{Do you see what I see?}
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January
26
2012
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January
25
2012
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"But the negative and distorted image of women deeply affects not only how men feel about women, but how men feel about everything that gets labeled ‘feminine’ in themselves. So what it’s expressing is not only contempt for women, but contempt for all things considered feminine. And human qualities, qualities that we all share, that we all need, that we all have the potential to develop, get polarized and labeled ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’. And then the ‘feminine’ is consistently devalued, which causes women to devalue ourselves and each other. And it causes men to devalue not only women, but also all those qualities that get labeled ‘feminine’ by the culture. And by that, I mean qualities like compassion, cooperation, empathy, intuition, sensitivity. We may give lip service to these qualities, but they have very low priority in our society. And men are still very rigidly socialized to repress these human qualities in themselves, at enormous cost to all of us."
- Jean Kilbourne, Killing Us Softly -
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Killing Us Softly 4 (2010) - 1/2 (by Rain9959)
January
23
2012
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"Psychologists from Washington University used brain scans to see what happens inside our heads when we read stories. They found that “readers mentally simulate each new situation encountered in a narrative”. The brain weaves these situations together with experiences from its own life to create a new mental synthesis. Reading a book leaves us with new neural pathways. The discovery that our brains are physically changed by the experience of reading is something many of us will understand instinctively, as we think back to the way an extraordinary book had a transformative effect on the way we viewed the world. This transformation only takes place when we lose ourselves in a book, abandoning the emotional and mental chatter of the real world. That’s why studies have found this kind of deep reading makes us more empathetic, or as Nicholas Carr puts it in his essay, The Dreams of Readers, “more alert to the inner lives of others”.
The research shows that if we stop reading, we will be different people: less intricate, less empathetic, less interesting. There can hardly be a better reason for fighting to protect the future of the book." -
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"Why are some languages quite regular and others not? The historical linguist Robert Hertzron, suggested that in the process of language acquisition, children tend spontaneously to over-regularize. They apply any rule they have acquired to all possible instances (in English, for instance, they may over-generalize the ordinary rule for past tense and say “he goed” instead of “he went”). In societies where adults correct children, these mistaken regularization are suppressed and irregularities are maintained; in societies where adults leave children alone in this respect, irregularities are less stable, and the language tends to be more regular. Gary Marcus et al. in their monograph on “Overregularization in language acquisition” (1992) quote Jill de Villiers half-joking: “Leave children alone and they’d tidy up the English language.” The view that children are the main source of language regularization is an old one. According to Max Müller, for instance, “It is likely… that the gradual disappearance of irregular declensions and conjugations is due, in literary as well as in illiterate language, to the dialect of children. The language of children is more regular than our own” [Müller 1890: 75]."
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"Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them."
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"We must trust people. Otherwise life is impossible."
- Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya(Source: beautysaflower, via russkayaliteratura)
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January
21
2012
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"Fancies find rooms in the strongest minds."
- The Mayor of Casterbridge -
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"There is an outer chamber of the brain in which thoughts unowned, unsolicited, and of noxious kind, are sometimes allowed to wander for a moment prior to being sent off whence they came."
- The Mayor of Casterbridge -
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"Her bygone simplicity was the art that conceals art."
- The Mayor of Casterbridge -
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"When she walked abroad she seemed to be occupied with an inner chamber of ideas, and to have slight need for visible objects."
- The Mayor of Casterbridge -
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"As you grow older you realize that there are bad lines in King Lear and it has survived."
- robert gottlieb (via quellequaintrelle)
