{"id":550,"date":"2012-10-18T22:36:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T02:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyrun.com\/wordpress\/?p=550"},"modified":"2012-10-18T22:36:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T02:36:50","slug":"what-really-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"What Really Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an interesting week for conversations about women in the United States. \u00a0Mitt Romney&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/video\/presidential-debate-mitt-romneys-binders-full-of-women-17496739\">binders full of women quote<\/a> during the debate became <a href=\"http:\/\/bindersfullofwomen.tumblr.com\/\">an instant meme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Upon returning from a conference, a psychobiologist <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/10\/18\/why-casual-sexism-in-science-m.html\">posted a snarky status to Facebook<\/a> describing his disappointment with the large percentage of unattractive women he encountered and wondering where the supermodels were. His post quickly became public and the subject of outrage by women. The <a href=\"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/drugmonkey\/2012\/10\/17\/sfn-2012-professors-behaving-badly\/\">comment thread on the Drugmonkey blog<\/a> that reposted the original remarks puts the state of Venus and Mars in the US in stark contrast.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>How fortunate we are here in the United States to be able to have these kinds of conversations. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Pakistan on Tuesday (the same day as the binders quote), a <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2012\/10\/09\/world\/asia\/pakistan-teen-activist-attack\/index.html?hpt=hp_t1\">14-year-old was shot<\/a>\u00a0and severely wounded when the Taliban opened fire on the van in which she was riding with some schoolmates. Her crime? <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7834402.stm\">Blogging<\/a> about her fears of the Taliban and her desire for education, something banned by the extremist group. \u00a0CNN commentator Frida Ghitis calls it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/10\/10\/opinion\/ghitis-malala-yousufzai\/index.html\">&#8220;a brutally anti-woman ideology<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In a world of constant conversation, the really important things can get drowned out.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an interesting week for conversations about women in the United States. \u00a0Mitt Romney&#8217;s binders full of women quote during the debate became an instant meme. 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