http://reason.com/blog/2017/10/20/students-crashed-a-college-republicans-m
I just have no words for this type of stupidity. It used to be that young people were taught how to think now they're just mirroring what they hear around them without thinking about it critically.
Is this the effect of affirmative action on campus', where people who score lower on the SAT's are let in?
Is this a failure of the parents or teachers?
Thoughts?
well I strongly disagree. I watched "GET OUt "because of this thread. how disappointed. Not bad but not at all a " masterpiece". Its a 5-6 /10 to me.
I'd agree with this. It was creepy and well done for what it was but to call it a masterpiece worthy of all these accolades is patronizing the black writer/director. Love of the film is taste but it's also expected. Get Out does reflect the cultural moment we're in, however, and it will be remembered for that.
That is exactly the problem.. and I'm not sure how they can fix the problem.
There are people born with:If they are "trans" that person should go to a medical doctor or psychologist or psychiatrist to legally have their ID reflect the gender they want.
I think that would stop a LOT of the problems, but not all. There are lots of cases where women sexually abuse men (they are usually called "wives"). Everyday you read about some middle aged cougar seducing teenage boys. The police tend to ignore and turn a blind eye to crimes committed by females (which is why Hillary Clinton is not in prison).
The world had worked fine before this became a political event.
The problem really isn't trans people as they had been defined: People who were transitioning from one gender to another via surgical means. When those people are in progression their id's should reflect that new gender and they should be able to use the bathroom of their choice.
The problem is people are now attempting to say that gender is a choice.
Nip that movement in the bud. Just say no. Fluidity isn't progressive, it's ignorant and willful.
About women sexually abusing people, we used to romanticise it in the movies. If you were lucky enough to be seduced by an older woman, you wore it like a badge of honor. People would lie about it when I was a kid. I recall Don Johnson talking about his first conquest at 13 with an older woman and the interviewer was like, _oh, how luck_y. Women's appetites haven't changed. Social attitudes towards them have.
If your argument is that a long-standing trope of literature means a behaviour is acceptable…
There's also a long-running trope in literature and film that someone will fall in love with you if you rape them. (Part of the definition of Bodice Ripper romance and normative in Uke/Seme YAOI.)
Another involves falling in love with a kidnapper/man who keeps her hostage. (Beauty and the Beast)
Another involves falling in love with someone who is physically or mentally abusive. (Taming of the Shrew.)I'm in support of the idea that it's better to try to date someone who is interested in you rather than someone who is not.
It's interesting to me that you chose YAOI. Did you know that almost all YAOI is written by women? There's a subgenre called SHOTA in which elementary school-aged children get into sexual relationships with adults (or peers). There's another niche genre dealing with infants. The lioness's share is, you guessed it, written by women.
Think about that for a second.
Mom's are writing love stories and/or rape scenarios involving children.
The overwhelming majority of this kind of fiction is the more mainstream YAOI, or Boy's Love. If you pay attention to it you'll see it's very heteronormative (because it's written by women for women).
Honestly, I would love to do a Ph.D. on the why but my point in bringing this up is that YAOI happens in a foreign culture. The other examples all happened across time in, what is essentially, a foreign culture.
I love dissecting literature and film but saying Beauty & The Beast represents rape culture, or worse, Stockholms's Syndrom is to put a political spin on a time and culture we can know nothing about. What I'm saying is a little different.
The Troubadours shot time's romantic arrow, which follows a direct path through Shakespear and your bodice rippers to today. Using Queer Theory and Intersectionalism is a fun intellectual exercise but it shouldn't inform politics and policy, should it? Art imitates life imitates art; not the art critic informs art to inform life to inform the critic.
What's missing in your idea is serendipity. You're essentially saying there's a code so that no one ever feels uncomfortable and everyone feels respected. One rejection means a lifetime ban. But life is risk! Without it there are no serenades, no awkward love letters, no acknowledgment that it's okay to obsess on a crush. I see this tendency as a move towards repression which sets us on target for a new Victorian Age with its very seedy underbelly of all the things we're not supposed to do.
