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Harry Clarke’s illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 1919 

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It’s ironic.

When I worked in fast food for minimum wage, they would yell at us and lecture us about “stealing” fries and burgers (while we had to throw out TONS of food every day) as though the giant billion-dollar corporations of McDonald’s and Sonic couldn’t afford to give their employees something to eat (while not even paying us a living wage).

Now I work at an upscale restaurant (it’s fancy, like celebrities eat there fairly often) and not only do I make WAY better money but they give us 2 free meals a day (eaten on the clock) and they’re GOOD. Today I got baked cod, spring rolls, rice pilaf, stir fry, and mashed potatoes and eggplant. Oh, and free espresso and juice. From this restaurant owned by a local man who is in no way a billionaire.

Obviously money is not the issue, valuing your employees as people is.

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Congratulations Lady Gaga for your Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television.

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After discussing the lack of women in STEM fields and the degrading way that the female biological sex is often referred to by scientists and scientific studies during class this week, I started thinking a lot about how stereotypes start at such a young age through the mass production and advertisement of toys. Maybe, if there were more toys that encouraged young girls to play with concepts revolving around math and science, more girls would grow up to pursue STEM careers. In order to change the way that gender is discussed by the scientific community, it is necessary to employ more women in STEM fields. In this article, there are some awesome pictures of toys that defy typical stereotypes and encourage boys and girls to play with whatever they want to play with, regardless of the harmful stereotypical gender beliefs our society still has today.