Narcissa
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Here because of my disgust with Elon & for the writers & editors
Writer still unpublished. I'm a freelance flak, because my 2 MA's (African Studies/International Affairs) never led to a career & law school wouldn't have me. I did manage to raise 2 kids.
Writer still unpublished. I'm a freelance flak, because my 2 MA's (African Studies/International Affairs) never led to a career & law school wouldn't have me. I did manage to raise 2 kids.
I'm not sure what I think of this speech. There are lot places congress should take a stand medically. Kids should be vaccinated for example. Others they should stay out. But the intro to the speech rings weird to me. A childhood without pain? That doesn't exist, even in the best circumstances.
December 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I'm not sure what I think of this speech. There are lot places congress should take a stand medically. Kids should be vaccinated for example. Others they should stay out. But the intro to the speech rings weird to me. A childhood without pain? That doesn't exist, even in the best circumstances.
Also, your premise is strange. People tallking making fun of how Black people talk, saying their culture is Sh*t or slavery was good for them isn't the worst problem they have. But it absolutely feeds into the worst problems. One ignores at one's peril.
December 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Also, your premise is strange. People tallking making fun of how Black people talk, saying their culture is Sh*t or slavery was good for them isn't the worst problem they have. But it absolutely feeds into the worst problems. One ignores at one's peril.
Yes, but not one without an ideology, and in that ideology one that has demonized Jews (among others to be sure). Also, I mean, c'mon, the idea that Jews area threat to the caliphate is quite clear.
December 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Yes, but not one without an ideology, and in that ideology one that has demonized Jews (among others to be sure). Also, I mean, c'mon, the idea that Jews area threat to the caliphate is quite clear.
He's reacting to the claim there were no white male millennial writers in the New Yorker in 8 months etc. But a little sleuthing finds a 10 year tracking from around 2013 too 2025 which shows far from icing out men, they dominate in many departments still, are roughly equal in others.
December 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
He's reacting to the claim there were no white male millennial writers in the New Yorker in 8 months etc. But a little sleuthing finds a 10 year tracking from around 2013 too 2025 which shows far from icing out men, they dominate in many departments still, are roughly equal in others.
But you get anti-semitic violence by tolerating the small anti-semitic stuff.
Asking people to ignore a phrase that can mean violence, has been used to mean them, well that's small time anti-semitism. It's how Trump's racism became ok again, small permissions.
Asking people to ignore a phrase that can mean violence, has been used to mean them, well that's small time anti-semitism. It's how Trump's racism became ok again, small permissions.
December 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
But you get anti-semitic violence by tolerating the small anti-semitic stuff.
Asking people to ignore a phrase that can mean violence, has been used to mean them, well that's small time anti-semitism. It's how Trump's racism became ok again, small permissions.
Asking people to ignore a phrase that can mean violence, has been used to mean them, well that's small time anti-semitism. It's how Trump's racism became ok again, small permissions.
I think the story of eugenics is much more complicated than that--which is not to say that some skeevy people embraced & ran with it. But as a plus size women myself, who embraces the idea of health not simply numbers--one also has understand that obesity contributes negatively to several conditions
December 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I think the story of eugenics is much more complicated than that--which is not to say that some skeevy people embraced & ran with it. But as a plus size women myself, who embraces the idea of health not simply numbers--one also has understand that obesity contributes negatively to several conditions
I was a parent when common core was introduced. I know what my kids did and what the parents kept whining about.
December 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I was a parent when common core was introduced. I know what my kids did and what the parents kept whining about.
The concept of the ideal body is the across many cultures. In China famously women had their feet bound, often until they rot. In some African cultures, fatness was so prized girls were prepped for marriage the same way geese raised for foie gras are--practically force fed. And so, very many more.
December 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The concept of the ideal body is the across many cultures. In China famously women had their feet bound, often until they rot. In some African cultures, fatness was so prized girls were prepped for marriage the same way geese raised for foie gras are--practically force fed. And so, very many more.
yeah violation of international law
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
yeah violation of international law
I've been trying to parse this statement, are you pro of against Jamelle Bouie and Tressie McMillan who write quite different columns.
December 16, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I've been trying to parse this statement, are you pro of against Jamelle Bouie and Tressie McMillan who write quite different columns.
Perhaps when speaking off this issue, don't just randomly include intersex people or perpetuate the idea that intersex people are some sort of hermaphradite. Most disorders of sexual development don' t involve a lack of clarity re sex and even those that do, that is only the surface/ early on
December 16, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Perhaps when speaking off this issue, don't just randomly include intersex people or perpetuate the idea that intersex people are some sort of hermaphradite. Most disorders of sexual development don' t involve a lack of clarity re sex and even those that do, that is only the surface/ early on
They needed an excuse to write about people fired from charges that might not be legit, especially without due process. So they went with this to their editor. May have had it hanging about a while. It's still nuts. But that's why.
