As a first day of class ice breaker, sometimes I play 2 truths and a lie with my students. They usually can't guess the lie. Can you?
😂😂😂😂 I'd love to know your justifications for your vote.
Poll closed, final results in. Most of you, like my students, didn't correctly guess the lie, which is I have a tattoo. I have a belly piercing, but no tattoo. And, yes, I'm an excellent tarot card reader who never saw the movie Titanic.
So, why does atheist who doesn't believe in anything supernatural meddle in tarot? Well, I understand how it works and know it's not supernatural. It's a fun, interesting game. Also teaching my daughter to read tarot, which is really about understanding myth, minds and behavior.
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Thanks for informatively contributing to my thread. You focused on "snivels in sirs" (I'm a catchy writer😁), but I also said "gratitude, sacrifice, subservience." So, as I discussed with others, I wasn't just referring to honorifics and address, but Ali's whole characterization.
You may not agree with my analysis of racist undertones in choices writers made in Ali's positioning among teammates throughout the entire series, and how I drew parallels with common literary and pop culture tropes I know (eg., noble savage, Uncle Tom), and that's cool.
I appreciate your agreement with the same observation I made of Ali's exaggeratedly deferential behavior, and also, your powerful counterpoint that it's a result of how "Korean society broke him." Both our analyses recognize racism and oppression his character endures+exhibits.
I don’t speak Korean, and the subtitles are reportedly bad. But, please explain why Squid Game portrays the only non-Korean main character as a brown skinned man who the entire time snivels in “sirs,” gratitude, sacrifice, and subservience to people equally fucked as him.
The responses about how this portrayal of Ali as kinder, more polite, respectful, noble, and more considerate than others as a way to “humanize” immigrants like him to a racist and hostile Korean audience is not that comforting 😬😬
To those who added insight or your own examination of Ali’s characterization, thanks for your contribution. Those in QTs and elsewhere whose only thought is that we’re all thinking too deeply, allow me to save you further effort in tolerating thoughtfulness and catch this block.
Been tweeting about abortion a lot lately. And I’ll continue. I’d like to describe my elective abortion and my spontaneous abortion, which we call a miscarriage. Both happened at 9 weeks and required same procedure. For one, I thanked the doctor, the other, I cried endlessly.
It was my choice to end my 1st pregnancy, and I was lucky to have it. Pregnancy, childbirth are dangerous, life+body altering experiences. Women in my family died in childbirth. Others got chronic disease, serious injuries. Many in poverty worsened by having too many children.
My second pregnancy was planned and wanted. I had a job, stable relationship with a partner committed to parenting. I was also much older, more responsible, and emotionally prepared to mother. Sadly, fetus had no heartbeat, and pregnancy couldn’t continue. I got another abortion.
It’s an absurd, misogynist lie to claim the worth of a living child or adult human is equal to products of conception with potential for life. Your religion and patriarchal ideologies cannot invent biological facts to force people to risk their life to incubate and birth others.
The basis of forced birth ideology is pregnant people can’t say no to pregnancy and childbirth (which permanently injure, kill) to protect life. Whose life? Embryos and fetuses with potential to live, not actual living breathing human beings. If you rate yourself, do you agree?
If you rate your intelligence and see how selective forced birth ideology is about the particular “unborn” their laws protect (eg, not those in fertility clinics), or the fact many ideologues don’t seem care about life AFTER birth, do you accept their lies about protecting life?
A good friend told me about her handyman, who subjected her to a misogynist, homophobic and, frankly, very scary experience. I'm enraged about the whole thing and can't stop thinking about how men treat women who live alone as their personal entitlement.
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My friend is a working professional who lives alone with her young child. She's also a very out lesbian, who never had any relationship with a guy. One day, the handyman she occasionally calls to help with household repairs came over dressed up and carrying flowers. 2/17
She has employed this man for 4 years, at two different houses. Out of nowhere, he declares he's in love with her. My friend was shocked. She's never had any non-work discussion with him, nor did she ever give him any impression she was interested. Plus, she's a whole dyke. 3/17
Heterosexual is a sexual orientation. If a child knows a “mommy and daddy,” “husband and wife,” or “boyfriend and girlfriend,” they know something about sexual orientation. The topic of sexual orientation is in your kid’s face everywhere every day, not just when we discuss gays.
When you say sexual orientation is too mature a topic for children, what you really mean is homosexuality. Cuz you talk to kids about heterosexuality from birth. You put “heartbreaker” and “ladies’ man” onesies on baby boys and ask about their “little girlfriend” in preschool.
So don’t say sexual orientation is private or an adult topic. You publicly announce daily you’re in heterosexual relationships with the assumption of your heterosexual orientation saying “my” boyfriend, wife, husband, posting pics, etc. And you do it around children.