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- At the Sunrise Café...
- "[T]he term 'sustainable fashion'... is an oxymoron. 'Sustainable,' after all, implies 'able to continue over a period of time'...."
- "What mystery? She fell in love with a murderer and he took advantage of it."
- "As second-wave feminism bled into a third, women seemed to rack up nothing but wins."
- Trout lilies and rue anemone yesterday at sunrise.
- "'States rights' was always a cover for segregation and harsh discrimination. The poor – both white and people of color – are already especially burdened by anti-abortion legislation..."
- "The book contains statements and cartoon pictures regarding bodily anatomy, bodily functions and removing clothing to expose private areas of the body in various positions."
- Jane Goodall is in an underwear commercial.
- At the Sunrise Café...
- Hope you like these 9 TikTok videos I picked out for you today.
- "Take initiative and don’t assume that friendships just happen organically... But be judicious."
- "I wanted to go to trial, but the prosecutors if I [went] to trial they would put a felony on me, so I think this is probably the better route. I believe I'm innocent... but they're saying if I go to trial they're going to hit me with a felony."
- This too is a leak, and, again, it’s from Politico.
| Posted: 12 May 2022 06:36 PM PDT  ... you can talk all night. |
| Posted: 12 May 2022 07:25 AM PDT "'Fashion,' on the other hand, implies change over time.... So we are going to use 'responsible fashion': a term that refers to a world in which all players, from the consumer to the C.E.O., the manufacturer and the farmer, take responsibility for their part in the supply chain and the creative process, and for the choices they make... [T]here is no simple answer to solving fashion's role in climate change. Even the obvious one — don't make, or buy, any new stuff, and don't throw away any old stuff — has negative implications for employment, know-how and self-definition. (After all, people have been adorning themselves to express themselves for pretty much as long as they have understood themselves as 'selves.')... How big does a company really need to be? How do you scale upcycling when there are limited resources?... How do you decide whether leather counts as a byproduct or a bad product?" From "Redefining 'Sustainable Fashion'/At its heart, the term, which can leave us feeling as if we're chasing an impossible ideal, is a contradiction" by Vanessa Friedman (NYT). I added the link on "upcycling." It just goes to Wikipedia. There, you'll see a photo of "Food cans upcycled into a stool." That's either a joke or begging for a joke. Friedman is the NYT fashion writer. She's another person with an interest in preserving the onward flow of fashion. It would be very easy to make a moral issue out of buying as few clothes as possible and making them last. You could save a lot of time and money by not bothering to shop and by figuring out how to define yourself without the use of ever-changing swathes of fabric. Speaking of "selves"...
Link. If fabric can be self-finished, your self can be self-finished without fabric. I'm not saying go nudist. Just have a nice little set of things to cover up and keep warm with and don't worry about it anymore. Have an edge that does not require additional finishing work. A self edge. Prevent fraying. |
| "What mystery? She fell in love with a murderer and he took advantage of it." Posted: 12 May 2022 06:15 AM PDT That's the top comment on "A jailer ran off with a murder suspect. Her death deepened the mystery" (WaPo). |
| "As second-wave feminism bled into a third, women seemed to rack up nothing but wins." Posted: 12 May 2022 09:24 AM PDT "First, in the '70s, women saw a series of legal victories in addition to Roe: Title IX was passed (1972), housing discrimination was outlawed (1974), the pregnancy-descrimination ban was passed (1978).... By the '90s, we could 'do it all'... Feminism, by this point, had traded in its quest for 'liberation of women' to fully pursue parity with men, all while attempting to remain appealing to them. In short, both professionally and privately, we were chasing victories defined on male terms. (Little defines this era so clearly as feminists confidently siding with Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky affair.) Since then, the language may have changed—there were the sexual-empowerment aughts where we could have 'sex like men' (think: Sex and the City), then the career-empowerment teens (think: #Girlboss). But ultimately, each decade finds us led by a feminism that has abandoned ameliorating the struggles of our collective lives as women in lieu of chasing individual wins on playing fields drawn up by men.... The language of feminism is not working for us, not in the arena of the patriarchy or even in our own private lives.... We need to regroup and reframe our language away from 'defending' the individual and toward protecting the collective. Because yes, protecting women's reproductive rights benefits me, but equally important is that a pro-woman reproductive policy benefits us all: men, children, our economy, and our national security." Writes Xochitl Gonzalez in "Patriarchal Feminism Led Us to This Moment. The feminist conversation around abortion rights has gotten women nowhere. We need a new language" (The Atlantic). Xochitl Gonzalez, a novelist, is 44. I had to look that up to get a sense of how much radical feminism she might have lived through. A lot of the linked essay is about what the mainstream women's magazines have been saying to women. Who doesn't know those things are a con? If you have any true feminist spirit, you should hypothesize that whatever the mainstream is pushing is a patriarchal scheme, especially if it's boosting women's spirits and bolstering their alliance with men. The last sentence quoted above sounds like the very women's-magazine boosting and bolstering that she seemed to be criticizing. The sentence before that sounds like raw left-wing politics that isn't centered on women at all but simply promises incidental benefits. How is that not patriarchal? |
| Trout lilies and rue anemone yesterday at sunrise. Posted: 12 May 2022 05:00 AM PDT  This morning, they were gone.  |
