiological reactions of men and women during an argument.  Because our marriage, and any other significant relationships where there is an emotional bond or attachment, is critically important to our well being our stress response is triggered when the relationship is threatened.  And men and women respond to this threat in radically different ways.</p>
<p>Dr. Gottman found that most men, in the midst of an argument where they are feeling pursued and attacked, or cornered, react as though their wife is a real physical threat.  We men tend to gear up to physically defend ourselves like we would if we had to battle a lion or a warrior.  Due to higher levels of testosterone, men's physiological arousal is one of heightened vigilance, increased heart rate and blood pressure.  We are physically ready for war.  Not exactly conducive for resolving an emotional conflict; we are not looking for a hug and an "I'm sorry honey, I really didn't mean that"!  At the moment, and for a significant period of time thereafter, men are not physically able to respond in an emotionally connective way.</p>
<p>Amazingly, our heterogeneous other is able to do that.  Women have higher levels of the hormone oxytocin, the bonding hormone.  When experiencing similar relational stress, women are more inclined to socialize and nurture, not fight.  Their natural tendency is to want to connect and give care so they pursue and persist.  In the midst of an emotional conflict woman are wired with a greater ability to calm themselves.  Men, on the other hand, take longer to settle down and usually need separation and space to do that.</p>
<p>If your spouse, most likely your husband, responds to emotional stress like a lion is about to devour him, then give him time and space to settle down.  There is a critical condition to allowing this disengagement; there must be agreement to return and engage at a later time.   Many couples will simply remove themselves and ignore what went on because experience tells them the same cycle will repeat.  This is disastrous for the long term health of your relationship and you must develop the skills and resources to comfort and connect in the midst of conflict.  Appreciating the different ways men and women are created can make a huge difference in accomplishing that.</p>
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Woman attempts to get pregnant by inmate sperm by smuggling seaman and &#8220;artificially insemina]]></description>
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<span style="font-weight:bold;">Woman attempts to get pregnant by inmate sperm by smuggling seaman and "artificially inseminating" using a baby eyedropper .<span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;"> <a href="http://www.lovelinearchive.com/2003#october"><br />
</a></span></span></span><span><a href="http://www.lovelinearchive.com/2003#october">Loveline. 10.07.2003 Ben Stein as guest</a>. Adam Coralla and Dr. Drew, co-hosts to the national radio talk show, speaks to Lisa. Lisa, age 30 inquiries about when she can conceive. She wants a child with her current husband, whom is a convicted felon.</span></p>
<p>Her husband, incarcerated for bank robbing and grand theft auto, at the time of episode, is serving 15 years to life in prison. Dr. Drew infers, "that's a speed [amphetamine]<span> move," suggesting the association between amphetamine drug abuse and violent, aggressive, and deviant behavior.</span></p>
<p>Lisa a speed-addict, mother of two children, 7 and 9, admits her two children are not of her current husband's. Instead the father of both children, died. When asked how did he died, Dr. Drew suggests heroin. To her disbelief, Lisa,  goes on to confirm, "he died of a staph infection from his IV use." Dr. Drew's responds to her disbelief, "Humans are highly predictable. And it's predictable what you are going to do with this third child."</p>
<div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Smuggle </span></div>
<p><span>Lisa illustrates her attempt to conceive:<br />
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<div style="text-align:left;"><span></p>
<blockquote><p>He prepared it [sperm] before our visit. He put it in finger glove, tied it up, and placed it in his mouth. He kissed me upon visiting, switching it to mine. Afterwards I went to the bathroom, inserting the seamen using a baby eyedropper.</p></blockquote>
