| Look! People who have hit on me . . . or my page, rather. |
[Dec. 31st, 2010|08:23 pm] |
This post will stay at the top, so consider it the open forum as well. A good place for random communications that aren't related to an entry, or to say howdy-hey to me if you're one of the readers of this site that don't know me from non-'net life.
Enjoy!
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| We're not all like that! |
[Dec. 22nd, 2009|10:38 pm] |
With the holidays upon us, the insistence by some Christians in the U.S. that they must do/say Some Batshit Crazy Stuff, You Know, For Jesus is in full swing. Curtly insisting we say Merry Christmas and not Happy Holidays, etc.
When things like this are discussed, the phrase "But we're not all like that!" or "They're not really a _____" come up pretty often. And damn, it tends to bug me. This is not just a Christian culture thing, but that one is pretty ubiquitous in this part of the world. (side note: totally just spelled ubiquitous correctly on the first go!)
I understand and in many ways agree with the saying of such phrases. I think it's important for each person to work to define the cultures they are a part of, and part of that is verbalizing what that individual does and doesn't think is acceptable behavior for the culture. I'm also fully aware that in any big group, there are going to be variety and outliers. I get it.
On the other hand, I get irritated. Mostly, I'm irritated by people who seem to think saying this sort of thing is a get out of jail free card for not considering what they need to do to change their culture---which, if they're going to claim it but not certain parts of it, I think they are obligated. If you're "not all" like the Christians who keep trying to snatch away the homorights, well, what are you doing to let the Christians in your culture know that that isn't acceptable? Telling me "that person isn't really a Christian" means squat if a lot of you are going around banging on about the same things and you keep mum for fear of rocking the boat.
I see this out of men as well. Some man does something ubermisogynistic and on come the declarations of "But hey, I'm not like that!" Yep, I didn't say you were---but why the quick declaration? Same concept---it's just a quick get out of jail free card for not examining hey, why *do* so may men do misogynistic shit?
In these cases, I sometimes feel like someone is waiting for their head pat from the audience, to be declared "one of the good ones." And hell, they very well might be---but chances are, those ones aren't insisting on being absolved of the problems of their culture, they're actually doing something about them. |
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| Snowpocalypse! |
[Dec. 19th, 2009|01:06 pm] |
It's still coming down a piling up. Will probably be two feet accumulated by Sunday morning. We have a blizzard warning, believe it or not!
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