Culture Warriors category archive
Coinage 2
Badtux agrees that we need a new word and suggests that we adopt the term, “whitesplaining”; methinks yon penguin has a point.
Follow the link for the full rationale.
Walking while Woman 0
A University of Wisconsin student tells her story. A nugget:
But curve-concealing clothes and a low brim hat doesn’t cut it. Whether the snakes can see you or not, they can sense you.
Read it.
The Empire Strikes Out 0
Story:
Charlotte refused.
The Republican Party’s fascination with what goes on in other persons’ bedrooms continues to amaze me. Video stores (remember video stores?) had back rooms for persons like them.
Culture Wars and Mongers of Culture Wars 0
Jackie tries to pick a side.
Flagging Interests 0
Jingo bells, jingo bells, jingo all the way . . . .
And, for our second number, let’s have a resounding rendition of Oh, Comply All Ye Faithful.
Libertarianism, a Sucker’s Game 0
Thom gets a bit heated towards the end.
The Rendering 0
It would seem that everything gets rendered unto Caesar.
These persons worship no Jesus that I know.
Samuel Johnson Was Right 0
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel In related news, David Niose questions attempts to “instill” patriotism. A snippet:
Such conditioning is neither necessary nor healthy, and as a society we should rethink it. Just ask Colin Kaepernick, the NFL player who unleashed a public outcry after respectfully dissenting from the national anthem. For doing nothing more than sitting out a ceremonial song at the start of a football game, Kaepernick has been called a traitor and worse. Or ask Bradford Campeau-Laurion, who was once ejected from Yankee Stadium for having the audacity to use the seventh-inning stretch to visit the men’s room rather than sing “God Bless America.” Such hostile responses to mild gestures of dissent show not a healthy patriotism but an aggressive, chauvinistic nationalism.
“I Trolled You So” 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Joe Pierre reviews recent research revealing why anonymous internet comments are so wretched. A snippet (emphasis added):
Hiding in Plain Sight 0
One of the screwier trends to emerge from Europe lately has been efforts to ban burqas and “burquinis” (and this is the United States of America–we know something about screwy); one column I saw somewhere in a US paper I forget where about Nice’s recent banning of the burquini was headlined something like “Leave It to the French To Outlaw Modesty.”
Der Spiegel attempts to understand the movement in Europe, and particularly in Germany, to “ban the burqa.” It concludes that the movement has little to do with religion and everything to do with domestic politics and attempts to co-opt the European far right. Here’s an excerpt, but I urge you to follow the link and read it in its entirety.
That’s about the Size of It 0
Here’s more proof that the fashion industry hates women.
The larger pair of pants shows “Size 0,5.” The slightly smaller pair shows “Size XL.”
Words fail me.
Facebook Frolics 0
By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea . . . .
Aside:
This trifling tribalism (as my first wife would have said) plucks my last nerve.
