The mixed metaphors!

It is our great shame. And very few are invested in trying to fix it.

I will use a driverless car when Google translate is spot on. Until then, I don’t trust the algorithms.

And many of these places came into existence on the back of a subjugated group. The space, time, and leisure that allows for the creation of great art typically exists through others’ labour.

When you make everything into a consumer good, then consumer choice reigns. Even when it destroys the social compact.

Its the willful ignorance schtick like that that I can’t stand. He knows, and it makes his comedy less funny.

The cover reflects in an unthinking manner a very long tradition that suggests women’s voices are fundamentally dangerous and ought to be silenced. (See https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n06/mary-beard/the-public-voice-of-women on this topic). Surely questioning the reflexive recourse to such imagery/suggestion is essential…

How do people have enough energy to care that much about someone else’s appearance? Do you fear the human body that much?

As someone who works with her students SO MUCH to help them form original theses building on previous scholarship and to cite that work correctly, this drives me up the wall. The Trumps have totally destroyed my arguments about careful use of rhetoric and critical reading of information.

As someone who works with her students SO MUCH to help them form original theses building on previous scholarship and to cite that work correctly, this drives me up the wall. The Trumps have totally destroyed my arguments about careful use of rhetoric and critical reading of information.

It’s the equivalent of this:

Surely paying people exorbitant amounts of money to speak and therefore lure more students to attend graduation just contributes further to the idea that post-secondary education is a consumer good. Who cares how many people go to graduation as long as they graduate?

Don’t forget the amazing puff-sleeved tux.

And as the journalist points out, she’s had a long time and many opportunities to reconsider her position. Yet she doubles down on it time and time again. If she really had the affinity for black people (as opposed to blackness as she defines it) she might realize the pain her actions cause. I can almost understand…

But surely that is the difference. The black community has largely not claimed her. I also presume that your friend does not go around saying that she is actually X (insert community that brought her in). I don’t care to make light of RD’s suffering but it does not excuse her behaviour or dismissal of her interviewer.

This was also an entirely manufactured problem. They could have done a variety of other things to solve this issue but decided to stand their ground on an inhumane corporate rule. I can’t stand blind rule-following like this when it has real human consequences.

Nobody, even celebrities with all kinds of financial resources, can predictably get pregnant at 50. I suspect she’d been trying for a long time but had to keep life going like normal.

Great advice. Thanks!

Part of it is that “Woman in a meeting” syndrome is equally ingrained in us. I was just sitting on a committee evaluating dossiers for an award, and I could not prevent myself from justifying every bloody statement I made. Especially those in favour of the female candidate- I was practically apologetic. I walked out…

Minus the snowstorm I did exactly that last weekend. Same mom situation too!