<p>Under current U.S. law and society, Lisa can reproduce.</p>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><span><span style="font-weight:bold;">Stupid People </span></span></p>
<div style="text-align:left;"><span>Adam Carolla rants and raves screwup people raising screw up kids. He goes on to say:</span></p>
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<blockquote><p>Listen! Stupid people have to listen to smart people. Right now, a raccoon is smarter compared to you. You already screw up these kids, why go for a third?</p></blockquote>
<p>Dr. Drew advises she go to treatment for her addiction and chaotic behavior.</p>
<p>Lisa reports that she is currently in rehab, not using for 60 days upon her call to Loveline.</p>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Judging People</span></div>
<p><span><br />
In terms of evaluating how you're doing in the evolution scale, this would be close to a Darwin Award.  But we can't judge. Lisa and everybody with functional reproductive organs has a right to screwup a kid. I say feel free to allow yourself to judge stupid people. Go ahead, label and say this is stupidity. When the relatively sane population is only having 1 or 2 kids around their thirties, and idiots of the world are having more than 4 at a young age, you have babies having babies. Kids raising kids. Ever seen Idiotcracy? That's will be the apocalyptic dud: Lisa.</span></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Playing Video Games Reduces Sex Differences In Spatial Skills]]></title>
<link>http://huehueteotl.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/playing-video-games-reduces-sex-differences-in-spatial-skills/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>University of Toronto researchers have discovered that differences between men and women on some tasks that require spatial skills are largely eliminated after both groups play a video game for only a few hours.</p>
<p>The research, to be published in the October issue of Psychological Science, suggests that a new approach involving action video games can be used to improve spatial skills that are essential for everyday activities such as reading a map, driving a car, assembling a barbeque or learning advanced math.</p>
<p>"Our first experiment discovered a previously unknown sex difference in spatial attention,” said Jing Feng, a psychology doctoral student and lead author of the study. “On average, women are not quite as good at rapidly switching attention among different objects and this may be one reason why women do not do as well on spatial tasks. But more important than finding that difference, our second experiment showed that both men and women can improve their spatial skills by playing a video game and that the women catch up to the men,” Feng added. “Moreover, the improved performance of both sexes was maintained when we assessed them again after five months.”</p>
<p>Professor Ian Spence, director of the engineering psychology laboratory in the Department of Psychology, speculates that the action video game experience “may cause the expression of previously inactive genes which control the development of neural connections that are necessary for spatial attention. Clearly, something dramatic is happening in the brain when we see marked improvements in spatial skills after only 10 hours of game playing and these improvements are maintained for many months.”</p>
<p>“One important application of this research could be in helping to attract more women to the mathematical sciences and engineering. Since spatial skills play an important role in these professions, bringing the spatial skills of young women up to the level of their male counterparts could help to change the gender balance in these fields that are so important to our economic health,” Spence added.</p>
<p><em>Psychol Sci. 2007 Oct;18(10):850-5.   </em></p>
<p><em><strong>Playing an action video game reduces gender differences in spatial cognition.</strong></em></p>
<p><em>Feng J, Spence I, Pratt J.</em></p>
<p><em>    University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.</em></p>
