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Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
|Wi-Fi Alliance
|First published
|October 2002
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Temporal Key Integrity Protocol or TKIP /tiːˈkɪp/ was a stopgap security protocol used in the IEEE 802.11 wireless networking standard. TKIP was designed by the IEEE 802.11i task group and the Wi-Fi Alliance as an interim solution to replace WEP without requiring the replacement of legacy hardware. This was necessary because the breaking of WEP had left WiFi networks without viable link-layer security, and a solution was required for already deployed hardware. TKIP is no longer considered secure and was deprecated in the 2012 revision of the 802.11 standard.[1]
On October 31, 2002, the Wi-Fi Alliance endorsed TKIP under the name Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA).[2] The IEEE endorsed the final version of TKIP, along with more robust solutions such as 802.1X and the AES based CCMP, when they published IEEE 802.11i-2004 on 23 July 2004.[3] The Wi-Fi Alliance soon afterwards adopted the full specification under the marketing name WPA2.[4]
TKIP was deprecated by the IEEE in January 2009.[1]
Technical details[edit]
TKIP and the related WPA standard implement three new security features to address security problems encountered in WEP protected networks. First, TKIP implements a key mixing function that combines the secret root key with the initialization vector before passing it to the RC4 initialization. WEP, in comparison, merely concatenated the initialization vector to the root key, and passed this value to the RC4 routine. This permitted the vast majority of the RC4 based WEP related key attacks.[5] Second, WPA implements a sequence counter to protect against replay attacks. Packets received out of order will be rejected by the access point. Finally, TKIP implements a 64-bit Message Integrity Check (MIC).[6]
To be able to run on legacy WEP hardware with minor upgrades, TKIP uses RC4 as its cipher. TKIP also provides a rekeying mechanism. TKIP ensures that every data packet is sent with a unique encryption key.[citation needed]
Key mixing increases the complexity of decoding the keys by giving an attacker substantially less data that has been encrypted using any one key. WPA2 also implements a new message integrity code, MIC. The message integrity check prevents forged packets from being accepted. Under WEP it was possible to alter a packet whose content was known even if it had not been decrypted.
TKIP uses the same underlying mechanism as WEP, and consequently is vulnerable to a number of similar attacks. The message integrity check, per-packet key hashing, broadcast key rotation, and a sequence counter discourage many attacks. The key mixing function also eliminates the WEP key recovery attacks.
Notwithstanding these changes, the weakness of some of these additions have allowed for new, although narrower, attacks.
Beck-Tews attack[edit]
TKIP is vulnerable to a keystream recovery attack that, if successfully executed, permits an attacker to transmit 7–15 packets of the attacker's choice on the network. The current publicly available TKIP-specific attacks do not reveal the Pairwise Master Key or the Pairwise Temporal Keys. On November 8, 2008, Martin Beck and Erik Tews released a paper detailing this attack method.[7]
The attack is an extension of the WEP chop-chop attack. Because WEP uses a cryptographically insecure checksum mechanism (CRC32), an attacker can guess individual bytes of a packet, and the wireless access point will confirm or deny whether or not the guess is correct. If the guess is correct, the attacker will be able to detect the guess is correct and continue to guess other bytes of the packet. However, unlike the chop-chop attack against a WEP network, the attacker must wait for at least 60 seconds after an incorrect guess (a successful circumvention of the CRC32 mechanism) before continuing the attack. This is because although TKIP continues to use the CRC32 checksum mechanism, it implements an additional MIC code named Michael. If two incorrect Michael MIC codes are received within 60 seconds, the access point will implement countermeasures, meaning it will rekey the TKIP session key, thus changing future keystreams. Accordingly, the Beck-Tews TKIP attack will wait an appropriate amount of time to avoid these countermeasures. Because ARP packets are easily identified by their size, and the vast majority of the contents of this packet would be known to an attacker, the number of bytes an attacker must guess using the above method is rather small (approximately 14 bytes). Beck and Tews estimate recovery of 12 bytes is possible in about 12 minutes on a typical network.
An attacker already has access to the entire ciphertext packet. Upon retrieving the entire plaintext of the same packet, the attacker has access to the keystream of the packet, as well as the MIC code of the session. Using this information the attacker can construct a new packet and transmit it on the network. To circumvent the WPA implemented replay protection, the Beck-Tews attack uses QoS channels to transmit these newly constructed packets. An attacker able to transmit these packets may be able to implement any number of attacks, including ARP poisoning attacks, denial of service, and other similar attacks, with no need of being associated with the network.
In October 2009, Halvorsen with others made a further progress, enabling attackers to inject a larger malicious packet (596 bytes, to be more specific) within 18 minutes and 25 seconds.[8]
Royal Holloway attack[edit]
In a series of publications [9] [10] ,[11] a group of security researchers at the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London reported a theoretical attack on TKIP which exploits the underlying RC4 encryption mechanism. TKIP uses a similar key structure to WEP with the low 16-bit value of a sequence counter (used to prevent replay attacks) being expanded into the 24-bit "IV", and this sequence counter always increment on every new packet. An attacker can use this key structure to improve existing attacks on RC4. In particular, if the same data is encrypted multiple times, an attacker can learn this information from only 224 connections. While they claim that this attack is on the verge of practicality, only simulations were performed, and the attack has not been demonstrated in practice.
ZDNet reported on June 18, 2010 that WEP & TKIP would soon be disallowed on Wi-Fi devices by the Wi-Fi alliance.[12] However, a recent survey in 2013 showed that it is still in widespread use.[13]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b "802.11mb Issues List v12" (EXCEL). 20 Jan 2009. p. CID 98.
The use of TKIP is deprecated. The TKIP algorithm is unsuitable for the purposes of this standard
- ^ "Wi-Fi Alliance Announces Standards-Based Security Solution to Replace WEP". Wi-Fi Alliance. 2002-10-31. Retrieved 2007-12-21.
- ^ "IEEE 802.11i-2004: Amendment 6: Medium Access Control (MAC) Security Enhancements" (PDF). IEEE Standards. 2004-07-23. Retrieved 2007-12-21.
- ^ "Wi-Fi Alliance Introduces Next Generation of Wi-Fi Security". Wi-Fi Alliance. 2004-09-01. Retrieved 2007-12-21.
- ^ Edney, Jon; Arbaugh, William A. (2003-07-15). Real 802.11 Security: Wi-Fi Protected Access and 802.11i. Addison Wesley Professional. ISBN 0-321-13620-9.
- ^ IEEE-SA Standards Board. Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications. Communications Magazine, IEEE, 2007.
- ^ Martin Beck & Erik Tews, "Practical attacks against WEP and WPA", available at [1].
- ^ Halvorsen, F. M.; Haugen, O.; Eian, M.; Mjølsnes, S. F. (2009). "An Improved Attack on TKIP". Identity and Privacy in the Internet Age. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5838. p. 120. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04766-4_9. ISBN 978-3-642-04765-7.
