Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Sarah Palin was quoted, somewhat less than accurately, here. Nevertheless: That’s a good term.
The great Sarah Palin once noted that there are two types of feminist. There are the “Annie Oakley feminists” who are accomplished, skilled, and strong and there are the “faculty lounge feminists” who have nothing better to do but to whine and complain about imagined slights. “#Shirtstorm” proves that there are not enough of the former and far too many of the latter.
What she actually said was:
For too long, when people heard the word “feminist,” they thought of the faculty lounge at some East Coast women’s college, right. And no offense to them: They have their opinions and their voice, and God bless them. That’s great. But that’s not the only voice of women in America.
I’d like to remind people of another feminist tradition — kind of a Western feminism…It’s influenced by the pioneering spirit of our foremothers who went in wagon trains across the wilderness and they settled in homesteads. And these were tough, independent pioneering mothers whose work was as valuable as any man’s on the frontier. And it’s no surprise that our Western states that gave women the vote, the right to vote, way before their East Coast sisters in a more genteel city, perhaps, got it right.
Faculty lounges are, when you get right down to it, ivory towers; and people in ivory towers tend not to be obsessed with uplifting people outside the ivory towers, making them equals. History offers some exceptions to that, but very few, and the tendency that emerges is that equal treatment is something that has to be seized, deliberately and stridently, by those who depend on getting it and aren’t getting it.
Faculty-loungers just aren’t in this crowd. They’re like “leaf blowers” of social change, moving the detritus from one location to another, and then back again. They get offended and butt-hurt, complain a bunch, get someone to apologize or delete something, and then go back and do it again. As we can see now, that’s about it.
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Aaaaaand ….let’s have a look at the new criteria allowing “access” to those faculty lounges, shall we?
- CaptDMO | 11/18/2014 @ 07:33I like to call it “convenience feminism”. You know- the harridans who shriek “I am womyn, hear me roar” and a short time later ask for your help to change their flat tire.
- Frank the Wanderer | 11/18/2014 @ 08:28I’m stealing that one, Frank.
- Severian | 11/18/2014 @ 08:46As my wife, with her doctorate and thirty years of work likes to comment, I am woman hear me roar,
- Open other end | 11/19/2014 @ 05:38Meow.