"We play at paste,
Till qualified for pearl,
Then drop the paste,
And deem ourself a fool.
The shapes, though, were similar,
And our new hands
Learned gem-tactics
Practising sands."
-Emily Dickinson
Unlike tumblr, tumblr is capable of recording and transmitting at the same tumblr – producing tumblr.
I missed, unfortunately, the conversation on lesbianism, which I was sort of (sort of) nervous/happy to hear in the office.
I don’t think it is a mistake that a joke about woman-beating followed a conversation on lesbianism.
The joke itself was followed by repeated protestations/prostrations about how no-one was being serious and how they are just not interested in being “PC.”
They said that as if it were in fact the punch-line; as if their non-PC stance made it okay to tell a totally fucked up joke.
I don’t have delusions about men. I know that men hate me. I also know hate speech when I hear it. The lesbians (at least 3! yay!) in my office can joke about lesbianism. But no-one should joke about beating women.
Even if he hadn’t said it and still held those beliefs, he wouldn’t have harmed me in this instance. But his saying it directly harms all of the women in the office (and women generally) by reinforcing totally fucked up thought patterns under the guise of humor.
@1 year ago
“Truth is something that we can all have an opinion and argue about” (29 min).
Ok, this is hilarious and likely NOT what he meant to say at all — it beautifully makes the point of the program, and taken at face-value it makes my point/interest in the story. Also I’m pretty sure he wasn’t listening to the articulate, insightful (female) caller that he was responding to.
“I hate this wretched willow soul of mine, patiently enduring, plaited or twisted by other hands.” - Karin Boye
shit… shit…
The FOOD bubble and Wall Street: streaming NPR / Harper’s article
saw this for the first time at MOMA last weekend except, ya know, not on a tshirt. (still processing that trip.)
I missed, unfortunately, the conversation on lesbianism, which I was sort of (sort of) nervous/happy to hear in the office.
I don’t think it is a mistake that a joke about woman-beating followed a conversation on lesbianism.
The joke itself was followed by repeated protestations/prostrations about how no-one was being serious and how they are just not interested in being “PC.”
They said that as if it were in fact the punch-line; as if their non-PC stance made it okay to tell a totally fucked up joke.
I don’t have delusions about men. I know that men hate me. I also know hate speech when I hear it. The lesbians (at least 3! yay!) in my office can joke about lesbianism. But no-one should joke about beating women.
Even if he hadn’t said it and still held those beliefs, he wouldn’t have harmed me in this instance. But his saying it directly harms all of the women in the office (and women generally) by reinforcing totally fucked up thought patterns under the guise of humor.
“Truth is something that we can all have an opinion and argue about” (29 min).
Ok, this is hilarious and likely NOT what he meant to say at all — it beautifully makes the point of the program, and taken at face-value it makes my point/interest in the story. Also I’m pretty sure he wasn’t listening to the articulate, insightful (female) caller that he was responding to.
