Monday, March 8, 2010

Class

Jeff Sachs loves to beat a dead horse. That being said have any of ya'll seen this weeks ecnomist on gendercide? I know you get that shit at home Liz. 124 boys born for every 100 girls in China right now. WOW. With the sheer scale of their population, that means 40 million men MORE than women, 40 million shiftless men without possible wives in their peer group. Apparently that number is comparable to the total amount of young men in the US.

and thoughts on undergrads. So well dressed and so insufferable. My portuguese class makes me go to Columbia undergrad world and I can no longer take the liberal arts slant that I was enchanted with in college. "We enforce inequalities primarily through our language which reproduces the dominant and oppressive hierarchy." I had to control myself from giving the bullshit cough. I want to deal in antiretrovirals, population growth rates, financial disbursement to women-led households to solve inequalities. Then maybe we can get around to our the massive problem of language.

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