- ^ AlFardan et al. (2013-07-08). "On the Security of RC4 in TLS and WPA" (PDF). Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London.
- ^ Paterson et al. (2014-03-01). "Plaintext Recovery Attacks Against WPA/TKIP" (PDF). Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London.
- ^ Paterson et al. (2014-03-01). "Big Bias Hunting in Amazonia: Large-Scale Computation and Exploitation of RC4 Biases (Invited Paper)". Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London.
- ^ Wi-Fi Alliance to dump WEP and TKIP ... not soon enough
- ^ Vanhoef, Mathy; Piessens, Frank (May 2013). "Practical Verification of WPA-TKIP Vulnerabilities" (PDF). Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGSAC symposium on Information, computer and communications security. ASIA CCS '13: 427–436. doi:10.1145/2484313.2484368.


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SEATTLE -- Mike Mussina will miss at least one start because of slight inflammation on the inside of his pitching elbow, becoming the fifth and final member of the New York Yankees' original starting rotation to get hurt this year.
Mussina allowed four runs and six hits in three-plus innings against Seattle on Monday night, failing to complete the fifth inning in consecutive starts for the first time since Sept. 12 and 19, 1996, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
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Mix tape nostalgia is hotter than ever right now; if it's not a new product in the shape of a mix tape, like this USB stick, then there's a website popping up for waxing sentimental over the things and their song selections.
Joining the party right on time is this felt mix tape pouch from Etsy. It's soft and cute, and may remind you of a someone compiling one too many Elliott Smith songs for you. What say you?
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audiopeach 6 years
I think it's cute, but the last thing I need is another little coin pouch. Lohv mixtapes though. I made earrings outta old mini cassettes. They're adorable.
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its cute!!
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Love it! It's really cute :)
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I love it so much I'm going to celebrate by listening to my old mix tapes. Yes I still have them.
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so cute - i love the colors, but what would i do with it? i have a few cute pouches that mostly just sit around being cute.
RadishSalad 6 years
I love this. I would put quarters in it. :] I would like to see it in different colors, though.
springfieldrocks 6 years
ugly (thought kinda cute...but ugly). can't even pretend to ignore how easy it has been for about 10 years to make a mix cd, let alone a mix usb stick that you can lend to a friend and get back. but still cute. and ugly. would never buy though i <3 netsy stuffs
ashante_l 6 years
its so cute
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I love it but would have no practical use for it.
Bella-Donna 6 years
The pouch is so sentimentally retro, it makes me want to sob out loud for my Sony double deck cassette player that went kaput a few years ago on which I'd make my TDK mixtapes :( On the brighter side, I've still retained a piece of the past by fashioning out a keychain from an old dictaphone cassette :) !!
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The Radio Times has announced its TV and radio listings are now available via an application on the Apple App Store.
The app for iPhone and iPod touch users will allow browsing of Radio Times' listings including 7 day's worth of TV and radio programme information across 400 channels and stations.
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Shōko (Japanese: ショーコ Shōko) is a member of Team Great Rocket from Pokémon Card GB2: Here Comes Team GR!. She is one of the Trainers at the GR Fire Fort.
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- More Tools for Managing and Reproducing Complex Data Projects (Ben Lorica) — As I survey the landscape, the types of tools remain the same, but interfaces continue to improve, and domain specific languages (DSLs) are starting to appear in the context of data projects. One interesting trend is that popular user interface models are being adapted to different sets of data professionals (e.g. workflow tools for business users).
- Graphical Linear Algebra — or "Graphical The-Subject-That-Kicked-Nat's-Butt" as I read it.
- Consistent Hashing: A Guide and Go Implementation — easy-to-follow article (and source).
- NoTCP Manifesto — a nice summary of the reasons to build custom protocols over UDP, masquerading as church-nailed heresy. Today's heresy is just the larval stage of tomorrow's constricting orthodoxy.
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Managing Complex Data Projects, Graphical Linear Algebra, Consistent Hashing, and NoTCP Manifesto
Four short links: 10 April 2015
Graph Algorithm, Touchy Robots, Python Bolt-Ons, and Building Data Products
- Exact Maximum Clique for Large or Massive Real Graphs — explanation of how BBMCSP works.
- Giving Robots and Prostheses the Human Touch — the team, led by mechanical engineer Veronica J. Santos, is constructing a language of touch that both a computer and a human can understand. The researchers are quantifying this with mechanical touch sensors that interact with objects of various shapes, sizes, and textures. Using an array of instrumentation, Santos' team is able to translate that interaction into data a computer can understand. The data is used to create a formula or algorithm that gives the computer the ability to identify patterns among the items it has in its library of experiences and something it has never felt before. This research will help the team develop artificial haptic intelligence, which is, essentially, giving robots, as well as prostheses, the "human touch."
- boltons — things in Python that should have been builtins.
- Everything We Wish We'd Known About Building Data Products (DJ Patil and RusJan Belkin) — Data is super messy, and data cleanup will always be literally 80% of the work. In other words, data is the problem. […] "If you're not thinking about how to keep your data clean from the very beginning, you're fucked. I guarantee it." […] "Every single company I've worked at and talked to has the same problem without a single exception so far — poor data quality, especially tracking data," he says."Either there's incomplete data, missing tracking data, duplicative tracking data." To solve this problem, you must invest a ton of time and energy monitoring data quality. You need to monitor and alert as carefully as you monitor site SLAs. You need to treat data quality bugs as more than a first priority. Don't be afraid to fail a deploy if you detect data quality issues.
Four short links: 2 April 2015
250 Whys, Amazon Dash, Streaming Data, and Lightning Networks
- What I Learned from 250 Whys — Let's Plan for a Future Where We're All As Stupid as We Are Today.
- Thoughts on Amazon Dash (Matt Webb) — In a way, we're really seeing the future of marketing here. We've separated awareness (advertising) and distribution (stores) for so long, but it's no longer the way. When you get a Buy Now button in a Tweet, you're seeing ads and distribution merging, and the Button is the physical instantiation of this same trend. […] in the future every product will carry a buy button.
- A Collection of Links for Streaming Algorithms and Data Structures — is this not the most self-evident title ever?
- Lightning Networks (Rusty Russell) — I finally took a second swing at understanding the Lightning Network paper. The promise of this work is exceptional: instant, reliable transactions across the bitcoin network. But the implementation is complex, and the draft paper reads like a grab bag of ideas; but it truly rewards close reading! It doesn't involve novel crypto, nor fancy bitcoin scripting tricks. There are several techniques that are used in the paper, so I plan to concentrate on one per post and wrap up at the end. Already posted part II.
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GPU Graph Algorithms, Data Sharing, Build Like Google, and Distributed Systems Theory
- gunrock — a CUDA library for graph primitives that refactors, integrates, and generalizes best-of-class GPU implementations of breadth-first search, connected components, and betweenness centrality into a unified code base useful for future development of high-performance GPU graph primitives. (via Ben Lorica)
- How to Share Data with a Statistician — some instruction on the best way to share data to avoid the most common pitfalls and sources of delay in the transition from data collection to data analysis.