I may have made an Arguement from Ignorance (none of the Transpeople I've met - which have been hundreds) but it's not automatically a false argument.
Is there evidence suggesting that costumes will desettle gender identity? Why wouldn't they become Transvestites, or Exhibitionists, or actors?ON the separate topic or changes in Pride. I was a volunteer at or part of the committee running Pride Toronto from 1986 through to 2001. The things that changed:
On Pride, is NAMBLA still allowed to march? That was a huge controversy way back when.
On dressing a child up, I'm not saying it's universally bad. The example in the article is an extreme, probably an outlier. If a child is allowed (or made) to dress up and gets one set of signals during the event and a very different set of signals outside, then it could lead to confusion. Don't you think it's odd that this generation in the West has had an upsurge in gender binary, et al.? Either this declaration that there are 63 genders plus fluidity is biological or cultural, and evolution doesn't take place within one generation.
For millennia children have been raised within relatively stable social constructs. Now some are not.
When I look at the western press I see a lot of adults trying to normalize extreme behaviour by exposing young people to different things (drag queens reading books at the library) and relaxing or erasing boundaries (allowing children to chose rather than being guided).
When I was a child dinner was whatever my mother cooked. If I didn't eat it, then I ate nothing. Today, the parent takes (food) orders from the child. Today we have young people choosing vegetarian diets, juice cleanses, junk food. Parents traditionally are supposed to carve a path the child follows. When parents neglect that duty external forces including all the media a child consumes and peer pressure create that path.
It's an interesting question as to where these many varied paths will lead.
That was so much fun. I'm really happy that they've lightened the tone of the series – it was so dark for too long.
Next week looks like it'll be funny, too.
That Iris line grated on me -- we're The Flash. Um, no, honey. Go walk your inferior non-meta self to the corner where you belong.
Did you not love Wally's new look? That haircut suits him so much better.
Was not a fan of Cisco and Gypsy, mostly cuz Cisco does not look good in a Tux. But you know they're setting up a fight between Cisco and her father. I wonder how they're going to resolve that.
Of all the powers the meta's have had, the power of tech is one I'd love to have – I would cause such chaos. I'm hoping The Thinker has bigger plans than revenge for him. Any thoughts on what they're going to do with The Thinker? I'm guessing he needs Barry to increase his mental powers by...? Not sure. Perhaps time travel?
Thoughts?
Oh, yeah, did you watch Legends? Did you notice the TV in the background during the flashback? It was Central City six months ago during the Speedforce storm. Awesome! Plus the Arrow reveal at the Dr's office and Arrow's Batman reveal today -- I love all this interconnectedness.
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He was born on a Monday AND in a swamp! (I'm so happy.) Since Ra's brought magic into Gotham (he mentioned it last week) then all they need to do in reveal that there was an ol' voodoo spot 'round there and they've got the perfect blend on Indian Hill camp and campy magic.
Did you not love the of Mice & Men pairing of Nygma and Solomon?
Do you think Lee is one of the few who were permanently changed by the virus?
Is Babs pregnant with Ra's spirit baby – how are they bringing him back because we know he's not dead, dead -- no one dies in Gotham for good (unless they're blown up).
Why are they rehashing the plot line from Season One where Fish has that young girl fall in love with her making the young girl remind Falcon of his mother? There must be a reason for doing this.
And Dr. Pyg is coming for Halloween! :cheers: :clap2: :hot2: :ok2:
What I never will support is someone like Elliot Cope being a shit stirring special snowflake who claims to be a trans boy, who identifies as a girl. NO, she is just a girl.
This includes Milo Stewart who's trans claim is that since she wears boys' underwear, she is trans, but non binary.
Dakota ties tampons in his/her/its beard, along with other idiotic things and claims to be a "trans gender terrorist".
The now former President of the Student Union in the UK claimed to be gender fluid because sometimes she wears jeans.
It's freaks like these that made it a criminal offense for people like Blaire White and Skylar to use the bathroom that matches their sex/gender. REAL trans should not be criminalized. But the "trans trenders" are more than happy to throw real trans under the bus to get the attention they seek for themselves.
