Friday Ephemera
Optimism. // “Tightly holding the pelican by his mouth pouch” and other foreign euphemisms for masturbation. // From above. // Burglars on burglary. // How to teach a baby to climb a fence. // Here is today. // Proportional and sensible. // Ladies, look away now. // The cordless ice drill you’ve always wanted. // Attention, welding enthusiasts. (h/t, Julia) // Japanese water cake. // Why colour grading matters. // Then and now. // Art. // Untarnished. // How to cut string. // So many kinds of things in Star Trek: Voyager. // What metallic electrocrystallization looks like. // On Mandelbrotting and other effects for Doctor Strange. // The Japanese museum of rocks that look like faces. // And finally, VoCo is like Photoshop but for audio and speech. Stay with it, it gets a little odd.
I suppose you’ve all heard the old Polish joke ….
No, I hadn’t. But I did think it was funny.
I think the best coat of arms in the world would be the town of Hensbroek, Netherlands
So, top researchers have now discovered that breastfeeding is something that women do. Evidently, this is now a problem.
Although breastfeeding is assumed to be “natural” and a biological function, we problematize the practice as both gendered and heteronormative.
Sorry David. Link for the above.
Although breastfeeding is assumed to be “natural” and a biological function, we problematize the practice as both gendered and heteronormative.
Must be those “nebulous boundaries of biology.”
But imagine if these tools escaped the Clown Quarter and were accidentally put in charge of something important. Air traffic control, say.
Friday Ephemera.. Perfect for a rainy Sunday morning.
James Bond sends a toxic message , but you knew that already.
but you knew that already.
We do indeed.
Love this line from that page:
“She spies some unattended blame and quickly slides her rear over it, (on our behalf, of course). As if it were an egg.”
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…we problematize the practice as both gendered and heteronormative.
Well, OK. More like a solution in search of a problem given that in the absence of a pathological problem causing an excess of prolactin, men will not lactate, therefore it is gendered, and given that the vast majority of pregnancies, even in Portland, Oregon, are the result of normal male-female human reproduction tactics, practices, and procedures, it is also “heteronormative”.
That these jamokes come up with this nonsense only proves that life in the West is way too easy.
More like a solution in search of a problem
The lead author of the above piece of, um, scholarship is Phyllis Rippey. Apparently, she’s “drawn to this area of inequality” – i.e., breast feeding – “because of the complexity in grappling with the biological realities of reproduction within a masculinist, neoliberal, and capitalist market economy that requires an unembodied worker.”
The lead author of the above piece of, um, scholarship is Phyllis Rippey. Apparently, she’s “drawn to this area of inequality”…
But wait – that’s not all !
That is some genuine Canadian frontier gibberish, I tell you what, eh.
Selected Publications
The degree to which all of mankind – humankind, no, personkind, has benefited from this much needed, in fact vital, “work” cannot ever be measured.
By Jove, Farnsworth, I think You’ve got it! =^D
The degree to which all of mankind – humankind, no, personkind, has benefited from this much needed, in fact vital, “work” cannot ever be measured.
I’m beginning to think that Mr Ecks might be right – burn it all down and start again.
I think You’ve got it!
Maybe, but I am not at all sure about the science behind this one.
Yeah, we know. Every leftwing cause, no matter how trivial, is “fundamental to combating climate change”.
Science!
Apparently never mind tea, consider instead the actual drink of politicians.
Well, Scottish politicians.
ClimateChange: jobs for the otherwise unemployable!
That is some genuine Canadian frontier gibberish, I tell you what, eh.
It’s actually a bigger problem than you think. There are large enclaves of Francophones scattered all through Canada, and for parents who want to retain that culture it’s hard, swimming as their children are in a sea of people who don’t speak French. They have their own schools, local newspapers, etc. Aside from the enclaves and the capital, outside of Quebec bilingualism is basically nonexistent.
I admit I have no idea what “occupation” has to do with any of that, although certainly all the Francophones outside Quebec I know are gainfully employed.