As a fellow Liberal Arts grad (and MA—so I bought into it even harder than you appear to have), I urge you to keep the following in mind:
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A smaller secondary point to the one you raised: I also found this really reductive and insulting to men who are married, have children and are not abusive monsters. The implication that the only reason they're caring and loving spouses and fathers is because of a government contract is pretty gross.
I've responded to you in other posts, but I just want to say again how glad I am that there is some reason here!
I just wanted to say that I think most people disagreeing with Caitlin are not quite interacting with some fundamental parts of her argument. It seems like, to me, that she is saying: absent a cultural mechanism to deal with death, we will use what mechanisms we have. Today an ubiquitous mechanism is a smart phone.…
As a clergywoman in training I agree with Caitlin's assessment of the motivation for this kind of behavior. Funerals are for the family and loved ones of the deceased, to help them mourn and to eventually lead them to a place where they can reconnect with the goodness of life. We live in a time where most teens and…
You're right, it's ridiculous to think that funerals have anything to do with the deceased's loved ones. Ridiculous, I say!
I absolutely love this post, and it really strikes at the heart of the problem. When you're given nothing to do with the process other than showing up and listening to Sermon 6A out of the "Funeral Director's Guide to Boring the Fuck Out of People" and you're a teenager who can barely wrap your head around the…
Back in the Days of Little Or No Internets (read early 90s), I lost 5 elders (1 grandma, 2 great grandparents, 1 great aunt, and 1 great uncle) in the span of three years. It absolutely wrecked our family with grief. It seemed that someone was always dying and there wasn't any time to process it. By the time you did,…
Damn, so much pure vitriol for straight-up children in this comment section. Who is forcing all of y'all at gunpoint to look at these funeral selfies? Just wondering.
What? They are over? NOW WHAT AM I TO DO WITH MY NOVEL COVER.
one of my favorite Buffy moments:
I say go post modern revisionist and follow Buffy.... call her "The First".
The victim shaming in the comments to this story were disgusting and should be embarrassing to us as a community. How a commenter can call themselves a feminist in one breath and then dismiss a woman's account of being raped in the next because she's a 'fame whore' are more telling to me about the hypocrisies in our…
grappa is walter white.
Port is a librarian, but not the shhh kind. The Rupert Giles kind.
I love the vibe of Buffy The Vampire slayer as much as the next Scoobie
Did a guy create this graphic? Because the seat's up, and our poor girl up there has enough problems, man.
Pick on Willow, prepare to die.