According to a recent study conducted by Loughborough University’s Sleep Research Center in England, women need to sleep somewhere around 20 minutes more than men, Woman’s Day reports. The study followed 210 middle-aged men and women.
i just remembered that my older cat used to sit on the printer and she figured out that pressing the test button would print something out and warm the printer so we had to put a screen over the button bc she was printing up to 30 test sheets per day
*me, shaking my girlfriend awake at 3 am* it’s pretty fucked up that jar jar is almost solely responsible for palpatine’s rise to power. and how could jar jar have gone from outcast to general to senator so quickly? if he’s really a bumbling idiot, why would he get promoted like that? and how did his speech convince a divided senate to abandon democracy and give palpatine absolute power? the only explanation is that he was using force mind tricks to further the rise of the empire. jar jar is a sith lord. are you awake emily? he’s a sith
when male academics constantly refer to men by their surnames and women by their first names
like you’d never go to a lecture expecting shakespeare to be referred to as “william” but it’s not at all uncommon to sit through an entire lecture in which jane austen is referred to constantly as “jane”
it’s such a petty thing but it just really rubs me the wrong way, like it has a real suggestion of respect and admiration/lack thereof