A brilliant takedown of the moron who claimed college profs are lazy and overpaid.
And here are suggestions on how to combat such morons.
A recipe for orange-liqueur pancakes. Yum!
“You will not be less busy in the future than you are right now.”
“It doesn’t matter what a child chooses to spend his or her time doing, parents have no right to bully their children into partaking in hobbies they deem ‘worthy’.” A fantastic post!
It always drives me around the bend to hear my students drawl, “Oh, I’m not interested in politics!” I wish they could get acquainted with this post by a brilliant young person who is politically active and engaged: “The first thing that I learned was that politics affects everyone. It touches everything in our lives. This was the same fact that I told every person who skeptically, condescendingly, asked why I was studying English. Politics was why the roof of my urban high school leaked when it rained. Politics was why gas prices were soaring. Politics was why tuition was so dang expensive. Politics was why. Politics was. I had to learn as much as I could about this thing, this entity, this institution that touched every corner of my life. I had to know.” By the way, this was written by a young journalist. I have got to ask: how come we see articles from complete and utter morons in leading newspapers and never great stuff by promising writers like this one?
“The American education system has never been better, several important measures show. But you’d never know that from reading overheated media reports about “failing” schools and enthusiastic pieces on unproven “reform” efforts.” The scare-mongering about the completely fictitious horrors of the American public education are spread on purpose by people who are terrified of intelligent voters.
It always shocks me to see how people use horrible crimes like the one committed against Trayvon Martin to write bizarre pieces on how things would have been a lot worse if Martin had been a woman. Because he’d be more dead, or something: “The president has promised a proper investigation. The case will go to a grand jury next month, and the Department of Justice plans to review it. The governor has appointed a special prosecutor, and the police chief has stepped down temporarily. Martin’s parents have spoken before a Congressional panel. I can only dream of a female president speaking out when a man kills a woman. Take Back the Night marches draw little or no media. Slutwalks do better, probably because they include young women in sexy clothing. Offhand, I can’t think of any time in recent history when hundreds of women and men took to the streets across the country because a man stalked and killed a woman.” Constructing an argument that presents Trayvon Martin as hugely fortunate could have only occurred to a very diseased human being. His parents have spoken before a panel, yippee, problem solved. This is simply outrageous.
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The thing that the person basically saying, “what about teh wimminz?” is not noticing is that gender has been a nowhere near as big a part of the conversation on Trayvon Martin as race has. But of course they couldn’t say compare it to race because that would not be politically correct.
Sure there may not be people protesting and rallying when a man kills a woman but how many times have we seen people try to name a law after a girl was killed or badly injured in a crime against her versus the same for boy? I dare say if Trayvon were a girl there would be someone out there trying to push a new law named after said girl in order to counteract the Stand Your Ground Law.
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” I dare say if Trayvon were a girl there would be someone out there trying to push a new law named after said girl in order to counteract the Stand Your Ground Law”
– I think so, too. We do not live in a culture where boys are more precious than girls. We live in a culture where boys (and men) are more dispensable. Changing that set of mind is one of the first and foremost tasks of feminism.
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We do not live in a culture where boys are more precious than girls.
Eh, even as a guy I’ll say that you can’t just make absolute declarations on the entire state of the culture.
There are plenty of metrics where girls are valued over boys and plenty where boys are valued over girls.
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I posted my current reading list. It is heavy on relatively lighthearted fantasy and less lighthearted young adult fiction.
And my exasperation with people who try to label people who use emergency contraception as uniformly irresponsible.
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The evidence on the Martin shooting is conflicting. If it was self-defense, as at least some evidence shows it was, it wasn’t a crime. Zimmerman, like anyone else is innocent until proven guilty.
On the other hand, the blogger you quote must have forgotten about the outcry that first met the Duke lacrosse case and the Twana Bawley case, before the rest of the facts became known. Still she has a point when it comes to “honor” killings of women. I don’t know how many “honor” killings there are, but the only place you ever hear about them is on the right side of the blogosphere.
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I don’t know how many “honor” killings there are, but the only place you ever hear about them is on the right side of the blogosphere.
I wonder what might be the reason for this.
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I have no words for that last link…
Unfortunately, it looks like they took down the original post, so I can’t read the whole thing.
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FYI:http://proudtobeafilthyliberalscum.com/2012/04/02/your-stories-its-not-just-men-that-treat-women-like-dirt/
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Me, too! (Well, I am not a teacher, so I hear it from my friends instead of my students. But it’s still aggravating). Sometimes I hear it with the connotation “politics is low and stupid, which is why I don’t follow it and you really shouldn’t, either”. I have come to think of following politics as a form of self-defense, since the results of elections affect everyone, not just the people who voted in them.
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