"Often times the education, call-outs, reminders, and tips we give cis-men do not resonate. Often times they do, but only for a little while. Often times, it appears that the ‘male feminist’ relies on the labour of women in the same way his non-feminist counterpart does. Is there a major philosophical difference between relying on women for domestic chores and relying on them for call-outs? In both cases, cis-men are using the labour of women to do things that, really, they should be able to do on their own." Medium
>>><<<
I always find it somewhat difficult to get a handle on what exactly is meant by "neoliberalism", but this is a helpful point:
"Joining a long line of thinkers, most famously Karl Polanyi, Mirowski insists that a key error of the Left has been its failure to see that markets are always embedded in other social institutions. Neoliberals, by contrast, grasp this point with both hands — and therefore seek to reshape all of the institutions of society, including and especially the state, to promote markets. Neoliberal ascendancy has meant not the retreat of the state so much as its remaking." Jacobin
>>><<<
Some good interviews with drug dealers.
"C's husband had no criminal record aside from drug charges -- no violent crimes, no reason to believe he had weapons; he'd never even been in a bar fight. But it didn't matter, because the cops wanted to show off how big their truck-muscles were -- and apparently that's not that weird. Imagine yourself in the SWAT team's position: You have all this intensive training, crazy body armor, friggin' black urban tanks ... and they're all just sitting around gathering dust, because not every day can be a bank heist day. They're probably just bored, and as a drug dealer, you're today's entertainment." Cracked
>>><<<
"In an attempt to keep the workers from truly understanding what Sartre meant by "hell is other people," the profession of "lector" came into being. Originating in Cuba, the job of the lector was to read aloud ... and that was it. Before the invention of television and radio, lectors would take a seat at the front of the factory and, with a loud and clear voice, read the daily newspaper, or a novel, or some erotic Edith Roosevelt fan fiction, to the factory workers." Cracked
>>><<<
Cracked is on a roll today! How movies and TV inaccurately depict the physics of space. Cracked
>>><<<
I always find it somewhat difficult to get a handle on what exactly is meant by "neoliberalism", but this is a helpful point:
"Joining a long line of thinkers, most famously Karl Polanyi, Mirowski insists that a key error of the Left has been its failure to see that markets are always embedded in other social institutions. Neoliberals, by contrast, grasp this point with both hands — and therefore seek to reshape all of the institutions of society, including and especially the state, to promote markets. Neoliberal ascendancy has meant not the retreat of the state so much as its remaking." Jacobin
>>><<<
Some good interviews with drug dealers.
"C's husband had no criminal record aside from drug charges -- no violent crimes, no reason to believe he had weapons; he'd never even been in a bar fight. But it didn't matter, because the cops wanted to show off how big their truck-muscles were -- and apparently that's not that weird. Imagine yourself in the SWAT team's position: You have all this intensive training, crazy body armor, friggin' black urban tanks ... and they're all just sitting around gathering dust, because not every day can be a bank heist day. They're probably just bored, and as a drug dealer, you're today's entertainment." Cracked
>>><<<
"In an attempt to keep the workers from truly understanding what Sartre meant by "hell is other people," the profession of "lector" came into being. Originating in Cuba, the job of the lector was to read aloud ... and that was it. Before the invention of television and radio, lectors would take a seat at the front of the factory and, with a loud and clear voice, read the daily newspaper, or a novel, or some erotic Edith Roosevelt fan fiction, to the factory workers." Cracked
>>><<<
Cracked is on a roll today! How movies and TV inaccurately depict the physics of space. Cracked
No comments:
Post a Comment