- Bazel — a build tool, i.e. a tool that will run compilers and tests to assemble your software, similar to Make, Ant, Gradle, Buck, Pants, and Maven. Google's build tool, to be precise.
- You Can't Have Exactly-Once Delivery — not about the worst post office ever. FLP and the Two Generals Problem are not design complexities, they are impossibility results.
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Billion Node Graphs, Asynchronous Systems, Deep Learning Hardware, and Vision Resources
- Mining Billion Node Graphs: Patterns and Scalable Algorithms (PDF) — slides from a CMU academic's talk at C-BIG 2012.
- There Is No Now — One of the most important results in the theory of distributed systems is an impossibility result, showing one of the limits of the ability to build systems that work in a world where things can fail. This is generally referred to as the FLP result, named for its authors, Fischer, Lynch, and Paterson. Their work, which won the 2001 Dijkstra Prize for the most influential paper in distributed computing, showed conclusively that some computational problems that are achievable in a "synchronous" model in which hosts have identical or shared clocks are impossible under a weaker, asynchronous system model.
- Deep Learning Hardware Guide — One of the worst things you can do when building a deep learning system is to waste money on hardware that is unnecessary. Here I will guide you step by step through the hardware you will need for a cheap high performance system.
- Awesome Computer Vision — curated list of computer vision resources.
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Feudal Employment, Untrusted Computing, Nerd Entitlement, and Paxos Explained
- Governance for the New Class of Worker (Matt Webb) — there is a new class of worker. They're not inside the company – not benefiting from job security or healthcare – but their livelihoods in large part dependent on it, the transaction cost of moving to a competitor deliberately kept high. Or the worker is, without seeing any of the upside of success, taking on the risk or bearing the cost of the company's expansion and operation.
- Hidden Code in Your Chipset (Slideshare) — there's a processor that supervises your processor, and it's astonishingly fully-featured (to the point of having privileged access to the network and being able to run Java code).
- On Nerd Entitlement — Privilege doesn't mean you don't suffer. The best part of 2014 was the tech/net feminist consciousness-raising/uprising. That's probably the wrong label for it, but bullshit is being called that was ignored years ago. I think we've collectively found the next thing we fix that future generations will look back on us and wonder why it went unremarked-upon for so long.
- Understanding Paxos — a simple introduction, with animations, to one of the key algorithms in distributed systems.
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DevOps Security, Bit Twiddling, Design Debates, and Chinese IP
- DevOoops (Slideshare) — many ways in which your devops efforts can undermine your security efforts.
- Matters Computational (PDF) — low-level bit-twiddling and algorithms with source code. (via Jarkko Hietaniemi)
- Top 5 Game Design Debates I Ignored in 2014 (Daniel Cook) — Stretch your humanity.
- From Gongkai to Open Source (Bunnie Huang) — The West has a "broadcast" view of IP and ownership: good ideas and innovation are credited to a clearly specified set of authors or inventors, and society pays them a royalty for their initiative and good works. China has a "network" view of IP and ownership: the far-sight necessary to create good ideas and innovations is attained by standing on the shoulders of others, and as such there is a network of people who trade these ideas as favors among each other. In a system with such a loose attitude toward IP, sharing with the network is necessary as tomorrow it could be your friend standing on your shoulders, and you'll be looking to them for favors. This is unlike the West, where rule of law enables IP to be amassed over a long period of time, creating impenetrable monopoly positions. It's good for the guys on top, but tough for the upstarts.
Four short links: 26 December 2014
Science Software, Better Bitmaps, Pushy Internet, and Graphical Perception
- How Bad Software Leads to Bad Science — 21% of scientists who write software have never received training in software development.
- Roaring Bitmaps — compressed bitmaps which tend to outperform conventional compressed bitmaps such as WAH, EWAH or Concise. In some instances, they can be hundreds of times faster and they often offer significantly better compression.
- Two Eras of the Internet: From Pull to Push (Chris Dixon) — in which the consumer becomes the infinite sink for an unending and constant stream of updates, media, and social mobile local offers to swipe right on brands near you.
- Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Graphical Methods (PDF) — research on how well people decode visual cues. In order: Position along a common scale e.g. scatter plot; Position on identical but nonaligned scales e.g. multiple scatter plots; Length e.g. bar chart; Angle & Slope (tie) e.g. pie chart; Area e.g. bubbles; Volume, density, and color saturation (tie) e.g. heatmap; Color hue e.g. newsmap. (via Flowing Data)
Four short links: 13 November 2014
Material Design, GitHub Communication, Priority Queues, and DevOps Learnings
- Materialize — another web implementation of Material Design.
- Communicating at Github — interesting take on making visible and optimising for the conversations and decisions that form culture but are otherwise invisible.
- MultiQueues — an approach for parallel access to priority queues.
- Devops Learnings — We view DevOps as the missing components of agile – the enabler for getting it out of the door and closing the loop between software engineer and customer.


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Just thought I'd bust into Jax definitely-not-mediocre photo thread and report a sighting of Jack in Virginia City, MT. My family, including mother-in-law, father-in-law, and another family (10 of us altogether), ended up eating lunch with Jack and the guys on the porch of a restaurant in Virginia City, Montana during a rainstorm. Had a great time hearing about their trip and meeting them. They seemed like a great group of guys and didn't mind getting hammered with questions from the 10 of us.
I may owe them a huge debt as my wife and mother-in-law seemed enthralled with the idea of adventuring on a motorcycle. May have paved the way for a big adventure for yours truly. Coincidentally (or was it fate?), my old BMW, 1971 R75/5, is due back from the shop next week after a 12 year time out. Even if a big adventure is still a ways out, at a minimum, I was inspired enough to register to be an ADV inmate, and to explore Jax thread.
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The 3 reasons "smart" appliances are still too dumb
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I was very pleased to get the guest post below because I've been mystified and frustrated by the current generation of smart appliances - especially as they apply to electric power utilities. Many of them tout their ability to talk to the grid, when there are virtually no grids capable of talking back. Why would consumers pay extra for features they don't understand and don't want?
Christian's editorial articulates some of the current shortcomings. Until and unless manufacturers respond to his three points, I wouldn't be worried about big numbers of smart appliances showing up in your service territory. You can safely ignore this supposed trend. Agree? Disagree? The Comment form awaits at the bottom. - Jesse Berst
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"Smart homes of the future" are dominating industry news. General Electric envisions us building and living in intelligent homes by 2025 and Whirlpool already offers a complete line of "smart" washers and refrigerators. Though the prospect of more interactive and responsive appliances is both exciting and worth pursuing, element14 engineers experimenting with the technology have found the devices available today need improvement. Before we can achieve completely smart homes, we must look at why smart appliances are still too dumb. Here are the top three reasons:
1. Functionality
"Smart" refrigerators allow us to surf the web, but what purpose does that serve? Smart appliances must enhance our lives and solve new problems. For example, a refrigerator that notifies you of how much ice is left in the box, or a toaster that can warn you before your bread is burned, are appliances that reduce food waste and save you money. Important, everyday tasks should be made easier to complete. The technologies to do this - faster computing power and integration-ready open source platforms - exist and would make for much "smarter," practical applications if utilized.


