Based on this title tonight, it should be obvious what we mostly talk about. Feminism! Mostly in the form of roller derby, but also other stuff. And throat punching. And nostalgia. Good times, good times. Enjoy!
QUESTIONS:
What was the last thing you were nostalgic about? –Anonymous
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OK, now I’m so curious about what the lil nin-jas are up to in Tony’s head.
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–DkyXnBaH–/18vit3ax3fm83jpg.jpg
Men’s Studies is suuuuch a different thing than Men’s Rights. Men’s Studies draws attention to the fact that masculinity is a constructed idea, rather than just thinking, well, we’re all just human (without seeing how human=male). Men’s Rights groups seem to focus on the question of whether women are sexually available to them.
I’m quoting/paraphrasing here from an article by Toril Moi (“Feminist, Female, Feminine”) that I sent Will recently in which she describes three stages of feminism:
1. Women demand equal access (Liberal feminism. Equality)
2. Women reject the patriarchal status quo (Radical feminism. Femininity extolled)
3. Women reject the dichotomy between masculine and feminine as metaphysical.
“We still need to claim our place in human society as equals, not as subordinate members, and we still need to emphasise that difference between male and female
experience of the world. But that difference is shaped by the patriarchal structures feminists arc opposing; and to remain faithful to it, is to play the patriarchal game. Nevertheless, as long as patriarchy is dominant, it still remains politically essential for feminists to defend women as women in order to counteract the patriarchal oppression that precisely despises women as women. But an ‘undeconstructcd’ form of ‘stage 2’ feminism, unaware of the metaphysical nature of gender identities, runs the risk of becoming an inverted form of sexism. It does so by uncritically taking over the very metaphysical categories set up by patriarchy in order to keep women in their place, despite attempts to attach new feminist values to these old categories.”
I think there’s some sociological evidence that income positively influences levels of happiness, psychological well-being, etc. up to some level and then it plateaus.
Learn 2 Math:
Let me see, four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is……oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!
7 times 13 is 28.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xv2284_abbott-costello-in-the-navy-7-into-28-goes-13-times_fun
Memo to Lou Abbott and Bud Costello: For the following sketch, please consider 13 to be in base 4. 🙂
My grandma’s version of this is painted SO much better, and this one doesn’t appear to be made to light up, but this is generally what the thing looks like…
https://www.etsy.com/listing/249149089/witch-pumpkin-vintage-1972-byron-molds?ref=market
Interesting…
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/351470918777
Notice how the woman isn’t unattractive at all, and my grandma didn’t try to make her “ugly” by giving her warts and such. When I was little, I didn’t think the witch was ugly. But I did think she looked a little crazy or unhinged, and that unnerved me. Then when her eyes lit up… so creepy and so awesome at the same time!
When I look at her today, she doesn’t look “crazed” to me at all, just happy and, honestly, quite beautiful. It probably says something not entirely positive about my recent state of mind that I draw such comfort from the thing but, hey… Halloween’s only once a year. 🙂
How many people does William have inside his head?
I used to have a lots of voices in my head, then I replaced most of them with very small shell scripts.
Calvinball: I understood that reference.
Economical Servants: So you’re saying you work cheap?
I don’t think there’s a limit to the number of voices in my head. Especially considering that each of those voices probably has an unlimited number of voices in *its* head, such as it is.
Minds are fractal, I think.
Though I’m beginning to suppose that the “worlds” of the other fractal levels are quite different from ours. Starting at our level, I think worlds are more mutable as one zooms in, and less mutable as one zooms out.
I wonder if anyone has considered doing “Fractal Fairytales”–that would be awesome.
Oo… yeah…