Showing posts with label sexism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sexism. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Teaser Tuesday - 1 Dec



Teaser Tuesday

The rules are:
  • Grab your current read.
  • Let the book fall open to a random page.
  • Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
  • You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!
As far as Mrs Munde could see, her daughter had no ambition and no faith. It had never occurred to her that Gloria had chosen to be nothing in order to avoid being her mother's something. Only by remaining in a vacuum-sealed diving bell could Gloria hope to avoid the storm at sea that was Mrs Munde.
Jeanette Winterson having far too much fun with the story of Noah and Genesis in 'boating for beginners' (a re-read here but I've not read it for quite a few years).
The woffle on the back says: 'If you find Monty Python The Life of Brain amusing, then this is your comic book of revelations' But go and read the link I've provided to what JW says about it on her website.
Yes I know it is three sentences, do you think I could miss out sentence three?

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Sexism and apologies

Back here I promised a link to the Hidden in plain view post on a culture of sexism in FLOSS (Free-Libre Open Source Software) - so there it is, and here's Matt Zimmermann on the same subject with lots of comments! While you're there go and read his post on proper apologies vs the "I'm sorry if" "I'm sorry but" and "I'm sorry that you" evasions beloved of all of us at one time or the other.