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- Yesterday, 21:19
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: OFFS: The Forsakening
- Replies: 7433
- Views: 438886
Re: OFFS: The Forsakening
I still think the differentiation arises as a response to the loss of legal and social sanction for transgressing gender roles. You don't need differentiated clothing if "female" can be defined and identified by "ability to get a credit card without a man cosigning." This also explains why places l...
- Yesterday, 13:42
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: OFFS: The Forsakening
- Replies: 7433
- Views: 438886
Re: OFFS: The Forsakening
Honestly, on reflection, if the net effect of such a law was that a department store simply stopped separating boys' and girls' clothing into two different store locations and stopped identifying clothing items as specifically for boys or girls, I don't see the big deal. That's not to say I think t...
- Yesterday, 12:21
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: OFFS: The Forsakening
- Replies: 7433
- Views: 438886
Re: OFFS: The Forsakening
But they all get such good educat...oh, right.D.A. Ridgely wrote: ↑26 Feb 2021, 14:33Unfortunately, the citizens in question are Californians.thoreau wrote: ↑26 Feb 2021, 13:50Some problems require citizens' initiatives.Hugh Akston wrote: ↑26 Feb 2021, 13:44 Is there any problem that California can't solve with legislation?
- 26 Feb 2021, 13:50
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: OFFS: The Forsakening
- Replies: 7433
- Views: 438886
Re: OFFS: The Forsakening
Some problems require citizens' initiatives.Hugh Akston wrote: ↑26 Feb 2021, 13:44 Is there any problem that California can't solve with legislation?
- 26 Feb 2021, 13:40
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: OFFS: The Forsakening
- Replies: 7433
- Views: 438886
Re: OFFS: The Forsakening
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1084 55.8. (a) A retail department store that offers childcare items for sale shall maintain one undivided area of its sales floor where the majority of the childcare items being offered shall be displayed, regardless of...
- 26 Feb 2021, 11:59
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: No Sandwich is Safe: The Joe Biden Presidency
- Replies: 138
- Views: 3788
- 26 Feb 2021, 02:48
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Is the ACLU getting too Woke?
- Replies: 248
- Views: 35604
Re: Is the ACLU getting too Woke?
Anyway, now I know how to keep these damn woke kids off my lawn: Tell them it isn't designated for their skin tone. The ACLU will back me on this.
- 25 Feb 2021, 18:53
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Is the ACLU getting too Woke?
- Replies: 248
- Views: 35604
Re: Is the ACLU getting too Woke?
I'm disappointed in the ACLU here, but not surprised by Smith. This is the same college whose engineering department professors publish papers to complain that engineering is inherently sexist because it requires "rigor," remember. Actual footage of that article being written: https://www.youtube.c...
- 25 Feb 2021, 18:43
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Is the ACLU getting too Woke?
- Replies: 248
- Views: 35604
Re: Is the ACLU getting too Woke?
I originally posted the NYT story about an alleged racist incident at Smith College in another thread. But then I noticed this detail: Smith College officials emphasized “reconciliation and healing” after the incident. In the months to come they announced a raft of anti-bias training for all staff,...
- 25 Feb 2021, 17:18
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Is the ACLU getting too Woke?
- Replies: 248
- Views: 35604
Re: Is the ACLU getting too Woke?
I originally posted the NYT story about an alleged racist incident at Smith College in another thread. But then I noticed this detail: Smith College officials emphasized “reconciliation and healing” after the incident. In the months to come they announced a raft of anti-bias training for all staff, ...
- 23 Feb 2021, 23:13
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: You Learn Something New Every Day
- Replies: 4525
- Views: 322936
Re: You Learn Something New Every Day
Greta Thunberg's mother is an opera singer. I've actually seen videos of a few of her performances. She brings good comedic acting to the opera.
- 23 Feb 2021, 14:41
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: No Sandwich is Safe: The Joe Biden Presidency
- Replies: 138
- Views: 3788
Re: No Sandwich is Safe: The Joe Biden Presidency
That's fair.Eric the .5b wrote: ↑23 Feb 2021, 14:10 This merits distrustful watching, but it looks like an improvement to me.
- 23 Feb 2021, 13:52
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: No Sandwich is Safe: The Joe Biden Presidency
- Replies: 138
- Views: 3788
Re: No Sandwich is Safe: The Joe Biden Presidency
I know. Still, I remember when Joe From Lol explained to me that Obama's operation of Gitmo was totally different from W's. And on some level he was right, and on another level I was still like "Yeah, this is all we get? Shit."
