It’s interesting that you view the choice of that picture as evidence of sexism at CNN. If I were an editor at CNN trying to push through a pro-feminist agenda, I’d have likely chosen exactly the same photo. The Augusta National issue is really two stories, isn’t it? It’s both about the discrimination against women in this country, but also about how discrimination against women is often trivialized. What better photo to illustrate that second story, then one of some jackass actively trivializing the issue?
I mean, my first thought when I saw that was that you wouldn’t see anything like that at any other civil rights demonstration. You’d never see one white guy in the middle of, say, a protest over the shooting of Trayvon Martin, holding up a sign that said, “Go pick me some cotton.” You might see a group of racists counter protesting, but they’d be out in numbers. And if it were a gay rights protest, the counter protestors wouldn’t be trying to be cute: they’d be holding up signs with some truly vile invective. Because racists and homophobes, for the most part, feel threatened by the groups they target. Sexists don’t even have the decency to be afraid of the women they’re oppressing. The guy’s not outraged by these women, he’s entirely dismissive of them. At least when I see a Focus on Family protest, I know those motherfuckers are taking me seriously. I thought the photo did an excellent job of showing a unique challenge in the struggle for gender equality.
Miller, that’s actually a really interesting and thoughtful explanation for the usage of that photo. I suppose my only problem with accepting that interpretation is that the article isn’t about feminists not being taken seriously or men not being afraid of those they are trivializing. FWIW, I did actually email the author about the photo and am curious for her reply.
Funny enough, I used the “Pick my cotton!” example when discussing this with someone just yesterday. I think your point about the greater social perceptions about women is a really good one.
This was a fantastically dumb move on Amazon’s part. #1 on my list of reasons not to buy one of those.
Agreed completely. You should always be able to turn it off if you don’t like it.
I just wanted to make sure you realize that One-click isn’t about selling through misclicks. As far as I know, there’s always a confirmation page with an “Undo” link. The only difference between One-click and not is that the default action after you’ve clicked “Buy” is to go through with it. You have to take another action to undo it. But the action is readily available.
For a long time, I had One-click turned off because I didn’t understand it. Now I love it and I wish that Amazon wouldn’t defend their patent (:rolleyes:) so strongly. All transactions should work that way!
Dude, if you send out a calendar meeting from your division to my division and ask me to forward to anyone in my division who needs to go, that’s fine, even though everyone who needs to go in my division is either my boss or several levels higher. It puts me in a position of tasking my superiors, but I get why I need to do it.
If, five minutes after I do this, you send out a message rescheduling the meeting because you couldn’t get your shit straight the first time, then I will not be pleased.
They’re from a mix from the Whole Foods Olive bar…I read the ingredients before scooping, and there was nothing remotely hot in there. I guess they got mixed in somehow (or some jackass thought it would be funny). The nasty hot ones look just like the yummy mild ones, so there’s no way to pick them out. :mad:
The original scheduling isn’t the problem, it’s the change the original requester sends right after I send his original request out.
So I forward the changes to my boss and above.
About an hour after I did that, the original requester then sends another calendar invite out to everyone anyway. If you were going to do that, why did you ask me to do it in the first place?:smack:
I found out today that my good friend, probably the best friend I’ve ever had, has brain cancer. She has no insurance. She left her employer late last year to strike out on her own and when she tried to get individual insurance she couldn’t because of some bullshit pre-existing condition having to do with benign cells in her uterus from years ago. She’s been in a relationship for 20 years but since she’s a lesbian in Texas she can’t get legally married, so she can’t be on her partner’s insurance.
She went weeks having symptoms and needing an MRI but couldn’t get it because she didn’t have insurance. I dare anyone to try to debate me about “Obamacare” right now. Or same sex marriage.
I cannot imagine what it must be like for her today. What is she going to do? I haven’t had a chance to really talk to her about it, so I don’t know what her options are. Spaghetti dinner fundraiser, I guess. Maybe she can call her local tv station. I’m sure that a 50-year-old lesbian with brain cancer will pull at their viewers’ heart strings, and the donations will start pouring in. God bless America.
