Just a quick note: I’ll be away from the blog for a couple of days to deal with some family stuff. Should be back and posting on Monday.
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We Hunted The MammothJust a quick note: I’ll be away from the blog for a couple of days to deal with some family stuff. Should be back and posting on Monday.
@ Vicky P
Ooh, from the context I’m going to guess yours!
Keeping everything crossed for you! I’m sure they’ll be knocked out by your CV anyway.
(Because it’s good; not because it’s tied round a brick or anything. LinkedIn said that was too pro-active.)
ETA: 3M stands for Minnesota Mining and Minerals. I’m sure you know that; but I really liked that when I found out.
Could the erosion of democracy in various parts of the world be because men don’t want to do the dishes?
https://www.salon.com/2019/09/10/whats-destroying-democracy-around-the-world-at-least-in-part-misogyny-and-sexism/
Thought-provoking. I’ll note also that the Weimar Republic significantly liberated women compared to the Kaiser’s regime, and that the fiercely misogynistic Freikorps arose immediately and were the precursors to the brownshirts of Nazism. They had a worldview in which women came in two types: the feared, liberated “red” women and chaste, demure, and subservient “white” women:
https://timeline.com/male-fantasies-fascism-study-efe0a2773d1f
Liberated women seem to have prompted violent reactionary movements earlier in history as well. Witch hunts being among the more notorious, often targeting widows who had come to own property in the only way that women could come to own property in those times, as well as women reputed for being sexually liberated.
This is quite interesting; a history of some early lockdowns!
https://middletemplar.org.uk/all-gentlemen-of-this-house-shall-depart-early-modern-lockdowns-at-the-middle-temple/
@Alan
Yes, it is! If it works out, it’ll be almost like coming home – part of my old company was sold to 3M back in 2019, and I was one of the people who got downsized later that year. A number of my old co-workers either were in the part that got sold to 3M or found jobs there later, and the ones I liked working with before are still there. I’d love to see them again.
@Vicky P: Fingers crossed! Not now, since I can’t type that way.
@Surplus: Misogyny seems to be at the root of so many terrible things.
Interesting bit of tension between colonialism and abortion rights.
The government here have said that, if the Northern Ireland government at Stormont don’t pull their finger out and start providing proper abortion services, the UK will override them and deal directly with health trusts over there so make sure they do.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/27/northern-ireland-office-may-directly-instruct-trusts-to-offer-abortion-services
Take care, David. There’ll be plenty of weirdos for you when you get back.
@kindasortaharmless
Indeed, it’s not like we’re going anywhere!