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crying shame
Angry Women In The Workplace Seen As "Less Competent" Than Men
Yale psychologist Victoria Brescoll has confirmed what has long been the suspicion of many women: you cannot afford to get angry at the office if you own a vagina. According to science news site EurekAlert, Brescoll's study, published in the March issue of Psychological Science, showed that "People accept and even reward men who get angry but view women who lose their temper as less competent." The study involved showing subjects videos of male and female actors applying for a job; aterwards, the viewers were asked to rate the "applicants" on how competent they were, how much salary they deserved, and if they should be hired or not. "Both men and women in the reached the same conclusions," notes EurekAlert, "Angry men deserved more status, a higher salary, and were expected to be better at the job than angry women," regardless of the level of job for which the fake applicants were applying. More »
daily (hate) mail
Do You Cry Because You're Angry, Or Because You're Sad?
Guess what? Today there was a Daily Mail article we didn't entirely disagree with! The article in question uses Hillary's most recent cry as a jumping off point to discuss the difference between male and female tears. The writer, Carol Sarler, implies that women cry for a number of nuanced reasons, while men mostly weep due to the "basics": "bereavement, heartbreak and Arsenal losing at home." Obviously this is an enormous generalization, but we did a small sampling of Jezebels and Jezeboys, and we found Sarler to be fairly spot on with her assessment! Where she goes off the rails into Daily (Hate) Mail territory is when she says that often women cry in order to manipulate: the oldest derogatory stereotype in the book. Anyway, after the jump, we offer up some of the reasons we weep. The results may surprise you. More »
Democratic Tear Ducts
Campaigning in Connecticut this morning, Hillary Clinton cried, and apparently, this time there were actual tears! What, she couldn't cry when she won New Hampshire, Nevada or Florida? She only does it right before big primaries when her biggest opponent is gaining in the polls? Way to lend credence to the charges that the first big choke was all premeditated (though, at least this time Chris Matthews, etc. will know better than to breathe a word about it). [Chicago Tribune]
Campaigning in Connecticut this morning, Hillary Clinton cried, and apparently, this time there were actual tears! What, she couldn't cry when she won New Hampshire, Nevada or Florida? She only does it right before big primaries when her biggest opponent is gaining in the polls? Way to lend credence to the charges that the first big choke was all premeditated (though, at least this time Chris Matthews, etc. will know better than to breathe a word about it). [Chicago Tribune]
NY Times Op-Ed contributor Judith Warner in today's "Domestic Disturbances" column: "I don't for a moment begrudge Hillary her victory on Tuesday. But if victory came for the reasons we've been led to believe - because women voters ultimately saw in her, exhausted and near defeat, a countenance that mirrored their own - then I hate what that victory says about the state of their lives and the nature of the emotions they carry forward into this race. I hate the thought that women feel beaten down, backed into a corner, overwhelmed and near to breaking point, as Hillary appeared to be in the debate Saturday night. And I hate even more that they've got to see a strong, smart and savvy woman cut down to size before they can embrace her as one of their own." [NY Times]
critical lass
Hillary Clinton's Crying Still Hot Topic Among Hot-Under-The Collar Critics
Hillary Clinton's now infamous "cry" happened a full three days ago, and yet media pundits, particularly the female ones, are still chiming in. First up is Germaine Greer in the Guardian. The Australian rabblerouser/feminist, (seen at left), doesn't think Hillary's "tears" were genuine at all and goes on to say that "watching Hillary Clinton pretending to get teary-eyed is enough to make me give up shedding tears altogether. The currency, you might say, has become devalued." She takes a U-turn from there and goes off in a semi-coherent rant in which she basically says that no one should cry, ever. "Crying can be unpardonable self-indulgence," Greer writes. "An adult should not cry in front of children, because the sight and sound fill them with dread." [Uh, I'd say it's the other way around! -Ed.] More »
crappy hour
Moe: "It's Not Crying If There's No SNOT." Megan: "No, I Cried Without Snot At American Pie!"
Really? That was supposed to constitute crying? A few imperceptible sniffles and suddenly John "If your son was dead maybe you'd feel okay getting $400 haircuts too" Edwards is all "time for some masculine steely resolve"? Yeah, I don't think so. Here's the thing about crying: it's the purest — and vulgarest and most abusable — physical manifestation of and/or appeal to one's "empathy gene." Hillary chokes up and says she has so many ideas about how to run the country, and it reminds us of the time we moved out of the first apartment we shared with a livein and thought OMG we had so many ideas about how we were going to, like, paint shit together. Oh sure, a dude looks at our "ideas" and probably claims he sees "romantic delusions" (and probably also, "drama.") And fair enough. But without tears how can you adequately express the simple sadness when grim reality gets in the way of the dreams you dared to dream, the hopes you so AUDACIOUSLY held? Or, uh, react when Tara Reid loses her virginity in American Pie? We discuss Hillary's crying in a very sappy crappy hour ATJ. More »
sob story
Can A Woman Cry & Be Taken Seriously?
It was over a week ago that Ellen DeGeneres had a meltdown over a dog named Iggy. But the repercussions carry on: As Jocelyn Noveck reports in USA Today:"It can be easier for a crying man to be taken seriously than a crying woman." Especially in an election year. Tom Lutz, a professor at the University of California, Riverside, who wrote Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears, says "Bill [Clinton] could cry, and did, but Hillary can't." Apparently, there's a double standard: A recent Penn State study sought to explore the different perceptions of crying between men and women. They found that reactions depended on the type of crying, and who was doing it. Watery eyes were viewed more positively than sobbing, and males got the most positive responses. As in, crying women were viewed negatively. More »
snap judgment
If Paris Hilton Actually Has A Nervous Breakdown, We're Going To Hell For Posting This Photo
[Los Angeles, June 8. Image via INF]
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