Posts by Emma Hart
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Hard News: Music: In before Christmas, in reply to BenWilson,
And "drinking white wine in the sun" is such an antipodean thing to be sentimental about. Most of the rest of the world just thinks it's bizarre that Christmas to us is about BBQs, cricket, the beach, etc.
Yeah, I think that's one of the reasons it touches me so much, that unlike almost all Christmas songs, it's familiar. Memory suggests there's a Paul Kelly song that's similar.
ETA: That one, even, that was posted up-thread. Duh. My brothers played that every Christmas at Mum's.
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I'm not really sure how that particular incident reflects on the usability or otherwise of feminist theory for blokes, though.
I can give you my absolute assurance that the person in question would not have behaved that way to a woman, and that she used 'feminism' as the justification for her behaviour. I... will shut up now, before I use the phrase "pissing contest".
All I'm really trying to say is that a lot of people (myself included) have genuine negative experiences of trying to engage in discussions on feminist websites, and those negative experiences will inevitably shade the next discussion on a similar topic they try to have.
Heh. I may have told you my story about walking up Ponsonby Road at night many years ago and steadily picking up my pace to put some distance us between when I realised there was a woman walking behind me, so she wouldn't feel threatened.
So then I told the story to Matthew, and he was all, "Yeah, I do that all the time."
I would not be surprised to see a real mixture of regualtory mechanisms in play simultaneously. In short, everyone could be right at the same time.
Because biology. It's always everything.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Russell Brown,
Honestly, do you really think of us as a bunch of hatchet-raised harpies, Russell, poised to come down on you like a tonne of bricks? Because that’s the impression you’re giving me right now.
But it does happen. Sometimes. One of the biggest problems we have in comments at The Lady Garden is people getting pissed off at men entering the discussions, or objecting to male perspectives, or male victims, being included in discussions. (Srsly, I've been told off for including men by a man. My brain, etc.)
There may be statistical trends, but that says nothing about any particular individual, and individuals are soooo various.
Yep. Just like height. There are population differences, but sufficient variation within the population that the data can't tell you anything about an individual. So that trend to tailoring education styles by gender? Isn't just useless, it also reinforces a bunch of ideas about gender. Boys are boistrous hands-on learners (mine isn't), girls are chatty social learners (mine isn't).
Thing is, I've had lots of conversations about gender with men. I've had lots of conversations about gender with Russell. And I've learned things from those discussions. This year, I found out that there are men - and not just a few men - who will consciously alter their behaviour or the route walking home at night so they don't frighten women.
And many times I've thought about entering this thread to talk about the men I knew growing up. The poor under-educated straight white able-bodied men. I think I know quite a bit about them: they were my father, my brothers, my friends and boyfriends. Only I'm not one of them, I can't speak for them. I'd be another female voice, and perhaps I'd talk about their problems with expressing their feelings. But who here is qualified to speak for them?
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Sacha,
Enjoy the interplay between him, his wife and his son unfolding.
Enjoy? Srsly? Even season 5, (**Spoilers**) where the relationship between then becomes a textbook example of psychological abuse? I've been treated the way Walter treats Skyler, and I found the first half of the most recent series almost unwatchably accurate.
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Isabel recently reminded me of this, a Christmas song which is kind of corny, but which always makes me cry:
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Speaking of duck shit all over your lawn...
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
I suppose this is all part of the deal. Language is just as susceptible to trends as popular music or clothing.
Yeah, usually a word has made an actual impression because it's suddenly arrived, for one reason or another. It seems quite reasonable that most would go the way they came.
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Up Front: Whimsy Is an Extra 5 Cents a Word, in reply to Bart Janssen,
So who did you feel the need to text at that moment????
Um. Megan.
Scoop is a good place.
Al is good people. And my contact at Telecom is also a lovely guy I may have previously conversed with on a completely different topic.
Drifting to the centre/right is such a lazy option.
I just don't get it. But then I am also the person who calls "Middle-class wankers!" during prolonged discussions on the pricing and availability of limes.
And surprisingly there is nothing in this post that I needed to google or fear to google.
Earlier, I was playing word games on my phone, and got Quite Cross that it wouldn't accept the word "felch". You're welcome.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Farmer Green,
The globally averaged surface temperature peaked in 1998, and has been on a slight downward trend since then
Wow, really? Peaked except for 2005 and 2010 which were warmer. And that downward general trend is what accounts for 9 of the 10 hottest years on record being post-2001?
Farmer Green has been keeping abreast of the emerging science and finds nothing to dispute in either of these excerpts.
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I am delighted to say that I've just arranged to do an interview with the lead researcher on this, Frank Pega. I directed him to this piece, and he was delighted by the "insightful commentary".
So. If any of you have brilliant and insightful questions you think I should be asking him, post them here, or email me.