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The blue Bose SoundDock Series III Digital Music System features a compact speaker with proprietary acoustic technology and Bose digital signal processing. It also has an integrated iPhone/iPod dock with a Lightning connector. The dock will charge your device while it plays and the included remote will control both the system and your iPhone/iPod. The SoundDock Series III also provides an auxiliary audio input for connecting 30-pin iPod/iPhone models, iPad, portable CD players, laptops, MP3 players, and other portable music devices.
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- The SoundDock Series III is compact enough to easily move from room to room, while also providing Bose digital signal processing and acoustic design for wide-range, room-filling sound.
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Doesn't like the road in Sweden
"Road games are tough since the travelling schedule sucks compared to the NHL. But that was something that I was expecting; some trips can take up to seven hours and then you're playing right after that. I'm trying to adjust."
"I'm enjoying my time here. The team has been struggling to find consistency between games, but we've got another month to fix that (before contract is up)."
On the lockout
"The news have been positive the last few days, so there might be cause for optimism about getting a season going soon, hopefully within a few weeks. I'm really looking forward to putting on an NHL jersey again. Hopefully I'll be in shape by then."
On his line
"We (Duchene, Stalberg, Brunnstrom) have been together almost every game. We have some good chemistry, but me and Stalberg are practially at the end of pre-season, so we have a few things to work on still."
On the SEL
"Neither of us have played in the SEL before; we're still not used to the big ice surface. It's not easy coming to a new league. Everyone opponent is new to you, you have no idea how they're gonna play. Some teams are really hard to play against."
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Shrimp Croquettes is a recipe which you will simply love. An effortlessly prepared side dish; the Shrimp Croquettes is a dish that you would love to serve at coming party!
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|4 Tablespoon
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Cooked shrimp
|1 Cup (16 tbs), shelled
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Ground black pepper
|To Taste
|Lemon juice
|1⁄2 Tablespoon
|Worcestershire sauce
|1 Teaspoon
|Dry breadcrumbs
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Egg whites
|2 , beaten
|1 Cup (16 tbs) (For Deep Frying)
|Parsley sprigs
Heat the butter, stir in flour and add milk gradually, stirring until a thick sauce is formed.
Add shrimp.
Season with salt, pepper, lemon juice and Worcestershire sauce.
Transfer mixture to a shallow flat dish and refrigerate until quite firm.
Form 4 cylinders, about 3" long and 1" in diameter.
Roll each cylinder in breadcrumbs, then in the egg whites and again in the breadcrumbs.
Heat oil for deep frying and fry the croquettes in hot oil for 3 to 5 minutes.
Drain on paper towels.
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3 tablespoons
crushed dried shrimp
2/3 pound
long beans, sliced thin and mashed
cherry tomatoes, halved
Thai chilies, sliced thin
1 tablespoon
palm sugar
2 tablespoons
fish sauce
juice of 1 lime, or more to taste
3 tablespoons
roasted peanuts, chopped
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|Sliced beef roast
|1 Pound
|Black pepper
|1 1⁄4 Pinch
|Pickled green peppercorns
|2 Tablespoon
For the sherry jelly whip the egg whites until semi-stiff.
Clean, wash and finely dice the vegetables and stir with the salt, peppercorns and bay leaf into the egg whites.
Bring the mixture to a boil over high heat, stirring vigorously.
When the egg white has curdled and is floating on the surface add the sherry and heat the bouillon 40 to 50 minutes over a low flame, but do not allow to boil.
Leave the saucepan open a crack.
Dissolve the gelatin in a little cold water.
Pour the meat bouillon through a fine sieve or filter paper and stir in the gelatin.
Allow to cool, stirring frequently.
Place the roast beef on individual plates.
Sprinkle with the black pepper and the drained green peppercorns and pour the gelling liquid over it.
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There was a recent case in Montana of a young man, a college football player, being acquitted of rape. The jury felt the evidence wasn't there, the young woman who accused the young man of rape wasn't deemed a believable enough rape victim. The young man maintained his innocence all along; he didn't believe that he had committed rape.
The return of the verdict troubled many people because of how difficult it is for rapists to be convicted and punished for their crimes. I can't speak on the defendant's guilt or innocence in absolute terms but I found myself able to believe that it was possible that a rapist could not know he committed rape.
Is this the story of all rapists? Definitely not. Does a man's lack of understanding of the fact that he committed rape change the experience for the woman forced to suffer as a result? Not at all. Does it change the fact that rape took place? No. It only changes the type of conversation that our society has to have.
We have to recognize that we have created a rape culture that is having damaging impacts on both men and women. It changes how we need to approach rape prevention. Clearly years of trying to target women to change their behavior, practice and clothing have, very unsurprisingly, failed. After all, how could targeting only the victim of a crime prevent the crime?
That's why Zerlina Maxwell went on the news show Hannity and explained that she believed men needed to be involved in the conversation on sexual violence. That men needed to be taught how to prevent rape. For her honest assessment based on her own experience as a survivor of rape, Maxwell has been subjected to ridicule, derision and even rape threats.
As shocking as some of these responses can be, I find myself unsurprised. Rape culture promotes exactly this type of thinking as a response.
The men, and likely some women, who had trouble with Maxwell's assertion, first and foremost object to it on the basis that they believe it paints all men as rapists. I find this a bizarre reaction considering the fact that these same individuals seem to have no problem with campaigns targeted at women, encouraging them to protect themselves from rapists (i.e. men). Campaigns, which seem to say that men cannot control themselves around women because of the way they dress, when they are in certain situations and certain neighborhoods. Rather they take umbrage with the idea that men are influenced by the pervasive culture around them but they have agency and the ability to change ingrained and subtle patterns of thought and behavior.
These men also want to bring up the fact that women are not the only victims of rape. That is very true. Men also suffer rape, verbal abuse and violence, at times at the hand of women. Talking about how incredibly common violence against women is does not negate that terrible reality, yet bringing up instances of violence against men during discussions of violence against women is indicative of an attempt to minimize the horror of that reality.
Furthermore, these men explain that rape is not something one learns, no one is taught to rape but rather it's an act committed by bad people. These assertions are simply not supported by fact. The prevalence of gender-based violence indicates that too many men are involved for us to simply be able to brush this off as an act of a few evil individuals who are aberrations of society. Also, the cycle of violence that sees the eventual blurring of the lines of victims and offenders when you consider that many perpetrators of violence against women witnessed violence in their own homes or were victims of it themselves, is a testament to the fact that this is a learned behavior. We should really be asking ourselves, where is the source of this learning?
