One of my great joys as a careful writer is having someone on the internet not read what I wrote and then argue with me about what I either did say (and better) or didn’t say (because doing so was better).
What I’m saying is I hope all of them get diarrhea.
A close second is being a careful writer for well-documented reasons and having people who can live freely by being sloppy get mad that I said what I meant but didn’t scream and holler invective while doing so. See same wish.
“Are you saying it is good or baaaaaad” is probably a sign that you should move on. And I rarely say that because, hey, meet people where they are. But my nerves are worked.
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More seriously let me say something. I theorized years ago that info societies threatened masculinity by attaching economic value to femininities characteristics, like social ties and discourse.
Clawing that back is how we get to a place where feminized qualities like basic care work is so passionately diminished that many people will burn down public health to avoid it.
I play Betty Davis about once a week. I just added her to an essay not two days ago! A beacon for strange Black girls who just don’t want to be tied down. What an icon. It seems she, too, has said enough of this world.
I just wanted to put on some fishnets and do whatever the hell I wanted. My whole life goal.
They Say I’m Different is perhaps the best known and the one in regular rotation over here. But this is a close second
Dan put me on to folk economics concept a couple years ago. I skimmed that econ literature at the time. This time I caught something in the older canonical stuff on folk economics. It is strongly influenced by evolutionary psychology literature.
That's always a red flag for me. Not necessarily to discount the literature but to read around it more. Rubin (2003), for example, cites Steven Pinker a lot. Important to note that "folk" knowledges isn't unique to economics.
There is something about people who play “jackass style pranks” on people. I don’t like them and I’ve yet to be proven wrong.
Those pranks are on the edge of “abused animals” which we accept as a anti-social warning sign of one of the -pathys. So of course the Jerrys enjoyed playing pranks. They’re pathys.