<p><em>    We demonstrate a previously unknown gender difference in the distribution of spatial attention, a basic capacity that supports higher-level spatial cognition. More remarkably, we found that playing an action video game can virtually eliminate this gender difference in spatial attention and simultaneously decrease the gender disparity in mental rotation ability, a higher-level process in spatial cognition. After only 10 hr of training with an action video game, subjects realized substantial gains in both spatial attention and mental rotation, with women benefiting more than men. Control subjects who played a non-action game showed no improvement. Given that superior spatial skills are important in the mathematical and engineering sciences, these findings have practical implications for attracting men and women to these fields.<br />
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>பிரேமலதா</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I have to say that this society is so male oppressive. It is so biased against the men of the specie]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote>I have to say that this society is so male oppressive. It is so biased against the men of the species that somebody ought to do something about it. A woman can stay at home, not work and she is called 'adjusting' and sacrificing. If a man wants to stay at home, he is irresponsible, effeminate, <em>'dhanda soru'</em>, and in general - a madman. Why the discrimination, I ask?</p></blockquote>
<p>and more:</p>
<blockquote><p><a target="_blank" href="http://hawkeyeview.blogspot.com/2007/09/dear-office-going-people.html">Since the beginning of time, men have been sent to gather food, build tribes, conquer tribes, fight wars, build machines, create philosophy, spread religion, kill animals, and now what - go to work. While women have been sitting at home cooking food and having sex.</a></p></blockquote>
<p>LOL.</p>
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<link>http://kathambamaalai.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/wifey-look/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>The Visitor</dc:creator>
<guid>http://kathambamaalai.ta.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/wifey-look/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[சுந்தரை கட்டுப்படுத்த இந்த லுக்கு போ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>சுந்தரை கட்டுப்படுத்த இந்த லுக்கு போதும். </p>
<blockquote><p>... <a href="http://sundar72.blogspot.com/2007/07/look.html" target="_blank">get "The Look!", from the wifey of course</a>...</p></blockquote>
<p>உங்க வீட்ல எப்படி?</p>
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<link>http://kathambamaalai.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/his-hers/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>The Visitor</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus னு ஒருத்தர் ஒரு புத்த]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus னு ஒருத்தர் ஒரு புத்தகம் எழுதினார். அது உண்மையோ இல்லையோ தெரியல, ஆனா அந்த ரெண்டு பிரிவுக்கும் ஏகப்பட்ட வித்தியாசங்கள், பேச்சில, பழக்கவழக்கங்கள் ல, எல்லாத்திலயும்... </p>
<p>இத ஊர்ஜிதப்படுத்தற மாதிரி வலையுலகத்தில பல பதிவுகள் படிச்சேன்...</p>
<p>பிரியா சொல்றாங்க - <a href="http://priyatamil.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/boys-and-girls/" target="_blank">பசங்களும் பொண்ணுங்களும்</a></p>
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பசங்க பார்த்தா Sight</p>
<p>பொண்னுங்க பார்த்தா Just Looking<br />
...</p></blockquote>
<p>மிக்கி சிங் (Mickysingh) - <a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/messageboard/view_message.php?thread_id=1823304&#38;pgno=1" target="_blank">Words Women Use</a></p>
<blockquote><p>"Fine"<br />
This is the word women use to end an arguementwhen they are right and you need to shut up.</p></blockquote>
<p>அதுக்கு day_trader பதில் கொடுத்திருக்கிறார்... </p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/messageboardblog/22/36/message_thread/1823304/1996196#m1996196" target="_blank">Finally , the guys' side of the story.<br />
(I must admit, it's pretty good.)<br />
We always hear 'the rules' From the female side.</a><br />
...<br />
 1. Men are NOT mind readers.</p>
<p>1. Shopping is NOT a sport.<br />
And no, we are never going to think of it that way.<br />
