Seriously, people, did you know that Derek Jarman made music videos? I mean,
Jubilee Derek Jarman,
CaraveggioDerek Jarman, revolutionary queer artist Jarman, that Derek Jarman.
They range from quite, quite famous (Dancehall Days)... [
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Karma Chameleon. I hadn't seen this for years and years and had remembered it as a vaguely utopialy multiracial costume-heavy piece, and it
totally is! I really, really love how the story is very much about a collective rather than an... [
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And some Public Enemy videos: Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos, Fight The Power, a bunch of other ones.
And Camper Van Beethoven, Take The Skinheads Bowling. Take them bowling! I sing that one to my cat a lot, only with "kittens"... [
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You know what? I buy a lot of stuff on eBay, and "I really, really like this thing which is totally me, so please sell it to me instead of keeping it" is just
not very persuasive. The only way I would sell something that I had... [
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I am, however, perfectly happy to moan about people on Nice Ride bikes (our Boris bikes). Granted, those things are so heavy that I don't think they can be anything but a nuisance, no matter who's riding them.
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They try really, really hard not to do anything ironically, they actually fetishise earnestness in a sort of sad, longing-for-innocence kind of way
Note to people younger than about 35: Back in the day - by which I mean
my day, the... [
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Doesn't discrimination have to create a hostile environment or otherwise cause harm? Frankly it drives me up the fucking
wall when some dude does all that "no after you because you are a lady, and I will wait here until you accept that... [
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Police misconduct boards around here (Minneapolis) are very weak - they have very few powers to get information from the police, their work is heavily political and they have no meaningful power to sanction. Ours was actually dissolved for a while,... [
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Oh, also - IME, many men do twirly chivalrous nonsense only to women they consider attractive, or much more emphatically to women they consider attractive. This can end up tipping over into really unpleasant stuff about age, body size, gender... [
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You know, I had this funny thought.
Okay, I was reading some Samuel Delany short stories from the sixties - "Time Considered As A Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" and "Corona" in particular. I had also been looking at a couple... [
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TL;DR: The Hipster is not an identity; it's a problematic value judgment arising from the expectation that intellectual class and race should equate to economic class.
See, this whole thing
almost has it - but basically, it seems... [
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That is, emphasize that a
social setting is where all this gender stuff belongs, because people can choose environments where their gender is treated in a way that is comfortable for them; treating
work as if it is
social is not... [
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I continued to think about this and it occurred to me that you might want to consider personality types.
I think we all tend to fall into the "everyone can do everything really, really well if they are just supported correctly" mindset.... [
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I think fine-tuning just what kind of "improvements" you want might be helpful, and who you want them from. The secretaries could probably tell you how to improve the reimbursement process, for example - speaking as a secretary - and might... [
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Clear and patient explanations never have any success, because then you're accused of being patronizing and condescending, or you're just ignored by people who think they know better no matter what, or you're dismissed simply due to the fact that... [
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Anything from
The Panic Is On, by Anne Hills, particularly the title track, which is about the Great Depression. ("What this country's coming to/I sure would like to know;/If we don't do something by and by/The rich will live and the... [
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Women are
brought up to clean. Women - and I was brought up as a woman - tend to be taught more about
how to clean things, and we see our mothers and grandmothers doing much of the work, being expected to do much of the work, and... [
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You know, I don't actually have a real problem with women rating men by whatever standards they like. Warning labels are not particularly monstrous, despite all this drummed-up outrage.
See, I do have a problem with this, and I am... [
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Dear anyone upset about the idea of being photographed through the window of your home: close your blinds.
Where does this stop, though? Do I need to close my curtains during the day (I don't have blinds per se) because someone with a... [
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I'm going to echo schmod and throw out my theory (as both a cyclist and a driver- some of us do both!) that many instances of cyclists behaving badly are as much the result of infrastructural design flaws as 'asshat' cyclists. Bikes aren't built... [
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I don't know what you think you're doing, but it is not possible to "stop fully" without a total loss of momentum.
This is why it is helpful for folks to cycle a bit. I used to drive every day for years, so I have a fair idea of... [
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(Okay, I will just jump in here with some greek yogurt observations, based on briefly falling off the vegan wagon [bump! ouch!] and buying some greek yogurt at an inner city grocery store after reading up on it in Cook's Illustrated.
First:... [
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Treat bicyclists like any other operator of a vehicle - licenses, inspections, registration plates, vehicle taxes, fines, insurance, etc.