It is impossible to overlook the home environment, as explained above. Yet how many parents are shocked by the acts of violence committed by their children, insisting they did not learn that behavior at home?
Society has a clear and damning role to play in the perpetuation of gender based violence.
From a young age men are taught negative messages about their identity and the identity of women around them. The creation of a rape culture is one of the outcomes of this. Rape culture is not so obvious as to be a message that says, "oh hey, rape is great!" Rather the message is much more subvert, insidious and unrelenting. It's small messages like women want to chased, that they are looking for men to be proactive during romantic pursuits. We can see this idea in commercials, movies, books, television shows, music – anywhere you see a depiction of romance – often there is a male pursuer and if he just persists long enough, he'll get the girl. This has caused men to think women will eventually "come around", it impacts understandings of consent, and whether men understand that no really means no.
We also see women regularly portrayed as objects to be acquired. Female bodies are regularly marketed to sell cars, alcohol, vacation destinations, and food. The dehumanization of women in this manner inevitably shapes the way men view women as well as the way women view themselves. In this line, women become simply the playthings of men.
Masculinity is often measured in how many women a man can be with. In how quickly you can move on to the next relationship or hook up. Women are viewed as conquests.
Rape is also about power so there is no overlooking how negative portrayals of women will see men internalizing hatred towards women. Women are needy, they are pushy, they think they are better than men, they are judgmental, they are uppity, they are emotional and they need to be put in their place.
The most frustrating aspect of the objections to Maxwell's comments is that they represent incredibly simplistic understandings of human reality. They are lowering the discourse surrounding violence against women. Mankind has reached a stage in which it has the potential to tackle difficult issues with the nuance and complexity these situations deserve. Human beings have the potential to read their reality and move beyond cultural and social influences. However, we have to diagnose the true cause of social ills and all participate in its healing. We should no longer be content with simple solutions or simple explanations of these problems, we have to dig deeper and push ourselves outside our comfort zones in developing lasting, just solutions to society's continued disintegration.
07 Thursday Mar 2013
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I just saw the recent cover of Time magazine. "Don't Hate Her Because She's Successful", it's admonishing us, in relation to Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, out with a new book encouraging women to "lean in" to our work lives.
I found this cover more than a little disappointing. Its just another popular play on the false idea of women hating women. You could argue that the title of the cover is calling out men as well, after all a large chunk, perhaps even a majority, of readers of the magazine are male but there is something about the perpetuation of women hating successful women that is showing up in the zeitgeist more and more lately. With Sheryl Sandberg publishing a new book and Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, rescinding the option of working a home and Anne Hathaway being alive, there seems to be much to criticize about these prominent women. And apparently the biggest haters are women themselves.
So why am I so sure that the Time magazine cover is talking to women? Because rarely do articles call out men's attitudes towards women as hatred. They use the terms sexism and misogyny, which does mean hatred but is rarely used that way, however, men who harbor anti-women sentiment are not usually called out for hating women. Additionally, the trope of men hating successful women is not so widespread in the media (although of course it exists). Much more frequently, women are projected as hating other women for being prettier than them, more successful, more well liked. For an example of how popular this belief is, check out a comment section of any article where a woman is criticizing another woman.
We're seeing this title because, sure, men hate women but nobody hates women more than other women. Or at least that's the underlying assumption of these articles. That while misogyny and sexism run rampant around the world, we can always rely on women's hatred of other women to sell magazines and generate clicks on articles.
Obviously women are critical of the actions being undertaken by the women mentioned above. There are discussions on whether Sandberg really captures the plight of women in the work place, whether Mayer's decision impacts women more disproportionately as they are more likely to need to work from home, and articles needlessly criticizing Anne Hathaway (I have to confess I do not understand the Hathaway hate and it irks me to no end so I'm not going to link to any articles or try to explain it, so while it is an example of people assuming women simply hate other women, I just can't dignify the discussion).
The problem, however, is not women criticizing other women, it's the fact that popular perception of this critique is being enveloped in an understanding that "women be hating". So any time a women says she disagrees with the actions of another women, she is just jealous, she's a hater, she's catty, she's a bitch.
It reminds me of an episode of Seinfeld, where Elaine is having a disagreement with a woman in her life and anytime she brings it up all the men around her start calling it a cat fight, get excited and beginning meowing at her.
I'm not buying this trope, though. I will say that when misogyny is perpetuated in our societies, inculcated into our cultures, its none too surprising that some women pick up on this and become extra harsh towards other women, after all its so popular, but there is no genetic predisposition for women to dislike other women. That's false. But the media thrives on that assumption about our human nature. They create the demand through structuring that narrative and building up those images and then slip in there to provide the supply. It's the virtual equivalent of meowing at us. Its up to all of us to be aware of these stereotypes about human behavior and negate them through not clicking on these articles and making our objections known.
22 Monday Oct 2012
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I'm going to confess my ignorance to the fact that I only just learned that there is a difference between misogyny and sexism. I, like many people, thought these two words could be used interchangeably but it turns out there is a slight and important distinction between the two. Misogyny is defined as a hatred of women, while sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on sex as well as behavior, conditions or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex. A subtle difference but crucial nonetheless.
With the popularity of the video of Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard publicly admonishing her leader of opposition regarding his "misogyny" (I use the quotation marks only because several people have pointed out that her speech was really more about sexism), The Guardian reports that the Macquarie Dictionary is going to change the definition of misogyny to imply an entrenched prejudice against women instead of a pathological hatred . Anyone whose been a victim of prejudice or discrimination will likely tell you that it felt pretty hate filled, and far be it from me to tell them any differently. With that being said, I don't think the conflation of the two definitions is in women's best interest. Really, in the best interest of anyone who believes in and works for the promotion of the equality of women and men.
Misogyny runs rampant in our society. And when I use the word misogyny, I mean misogyny, the pathological hatred of women. There's been a story going around the Internet lately, in which a reporter from Gawker magazine outed a well known Reddit contributor and sub-editor responsible for some of the most abhorrent sections of Reddit that thrive off anti-woman sentiment. This isn't just sexism, there is a deep and underlying hatred of women and young girls that is thriving because of the belief that the targeted women and girls are "dirty whores who get what's coming to them." This article from Salon discusses this further.
But this type of thinking isn't just represented by a section of creeps that gather together in the shadows of the Internet, hatred of women is so entrenched in our society that it's seeped its way into our social institutions. A rape survivor recounts her reasons why, given the chance again, she would never prosecute her rapist. When she went to go meet with the Assistant District Attorney he told her that she stood no chance of winning her case, this despite clear physical evidence, because her rapist's attorney was going to use the "slut defense". A lawyer at the District Attorney's office, turned to a victim of a violent crime and told her that she was going to lose because his lawyers were going to defend their client by having the jury believe that she was a slut. An occurrence so popular, the man chose to use that specific terminology rather than explain that her sexual history was going to be on trial (bad enough without using the term). Scrolling down into the comments section of that article opens up many more stories of similar occurrences – defense lawyers specifically choosing male jurors to gain support for their client and drawing attention to the type of underwear the woman was wearing on the night of her rape in order to draw attention to the fact that in essence, she was asking for it.
