This is the real reason I ride a bike
“girls – yes even the married ones, who have given birth – are sitting and wriggling with their skirts fluttering far beyond all possible bounds of decency”
Michael Milton of Australia competes in the Men’s Individual pursuit (LC 3) Track Cycling event at Laoshan Velodrome during day three of the 2008 Paralympic Games on September 9, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images AsiaPac)
I made this granola last night, because I am now The Kind of Person Who Makes Their Own Granola (It’s delicious).
http://budgetbytes.blogspot.com/2012/01/cinnamon-pecan-granola-615-recipe-062.html
““In one experiment, five young mothers were observed interacting with a 6 month old called beth. They smiled at her often and offered her dolls to play with. She was seen as ‘sweet,’ having a ‘soft cry’. The reaction of a second group of mothers to a child the same age, named Adam, was noticeably different. They offered him a train or other ‘male’ toys to play with. Beth and Adam were actually the same child, dressed in different clothes.”—
Experiment detailed in my sociology textbook to detail the early impression of gender roles. (via emaconly)
There’s a pretty great home video of an infant me on Christmas morning playing with some wooden trucks, my favorite toys at the time. My grandma is scolding my parents for letting me play with them because I’m a girl, and don’t you want to raise her “right”?
http://bostinnovation.com/2011/11/04/hubway-gm-to-upset-mass-ave-business-owners-think-of-times-square/
Hubway is a great program, and it appears their GM is a pretty cool bike advocate (Though I guess you’d have to be). I’ve been stoked for these bike lanes since the possibility was announced a year ago.