I cannot imagine, either, what it must be like for her partner today.
You know what my great good friend did today when she left me that voicemail telling me she had brain cancer? She told me it was a tumor, and then asked me how it was going with my new job.
Fuck you assholes at the county waste disposal - because fuck you, that’s why.
CALLED you schmucks in February to find out when you would open and was told April 2nd. I have a bunch of stuff ready to go and you are basically closed until Monday. I can’t go Saturday because I will be busy here. I could also go today or Thursday, but you asswipes are fucking useless, and aren’t open when you said you’d be, after an unbelievably nice WINTER when all sorts of people have been ABLE to be out WORKING on their YARDS. Damn you all!!!
And fuck whatsherface for boohooing about my pointing out that Friday is a religious holiday AND NOT SECULAR and shit should be OPEN. You’re a fine one to talk considering that you have only been to your church once in the past 18 months i’ve known you, and you whine about how your church doesn’t have enough members, get off your ass, and support it for fuck’s sake!!
WTF? Was that really all the fries you could give me? And they were overcooked. Well, at least they were salt-and-vinegar, not garlic like I didn’t ask for last time.
Nah, they’re only outside-- but the symptoms do not show up for hours after the actual bite. They’re nasty little critters. At one point, ‘ve gotten them so bad on parents’ farm, that 've had to go to a doctor for a prescription- strength anti-itch cream. Very, very nasty critters.
I pit the motherfucker who has been making bomb threats at Pitt for the last few weeks. They make tons of automated calls to us every time one happens or they figure out (yet again) that it’s a false alarm. One of them woke me up when I was trying to nap.
I lost my best friend to brain cancer in 2008, and she said something similiar when she told me. Both our dogs had passed away that year (hers and mine) and the first thing she said when I answered the phone was “I’m going to be with Mitzi and Madison soon.” Not just that she was dying, but that she was going to be her dog AND my dog too.
Fuck cancer. Fuck the U.S. health insurance system too, at least here in Canada we don’t have to worry about paying like you guys do. My prayers go out to your friend and her partner.
Seriously not happy with my body today- I had back surgery 5 weeks ago, after being bedridden with a herniated disc for a month and a half- it’s been great post surgery, no pain, slowly getting back to normal… until today.
Today, I can’t really stand up.
I don’t know if this is the other, ‘minor’ disc bulge, the one they didn’t bother fixing because it wasn’t really that bad, a relapse of the one I had fixed, or I’ve done something else. It’s not very painful- yet- except when I sneeze, but it seems to be getting worse, not better. When I try stand up, I’m all twisted to one side, and I’m really wobbly and weak. Kind of how it started last time, but without the leg pain.
I’m really hoping I don’t have to go through all that again… I’m not sure if I can deal with it.
Cleaning for Passover sucks. Oh, I know, it’s beneficial in the long term (even an atheist who thinks all religion is bad would probably have to concede that thoroughly cleaning your kitchen and going through food looking for expired stuff to throw out once a year is beneficial). And I know myself well enough to know that, if there were no deadline for it to be done by, there’s at least a 99% chance it would never get done. But it does suck while I’m doing it, that’s for sure.
I’m a good cook, and I don’t mind cooking. But when it comes to other domestic skills, the average dorm-living college-age male is probably ahead of me. I hate cleaning and organizing, and I suck at it. I outsource most of the cleaning year-round to our housecleaner, who comes every two weeks. But she’s not Jewish, so I’m stuck doing my own Passover cleaning.
I’m having a real First World Problems kind of day today, sort of on the level of “bitching about the taxes on your lottery winnings”, but it still sucks ass. It’s been rather stressful.
And my poor wife is going to the endodontist to get some long-term issues resolved and she’s nervous as hell - I reassured her as much as possible last night, but she’s still worried. So, on behalf of her, “I fucking hate my teeth.”
