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“From corporate boardrooms to government chambers, research continues to show that women are interrupted more often than men. A pioneering 1975 study carried out by sociologists Don Zimmerman and Candace West examined overheard 31 conversations between various combinations of people and found that in the 11 conversations between men and women studied, men were behind all but one interruption recorded.
Similarly, a more recent study conducted in 2014 found that a woman was more likely to be interrupted (by both men and women) than a man was. In a separate but more informal study conducted that same year, Kieran Snyder observed 900 minutes of conversations between men and women working in the tech industry. The study found that men interrupted others twice as often as women did and were nearly three times as likely to interrupt a woman as they were a man.”
Occasionally I like to remind people of the overlap between social justice issues (like feminism) and manners, like here showing that women are interrupted more than men.
In general, if you have a lower place in society (being a woman, a person of color, an immigrant, disabled, LGBT+, etc) you will find yourself on the receiving end of more rude and inconsiderate behavior, such as being interrupted more.
In the mid to late 2010’s I do feel like this was discussed more, and maybe it’s just my personal bubble I’m in, but I don’t see people talking about this as much as it was talked about 5-10 years ago.
I also saw it talked about more 5-10 years ago that women generally get bumped into more than men, and men bump into people (especially women) more than women do, because people (especially men) expect women to move out of their way, and generally people are more likely to just move out of a man’s way.
Everyone deserves the basic respect of being able to finish their sentences and have their personal space bubble respected, not just society’s most privileged.
Art in the Age of Digital Puritanism (2022) by Iness Rychlik The artist reposted it in 2024 "because it feels relevant in social media today".
this is so beautiful
do you ever just sit and realize how insane people have acted towards you
I love when kids mention media you were enjoying before they were even born and you're like "i know that media" and they're like
>: O !!!!!!!!!!!!
today a kid opened the door to the nature center over his toe and took off the entire toenail. blood everywhere. i brought out one of our snakes for him to interact with while his mom patched him up with our first-aid kit. his two sisters, no older than 10, asked its name. i said we don't name our wild animals in this center. they asked if they could give it an honorary name only they'll know and i said that's fine. one of them said, "okay, Toriel!" I said, "from Undertale?"
They went Bananas
not media and i think i posted about this before but last autumn i was chaperoning a bunch of kids on a tour at a dairy farm and they had time to pet some of the baby goats (aka 'kids') so when we had to go i said "all kids who are human need to make their way to the pasture gate" and one of the girls said "what if I'm a therian?" clearly expecting to stump me but I said "okay, do you identify as a goat?" and she went " : O ! no!" and i said "then out of the pasture" and she skedaddled
this is one of the really funny things about teaching middle school. last year at one point a kid I didn't really know came up and asked me a silly zany question obviously with the attempt to like. befuddle and frustrate me, as an """"Old Person""""". but they gravely miscalculated. because the question they asked was, "What are your Homestuck headcannons"
