it is one of his most lucid posts to date. Even I could understand what he is saying.
could pull some other tell-tale remarks from Dkos. I could pull Helen's comment re: London Yank. Instead I'll pull this, to illustrate the fluidity and volume of the www attention span.
Really, I am an African American (AA) female. Oddly enough, I have always been AA and always will be associated, really and conversely, figuratively, within the prevailing or dominating cultural history and language of the US (or "Anglo Disease").
I understand and accept that there are a number of (1) liars posting comments and articles on the www and (2) readers who are either predisposed to validating celebrity/constant stimulus or (3) intermittant bystanders (LOL). I am not one of either (given my www habits). Whether one believes any of this or not is your problem, not mine. I'll tell you (pl.) why, and you will not like it.
Dissociation is a clinical mental disorder denoting a host of "magical" processes. Of which is the assumption of juvenile ego centricity; that only "white" males participate in www (VOIP "technologies etc"). Further, females (not merely "women") evince in language a peculiar and easily detected "voice," or sexual-orientation that connotes a normative political passivity. Deviants are presumed to be "male" or "monster" in principle (self-identified female author), regardless of the merits of a rhetorical, intuitive and/or empirical arguments. In www discourse the female who does not voluntarily identify (her)self by image or declaration is deviant.
The astute social spectator recognizes the threat to normative cohesion in so-called democratic discourse, broadcast, ambivalence toward and exclusion of individuals who are NOT categorically "female." Sex and gender however are irrelevant in any SERIOUS debate of human "rights," that is exercisable POWER TO LIVE UNMOLESTED conferred by state monopoly in law enforcement.
If anyone forgets I am "an African American (AA) female," I won't hold it against you. I won't expect you to "weight" my contributions to www party line technology in consideration of "conservative" or "liberal" ideology. Either the content is sensible or its not. And I can discern in the feedback who "free thinking" and who is not. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
I am not sure I understand you either. :-)
you are the media you consume.
and I just happen to wish one day I can have a chat with Ms Curie, her husband allowing, inside a Murakami novel :)...
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
Nevertheless, whilst I take the point that we have no way of knowing which of our correspondents are male or female or, more specifically, we assume all are white male until otherwise self-denoted (Digby was assumed to be male for years), it is undeniable that Fran's point is correct; in terms of contributions we are a male-dominated site.
Even tho I have many personal reasons for wanting to blur the assumed culturally-imposed differences between individuals of each gender, I am aware that, across a population, there is a different flavour that women bring that is different from men, As I remarked above. More personal, more involving. analytical but at the micro- rather than the macro- level. I'm reluctant to take this further. keep to the Fen Causeway
I've a great respect for your contributions, both personal and academic, to this forum. That admission does not mean that I will not, from time to time, disagree with you. Are we all good now? Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
AR, like I've said elsewhere, I can lead a body to water, but I cannot --will not-- make it drink. Usually, say 80% of the time, I post source links --usually not MSM file-- that inform my opinions no matter how "cryptic" I imagine they will be received. I have great confidence in the intelligence of my fellow-citizens, in there maturity. My purpose is to educate. It is not to train. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
