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Anthropology Free-For-All His Pretty Nails

Rather Niche Recreation

April 24, 2023 72 Comments

He likes to intimidate women and to pilfer things of no possible use to him.

Now tell him how pretty he is. Repeatedly.

Update, via the comments:

Note the obfuscatory use of the term TERF, which in context simply means women. Or non-compliant women. Or women caught off guard.

Oh, and a riposte of note:

Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.

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Academia Anthropology Parenting Pronouns Or Else

Bad Thoughts

April 16, 2023 69 Comments

In other we’re-letting-the-mentally-ill-teach-your-children news:

Parents of students at Fox Chapel Middle School in Hernando County, Florida, are demanding answers from the district after a teacher made concerning comments allegedly about harming children and [himself]. Although the district investigated the comments and found them concerning, the teacher was not fired and is back in the classroom.

The teacher in question, a dysmorphic man named Ashlee Renczkowski, is apparently prone to “phases of depression,” and was, in his words, “having bad thoughts.” And hence of course the comments about shooting the children in his care, grades six through eight, presumably with the three firearms in his possession. The ostensible cause of this rather severe mood swing was a social media post in which unnamed people were “talking negatively” about Mr Renczkowski’s sexuality and professed womanhood.

And any reservations about Mr Renczkowski are, clearly, unfounded.

When not “feeling cute and beautiful” and exploring the possibilities of a “zero-depth vaginoplasty,” Mr Renczkowski boasts of “giving students a safe place.”

Some ironies are just a little too on-the-nose.

Mr Renczkowski has since been removed from the school and his weapons confiscated.

And in other, entirely unrelated news – when a sociology researcher discovers the wrong kind of things:

[Dr Laura Favaro’s] line managers told her that the study had “become an institutionally sensitive issue” and that “[the University] considers my data to be dangerous” and is “frightened of making it public.”

Readers are invited to guess the area of research before clicking the link.

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Academia Anthropology Film Free-For-All Politics

The Unsayable, Said

April 10, 2023 80 Comments

Little things. For instance,

On the one hand, all good people are for affirmative action. That’s a sign of virtue. On the other hand, to talk about the predicate, the reason that affirmative action is needed, which is that there are these gaps in educational achievement and proficiency, is verboten. So, we kind of twisted ourselves in knots that we have to embrace something but deny the factual underpinning of it.

Below the fold, you’ll find a short film by Rob Montz about Amy Wax, quoted above, a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Wax has been mentioned here once or twice before. Generally regarding her observations of everyday phenomena that are seemingly unmentionable, at least on campus, and the performative indignation and outright hysteria that reliably ensues. As when students, supposedly adult intellectuals, claimed that the professor’s mere presence on campus was “physically and emotionally harming all of us,” with the law school’s Dean, Theodore Ruger, another supposed adult, invoking the “lasting trauma” of hearing her speak.

Notable moments in the film include Professor Glenn Loury summarising the inevitable consequences of “affirmative action” and wildly varying standards of admission – which, it seems, mustn’t be acknowledged realistically – and Professor Wax’s comment about the race-grifting “equity” establishment, and its opposite – gratitude.

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Anthropology Free-For-All Music The Politics of Buttocks

And In Thong-Related News

April 5, 2023 107 Comments

A project is undertaken:

The controversial style made its show-stopping fashion debut back in 1997, when low-rise jeans and thin bodies ruled both runways and television screens. Having been plus-size all my life, this created problematic body image issues for me growing up, which took years to work through.

Years of “working through” one’s state of heftiness obviously being preferable to actual, you know, weight loss. Which, one suspects, might have taken less time. But hey, we mustn’t reach for the stars.

Decades later, I am now a fashion editor, constantly translating the latest clothing trends for plus-size bodies. But given the exclusionary nature of this aesthetic and my fear of it growing up, this assignment hit different. Though I have posed half naked in front of millions as a plus-size lingerie model, I had yet to try the exposed thong trend IRL — until now. And I was actually looking forward to finally rocking the hotly-debated undergarment.

Fearlessly, heroically, said garment was duly rocked. The result, needless to say, is “cool-girl style vibes” – a “body-baring sheer look,” complete with what I’m assured are a corset and “strappy, rhinestone heels.”

My first time rocking a visible thong was a complete success.

Other perspectives are available.

When not “pushing boundaries” and invoking the feminism of taking up space “unapologetically,” the author, Ms Margie Plus, is a “confidence activist” and a musician. Those with a taste for pitch correction and overstretched PVC can behold her creativity here.

Via Mr Worstall.

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Anthropology Parenting Pronouns Or Else

Look At My Shiny Identity

March 19, 2023 84 Comments

Via Mr Muldoon, a tale of what sounds like mid-life contrivance:

I told my husband I now use they and them pronouns after 15 years together. We are both learning how not to misgender me.

Imagine the fun.

The contriver in question is Amanda Elend, a scrupulously progressive woman whose list of causes is extensive, if somewhat predictable. She tells us,

My partner and I got married over a decade ago, knowing we might end up hating each other.

Ah, the basis of any sound marriage.

We understood people grew and that sometimes meant growing apart. But still, we thought our chances were good. Fifteen years later, we’re still happily married, but boy, did we grow. I now identify as a bisexual, nonbinary person, and my family is learning to adapt. 

Coinciding, oddly enough, with the big four-oh:

At first, it was difficult to reconcile the fact that I’m bisexual and nonbinary at 40 years old. It felt like I was co-opting a label designated for younger generations. But it all felt right; they weren’t labels. They were my identity. 

The idea of having an identity – one with boutique status and complications that have to be danced around in an affirming manner – is terribly important to Ms Elend. And as we’ve seen, self-definition is very in right now, and quite competitive. Plus, there’s so much potential for chiding and rituals of atonement:

[My husband] is still working to understand the complexities of my identity, but I know that he is trying. For example, he recently apologised for not defaulting to “they” when he talked about me.

Ms Elend’s children, aged six and nine, were also informed of their mother’s elevation to the role of Fascinating Being:

I suddenly decided to tell my kids in the car one day. They were in their booster seats in the back, and my partner was driving.

The word husband is used intermittently. Sometimes it’s partner.

Looking awkwardly back at them, I told them I never wanted to stop growing or getting to know myself and I recently realised that I’m nonbinary. I also told them that if I weren’t with their dad, I now knew that I would be open to relationships with those like me and those who’re different.

“Can we still call you mom?” my 9-year-old asked.

You see, every small child wants a mom whose new pronouns have to be memorised, and who reveals that their family is suddenly conditional, one option among many. A mom who, in middle-age, is still on a journey of self-absorption – sorry, self-discovery – and who could at any moment become a radically different, and altogether more fashionable, kind of entity. Quite what a six-year-old is supposed to do with such information, beyond feeling confused or insecure, is unclear.

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