It's interesting that Jezebel is responding to the justified anger people have over posting a rape victim's image on their site by moving threads and un-starring people. I'm sure some people would argue it's off-topic, but it seems obvious that the posters who were removed are trying to get some kind of response for a really, really foul move. Well, bye-bye Jezebel. I could use more time in my day anyway.
It's not about the reader, it's about the victim. She didn't or can't consent to this.
UGH BULLSHIT. I read that article too, and this is not that. A white woman has a certain privilege over a black guy but this is not it. Lindsay Lohan accusing a black guy of joy riding is that. This guy was hanging out in an alley at 11:45 and starts talking to a woman walking alone. That's creepy no matter what. He made it about race. I have had this happen, too. I had a guy follow me around while I was walking by myself. I've had the same thing happen with white guys. And he made it about race, too. "Why don't you want to talk to me? It's because I'm black, isn't it?" And I felt bad. But it was 2 in the morning and there was no one else on the street. Am I supposed to talk to a sketchy dude so I don't come across as racist? That seems racist to me.
And regarding that article, white women do not have 100% privilege over black guys in every context. In that picture of the women with Obama the white privilege is clear. Reading the idea that raping white women was a revolutionary act in Soul on Ice, it seemed to me that the male privilege had the upper hand. The way that racial and sexual privilege interact is not absolute or simple, and I think that's represented in the comedy act.
I think Ever was addressing the racial aspect of what happened.
And regarding that article, white women do not have 100% privilege over black guys in every context. In that picture of the women with Obama the white privilege is clear. Reading the idea that raping white women was a revolutionary act in Soul on Ice, it seemed to me that the male privilege had the upper hand. The way that racial and sexual privilege interact is not absolute or simple, and I think that's represented in the comedy act.
I think Ever was addressing the racial aspect of what happened.
You obviously haven't taught. You can read in the lines of the post above that teaching is not an eight hour a day job, and it is not a job you can leave at work. It is your whole life. I know this because I'm a teacher. Since I teach ESL at a private school, I get three weeks vacation, not three months, but holy shit do I need those three weeks. Three months is totally fair for 1) the accountability you have since you're working with children 2) the all-day-ness of the job and 3) the crappy pay.
Just last week an old lady gave me a rose outside of Planned Parenthood and I told her to pray for my cyst. As someone who never wants to get an abortion, that place is a miracle for middle-class to low-income women. So... shut up.
I remember reading about some controversy about the study in The Neanderthal Enigma. It seems that, at least as of the printing of the books, the sequence in which you put the information in would lead to different mitochondrial common points. There is also this:
"The use of mitochondrial mtDNA to investigate human history is not without drawbacks.
The rate of mtDNA mutation is not well known. A study by Parsons et al. (1997) found a rate 20 times higher than that calculated from other sources. In an article reviewing mtDNA research, Strauss (1999a) reports that mtDNA mutation rates differ in some groups of animals, and can even vary dramatically in single lineages. Although there are many agreements, some divergence dates for modern animals calculated from mtDNA do not match with what is known from the fossil record. There are suggestions from a few sources that paternal mtDNA can sometimes be inherited, which could affect analyses based on mtDNA.
In 1999 Awadalla et al. published a study suggesting that mtDNA could sometimes be inherited from fathers. If mtDNA is inherited only from mothers, the correlation between different mutations should not depend on how far apart on the genome they were. Instead, their measurements showed that mutations at distant sites on the mtDNA genome were less likely to be correlated than nearby mutations, suggesting that mtDNA from mothers and fathers could sometimes get mixed. However, there is no explanation so far as to how this recombination could be occurring, and the possibility that other phenomena could be causing this effect has not yet been disproved. If it occurs, mixing would mean that the dates from current mtDNA studies would be too old. If mixing is common enough, it could even mean that there was no mitochondrial Eve, because different parts of the mtDNA molecule would have different histories. (Awadalla et al. 1999, Strauss 1999b) Other studies, however, have contradicted these results and argued for strictly maternal mtDNA inheritance (Elson et al. 2001), and, according to Sykes (2001), the Awadalla paper and another paper which also suggested that mtDNA could be inherited paternally were based on incorrect data and were later retracted."
Do these fucking retards realize that women go into these places in order to take care of their vaginas and have healthy babies, too? I was offered a rose by some dumbass outside the Boston Planned Parenthood and I was like, yeah, lady, pray for my fucking cyst.
