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...barriers, it implicitly circumscribes her achievement within the confines of gender. She is important as a woman before she is important as an individual. The idea of a “role” is strange in that way—it literally means representing something else beyond oneself. And so appropriating actions by individuals as exemplars of some broader change in women’s roles can take away from the personal agency and uniqueness of those women.When I graduate tomorrow, I’d like to be seen as a friend, a journalist, a leader...
...respect them for who they are but give them the tools they need for successful lives." Sometimes literally: Osgood tosses a boy a Koosh ball when he asks for something to fiddle with in his hand. Knowing to ask, she says, is part of learning to regulate oneself...
...judging for oneself is not allowed. Or, rather, if one judges and judges wrongly, well, you will be judged, too. Commentators at the Huffington Post were intuiting of one critic, who dared describe Colbert as "shrill and airless","If you don't like what Colbert had to say then you are a radical right winger... You're a killer in a SUV with blinders on with your foot plastered to the floor... You believe in torture, war, and murder of innocent lives." The critic in question happens to be my Nader-supporting, antiwar, vegetarian husband. But perhaps I'll think...
...Internet courses for university credit provokes a question fundamental to the existence of formal education in the contemporary world: Why do we need formal education at all in a society in which technologies such as the printing press the, Internet, and cable television theoretically enable one to educate oneself? Although one can, of course, learn much through self-education, the process of learning alone in one’s living room or at the reading room of the local public library is fundamentally different from that which one undertakes through formal study at an institution of higher learning. This fundamental...
...guest of honor is really after only one thing. "I feel famous. I love it," says one. Another: "I definitely felt like I was famous." Yet one more: "I felt like such a star." The teenagers take on all the tics of fame, from tiny dogs to referring to oneself in the third person. We are all Paris Hilton...