Kind of a great expression: “uncalled for.” I remember it as a charge leveled at my Behavior in high school.
Some things a person does are called for.
Other things are uncalled for.
I think this was before people got called OUT.
It’s maybe obvious but the shock expressed by powerful people at being called “out” by lower-downs ignores the context that many of us were either called on to do things BY powerful people or told they were “uncalled for” so zip it and go home
Maybe the crowd that fears cancelling just didn’t get in trouble—not good trouble just trouble trouble—all the damn time as teenagers
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The most disturbing parts of TikTok, incl the old Claudia Conway vids, remind me of Samuels Richardson’s Pamela (1704), one of the first novels in English. In it Pamela is repeated sexually assaulted & somehow keeps real-time notes under her pillow & gets them out to the world.
I was going to post TikTok screenshots of bruised women hiding in bathrooms & bedrooms making TikToks but the images are too sad & terrifying.
That would be 1740. Robinson Crusoe came first. Mea culpa. 18th-cent English Twitter, if you exist, check out epistolary / hiding / fleeing corners of TikTok and see if you see similarities to Pamela & Clarissa. @AaronRHanlon?
It’s hard to know what to call the climate crisis now that it’s far, far from a political meme and deep into the late-stage life-or-death phenomenon that anyone who wasn’t too stupid or greedy to notice has always feared it would be. nytimes.com/2021/06/27/us/…
Humans around the world — and right now our friends in the beautiful PNW — are being physically tortured in conditions that can’t be withstood by human flesh.
Call your friends there. 115 is unsurvivable.
Heatstroke and organ failure set in when the core body temp reaches 104.