December 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
They needed an excuse to write about people fired from charges that might not be legit, especially without due process. So they went with this to their editor. May have had it hanging about a while. It's still nuts. But that's why.
Thank you for this. As a frequent reader, I'm so relieved too see your name come up on the obvious side to this issue.
December 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Thank you for this. As a frequent reader, I'm so relieved too see your name come up on the obvious side to this issue.
There is absolutely nothing in basic manners that requires one to sit there and take insult. Nothing. You could if the insult warranted it, completely cut them off socially, pretend they didn't exist "the cut direct".
I don't know why people have such trouble with this idea.
I don't know why people have such trouble with this idea.
December 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
There is absolutely nothing in basic manners that requires one to sit there and take insult. Nothing. You could if the insult warranted it, completely cut them off socially, pretend they didn't exist "the cut direct".
I don't know why people have such trouble with this idea.
I don't know why people have such trouble with this idea.
The height/weight recommendations is not in fact based on colonial ideals. The height weight were based on a survey a life insurance company took of people who lived longest. One key feature of it often forgotten is within it that lower isn't better. The other, it isn't a binary.
December 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The height/weight recommendations is not in fact based on colonial ideals. The height weight were based on a survey a life insurance company took of people who lived longest. One key feature of it often forgotten is within it that lower isn't better. The other, it isn't a binary.
So I loved this piece. I am the kind of mom and come from the kind of mom that did Martha Stewart stuff (same milieu including geography). I never resorted to hiding vegetables or chicken nuggets. And yet, we still relied on plenty of processed food!!
December 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
So I loved this piece. I am the kind of mom and come from the kind of mom that did Martha Stewart stuff (same milieu including geography). I never resorted to hiding vegetables or chicken nuggets. And yet, we still relied on plenty of processed food!!
Yes, I don't know why toddlers are so uncatchable, but take it from a mother of two, now grown, children. They have some forcefield around them that requires them to be herded into place, and only after enough amusing pratfalls have happened.
December 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Yes, I don't know why toddlers are so uncatchable, but take it from a mother of two, now grown, children. They have some forcefield around them that requires them to be herded into place, and only after enough amusing pratfalls have happened.
I do recall in the movie Real Science, there is a scene off increasingly underpopulated classes until everyone is recording it--until they are recording the professors recording--and that was supposed to be a genius school. I'm not sure this is quite as new as you think
November 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I do recall in the movie Real Science, there is a scene off increasingly underpopulated classes until everyone is recording it--until they are recording the professors recording--and that was supposed to be a genius school. I'm not sure this is quite as new as you think
My son, an engineering student, went to more than one class in which the professor did this, only read off the slides--badly--and didn't answer questions/help. When he was time crunched, and he absolutely had to, he skipped it. Other classes he never misssed.
November 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
My son, an engineering student, went to more than one class in which the professor did this, only read off the slides--badly--and didn't answer questions/help. When he was time crunched, and he absolutely had to, he skipped it. Other classes he never misssed.
This kind of problem is everywhere in the world (including those without "lockdowns". It is almost as if going through an epidemic and having many people die, affects cognitive development.
November 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
This kind of problem is everywhere in the world (including those without "lockdowns". It is almost as if going through an epidemic and having many people die, affects cognitive development.
My instant reaction, of course, is then this isn't for them. But I do remember a friend who wasn't wildly into Opera BUT loved singing it (she was a singer). Still it's hard for me to fathom, the form is part of the joy of writing it.
November 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
My instant reaction, of course, is then this isn't for them. But I do remember a friend who wasn't wildly into Opera BUT loved singing it (she was a singer). Still it's hard for me to fathom, the form is part of the joy of writing it.
In some classes, you must take all comers. As a former creative writing major, I don't think writing is one of those classes. You either have the itch or you don't. If you choose a genre, you must enjoy and respect it. One literally can't succeed otherwise-even (especially)with self-publishing.
November 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
In some classes, you must take all comers. As a former creative writing major, I don't think writing is one of those classes. You either have the itch or you don't. If you choose a genre, you must enjoy and respect it. One literally can't succeed otherwise-even (especially)with self-publishing.
One of the factors is how digital teaching didn't just do away with paper, but many tried and true formulas.. Kids don't have their homework graded. Their tests aren't returned in time & usually only as a Scantron. Kids aren't taught basic research/outline skills. They are simply given papers.
November 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
One of the factors is how digital teaching didn't just do away with paper, but many tried and true formulas.. Kids don't have their homework graded. Their tests aren't returned in time & usually only as a Scantron. Kids aren't taught basic research/outline skills. They are simply given papers.
Actually, you have it backward, most of the common core stuff was in fact about creative problem solving and not rote education (only the pearson texts were an issue). But parents had a fit because they didn't understand it.
November 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Actually, you have it backward, most of the common core stuff was in fact about creative problem solving and not rote education (only the pearson texts were an issue). But parents had a fit because they didn't understand it.