random science 8: ocean drifter

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The Guys Guide to Feminism

reblogged from: No Country for Women; originally posted April 17, 2012 by taslima 

The guy’s guide to feminism

...I finally found the book. A small green book. A guide. A to Z guide to all things feminist. It is called "The Guy’s Guide to Feminism"

I just love the book.

If you do not like to read books on feminism  by women, fine. Then read this one, written by two guys, Michael Kaufman and Michael  Kimmel. It’s funny. Remarkable. Straight to the point explanation how and why feminism improves men’s life.
There are fascinating  pieces –

”Do you believe that women should have the right to:

• Vote?
• Go to college?
• Drive a car?
• Open bank accounts in their own names?
• Enjoy sex?
• Work in whatever occupation they might choose, and get paid the same as men when they do the same work?

Did you answer yes?
Then you better lie down. . . . You’ve probably caught feminism.

The feminist contagion has spread far and wide.  It infects both women and men.  Most people in North America, Europe and many parts of the rest of the world have caught it. The terrible truth is that, nowadays, most of us support these rights and actually see them as basic rights of individuals in a democracy.”
full article here

 

The Guys Guide to Feminism

No Country for Women

spring on the Walkway

 ^^spring opens on the Donald Park Walkway

 ^^early colour, Viburnum sp.

 ^^lawn crocus, Leigh Square along Donald Street

 

^^Wilson Street entrance

 

^^the Walkway bursts into colour every spring with magnolia, rhododendron and azalea flowers

^^snake's head lilies aka checker lilies or Fritillaria meleagris, at Atkins Avenue

 

^^one of a half dozen of magnolia species along the Walkway, this one on Kelly Avenue

^^this magnolia is just north of Atkins

^^and this one just south of Atkins

 

^^pink canopy

 ^^Atkins Avenue entrance

^^this recently relandscaped section is just north of Kelly Avenue

^^ toad lilies (Erythronium pagoda) Thanks to barvinok for the i.d.

^^at Kelly Ave, looking south

 ^^just one of dozens ...

^^

^^...along the Walkway

 ^^the show continues into a neighbouring yard

 ^^camellia sp.

 ^^trillium sp.

 ^^primula cultivar

 ^^primula cultivar

^^There's a bushtit nest in the lower branches of this tree.

 ^^even up close the nest is hard to see. Many birds nest along the Walkway every spring.

Thanks to Jaguar Landscaping Services for plant identifications.