Society
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Society
Who invented the computer? Most of us immediately think of Steve jobs and Steve Woznick. Or perhaps even, Alan Turing, Charles Babbage, Konrad Zuse, or the IBM team of Bill Lowe, and Don Estridge in Boca Raton, Florida who, with a group of 12 strategists, worked around the clock to manufacture and promote of a computer Or perhaps you might think of the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient hand powered Greek analogue computer which has also been described as the first example of such a device, but we do not know who created it.
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Society
Who knows how many social and culture advances have been lost to the biased and inaccurate recording of women’s accomplishments throughout history? How many ideas have been lost, destroyed or simply overlooked by male historians? I suspect a great many. Have you heard of Emilie Du Chatelet, Sophie Germain, Mary Somerville, Ada Lovelace or Hypatia? Just a few female mathematicians who precede the women of Hidden Figures. I do not suggest that the women of Hidden Figures are not critical to our history in any way, I am merely pointing out that the struggle to value women has been going on for eons.
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Society
https://www.bl.uk/medieval-literature/articles/womens-voices-in-the-medieval-period
Since I love writing on a plethora of different topics; sometimes for my own perusal, sometimes to help other people with their writing, sometimes just reading and hearing about authors, I thought I would look for a female writer in my favorite historical era- Medieval History. After searching and ‘googling’ I discovered the first known female writer in France, Christine de Pizan (1364 – c. 1430), a poet and author at the court of King Charles VI of France. In fact, she was a feminist writer! Why have I never heard of her before? Oh, yeah, because men have dominated the writing and teaching of history in their favor.
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Society
I don’t know about you but I have become tired of the ‘just the way things are’ miasma surrounding our culture. In particular, I’m tired of the avarice of the ‘old white Christian male’ that has dominated our society for so long. This is not to say that ALL old white men are bad, or that Christianity, itself is bad. I am talking about the dogma of ‘old white Christian men’, one can be female and have this outlook, one can be of another race and have the attitude that they are dominant, of wealth at all cost, and of profit over humanity and environment mentality. There are many men of differing races and beliefs who join women in the Women’s March, supporting wives, sisters, mothers, cousins and female friends. One can be a very young man and have the philosophy of the OWCM (old white Christian male). It’s the philosophy and dominance that needs to change. Men are not the only ones that can create, write, earn, espouse their opinions, and make decisions, lead or act on behalf of the world at large. Women are just as capable. In fact, there is a plethora of documentation about the works of women in cultures that have been ignored by our history books and schools and while this is changing, of which I am happy to witness, we still have a long way to go before gender is not the first thing or even considered at all in who we hire, who we elect, who we worship and who we admire. I intend to use this space to bring women and their achievements to light. I will begin with Ms. Lewis.
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Society
Sometimes it takes a long time to get a message through, even to myself. Like maybe 50 years. However late, I finally received it. My parents started the message, my college professors endorsed it, a tiny fraction of the media kept pushing it, I sort of believed it but never fully embraced it, life experience forced me to live it and finally after reading the November issue of National Geographic I fully absorbed the message.
- Category: Society
And now for something completely different...
So, this is America in the 21st Century. Call me old-fashioned, but when I was growing up back in the day, this country was a major source of pride for most of its citizens. Sure we had problems. Things like wealth inequality, racism, gender supresion, international threats and nukes were just the tip of the iceberg. And regardless of which side you landed on these problems, we could all at least come together around the holidays and have some fun.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Society
We say the cause if opioids. –
Or anabolic steroids.
We blame the guns with rapid fire,
Assuming they translate our ire.
- Written by: Infected Blood Comics
- Category: Society
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But instead, you had to go to the Dominican Republic, eh? As if that country didn't have enough problems, already. I'll get back to this.
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Society
Just because you move away from alcohol, just because you divorce yourself from a spouse who is drinking or an alcoholic relative dies and you think you are free, you are not. Alcoholism has far reaching tentacles that follow you around and tap you on the shoulder, “Hi, it’s me again. I never went away, I just got a new body.” Alcoholism will always find you- you cannot run away from it. You may be sitting placidly in a restaurant with friends and there it will be at the next table, a woman arguing loudly with her husband, not caring who hears, slurring her words while her husband tries to shush her. He thinks he has her under control. He doesn’t. Alcoholism is the dinosaur in every room, there is no blanket big enough for you to throw over it, there is no closet large enough to fit it. It touches every life somehow, someway.