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<link>http://kathambamaalai.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/on-becoming-a-child/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>The Visitor</dc:creator>
<guid>http://kathambamaalai.ta.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/on-becoming-a-child/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8230;அப்படி ன்னு நாமா எல்லோரும் நினைக்]]></description>
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'வேண்டாமடா சாமி'! னு அலறுகிறார்.  Read <a href="http://whyiamabrownie.blogspot.com/2007/06/on-becoming-child.html" target="_blank">On Becoming A Child</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>But I digress. This post is on the rigours of becoming a child.</p>
<p>When I was born to this world, my parents were remarkably unexcited. I draw this painful conclusion from the fact that they did not even bother to come up with a name for me and when they finally did, they chose what will one day undoubtedly qualify as a common noun since every second person I met in school was my namesake. </p></blockquote>
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<link>http://thecalculus.wordpress.com/2007/05/20/are-guys-idiots-girls-are-crazy/</link>
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<dc:creator>Chico</dc:creator>
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Or is there more to that statement? The hyperlink above]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://gaigac.blogspot.com/">Guys Are Idiots &#38; Girls Are Crazy...</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia;">Or is there more to that statement? The hyperlink above is a fellow respectful author who brings up an interesting claim.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia;">As many college graduates come to realize, the real world has</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> one obvious gift and/or curse: a lot free time.  In between working or trying to find work, the day is filled with many boring, disengaging, and unsatisfying tasks. To stay relatively steady and zen, writing medicates the nulling pain of boredom. It provides a way to talk about what's pressing on the mind. And like so many of males, we think about girls, se</span><span style="font-family:georgia;">x, and trying obtain both at the same time. For those who are successful in accomplishing said goals, we, then have a opinion on it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia;">To add to my colleague's blog, guys are not necessarily just idiots nor are girls </span><span style="font-family:georgia;">entirely crazy--yet you guys are everywhere. Typically, guys ten</span><span style="font-family:georgia;">d</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> to be more lame and simple--easy to figure out--then just idiots. And girls tend to be more complex, and are dif</span><span style="font-family:georgia;">ferent from one to another.  Put it this way: guys are like a simple hand cranks; not hard to work out. </span><span style="font-family:georgia;">Whereas women are complex machines like a Porsches, Ferraris, or Lamborghinis--you have to warm them up just right, drive them like their made for, shift the gears the right way, and be maintain properly--a lot things are going here.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia;">Our genes, XX and XY chromosomes, may provide insight to gender differences and to the hand cranks and sport cars analogy. The female chromosome, XX, has so much more genetic material packed into it's structure than that of the male, XY.  Put it more simply: the four legs that make up the 'X' in the female's genes, only makes up three in a male, the 'Y'. The extra leg contains extra genetic material a female's biology uses to experience the world. This may suggest a reason for why groups of women can experience things much more diversel</span><span style="font-family:georgia;">y and differently from one another. Males tend to experience things very similarly and uniformly. For example, my old history teacher noted</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> that he his travels across the world, two things he always talked about to any guy were a) women, and b) sports--shocking isn't it?