Thursday, October 26, 2006

Grumpy?

As any good anthropologist will tell you categories like race, age, gender, sexuality and the character traits that go with them are social constructions. Essentialisms whose positivist geneology is traceable and part of the power structure to keep old-white-heterosexual-male as the power centre in modern western society. with this defense i thought i should put forward some interesting research no doubt designed to further the constructed differences between men and women.

here goes:

A recent report by the sleep council (i know what a silly name) finds "women are officially more grumpy than men in the mornings... Not only are women grumpier than men first thing, but their foul mood also lasts longer"

read more here

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