| Posted: 12 May 2022 04:48 AM PDT "... because they can't afford travel to a blue state to get an abortion. They're also hurt by the failure of red states to expand Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act; by red state de facto segregation in public schools; and by red state measures to suppress votes. One answer is for Democratic administrations and congresses in Washington to prioritize the needs of the red state poor and make extra efforts to protect the civil and political rights of people of color in red states.... Blue states have a potential role here. They should spend additional resources on the needs of red state residents, such as Oregon is now doing for people from outside Oregon who seek abortions.... California already bars anyone on a state payroll (including yours truly, who teaches at UC Berkeley) from getting reimbursed for travel to states that discriminate against LGBTQ+ people. Where will all this end? Not with two separate nations. What America is going through is analogous to Brexit – a lumbering, mutual decision to go separate ways on most things but remain connected on a few big things (such as national defense, monetary policy and civil and political rights).... The open question is like the one faced by every couple that separates: how will the two find ways to be civil toward each other?" Writes Robert Reich, ending with a question that undercuts the click-bait headline, in "The second American civil war is already happening/America will still be America. But it is fast becoming two versions of itself. The open question is: how will the two be civil toward each other?" (The Guardian). Does this deserve my tag "civility bullshit"? It's a close call. I'll add it because now I'm talking about it, but I don't think Reich deserves it, because he is calling for his own side to be civil. Those who click on that headline will probably mostly be people who are hot for battle and hating their adversary and — because it's Reich and The Guardian and because of the incipient overruling of Roe v. Wade — on the left. I hear Reich saying settle down and think of specific, practical things that can be done through the ordinary processes of government, which include, in the United States, federalism. Let's take a moment to sneer at federalism — AKA "states rights" — and then let's calm down and diligently use it. |
| Posted: 12 May 2022 04:30 AM PDT "[It] described butts in various colors, shapes and sizes (example: fireproof, bullet proof, bomb proof)." We discussed the original decision 2 months ago, here. |
| Jane Goodall is in an underwear commercial. Posted: 12 May 2022 03:09 AM PDT
I noticed that through "G-strings in the mist: 'You wouldn't expect Jane Goodall to be fronting a campaign for underwear'/Renowned primatologist 'had a laugh' at the idea she'd be surrounded by models wearing Australian bamboo fabric brand Boody" (The Guardian). "It's interesting," says Associate Prof Michal Carrington, a researcher in ethical consumption at Melbourne University. "Because you wouldn't expect Dame Jane Goodall to be fronting a campaign for underwear.... This ad campaign doesn't really give that sense of moral shock, or that sense of why … The sense that people in their own actions are implicated.... While it's great to see companies taking responsibility themselves and developing [more sustainable] products… how much responsibility do we want to place on the consumer? From a cynical perspective you could say 'Well why isn't there legislation out there to stop the harmful effects of clothing?'" |
| Posted: 11 May 2022 05:32 PM PDT  ... you can write about whatever you want.
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| Hope you like these 9 TikTok videos I picked out for you today. Posted: 12 May 2022 04:25 AM PDT 1. "Where are the fruit trees?" 2. Grandparents have had the same bathroom wallpaper since the 1970s. 3. A strange cleaning tip. 4. When you give your wife marriage advice from the 1950s. Does she laugh or get mad? 5. When you perform an extended imitation of the way your wife acts when she gets home from work. Does she laugh or get mad? 6. More analysis of Amber Heard's witness-stand acting from that actor-scholar actor. 7. Take off those ugly socks. 8. Sitting at home, eating snacks. 9. "Maybe the only reason you think you're not good enough is..." |
| "Take initiative and don’t assume that friendships just happen organically... But be judicious." Posted: 11 May 2022 02:22 PM PDT "Spending time with friends you feel ambivalent about — because they're unreliable, critical, competitive or any of the many reasons people get under our skin — can be bad for your health.... [O]n average, very close friendships tend to take around 200 hours to develop. Quantity and quality go hand-in-hand. To a tired introvert like me, the effort that requires just sounds exhausting.... [F]inding three to six friends 'isn't a magic number' for everyone. 'Your personality and the characteristics of your life are going to make a difference'...." From one of the most-recommended comments: "I am an older woman, and over the past three years I have slowly cut ties with about three 'friends' because I became really tired of every single conversation, text or email being about their thoughts, feelings, family, pets, health, problems, etc. Most of the time, they never even inquired about any aspects of my life.... One of these 'friends' who I met at work and who I tried to discourage has recently started texting again. In spite of the fact that I know the names and a lot of information about her family members AND pets and always inquire about them using their actual names, she has never asked about my family, and I don't think she is even aware of how many family members I have. This is an extreme case, but others are similar. Many people just want someone to listen to their incessant chatter."
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| Posted: 11 May 2022 01:53 PM PDT Said Anthime Joseph Gionet, AKA Baked Alaska, quoted in "Judge nixes Jan. 6 plea deal after right-wing streamer 'Baked Alaska' declares himself 'innocent'/Anthime Joseph Gionet, otherwise known as "Baked Alaska," said he had only agreed to take the deal because he was worried he'd be charged with a felony" (NBC News). Here's the larger context: "More than 285 people have pleaded guilty in connection with the Jan. 6 attack, and nearly 800 individuals have been charged. As NBC News has reported, the FBI has the names of hundreds of additional Capitol rioters who have not yet been arrested. The Biden administration is seeking millions in new funds to prosecute hundreds of Jan. 6 rioting case." |
| This too is a leak, and, again, it’s from Politico. Posted: 12 May 2022 03:10 AM PDT |
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