Happy Easter, or what remains of it, for those who celebrate it! (And happy Deep Discounts on Peeps Day to all who celebrate that tomorrow.)
There’s an interesting, er, theological discussion about the meaning of Easter over on The Spearhead. In a short post, WF Price argues that the uppity ladies of today could learn a thing or two from Mary Magdalene:
One of my favorite subtexts of the Easter story is the devotion of Mary Magdalene, who kept a vigil at her Lord’s tomb, and thereby became the first witness to the Resurrection.
I don’t see it as a specifically Christian message, but rather a universal one: the woman, regardless of her background or past, can attain holiness through selfless love and devotion. I hope some day that our own errant women can follow Mary Magdalene’s example.
A nonbeliever with the clever handle fakeemail isn’t convinced:
Once a whore always a whore.
I have no interest for a whore who “saw the light” aka a 30 year old cock-carouseler who is out of options. I want the young woman who was smart enough to never be a whore in the first place.
Evidently MRAs never take a holiday from being dicks.
@Kittehs’ Damn sneaky museums. Love the leather jacket, very nine! Hope he is treating you well and life is lovely!
Yeah, Jaro was moderated, thank goodness.
Personally, I don’t think it’s really important whether you use the word “sexism” to describe merely institutionalized prejudice and discrimination, or all prejudice and discrimination based on gender/perceived gender/sex. That’s just semantics. The important thing is that people recognize that bias against and discrimination against women is institutionalized in a way that bias against and discrimination against men isn’t, although occasional people could be anti-men (that’s not to say, of course, that patriarchy doesn’t hurt men in various ways too). Whether you want to call the latter “sexism” when it does occur or not – I really don’t find that particularly important.
@cloudiah
Yay! I got a kitten! 😀
Sadly I’m probably going to give up soon. He is awfully boring.
Thanks, Cannonball!
The jacket is pinched from a pic of Nine, so I can only say he has better taste in clothes than some recent Doctors. ::ducks::
I like the painting, too. Done long after he passed and I’ve no idea who painted it – “after de Champaigne” is the best they can come up with and the gallery hasn’t even a provenance for it (slackarses). It’s just different enough from the usual copies to be interesting.
We had a lovely peaceful Easter break here, just the rest my legs needed. And spring has finally sprung over There, and we’ve got the gardening underway. Nice to see him in his tatty brown gardening jumper again!
@Dvarghundspossen
I know the words may not matter much (though they do make it easier to convey ideas), I was just leaving leeway for the chances of a man being denied a job because of you know, normal sexism. I’m not exactly sure if that happens (patriarchy not letting men get jobs) but it was really unclear in Brz’s example whether he meant the man doesn’t get the job because “death to the menz” or because “patriarchy backfires on men”.
Okay, I mean I guess everyone thought it was option 1, but I can be very, very generous. At least, when it distracts me from doing math homework. 😉
Kittehs’, That is a very nice portrait that you found.
Got to love a man who gardens. Love the nine leather, beats the bow-tie any day! Thanks by the way, for being so awesome.
Fade: I think it’s safe to say that Brz has even less idea what he means than we do.
^ Probably. XD
Cannonball, bowties are cool. And a bowtie beats a celerystick any day.
cloudiah, it is, isn’t it? 🙂
Cannonball – “Thanks by the way, for being so awesome.”
Right backatcha! ::high fives::
Gardening’s a love he’s kept ever since he was a little tacker. The veggie garden at Home is still all his territory. 😛
brown jumper and green wellies
Bowties are cool, however nine will always be so much cooler. Hipster Doctor cannot beat the Doctor who dances!
Not caught up (blame Torchwood, my mother keeps kidnapping my computer to watch it *swoons over Captain Jack*)
“@Argenti Aertheri
Are they tropical fisks? When I was small my dad had some and we named the sucky one (plec-something?) Leo, so now the sucky ones are all Leo to me.”
Yep, and giant sucker fish = plec. Mine’s big cranky jerk fish, the cranky one, or Randall Flagg, depending on his mood (he’s either cranky or asleep, those are the options). 55 gallon holds him, some danios and clown loaches, and a flurry of cories. 29g holds the parental cories (the flurry of cories is because they’ve bred a couple of times now), and some peppermint tetras. 10g is plants and snails, will probably get an oto or something, but I lost the last batch of otos for idfk-reasons (yeah, my latest set, I mentioned them? They lastest a week and everything tested fine, so I have no clue. The 29g tank is just a death tank or something)
Goodnight/day/later!
And Brz is a troll and still boring, big surprise there.
Fade, I think it totally does happen that people choose women over men for childcare jobs as part of completely normal sexism. Like, women are more nurturing, and men who want to work with kids are probably peadophiles.
Concrete example of man-hating women: Years ago, I was a member of a socialist internet community. There was a group there of extreme fringe feminists (and yeah, they were members for a long time, wrote consistently on various subjects and so on, so I’m pretty certain they were for real – but that’s not surprising; it WOULD be surprising if feminism were the ONLY -ism ever that didn’t have extreme fringe groups) who seriously advocated misandry. Like, just as proletarians ought to hate the upperclass, that’s simply the proper attitude to have if you’re a proletarian and if you doesn’t HATE capitalists you’re just deluded (according to them), women ought to HATE men.
Now, if someone were to say that these women were just the mirror image of misogynistic men I would obviously disagree, they’re coming from a totally different place. BUT I’m not comfortable with merely saying that this is “individual assholishness” either. It’s not like the fact that they hated MEN rather than some different group was completely random. Though their hate stemmed from the bottom rather than the top of the patriarchy ladder, it still has its root in patriarchy, so it’s not just individual assholishness.
(Btw, I’m not implying here that we’re at odds really, I’m just elaborating a bit.)
When you first mentioned that plec is Randall Flagg, I thought you meant Colonel Flagg from M*A*S*H – I’ve only read one of King’s books with Flagg in it and that was years ago, so the name didn’t register. 😀
Though the thought of Plec as that CIA wingnut is quite appealing …
In order of fashion sense: Ten, OMGS Ten, yeah, buy a comb, but otherwise? Lovely; Nine, ok, he looked ridiculous in general, but yes, that jacket is just standard fare “meh”; Eleven, holy shit man, bow ties and fezs? also, that chin!; less familiar with old Doctors, but celery is absurd, as is a question mark suit…love the scarf though.
Lol Kitteh, well, his fins do resemble wings I guess… not sure about the nuts, but hey, not like wingnut is literal in he first place!
Ah, that makes sense.
And I don’t think we’re at odds, either. 🙂
Argenti Aertheri Never say meh when it comes to nine! The darkest, most delicious of all! *shakes fangirl finger*
This quote is very Flagg and sounds like the sort of thing plec might say in Fishlish:
Colonel Flagg: [after Frank Burns pats his shoulder] My father touched me that way once. To this day he still has to wear orthopedic shirts.
Sorry Canonball, Ten’s my Doctor. Just Argenti is fine though 🙂
Argenti, thanks. Nine forever *fangirls ears* I regret nothing.
*Cannonball
I fail, sorry!
Flagg is totally Walton Goggins by the way.