- 23 Feb 2021, 13:26
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: No Sandwich is Safe: The Joe Biden Presidency
- Replies: 138
- Views: 3788
Re: No Sandwich is Safe: The Joe Biden Presidency
Christ. A new detention facility for immigrant kids.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... story.html
- 21 Feb 2021, 11:32
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Worthwhile intertubez finds
- Replies: 12512
- Views: 1039370
Re: Worthwhile intertubez finds
Still, I understand what t is saying. I remember the kerfuffle over the Mapplethorpe exhibit. There were some lines drawn and you knew who was on which side of them. Pretty much this. Whatever the big advocacy groups were doing, you knew that your liberal friends generally didn't get too worked up ...
- 20 Feb 2021, 19:14
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Worthwhile intertubez finds
- Replies: 12512
- Views: 1039370
Re: Worthwhile intertubez finds
I can't help thinking that it's not the worst idea on the left to have some fucking rules. Absolutely. It still seems, though, like the rules are solely about interactions between persons and less about personal restraint. On one level that seems sensible, because the problems happen when people in...
- 20 Feb 2021, 14:56
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Worthwhile intertubez finds
- Replies: 12512
- Views: 1039370
Re: Worthwhile intertubez finds
I re-read the Kipnis essay after reading these two articles:
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the ... tereotypes
https://www.thesgnl.com/2021/02/literary-canon-memes/
They are the context for the valuable points that I see Kipnis as getting at.
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the ... tereotypes
https://www.thesgnl.com/2021/02/literary-canon-memes/
They are the context for the valuable points that I see Kipnis as getting at.
- 20 Feb 2021, 14:46
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Worthwhile intertubez finds
- Replies: 12512
- Views: 1039370
Re: Worthwhile intertubez finds
I don't think everyone can or should be as Bohemian and free-spirited as Kipnis desires. I read Kipnis less for a final verdict than a point to consider along the way. I agree with her that shifting scolding from the right to the left has made the culture more boring. Also, I think lefty scolds have...
- 20 Feb 2021, 11:50
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Worthwhile intertubez finds
- Replies: 12512
- Views: 1039370
Re: Worthwhile intertubez finds
A Laura Kipnis essay on transgression: http://laurakipnis.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Transgression-an-Elegy.pdf Transgression has been replaced by trauma as the cultural concept of the hour: making rules rather than breaking them has become the signature aesthetic move, that’s just how it is, th...
- 19 Feb 2021, 11:20
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Private Money!
- Replies: 831
- Views: 100380
Re: Private Money!
Yes, I'm sure that this guy has figured it out. Definitely.
- 18 Feb 2021, 17:14
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Observations of the Random sort
- Replies: 9333
- Views: 529419
Re: Observations of the Random sort
And when they came to the shores of America they met another people who were living in peace and plenty, in perfect harmony with nature. But a serpent whispered in their ears and said "Behold, your skin is different from theirs! Surely this is a mark of God's favor! Why should you be content with an...
- 18 Feb 2021, 16:28
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Observations of the Random sort
- Replies: 9333
- Views: 529419
Re: Observations of the Random sort
In the beginning, the Europeans had simple lives of harmony and cooperation under Social Democrat and Labour parties. There was peace and abundance. Then the right-wing Americans came from across the sea and taught them capitalism. This upset their traditional ways and there was disharmony. Many peo...
- 18 Feb 2021, 10:41
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: This is the thread for people who died, died.
- Replies: 2858
- Views: 274155
Re: This is the thread for people who died, died.
I used to listen to him on occasion in the early 90's. Before Clinton won he had a sense of humor. Very partisan humor, sometimes mean spirited, but humor. Lots of songs, sound effects, impersonations, gags, etc.
After Clinton won he just ranted.
After Clinton won he just ranted.
- 18 Feb 2021, 00:47
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: We know the Russians love their children too
- Replies: 212
- Views: 23850
Re: We know the Russians love their children too
The actress who played Paige is in a new Netflix horror series, The Unsettling. The series is meh. But I can't wait for her character to learn her foster parents' big secret. "I've gotten worse revelations."
- 17 Feb 2021, 23:57
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Observations of the Random sort
- Replies: 9333
- Views: 529419
Re: Observations of the Random sort
A discussion of money in ancient Mesopotamia. At 9:10 they say that 8 grams of silver could buy 300 liters of barley. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/20-xiaoli-ouyang-silver-in-sumer-money-in-mesopotamia/id1534428319?i=1000508489727 Nowadays 8 grams of silver is about $7. A bushel of barley (...