So here’s an interesting story: The creator of the popular I Fucking Love Science Facebook page recently got a Twitter account.
Oh, I know that doesn’t sound all that interesting, but here’s the thing: When she got the Twitter account, she revealed to her Facebook fans that she was, in fact, a she.
This apparently shocked and confused a large portion of her readership. A … Woman? But … but … SCIENCE?! But there she was, with a woman’s name — Elise Andrew — and a woman’s face and everything.
Over on Hello Giggles, Julia Gazdag — also rumored to be a woman — reports on the reaction to Elise Andrew’s Big Reveal. Some chick at Reuters also did a piece on it.
(Thanks, Elizabeth, for pointing me to this story.)
Ohhhh…disappointment! I had my rant all queued up.
Then a conversation occured…
Yes. And I am bloody grumpy about that.
yes 😉
It’s always both funny and depressing to me when I try to raise concerns about safety, work conditions, financial fairness, etc in relation to sex work and get shouted down as “well you must just hate sex you prude!”. Like, um, it’s called socialism, you should look it up.
Awww you guyz … 😉
Argenti, I don’t know what Freud or Freudians say (if anything) about people who like cats or fish. I was Deep Cynicism About Freudians mode when I wrote that. The Freudian who Cannonball and I were particularly talking about was of the sort who can make anything – a child’s joke, a hobby, a friendship, a fondness for animals, a sense of ethics or morality – look self-centred, warped, controlling, or compensatory. She seemed to see everything as darkly in her way as MRAs do in theirs.
I tore her book up eventually.
My former professor, who believed that children resist toilet training to spite their parents by “stingily withholding the feces”. That dude did a fantastic job of making Freudian theory look ridiculous to many of his students.
Oh jeez, that’s exactly the sort of
shitidiocy Marvick had in her book.Seriously, what was it with Freud and feces?
Between that and the penis envy and wanting to fuck your mom stuff it’s almost like the dude had some issues or something.
(Where’s that sarcasm font when I need it?)
LOL! And the fern phobia. Don’t forget that.
It’s a real case of “physician, psychoanalyse yourself and stop projecting all that stuff onto everyone else, kthanx”.
Sometimes a houseplant is just a houseplant. I’m not even getting into some of his weird shit about horses.
Of course it’s totes unreasonable to think that a little kid would be scared of a very large animal with very big hooves and teeth! It must mean Something Else!
D’you think Freud was the original bonerwhiner? Not in the waaah-I-can’t-get-any MRA way, but he seems to have spent his life with his eyes at least metaphorically trained on his crotch.
“Well, I mean, I’m obsessed with genitalia, my mother, and ferns, so surely everyone else must be too. That makes sense, right?”
Definitely an early MRA! 😀
@Kitteh, do you speak French? I am happy to offer translation services if you need any help with texts about Mr K.
My 3yr old daughter is resisting toilet training. She is not stingily withholding feces, let me tell you.
I know the odd word and phrase, but that’s about it! That’s a very kind offer, BigMomma, but you’d end up translating entire screeds if I took up that offer, and I don’t think you’d want to be doing that (and I wouldn’t dream of imposing it on you).
Actually it’s years since I read most of my books on hi and his times ::looks across at 2 1/2 shelves of bookcase:: – my perspective is so different now we’re together. I used to be focused on the only part of his life I could learn about, the earthly stage. But for the last six years (omg there’s another anniversary coming in a month) it’s been about what’s happening now and our changing relationship. The first tenth of his life is sort of background these days … 🙂
I bet if Freud had ever had to toilet train a child, he’d never have dreamt up that particular bit of stupidity.
In Freud’s defense, they probably weren’t many good psychologists around back then to help him deal with his own issues. ^^
I mean, he made mistakes (and lies, IIRC) but I think the biggest problem is his spiritual ‘descendants’ who just accepted what he said with no proof.
This is why I have a really hard time taking Jung – and, by extension, Joseph Campbell – seriously. I mean, Campbell’s work has other flaws, but the association with Freud and Jung doesn’t help his case, at least to me. I’m always surprised when I meet people who take any of them seriously.
Ha, at this point, I don;t think anyone’s disagreeing with each other, we’re just adding detail. 😀
It’s the parenthetical point about kink communities “not always doing its job” that I was thinking about; especially the desire to protect the community at the cost of the victim, rather than dealing clearly with the aggressors is entirely consistent with the greater culture.
Ogod. That reminds me of an awesome english teacher I had. Whenever we discussed a book, he’d deal with the obvious surface imagery, then lead to more symbolic reading, then then eventually wind up at the most tenuous explanations made. For example, in a short story about a bunch of teens who destroy a house for no obviously apparent reason, he points out the destruction of the family album as being especially hurtful, and how one critic explained that the act of shitting in the book represented “leaving a family a gift.”
At this point he pulled a face.
“Well Jonny, what did you learn in school today?”
“Gee dad, I think I found out what to get you for Christmas.”
Lol, I kind of love that about literature; you can take anal*ysis to hilarious extremes. 😀
*yuk yuk
Oh joy >:( bad govt bad.
So that’s what maps on silk were for! I’m looking at a picture of a 1940s blouse that’s made from a map of China printed on silk. I wonder how the maker got hold of the material?
PS Sir got his cartographer to teach him how to draw maps, back in the day. Came in very useful on campaign, he was able to draw local maps from memory.
I don’t know if all maps on silk were for that purpose, but at least some were, apparently.
I would love to take a cartography course some day.
The US Army in WW2 went through tons of maps, many made from photorecon flights, per day so I think it was only pilots and paratroopers who were issued with silk maps in “escape kits.”
WUT