Links: Miscellaneous Gender Stuff

[dreamer_easy]

There's no such thing as a male or female brain, study finds (Stat 30 November 2015). The study is: Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic

Menopausal killer whales hold key to family's survival (ABC, 6 March 2015). Most animals continue reproducing until they die, so why do some animals undergo menopause - what's the evolutionary advantage? Research suggests it's because they support their descendants with their accumulated knowledge. (I've just imagined a whale having a hot flush and steam coming out of her blowhole.)

Inside a fading Chinese culture ruled by women (Washington Post, 12 July 2017). The matriarchal Mosuo.

Popular feminism in the digital age: How the personal has been made commercial (ABC, 1 September 2017). The vexed connection between feminism and women's magazines - between feminism and feminine culture, or femininity culture. The editor of Teen Vogue: "I can't tell you how many times I've been in the bathroom with another woman ... we feel we have nothing in common but we talk about a great lipstick shade or great hair ... and it's just this doorway for connection and for understanding and for dialogue." This is another experience I will never have.

Comments

[hnpcc]

Great lipstick or great hair, seriously?! The only thing I have ever talked about in bathrooms with other women is wondering if the queue is shorter in the men's. Sheesh.

[dreamer_easy]

I wonder if this is that American Thing where it's not weird to Talk To Strangers.

[hnpcc]

In bathrooms. I mean... in a waiting room, or in a cafe or at sports or something yeah but in the bathroom?!?!