What You See Changes How You Hear

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The mgurk illusion is a powerful example of cross modal perception. What you see changes how you hear, and i think this is an unrecognized problem in how women are perceived in public. I was reading a fascinating article last week from the washington post. Alexandra petrie imagined the following thing. She came up with a number of key statements that a woman would have to say them in order not to be eved as aggressive. So i'll give you a couple. Give me liberty or give me death. Was the original one, as a man might say it. To be perceived as non aggressive, a woman would has to say, dave, if i could just,

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Washington power player who upset the feminist applecart. At the peak of her career — as first female Director of Policy Planning at the US State Department — she turned her back on her dream job with Hillary Clinton in order to spend more time with her teenage sons. How, cried her contemporaries, could she have sacrificed her high-powered career for her family? Slaughter’s ensuing article for The Atlantic, ‘Why Women Still Can’t Have It All’, went viral, sparking furious debate about how men and women juggle their working lives. Having it all, Slaughter argued, remained a mirage. Women who managed to be both mothers and top professionals were either ‘superhuman, rich or self-employed’. On January 26, Anne-Marie Slaughter came to the Intelligence Squared stage, together with Amanda Foreman, award-winning historian and presenter of the recent BBC documentary series The Ascent of Woman, which charts the role of women in society over 10,000 years. They were joined by...

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