I'm pretty sure the rubber band thing is used all the time in topology talk. You can slip a rubber band off a sphere easily, it's true. However, I think in the way you're talking about it, you think (or you're leading people to think) the irregularity of the shape could break the rubber band. That's not true. You can have an irregularly shaped blob, and slip a rubber band on and off it. It won't be easy but it's theoretically possible- it's a rubber band. But if you take a donut and put a rubber band around the ring, so that it's actually going through the hole and enclosing itself in the "outer part" of the donut, you couldn't possibly get it off without breaking it. That's why a sphere and a blob are topologically the same, but a donut is topologically different. Now to me the horned sphere looks more like a donut than a sphere-- in fact I'm really confused how you're getting sphere or sphere properties at all from it. So let's say it's like a donut and we're putting the rubber band through the middle of it. Then yes, it's clearly different from a sphere (I still don't understand how it is similar from a topological viewpoint). Additionally, however, I'm not sure that fractal ever closes in on itself. So it might be possible to very cleverly extricate that rubber band from the horned donut. I'm not a topologist so I might totally be wrong, but that's my two cents.
First of all, the reason I brought up Asian leads is because you did. Second, my point is you don't point at any one of the white people-lead movies and say "See? White people just don't make money." The point is there are hardly any Asian-lead movies, or POC movies out there IN THE FIRST PLACE, and when they're out there, they aren't given wide openings, so it's fallacious to point at that and say POC-lead movies just don't make money. I mean if you count Harold and Kumar as a flop, which I wouldn't until the final tallies are made, that's what, one-out-of-one? Hardly proof. The only movies I can think of with All-Asian casts are foreign movies with the exception of Better Luck Tomorrow, which wasn't given a wide release. Harold and Kumar isn't all-Asian or all-POC for that matter. And those foreign movies actually did well, especially considering how allergic American audiences are to subtitles. I mean, if you gave even 20 POC-lead movies a wide release you might be able to make an argument about how American audiences won't pay money to see POC leads. But if the movies aren't coming out in the first place then the problem is the people making those movies. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy more than anything, really. With the perception that POC leads don't make money, no movies with POC ensembles or leads will get made, and then people say things like "How many films with Asian leads have been huge hits here?" and draw the conclusion that people won't spend money on Asian leads.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The House of the Flying Dragon--considering those were the very few Chinese movies actually given wide release, that's pretty good- and they weren't even speaking English. Hollywood apparently learned from those movies' success and... never gave any other Chinese or Korean movies wide success, despite their success in iTunes and on Hulu. And I hear those Harold and Kumar movies are pretty popular. Seeing as that's the only movie other than Better Luck Tomorrow that actually has a predominantly Asian cast that I know of at all (and I know lots of indie movies) that's also pretty good. I think you need more Asian-lead movies to be given a wide release and fail for you to draw the conclusion you're drawing. It seems to me the problem is that they're not given a chance to fail in the first place.
Angelina Jolie had played a few characters that were originally black, and I'm pretty sure there's talk of some black-to-white whitewashing in The Dark Tower, so I would not actually be surprised.
I would never call Audition torture porn. Yes, it engaged with the "Bad guy"'s point of view, but that wasn't just a standard killer. I feel like it was an exploration of monsters being made by monsters in her case. And the characters were so well done. It's part and parcel of any horror movie that we're meant to enjoy the violence on some level, so I wouldn't use sadism as the benchmark to differentiate between torture porn and not-torture-porn. I feel like character definition, plot development, and overall quality have more to do with it.
... which is part of the reason they can be so ridiculously intolerant towards non-native speakers. I've heard people yell "Speak American" to intermediate-level speakers, and this is one of the hardest languages in the world to speak. Meanwhile French people will smile at you for simply asking if they speak English using French.
"Obviously don't throw tampons or sanitary products in the toilet if you're not sure the plumbing system can handle it." Please explain to me which plumbing systems can handle this. My house was recently the 600 dollar victim of some damn idiot who flushed her pad down the toilet. I have no sympathy whatsoever. WHAT TOILET IS OKAY WITH THAT, hmm?
I used to hate it before I went to Korea. It's so much better to be in a room with your friends and do it. You won't have to suffer through 10 songs before it's your turn and you don't have to stand in front of everyone.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the actual discoverer of Stigler's law.
Every time I read one of your posts on childbirth I see comments that take issue with any negativity in the post. For the record, I don't find your posts negative, they are much more restrained than I would feel if I were pregnant for the first time, being a bit of a tocophobe. But can we just take a breath and be adults and realize these posts are clearly not meant to be representative of the whole of childbirthing experience? If Tracie wants to talk about vaginas tearing apart and pooping and C-section scars, more power to her. The overwhelming bulk of discussion of pregnancy that I come across is almost delusionally positive. There should be a place to discuss (in a funny, refreshing way) about things that some might say are negative or superficial or whatever.