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia;">One example to illustrate the relationship between genes and experiences in gender is the orgasm.  All men are built to ejaculate to orgasm during sexual activities with a partner. Dr. Drew Pinsky, M.D. explains on his radio talk show that 50% to 60% of women experience an orgasm through oral sex, 30% to 35% experience through intercourse, and 15% to 20% never experience an orgasm. It gets even more complex with the women who experience the orgasm during intercourse. Within that 30% to 35%, many women may experienced sequential orgasm: one orgasm, then retraction (waiting) period, then orgasm and so on.  And many may experience the phenomenon known as multi-orgasms; where her orgasms are in quick 15 to 30 second spurts and don't stop till exhaustion. Females who tend not enjoy the oral sex because of sensitivity tend to experience orgasm through intercourse and maybe multi-orgasmic. Being so diverse and different, what works with one woman may not work with the next, hence the importance of communication with your partners. Furthermore, the diversity of the female's biology and her orgasm challenges the notion many women magazines write about, 'a woman's 101 ways to feel the big 'O' or how to achieve satisfaction with these five tips...'  It's more to do with finding out her biology than some magazine's methods  or special oral sex  technique.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia;">In closing men's genetic </span><span style="font-family:georgia;">makeup may suggests their simplicity via smaller amount of genetic material to experience the world visa vie Y chromosome; whereas women's biology may lend itself to their diversity and varying reports on how they feel about an experience like an orgasm. Many may cite and agree how stupid guys are or how crazy girls are in terms of their relationships. Men as idiots maybe due to their dominate preoccupation with getting l</span><span style="font-family:georgia;">aid and consistently overriding reason and logic in the pursuit of said, 'getting laid.' </span><span style="font-family:georgia;">While women as crazy maybe due to a complex relationship between father-daughter relationship during childhood/early adolescence, repeated interpersonal trauma in family system, and then reenactment of trauma through bad boyfriends. Indeed a lot of time on my hands.</span><br />
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<link>http://premalathakombaitamil.wordpress.com/2007/05/10/born-women/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 16:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>பிரேமலதா</dc:creator>
<guid>http://premalathakombaitamil.ta.wordpress.com/2007/05/10/born-women/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[எனக்கு சமைப்பது ரெம்பப் பிடிக்கும். ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="left">எனக்கு சமைப்பது ரெம்பப் பிடிக்கும். நாக்குக்கு ருசியா சாப்பிடுவது அதவிடப் பிடிக்கும். நன்றாக சமைப்பேனும் கூட. (நம்பாதவர்களைப் பற்றி எனக்கு கவலையில்லை).. வீட்டை ஒழுங்காக வைத்திருப்பது எனக்கு ரெம்ப பிடித்த ஒன்று. எனக்கு சுலபமாய் வரும் இந்த வேலை பாலனுக்கு சரியா வராது. ஒரே நாள் சமையல் கட்டுல விட்டாப் போதும் கேவலமாயிருக்கும் முழு இடமும்.  சமையலும் அதேபோல சில ஐயிட்டங்கள் செய்யவருமே தவிர என்னளவுக்கு ஆர்வமிருக்காது பாலனுக்கு. </p>
<p align="left">கோம்பைல இருந்தவரைக்கும் நான் செய்வதையெல்லாம் செய்து "தன்னாலும்" செய்யமுடியும் என்று என்கூட போட்டி போடுவதே என் தம்பிக்கு வேலை. மசால் அரைப்பான், அம்மியில். கொஞ்ச நேரத்திலேயே கடுப்பாயிடுவான். நான் எங்க வீட்டு ரோஜாச்செடிகளை cross செய்து ஒரே செடியில் பலகலர்-னு கலக்கிக்கிட்டு இருப்பேன். அவனும் செய்து பார்த்தான், வரவில்லை அவனுக்கு. அவனைமாதிரியே சைக்கிள் ஓட்ட எடுத்த என்னோட முயற்சி தோல்வியைத் தழுவியதையும் சொல்லவேண்டும் இங்கே. கோலிகுண்டு அடிக்க எனக்கு அவ்வளவா வராது. அடிப்பேன், ஆனா ஜெயிக்கமாட்டேன். அவன்தான் ஜெயிப்பான்.  பிள்ளாக்குட்டி, கோலிக்குண்டெல்லாம் ஒரு வரட்டுப் பிடிவாதத்துக்கு விளையாடியதே தவிர ராக்கடிப்பூவில் ராக்கடிசெய்து தலையில் வைத்துக்கொள்ளும்போது வந்த சந்தோசம், ரெண்டு கோலிக்குண்டை உடைத்ததிலோ, பிள்ளாக்குட்டியைத்தூக்கிப்போட்டு அடித்ததிலோ வந்ததில்லை.</p>
<p align="left"><a target="_blank" href="http://hiphopgmom.blogspot.com/2007/05/are-we-born-women.html">பெண்கள் பிறக்கிறார்களா உருவாகிறார்களா-ன்னு கேட்கிறாங்க ஹிப் பாட்டி.</a></p>