(jaw drops)
I think you and I might be twins separated at birth. :afr:
PRIDE used to be something good, but for the last 20+ years it's turned into a disgusting display of everything wrong with the gay community.
If PRIDE returned to what it was back in the 1970s and 80s, then I see no problem with bringing kids to these events.
I have been near crucified for saying the same thing. I don't even bother going anymore, even here in Tokyo. Now it's just a big party and people are expected to overlook that people are having simulated sex on floats and wearing next to nothing.
I could rant and rant and rant about this.
Thanks for letting me know I'm not alone in thinking this way. :ghug:
I used to work with a guy from Taiwan, and 2 Chinese guys. I used to drive the Chinese guys crazy because they were not sure if I could understand what they were saying when they were speaking Chinese. I would act as if I knew..hehe. The guy from Taiwan's father was a big shot general who was given a town in Taiwan as a gift for his military service.. but left very little to his son in his will The guy from Taiwan said that the Japanese language is actually a simplified version of Chinese. Is that right? Also, I know there are 3 major versions of Chinese, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Traditional.
Your friend is talking about the writing system kanji, aka Chinese characters. But Japanese has four official scripts all used within any one document.
1. 漢字 the simplified Chinese characters
2. ひらがな (hiragana) the original phonetic script
3. カタカナ (katakana) another phonetic script used for words of a foreign origin
4. ROMAJI or the Roman script used together with katakana for foreign words or to add impact in ads or for touristy things (but romaji doesn't mean it's English or that the English words written/spoken mean the same thing. For example, naisu gai [nice guy] means handsome and if you read hate it's not at all what you think because you have to read it with the Japanese phonetics in mind).
(Now that I think about I guess you could add simple English as a fifth system but it wouldn't be literary, more a means to an end.)
Both Chinese and Japanese have kanji that are unique to their languages, too. When I've been through China and Taiwan I can generally get by with no problem by reading what's around me or writing what I want in the Japanese versions of the characters. Kanji are also a part of older Korean, so you'll see it when you're traveling there, too.
Chinese grammar is closer to English in structure. Japanese is similar to Korean.
Time to learn a language? ;D
in my hometown, earring is a honor given by people here. only a hero can have that earring. if the earring is meaningless i think it just a useless things
What kind of earring would be fit for a hero? A stud, a hoop, a symbol? What kind of hero is worthy of an earring?
I know enough about Chinese people and how despicable they can be.. I could post thousands of photo and video examples. One of their beliefs is that meat tastes better if the animal suffered when slaughtered. I suppose the theory is that adrenaline is released or something. Another dodgy issue is that of wiping out every last rhino on the planet so they can grind up the horns to get a hard pecker.. or whatever the hell they do with the tiny gall bladders that they harvest from the last remaining bears.. or their annual festival of gobbling up dogs and cats. The Japanese people are said to have "militaristic" tendencies - which is why they have decided to avoid getting involved in anything that might lead to war. The Chinese have a tendency to be "sadistic" and celebrate pain and degradation. I know that not all of them do, but as a country, they tolerate it.. so, don't expect me to be taking a holiday to China anytime this millennium.
Japan is much like the "Vulcans" on Star Trek. They are very disciplined, logical, and peaceful.. but when their discipline fails.. I pity anybody who is their enemy. In fact, that is another reason why Trump has to STOP North Korea.. before the Japanese decide they need to have nukes of their own. I guarantee that the Japanese could produce superior nukes, very quickly, in great numbers, and would use them. Plus.. they have Godzilla and Mothra on their side!
Well, I've been in Japan twenty plus years. Your idea that the Japanese are like Vulcans is rooted in Western media's portrayal of the Japanese. Nothing could be further from the truth. What translators cannot get right is the language:
Japanese has three distinct levels (not to mention all the variations through dialects and time), effectively three different languages. There's no way to correctly translate it. At best you get strange utterances with honor, respectfully, let's tacked on. Then there's the cultural differences. Did you know a Japanese pregnancy takes exactly ten months and ten days? That's not because human gestation differs in Asia, it's because time is counted differently.
