Hai! We got Uber kitties to our office last year, and I had a lot of the same questions. They have several different groups of kittens that travel on several routes, giving them plenty of time to rest and relax in between visits. Additionally, their shelter handlers are with them the whole time, and bring familiar…

Right, exactly. The sentence structure was confusing—unclear object! The “that” was meant to apply to “viewing him as a monster,” not “laughing at him.” Grammar matters! Although, this man undoubtedly speaks English 6000x better than I could ever speak German, so, you know.

Yes, completely agree. It it indeed so natural to ascribe an inhumane act to an inhuman being, but it’s not ultimately the end of the discussion. As I say, I don’t think it excuses anything to think in a nuanced way—if anything, it should make us more self-aware of our own individual choices, and help us recognize…

No, it’s correct. This is actually a fairly frequently expressed perspective in understanding responsibility for the Holocaust. Think of it this way: if someone is a monster, he can’t help but behave in a monstrous way—scorpion and the frog and all that. A monster can only act like a monster. A human being, like…

This is actually a fairly frequently expressed perspective in understanding responsibility for the Holocaust. Think of it this way: if someone is a monster, he can’t help but behave in a monstrous way—scorpion and the frog and all that. A monster can only act like a monster. A human being, like Hitler, who could make…

I know you’re kidding, but it is true, as it happens. And that story gets a lot weirder. He hit two other stores in town, and got caught when he came BACK to our store to ask for jewelry boxes (for the items he had stolen) and someone called the cops while he was in there. Our boxes are branded, so it was a weird…

A $10,000 watch isn’t even that expensive a watch. Even in Milwaukee. If you’re the sort of person who is able to spend that kind of money routinely, you pretty much wear what you like.

Nah, much easier to rob a store when everyone is there and the doors are open and all the product is out on display. When jewelry stores close, for insurance reasons, everything goes into the safe and the alarm gets set. We were allowed to have a max of $1000 worth of product left in the cases as per our coverage when…

No I know that, but it still matters because taking a photo IS a form of reproduction, so you have to consider whether it is in some way specifically protected from being reproduced. It doesn’t matter that he didn’t copy it for work, he still personally duplicated a part of the original document. But he only…

I’m trying to think—I know there are obvious restrictions on print shop employees taking confidential information (e.g. if you asked someone to print out a customer list with contact information and credit card numbers, they obviously are restricted from taking that) but I don’t know that anything on this menu is…

Also, DON’T SAY SHIT LIKE THIS OVER TEXT MESSAGE. If you really like someone and you feel ready to tell them that, tell them in person. You’ll learn a thousand percent more by seeing their reaction in person, because they will either have to respond or literally run away. And if you don’t feel ready to tell them in…

I completely agree with you, and I think you should do what you need to do to protect yourself. The history of feminism, of which Greer is a part, has always been about expanding the borders of womanhood, which is why I think ultimately their way of thinking can be changed. But it’s certainly not the obligation of any…

I haven’t gotten an IUD for two reasons:

I mean, given how viciously her past work is being misappropriated, misunderstood, and dismissed on this very thread (including by you—she doesn’t actually defend FGM, if you read the actual book that quote is from) I’m not at all confident that that would be the case for her earlier work, including within the…

Yes, of course her meaning is different in context. She also states elsewhere in the same book, as I said, that she doesn’t personally support the practice and believes feminists trying to end it should be supported. Greer is a huge advocate for women discovering their authentic, raw sexuality (to the point, as others…

Sure, fair enough. But I think it is unfortunately true that once you’re banned from one college campus, the effect is likely to spread to others.

Thank you for such a thoughtful reply! I loved studying anthropology, and I learned a lot from doing so, and it’s been interesting in the years since college to reach a point where I don’t really feel like my personal convictions and my academic background are in conflict. I’m now perfectly comfortable saying that FGM…

No, it’s from her book, “The Whole Woman,” actually. She’s discussed it in public contexts because that book caused an absolute furor, but the fact that you don’t know where it comes from makes me doubt you understand the context of it as well as you think you do based on how many times you’ve posted it in various…

Cultural relativism, the frame she’s using to address that question, was the dominant mode of thought in understanding foreign cultures during the postwar years, when Greer was growing up, and which doubtless formed the basis of a lot of her thinking. The book in which she discusses it, called The Whole Woman, says…

I mean, this isn’t like, the glory days of public orations. Where else do public intellectuals actually speak to the public anymore apart from universities and a handful of lecture series, mainly in large cities? She’s in her 70s, it’s not like she’s going to learn Twitter. If people who engage in critical thought for…