Culture Warriors category archive
Wars on Christmas and Mongers of Wars on Christmas 0
In The Hartford Courant, Susan Campbell reminds us that there once was a war on Christmas, and it was waged by Calvinists with a religious agenda, not by wingnuts with a political one. A snippet:
Both Sides Not 0
Afterthought:
“Republican Family Values” has always been a con and a scam.
Republican politicians make “used car dealer” and “real estate developer” look like honorable professions.
Naked Lunch Conference Room
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If you honestly cannot figure out whether disrobing in front of co-workers and subordinates or touching their private parts in work settings is improper, The Denver Post’s Kristin Kafer offers some guidance.
In a related article, Tony Norman writes of recognizing privilege.
Just in Time for Christmas 0
Badtux has a suggestion:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Sexual Devolution 0
There is no rational way to claim that trapping women in one’s office and waving one’s genitals about is legitimate business (or any other) behavior, not in any context.
Not all men are pigs, but far too many are.
The “Family Values’ Caucus Circus
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At Psychology Today Blogs, Nigel Barber muses as to why “family values conservatives” such as “Judge” Roy Moore, Mall Warrior, so often get caught out violating the values that the profess to value. Here’s a bit:
He goes on to talk about the “white bear effect.” Give it a read.
Moore Trumpling, Reprise 0
Bryan Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, marvels at the hypocrisy. A nugget:
I understand the difficulty most people have when the matter is determined by what “he said” and “she said,” and it is difficult to find the line between fact and fiction. But in the matter of Moore, this is a “he said” and “they said” proposition in which no one yet has refused to believe the many female accusers. In fact, there are some who incredulously say they believe the women — which means they believe the abhorrent behavior of the man who seeks their votes — and yet they will still vote for him.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
“Republican Family Values” 0
One more time, the piety is a pose, not a practice.
Thanksgiving, the Back Story 0
No Selfie-Awareness 0
No selfie-awareness whatsoever.
Aside:
There’s a sure way to keep your nude selfies from becoming public.
The Lesson 0
When I was a corporate trainer, one of the courses we offered was EEO training, which included topics related to sex discrimination (of which sexual harassment is a subset). The course was not intended to change attitudes–that is generally a fruitless effort unless persons already want to change their attitudes. Furthermore, attitudes are neither quantifiable nor observable; behavior is.
Rather, the course was designed to teach supervisors how not to get themselves or the company in trouble, to put it bluntly. That is, it was directed at how persons behaved in the workplace, not at what they believed or at what they did or said off-duty or off the property.
I found that the persons who most often questioned whether they could continue doing this or that reprehensible behavior generally already knew that the behavior was reprehensible. (If, for example, I take my clothes off before others in my workplace, I can make no argument that doing so is businesslike behavior or an honest misunderstanding. Zilch, nada, none.)
Those questioners wanted to keep on doing whatever they were doing because they liked doing it.
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
Facebook Frolics 0
Aside:
And folks thought that computers would somehow make us smarter . . . .
Afterthought:
Instead, they merely amplify the stupid.