These are just two examples that I've come across in the past two days. If I had been collecting stories for the past week, the past month, I could go on and on and on. The depth of the vitriol faced by women and girls today moves beyond a prejudice or behavior based on stereotypes of social roles. This is a learned hatred, that has become so deeply entrenched in society that we also learn to accept it. No longer are we so shocked to hear that the number one cause of death among women around the world is gender based violence, or that 1 in 3 women will be beaten, coerced in sex or otherwise abused in their lifetime*, or that around 300,000 women die every year during childbirth due to entirely preventable causes. These are not just symptoms of discrimination, the fact that these conditions are allowed to continue and worsen is the result of hatred. We need to begin to identify what allows for this type of hatred to become engendered and flourish within individuals, institutions and communities. And if we are ever going to be able to cure the disease, we need to be able to diagnose the cause not just treat the symptom.
* statistics from this pdf from CARE
01 Saturday Sep 2012
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I've been thinking about the idea of patriarchy a lot lately. In fact I've been wanting to write a post about it for a while but a series of events have prevented me from doing so.
The first time I felt moved to do it was several months ago when Ashley Judd wrote a response to the media about their continued coverage over her "puffy" appearance. I felt that her definition of patriarchy was so well explained that it needed to be shared as much as possible. Judd explains, "Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it."
Several things that she said stuck out to me. The idea of patriarchy being a system that people participate in and it being subtle and insidious, first and foremost. I find this to be refreshingly simple and yet utterly profound. It might not be an understanding that people are unfamiliar with but explaining it as she did began to frame the way I looked at issues around me.
This brings me to the second time I wanted to write this post. When I read a blogpost from a young woman who was visiting Egypt in which she recounted the sexual assault she had faced in that country. The blogpost went viral which inevitably means the young woman was inundated with comments from people questioning the truth of her story, her character and why she would've been in Tahrir Square in the first place. The honesty of the post, the bravery with which this young woman shared her frightening experience, was being publicly questioned and ridiculed. The young woman followed up that post with another, addressing some of the concerns of the internet trolls. She took a minute to address the comments of those who questioned why she would've be there, saying that they were right, she probably shouldn't have been there knowing it was an unsafe space. This woman, who was walking down the street with a friend when she was suddenly pulled down and assaulted by a group of men, beaten, stripped naked, pulled and touched, was now being forced to accept that she was in the wrong. Arguments that the girl should have never been there in the first place are a way of blaming the victim without exactly saying, you deserved what you got. Although, fear not, those comments were there also. But it wasn't those comments that I found so crushing, sadly that has become almost par for the course, it was rather that the young woman felt forced to entertain their ideas and inevitably agree with their arguments. That's patriarchy. When this girl has to begin to look at her actions and think maybe there was something that she did that contributed to her own sexual assault. That belief, that victims of rape and sexual assault have somehow done something to bring about or deserve these acts of violence, is proof that patriarchy is alive and well. And for it to go unchecked is prove of it thriving.
Inevitably, instances of me wanting to connect things to the patriarchy began to continue to creep up. An older gentleman sitting next to at Disney World, feeling that after having a two minute conversation with me he could invite me back to his hotel room, not once but twice within 30 seconds (because apparently no doesn't really mean no) — Patriarchy. A magazine article interviewing a well known actor, accompanied by a photograph of him fully clothed with a topless, nameless woman draped on top of him — Patriarchy. Conversations at the government level regarding reproductive health that include zero women, followed up a segment on the news discussing how terrible it was that there were no women involved while interviewing an all male panel — Patriarchy (and hilarious farce). Articles on a website promoting "women's issues" while regularly criticizing women's physical appearance — Patriarchy. Patriarchy, patriarchy, patriarchy. Privileging men over women, boys over girls, insidious, subtle (although sometimes not even) and no more dangerous when women deny that they are participating.
Yet somehow there is something comforting to me about the way Judd defined patriarchy. It is a system that we all participate in, so it exists outside of our actions as individuals. And yet just as we have given it life, we can bring it down to its knees. I don't fear broken systems. I fear understandings of reality wherein people believe patterns of behavior or systems put in place are inevitable and completely unchangeable. Or rather I don't fear them, I fear the people who believe that they exist. So for Judd to define the patriarchy as a system, something that thrives and requires our participation for its existence, was empowering for me. Patriarchy is like a parasite, it cannot survive on its own. That means that we, conscious of its existence, should be able to put a stop to it. While it exists outside of us an individuals, it requires our actions, thoughts and conversations to thrive. Therefore a thoughtfulness, and true desire to want to move beyond this oppressive system, can shift momentum away.
That might sound truly naive but honestly, I think believing issues that live on the basis of human thought and action exist outside of human behavior and choice is naive. Change requires a maturity, a patience, a move beyond simple solutions and actions but its not impossible. I think it all likelihood it might require things to get worse before they get better, since we might be ignorant to the fact that things can even get worse, but once people's consciousness to the reality of the world around them is raised, when people begin to see themselves as protagonists who are acting in situations rather than individuals who are being acted upon, then systems of belief and practice that have long been seen as inevitable facets of human behavior can begin to be questioned, addressed and resolved.
May I put a vote in for patriarchy to be the first to go?
12 Sunday Aug 2012
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Has too much time passed since my last blog post for me to just share something without an explanation of where I've been? Likely, yes. The short answer is I started this blog for a very specific purpose and I felt the blog fulfilled its purpose. So I stepped away. Yet I found myself very much missing the space the blog provided, an opportunity to share and learn from others as we all participate in this process of engendering equality. So I plan on coming back here more often and sharing and learning with you guys once more.
I came across the article from Jessica Valenti that I thought was really interested. In it, Valenti talks about the practice of trying to raise the self-esteem of those young girls who are often criticized for their appearance. Valenti doesn't believe this to be a worthwhile practice; she thinks this gives too much validity to the idea that trying to achieve beauty is a worthwhile exercise. Valenti explains, "the problem isn't that girls don't know their worth—it's that they absolutely do know their value in society. Young women know exactly how ugly the culture believes them to be. So when we teach girls to simply "love themselves", we're implicitly telling them to accept the world as it is. We're saying that being beautiful is something worth having when we should be telling them a culture that demands as much is toxic."
Valenti is making the case, as I understand it, that in a culture obsessed with looks and attaching value to them, to simply try and tell women that they are beautiful just as they are is to tell them to buy into the system that puts their physical appearance at the forefront. I found this to be a refreshing viewpoint, one that I don't see enough in the media. Enough of the focus on self-esteem and attributing beauty with physical attractiveness. Those are such simple solutions to much more complicated problems. Telling women they are beautiful just as they are isn't going to stop the focus on the physical. Helping women, and men, recognize that our society is set up to value the physical above all else, to the detriment of everyone, is more valuable. And thinking of methods in which to move beyond this is much more worthwhile.