I know we've had this conversation before, but the more you put in the way of bicycling - the more you... [
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Oh, hey, you should also read Lark Rise To Candleford, a favorite of my grandmother and now one of mine. It's a set of semi-autobiographical novels by a woman who grew up right at the end of the 19th century mostly in an extremely rural hamlet in... [
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This. Whenever I come to a complete stop at 4-way stops it seems to make car drivers crazy. They'll either try to go right after the car in front of them for whom I had waited, making me wait far longer than I should have to, or they'll start... [
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You know why? Because I've timed my speed to allow you to go. I know it's your right of way. There's no car behind you and when you take your right of way, I can then proceed through the stop. However, you don't. You sit there and wait for me to... [
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I also love that we are not pretending that dabbling with drug addiction is fun and that we are acknowledging that recovering from addiction is hard work. I love that Ms. Hudson is trans* and no one gives a fuck. I love that Watson calls Sherlock... [
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Do a lot of Australians travel abroad for work? I've met tons and tons of Australians working in Asia, and it seemed like a much more casual thing than it was for me (I too was working in Asia.) Like, on one job, I met a number of Australians who... [
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And I don't like Smart Meters because I think when someone is turning off the electricity in the winter for a family with 3 young children, they should have to do it to the family's face instead of from a cozy office hundreds of miles away.... [
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In my experience, there are always people who want to protect and help the charismatic and highly competent - that whole "wounded hero" thing, which perhaps is less of a thing for women, but still seems to exist.
You may find it useful... [
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Huh.
Tumblr as I know it is about varying forms of social and racial justice and the accompanying drama, hatred, "that is not your image to reblog, culturally appropriative person!" stuff, etc etc. I'd say I have learned more from... [
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Right, but for some of us, we've had to deal with intrusive and unwanted behavior all our lives, so this isn't really groundbreaking, thought-provoking art so much as it is just another entitled asshole.
This. I am gender non-conforming... [
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Okay, the key part here is
not the initial cruelty, it's the
trajectory, the way it
always works. What happens? Some kid (some kid I probably would have
liked, some kid where as an utterly,
literally friendless... [
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Here is a thing: I would not
want to kiss a guy who "found most people boring" and rationalized his inability to tell people apart as "I am not interested enough to bother", the way you describe yourself doing in your other... [
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Let me ask -- if the context of the photos were that they were taken in the street, rather than through a window, and otherwise they were identical in every single way, including the lack of consent, would they still be problematic? Would they... [
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I don't like it when someone asks me leading/pedagogical questions. If I ask "where's the THING?" and you respond like it's your job to help me
deduce where the thing is, it feels very patronizing. If I ask you for information and... [
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A hipster is a single or partnered white person with disposable income who came from a lower middle class or greater familial circumstance, who is not in immediate survival mode and has no belief or fear of ever having to be in survival mode.... [
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I actually have a great, great rec, strangely enough - although this is not my fandom or sort of fic. All, all should read The Violet Hour, which is actually good enough to stand on its own two feet. (I mean, I read lots of fic that isn't good... [
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To return to the passport thing: Australians get a minimum of four weeks of vacation per year, plus public holidays. The last time I had a week off work was 2008. My "vacation"? Well, I am fortunate enough to be allowed to take two days... [
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I struggle with something pretty similar, although there are some strong through-lines in my life and I'd say I've gotten somewhat better at follow-through over time.
I guess I'd do some thinking about
why nothing sticks - is it because... [
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I don't have a passport, because I don't have a chunk of money to spend on getting it renewed and it is
vanishingly unlikely that I will have enough money to travel outside the US in the next five or ten years, if ever.
This whole "oh,... [
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it's a dangerous world out there, filled with terrorism, outsourcing, unemployment, student debt, and for God's sake don't get sick. It's a winner-take-all game, and dissent will not be tolerated, unless it's in the sandbox of identity politics,... [
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And where does it stop? My bathroom window is on the second floor and out of obvious lines of sight - but what if my neighbor decided to put up a ladder in the middle of his backyard and sit on it with a telephoto lens? Could he then publish the... [
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And hey, if I have no expectation of privacy in my home, that means that someone with a telephoto lens could lurk around and wait until he spotted me, like, trying on a pair of pants or getting out of the shower or something and publish it, right?... [
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How do I tell when I'm being invited along as "the ugly friend"?
I am never invited along as the ugly friend, although even in my young day I was plain, and now I'm butch and queer and of zero sexual interest to dudes. Why is... [
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