If you don't want to like China, that's your choice but rooting your decision in stereotypes is, again, no different than modern snowflakes or the irrationality of the Christian right and what they know about homosexuality with all the pictures and YouTube videos they could show to back up their point.
The variety on this planet cannot be lensed through western thinking without distorting it.
Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time.
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I never heard of Japan referred to as being communist.. imperialist, but not communist. I am not aware that Japan ever was state run.. although the people of Japan may have voluntarily supported the state - they were not forced to.
I would like to know more about Japan, but I know enough about China to not like nor trust them.
One thing to be wary of when examining history is who wrote the history and when. Anything written under government control or during a war is likely to be grossly inaccurate and misleading.
There has never been a truly communist country, Fred, just as there's never been a true democracy. We've seen different species of both. Gorbachev went as far to say that the USSR wasn't even run under a form of communism but something else, which is why when he was asked about a successful communist country he pointed out Japan.
From the 70's till the late 90's the state did have very firm control and almost everyone benefitted. That's been changing since the bubble burst. The point Gorbachev was making isn't that Japan was a literal communist country; rather, it was an ironic statement and self-effacement.
As for China, if you think you know enough, then you're as guilty as any snowflake who knows x, y, and z and insist the world be that way and no other. Be more like Socrates, my friend.
I've never met a Transexual person who changed their mind about what gender they are no matter how their parents dressed them - not to mention years of therapy for 'gender dysphoria' to convince them that they are cis.
Why would cis-gender identity be so much more fragile than trans-gender?
The worlds we live in have a limited orbit of people, some more varied than others. That you haven't met anyone doesn't mean that there aren't people who have changed their minds. At the same time, the satellites feeding us information tend to align that news with what's on the right side of history these days.
As to fragility, children are very sensitive to what's put in front of them. A child's identity is fluid to a certain point and the identities (note the plural) that form within have to navigate cultural, and subcultural, norms. That affects the adult they become. A good illustration is molestation. Touching the genitals feels good yet the child is told to keep it a secret; in social situations, an abused child gets different messages of what sex means; later when they make a connection between what's happened to them being molestation, they have to square their experience with what's expected. This is why the act of molestation is often less traumatic than peoples reactions to it.
So a child's idea of self is very fragile.
All I know is that a child dressing up in makeup getting a lot of positive reinforcement, and then affirmation when they come into negative reactions, is going to have a heavier burden to bear than the average child.
Oh, hell, ya. Mac fanboy (though recently they've been disappointing).
TPBM likes Ezra Miller as The Flash in the DC Cinematic universe.
The Flash? It's not good at all, but I'm going with Gustin.
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(ahem) 80's music.
A Saturday in a quiet bar or a dance club?
I think this is the full text of the speech in the link below. The fundamental problem with China's goals is that to achieve those goals requires a dictatorship of communism. It's only been 41 years since the demise of that monster Mao Ets Dung. Why that pig is still revered in China is perplexing. Mao's basic scheme was to murder millions of people who opposed him or even COULD have opposed him, and replace them with young people he could control. Living under communism would be almost as bad as having Hillary Clinton as president. Anybody who enjoys working 12 hours per day on a mind numbing assembly line would love communism.
I have a question about China and it's manufacturing.. why doesn't China manufacture automobiles or aircraft.. or write their own computer software?
https://www.ncuscr.org/content/full-text-president-xi-jinpings-speech
The link is to a speech he made to the US, not the party speech. It'll take a while for someone to translate all 3.5 hours.
China is communist in name only. Actually, it was Gorbachev who said that Japan has been the only communist country on the planet. That might have been true of 80's/90's Japan.
China isn't what you think. You should go visit or learn about the culture. It's a way of thinking that can't be put into Google translate. To understand Chinese (Asian) thinking, you have to take the time to learn a new perspective. After that, you can answer those questions.
If you're interested, I can get you the name of an accessible sociological comparison of western vs Asian thinking as a primer. I've forgotten the title off hand.
Noticeable nipples, not moobs.
A trail of hair from the belly button to the crotch or smooth down to the crotch line?
Just a couple I never use. ::)
TPBM loves Japanese anime (movies or tv series).