Topic: Uni
So we're in the homestretch of the semester, and if I disappear for awhile, that's why. Not only do I have four end of term essays of various lengths and degrees of difficulty coming up in the next 4-6 weeks, the journal I'm working on is going into production this month and formatting and layout consumes a lot of time. I find myself now hoping that the pattern of only sleeping 5 or 6 hours a night that's been kind of stressing me out all semester keeps up until I'm through all this. I'll have time to collapse in mid-November.
Fortunately, even research provides its moments of fun in unexpected places. For example, this gave me the giggles when I came across it last night:
Preschoolers identified as masculine that which was large, dark, sharp, or rough-textured (including fire, lightning, sharks, and gorillas), and identified as feminine what was smooth, rounded, or pastel-colored (including clouds, ducklings, and soap). (Goldstein, War and Gender, p. 249)Granted, as noted on previous occasions, I'm easily amused, but little boys identifying soap as feminine, and therefore presumably something to be avoided, just fits so neatly with the stereotype (link via this site, which is really trying to wriggle around any accusations of copyright violation).