Valenti ends her piece by saying that we need to help women survive misogynist culture with a fist rather than a smile, and I can't really follow her down that path. I don't think anger is going to get us anywhere, as I've explained before. What we need is to use our brains, and our natural impulse to want to do better, in collaboration with others, to think of alternatives to the status quo. One that recognizes everyone's capacities and abilities.
Just the same, Valenti's piece is a much more interesting conversation about women and the beauty myth.
Check out Valenti's piece here and let me know your thoughts!
30 Wednesday Nov 2011
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I already referenced this article in my last post, but the title of this post is something Gloria Steinem said in an interview with The Observer when talking about women working towards flexible working hours and childcare. She was generally speaking about areas of the feminist movement that require more attention and focus.
Anger is a very interesting emotion. I feel that many social movements have been formed based on anger. And outrage. And righteous indignation. In one regard, if you take a look at the current state of the world today, how can you not become angry? Looking at the rampant injustice and inequality that characterize the institutions and processes that lie at the core of our society and the sheer number of people that suffer as a result, it's no wonder anger begins to bubble up inside. And sadness. And a general loss of faith in the inherent nobility of human beings.
Yet at the same time I can't help but wonder whether acting for the betterment of the world, for the equality of women and men, out of anger is really sustainable. I don't think anyone can be in a state of anger for very long, its damaging to your mental and physical health. It sort of flairs up and then inevitably dies down. Also when you're taking action on the basis of anger, you're really reacting to an incident rather than actively pursuing something for its own sake. You're angry that some injustice is being perpetrated so you are reacting to it by trying to work for change rather than being an active protagonist that works for sustainable change even without some trigger.
Also I think you would be working for the advancement of civilization from a misconception of human nature. If you're angry it's because you've been hurt, because you're disillusioned, because you're fed up – all manifestations of being disappointed in your fellow human beings. But how can you really work for the betterment of the world when you don't actually trust in the capacity of individuals to be better? If you aren't looking at others as your equal, your partner, your fellow builder of a world civilization? Because I think if you looked at people like that, then you would inevitably be looking at people with love. And this love is the place from which you would be working towards equality and justice.
I think love is often underestimated and underemphasized and deemed inappropriate for the public sphere. Its power is limited, misplaced and misrepresented.
Love is a light that guides us through darkness and what greater darkness is there than the forces of inequality and disunity that are so pervasive in our society right now? Love connects us one to another and allows us to recognize the oneness of mankind and recognize that our individual fulfillment and happiness lies in the welfare and happiness of others. And if we recognize that, the interconnection that exists between us, then we will inevitably continue on our path towards equality, undeterred and unshakable, until we reach our desired end goal.
The issue of gender equality is inherently an issue of justice and I think the following quote on justice pretty much encapsulates what I said above. "[Justice] is not obtained by righteous indignation and loud demands made from a distance on behalf of the oppressed when one is cushioned by the comforts of privileged circumstances. It is promoted, instead, by patience and long suffering, through consistent action and loving education. One endures injustice in the process of building justice."
I should clarify that I don't mean to say that when unjust things happen, we can't be angry about it. But to attempt to try and create change in patterns of thought and behavior by having anger at the core of our motivation is greatly limiting. I would even say it's debilitating. So when we work for the equality of women and men I think we need to get a lot more loving, both men and women. I think we should constantly be reflecting on our motivations for working for change. And we have to recognize that what we're working towards, the establishment of gender equality, is a process. This by no means has to curb our intensity but it should make us more focused, less superficial and more thorough. Because on the days when you get fed up, disillusioned, tired and angry, it's the love, for each other and for the end goal, that makes us persevere.
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After the previous post I had a conversation with a friend in which she related similar situations where her female friends shared variations of the "boys are better than girls" ideology. Apparently somewhere along the way women became catty, dramatic witches and it's just a fact that we've all accepted. As a sort of first step to combat all this negativity, I feel like there needs to be a greater emphasis on sisterhood, on female solidarity, on women sticking up and supporting other women and refusing to accept negative stereotypes.
Because all these situations have made me wonder why is there no sense of female sisterhood, no sense of women speaking up for other women? Where is all the conflict and contention coming from? Recently, in an interview with the Observer, Gloria Steinem explained her thoughts on why people so often complain that groups of women can be catty, "do women compete for the favors of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing. It [competition] is true of any subordinated group. But once you get a sense of possibilities and shared experience, it becomes the most powerful community. I see a form of it when I travel. I'll be walking through an airport, say, and my plane will be four hours late, and a woman cleaner will say: 'Here, take these magazines I've collected', or: 'When I'm tired, I sleep in the closet over there. Would you like to use it?' It's the same with the flight attendants. It's a floating community."
So it seems that women, just as other oppressed groups, often perpetuate the same prejudicial thoughts or behavior that they've experienced in a way to separate themselves from the oppressed group and be accepted as part of the positive majority. Competition is formed in order to be ingratiated to those in positions of power or those seen as possessing positive characteristics. And yet, Steinem explains, when an opportunity is created for the sharing of experiences, a sense of community emerges. A sense of sisterhood, if you will.
I admit, I've had my own problems with the notion of sisterhood. It always seemed like this sense of camaraderie between women was based upon some opposition to men (granted that was probably a very ill conceived notion of sisterhood but it's the one I understood). But in thinking about it now this sense of sisterhood is important in that it should lead us to a greater sense of community, which in turn leads us to a better understanding of the oneness of humanity as a whole. It might just be a first step. If women can see other women as more than just these characteristics assigned to them by culture and tradition then we can use this same outlook towards men.
And why sisterhood and not brotherhood?
Well brotherhood is probably also important but I think it goes back to the idea of an oppressed community. In instances of oppression, it's true that both the "oppressed" as well as the "oppressor" need time and space in which to reflect on the forces that are acting on them and causing them to behave in such a manner. I think men also need space to reflect on where they are getting understandings of manhood from.
But in response to this pattern of behavior, of underestimating and insulting women, so endemic to our culture and perpetuated by both men and women, and by social structures and institutions, lets promote this idea of sisterhood (men can promote it too!). Let's promote this idea that groups of women as well as individual women aren't dramatic, catty, manipulative gossips. They are human beings endowed with the capacity to love, reason, understand, acquire knowledge and serve their community. Let's move beyond stereotypical tropes that have been perpetuated and supported by years of subjugation, lets question cultural norms of thought and behavior, and let's support each other in the process, as we move towards an understanding of the oneness of humanity.
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Confession: I've developed a bad habit since I started this blog. My eyes and ears are always opened to any and all issues that I think might be relevant to bring up in this forum. So basically, and I think I've mentioned this here in the past, no conversation or passing comment related to women and men goes unnoticed when I'm around. It may very well end up on this blog. Names and places will always be left off but you might recognize yourself – you've been warned.