<p align="left">இன்னைக்கு இருக்கிற சமுதாயச் சூழ்நிலை இதற்கு ஒரு குழப்பமான பதிலையே தரும். ஆனால் என்னோட அனுபவத்தில், பெண்கள் பிறக்கிறார்கள். </p>
<p align="left">ஒரு கொசுறு: நேற்றுத்தான் 120மைல் காரோட்டிட்டு வந்தேன்.  அப்படியொரு தலைவலி. காரோட்டுவது தேவையென்றாலொழிய விரும்பி செய்யமாட்டேன்.  </p>
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<title><![CDATA[(Wo)man-write - latest]]></title>
<link>http://kathambamaalai.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/woman-write-latest/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>The Visitor</dc:creator>
<guid>http://kathambamaalai.ta.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/woman-write-latest/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ஆண் எழுதுறதுக்கும் பெண் எழுதுறதுக்க]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://kathambamaalai.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/man-write/" target="_blank">ஆண் எழுதுறதுக்கும் பெண் எழுதுறதுக்கும் எழுத்தை மட்டும் வைச்சு வித்தியாசம் கண்டுபிடிக்க முடியுமா என்ன?</a> ன்னு கேட்டிருந்தோம்.</p>
<p>முடியுமாமே! சொல்றார் The Kid.</p>
<blockquote><p> <a href="http://de-ja-vu.blogspot.com/2007/04/man-write-part-iii.html" target="_blank">It boils down to an algorithm!The gender genie! This was just a classification problem, and they trained using hundreds of documents to make a correlation. </a></p></blockquote>
<p>நீங்க உங்க எழுத்தை வச்சு ட்ரை பண்ணுங்களேன்? Why dont you try with your writing? - <a href="http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php" target="_blank">The Gender Genie</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[சுக்குமி ளகுதி ப்பிலி]]></title>
<link>http://kathambamaalai.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/punctuation/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>பிரேமலதா</dc:creator>
<guid>http://kathambamaalai.ta.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/punctuation/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[கமா போடறதுக்கு &#8220;சுக்குமி ளகுதி ப்ப]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>கமா போடறதுக்கு "சுக்குமி ளகுதி ப்பிலி" தான் எனக்கெல்லாம் சொல்லிக்கொடுக்கப்பட்டது. அதனாலதான் இன்னுமுமே கமா புள்ளி சரியா வர்றதில்ல எனக்கு.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://pkjadayu.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/04/woman-without-her-man-is-nothing.htm">இங்க பாருங்க, கலக்கிட்டாங்க. அதோட "A woman: without her, man is nothing" கரெக்ட்டாயிருக்கு. "A woman, without her man, is nothing"ல எத்தனை தப்பு பாருங்க!</a>  ;-)</p>
<p>பரிந்துரை: அனான்</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Man-write]]></title>
<link>http://kathambamaalai.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/man-write/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>பிரேமலதா</dc:creator>
<guid>http://kathambamaalai.ta.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/man-write/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ஆண் எழுதுறதுக்கும் பெண் எழுதுறதுக்க]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ஆண் எழுதுறதுக்கும் பெண் எழுதுறதுக்கும் எழுத்தை மட்டும் வைச்சு வித்தியாசம் கண்டுபிடிக்க முடியுமா என்ன? <a target="_blank" href="http://de-ja-vu.blogspot.com/2007/03/man-write.html">the girl-ம்</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://de-ja-vu.blogspot.com/2007/03/man-write-part-ii.html">the kid-ம்</a> என்னமா அடிச்சுக்கிறாங்கன்னு பாருங்க. <a target="_blank" href="http://de-ja-vu.blogspot.com/2007/03/man-write-part-ii.html">kidஓட பதிவுல</a> puke, kicking butt, blowing nose, supreior intelligence, rocket science, ஆஹா ஆஹா, என்னல்லாம் வார்த்தை போட்டு எழுதறாரு பாருங்க  :-) . பொண்ணுங்கள்லாம் grammar கரெக்டா எழுதுவாங்கன்னு <a target="_blank" href="http://de-ja-vu.blogspot.com/2007/03/man-write.html">the girl</a> சொல்றாங்க. அப்படியா?  :-) என்னோட பதிவுகளைப் படிச்சதில்லைல, அதான்.  </p>
<p>ஆனா <a target="_blank" href="http://the-visitor.blogspot.com/">விசிட்டர்</a> பாருங்க <a target="_blank" href="http://the-visitor.blogspot.com/2007/03/hmm.html">ஒரு சுவராசியமான caste studyய</a> நம்ம பார்வைக்கு கொண்டுவரார். <a target="_blank" href="http://lettersforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/my-dear-1.html">இந்த கடிதம் எழுதினது யார் ஆணா இல்ல பெண்ணா?</a></p>
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