Long over due:
Top story: A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source
I first saw an earlier version of this story when I was reading a blog a few weeks ago. I don’t know what I would have done if wikipedia was a commonly searched source when I was in undergrad or grad school. I finished that part of my education right before wireless connections took over. I used google all the time but it was before google blogs, google maps–before many people “blogged.” The people I knew only had “online journals” at that point.
Sometimes, I do feel like I’m missing out out on a huge revolution in the way scholars are researching, citing, and using all these internet based sources. Simultaneously, I am glad that I do understand the value of a book. I know many students do understand this but relying on the internet to find an answer to a question can be a slippery slope. I am guilty of this arguably lazy dependence as well but one cannot deny the advantages of the web and all of the well-founded resources available. It just takes that discerning eye to comb through all of the links.
Other Stories:
(1) Teaching our young girls: “Being a sexual person isn’t about being a pole dancer”
(2) High school students in the Mexico given dolls to try to bring down the state’s soaring teenage pregnancy rate.
(3) Vietnamese women and Korean men make it work.
(4) The title of this piece made me look twice: Vagina Monlogues are part feminism, part fun.
Right because something can’t be feminist AND fun. A dude wrote and his article was pretty funny:
A reoccurring theme in “The Vagina Monologues” is the idea of women not really “paying attention” or “thinking about” their essence. “When was the first time you noticed your vagina?” they ask. There again, this would be impossible to ask a guy.
When was the first time you noticed your penis?
You mean the dangling appendage that hangs off of my body? Oh I’ve always been pretty freakin’ aware of it.
I mean you’re born with it, and then they cut part of it off. As I’ve written before, it’s like its own independent city-state down there.
But I’m still lost on the writer’s point with the title.
(5) And finally, there has been a lot of media given to the soap opera lifestyles of two blonde women, one recently passed away and the other “losing it.”
Sure some of it is entertaining, but as the dooce said:
I would hope that other women and other mothers are looking at her with a little bit of compassion right now, if only for the sake of those two baby boys who are innocent in all of this. She is their mother.
Anyway!