I was at a dinner the other day and for a time much of the attention was focused around this young child, who was sweetly interacting with one of the other dinner guests. Some of the other guests were commenting to each other about how cute this young boy was, and he really was, and cooing about the way he was dressed and the way he was interacting with the other guest. Then a comment from one of the side conversations caught my attention. "I really want to have all boys, girls are just too much drama", I overheard one of my friends say. The others around her nodded and spoke up in agreement, interjecting their own brief statements of why boys were preferable to girls. Boys were easy to dress, girls wouldn't let their moms dress them, boys are more easy going, girls are high maintenance – basically boys > girls.
As I sat there listening to some people I consider to be pretty amazing women, who would raise terrific women themselves, I couldn't help but wonder, where were they getting these idea from? And why was everyone so readily agreeing? Did no one think this mass generalization of boys and girls was a bit of an oversimplification of reality? Not every social situation lends itself to serious conversation about the forces that are acting upon us and causing us to accept certain beliefs as fact so I figured this was perhaps not the time in which to bring up the questions above.
This conversation actually reminded me of an article that I think has been going around from Yashar Ali, published on the Huffington Post a few days ago. In it, Ali explains how women have been constantly portrayed as emotional, hyper-sensitive and generally crazy that it impacts not only how men view and treat women but also how women view themselves. His depiction of men interacting with women under this assumption was interesting but more interesting to me was how he was describing women who bought into this idea. He describes an encounter he had with a flight attendant in which he explained that he mainly wrote about women, which caused the flight attendant to respond, "oh, about how crazy we are?"
Much like Ali, her reaction makes me rather depressed. There is very little chance of achieving gender equality, so crucial for the advancement of civilization as a whole, if women themselves hold misconceptions about women. When I was studying ISGP's document on the equality of women and men in Uganda, one of the women we studied the document with said that before we want to talk about how we can stop men from oppressing women, we have to deal with women oppressing women. She was right. The task of overlooking stereotypes and recognizing someone's true identity doesn't lie just with men interacting with women but also with women interaction with women (and men interacting with men for that matter). Essentially, you teach people how to treat you and if women can't even support other women, why would men support women? Somehow when women can make callous and careless statements about other women it makes you realize we still have a long way to go.
I've asked people to contribute to this blog and write about how they try and engender equality in their own lives and a lot have said that they don't really think they are actively contributing so they don't have much to write about. Honestly though, if one person in that room would've said something, not in a confrontation way, but in a way to invite reflection, that would've been engendering equality. We should all take time to reflect and thus become more aware of what is influencing our understanding of gender and relationships between men and women. I think any contribution to equality between women and men requires honest reflection and the realization that our actions and our beliefs are not always perfectly synced, as well as the commitment to achieve that coherence between the two.
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I'm always impressed by tough women and sweet men. When I come across individuals who hold those qualities they always stand out in my mind. I think it has something to do with the fact that they go against gender norms and undermine societal pressures to conform to a certain standard of behavior. That's the type of subversion and rebellion I can really get behind.
The three ladies who won the Nobel Peace Prize at the end of last week definitely fall into that tough lady category. Firstly, there is Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, current president of Liberia, first female president in all of Africa, nicknamed the "Iron Lady." She shares the award with her compatriot, Leymah Gbowee, founder and executive director of Women Peace and Security Network-Africa, who fought to bring an end to the civil war in Liberia, which is the focus of the documentary, "Pray the Devil Back to Hell". And finally Tawakkul Kamran, the youngest of the three, currently one of the leading activists fighting to bring peace and democracy to Yemen, has been arrested several times and received numerous death threats.
In one of the articles I was reading about these Nobel Prize winners, the author was lamenting the fact that women's issues are still considered separate issues to be highlighted and defined as its own category. It is funny that women's issues are considered a special interest when women are actually the majority of the population. But I find myself turning to cynicism sometimes when I read the news so I don't want to be cynical about this. At the same time though it's a point worth mentioning because it should help us remember that women's issues don't exist in a vacuum. When President Sirleaf promotes mandatory primary education for all Liberians, she does it to help ensure that young girls get to receive an education but she also recognizes that promoting the interests of young girls is not a standalone issue, that she has to be a promoter of education so that these girls (and boys) can help create a better future for themselves and for their country. When Leymah Gbowee mobilized Liberian women to fight to bring about the end of the war in her country she knew that the end of war would ensure peace for of all of Liberia's people. When Tawakkul Karman protests on the streets of Yemen she does so knowing that her rights are intrinsically tied to that of all Yemenites.
I don't mean to downplay what these women have accomplished in the field of the advancement of women by discussing the impact their courage has had on more than just women. But the point is that working on women's issues is working on everyone's issues. These Nobel Prize winners know that in their push for women's rights, they are working for the advancement of whole communities, whole countries. That's the reason why they dedicated their wins to all their people, both men and women, of Liberia and Yemen.
Upon handing out the prize to these three women, the Nobel committee explained, "we cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence developments at all levels of society." Actually, I'd go a little further, because I don't just think achieving the same opportunities as men is exactly the end goal these women are working towards. They aren't working towards creating spaces alongside men in broken institutions; they're demanding new institutions and social practices that ensure the prosperity of all. That's why they are undercutting the status quo. And that's what being a tough lady is all about, after all.


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Congrats on your new LCP!!! Mind if I ask what you paid?
Put a small dab of white "model" paint on the front sight. But then, the LCP is a point and shoot up close and personal weapon, not a range or plinking gun. No real need for better sights IMO....
$265. I just like something for fast front sight acquisition.
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$265. I just like something for fast front sight acquisition.
Good price!!!
Where did you buy it at. I am unable to find one around the Austin, TX. area.
I know it's not in the Austin area, but if you are wanting to travel a little north this is a thread on glocktalk I ran across. I haven't delt with the guy yet, but I am also wanting the LCP and thinking about going through him.
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After procrastinating for far too long on getting a project proposal in to the OpenJDK Community Innovators' Challenge, I finally drafted and submitted a proposal to port HotSpot to Haiku, x86 just a few hours before the deadline.
Should the project be selected, Andrew and I will likely have ample motivation to accomplish the stated goals of the proposal on time. I firmly believe the goals set forth are reasonable, seeing as Andrew is a machine, and this time around I know a whole lot more about what we're doing with the VM. I should actually be able to help at this level this time. Amazing, eh?
I wrote this thing in about an hour this afternoon, called for other participants on the haiku porting project mailing list (never heard anything back) and submitted the final proposal several hours later. My apologies to anyone who may have been sleeping at that time.
I don't know what our chances of acceptance are. I have no idea. I'd like to think they're good, but I'm going to remain skeptical.
The way this challenge is structured, organizations (like Haiku itself) cannot sponsor proposals, only individuals (in teams of up to 10) can propose or sponsor proposals.
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