I have some grievances
Aug. 30th, 2006 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmWhole Foods sushi bar staff -- pickled ginger is not a topping for sushi. It is for cleansing your palate before/during/after sushi consumption. So when you get it all over my takeout sushi, you suck.
Men who spit -- please stop spitting in public. I know you think you need to do this, but you're wrong. The female populace doesn't mysteriously have non-working salivary glands, we're just not so revolted (or impressed) by ourselves that we have to spit proudly and in public at every opportunity. I've been hit twice by accident with spittle in the last week. This doesn't make you a man, it makes you an animal, and sorry doesn't cut it, so just stop.
Certain many men on the subway -- you cock is not that big. Neither are your balls. Fucking put your legs marginally together and let the rest of us sit down. You are not more entitled to a seat then the rest of us, nor should I have to perch on the edge of one because you have a cock and I presumably don't. Also, men of LJ, this is not a time for "you wouldn't understand". If your bits are that sensitive, if you're not used to being a male in a crowded city like New York yet, just stay standing!
Medical professionals -- I have a real disease. My being female doesn't give you permission to assume I don't.
President Bush -- "I take full responsibility" involves what other than saying those four words, exactly? To say you've done nothing for NOLA, and really all of this country, since your election is generous.
Anyone concerned about education in America today -- Even if every school and child met the "No Child Left Behind" standards, American children would still be receiving woefully inadequate educations, because the standards are meaningless. Yes, I had an upbringing that emphasized education and I am smarter than the average idiot, HOWEVER our kids can't read, can't write, suck at math and don't believe in science! Stop patting them on the head and make them do some work. The answer isn't for "everyone to go to college" -- it's for every level of education to have meaning -- i.e., stop dumbing everything down to churn out more graduates at every level.
The ladies of Judy's Book -- you are some of the whiniest, most fearful, provincial, emotionally immature freaks I've ever deal with, and I've been on the Internet since 1990! This site is supposed to be to provide people with local business and product recommendations -- so I don't have an opinion about what colour you should dye your hair (although I do have an opinion as to whether you should list it as an "emergency" question). What I do have opinions about are your feelings that Christians are the most persectued group in America today and that it's unreasonable for school to ask you to pack school supplies for your children, but trust me, you don't want to hear them.
People who are afraid instead of aware -- The following things are not going to kill you: lipgloss on an airplane, ebola, anthrax, wilding teens, people on the Internet, going to the movies alone. STOP IT. Fear doesn't make you safer, it makes you stupider. Concern is different. And no, it's not the same thing, renaming your fear concern doesn't work. Being informed and dropping the superiority routine as if he who dies with the most terrors while hiding in their bathtub wins is usually a good start.
Historical reenactors -- Please get over this business about women in pants and breeches. We're not portraying women dressed like this.
Men who spit -- please stop spitting in public. I know you think you need to do this, but you're wrong. The female populace doesn't mysteriously have non-working salivary glands, we're just not so revolted (or impressed) by ourselves that we have to spit proudly and in public at every opportunity. I've been hit twice by accident with spittle in the last week. This doesn't make you a man, it makes you an animal, and sorry doesn't cut it, so just stop.
Certain many men on the subway -- you cock is not that big. Neither are your balls. Fucking put your legs marginally together and let the rest of us sit down. You are not more entitled to a seat then the rest of us, nor should I have to perch on the edge of one because you have a cock and I presumably don't. Also, men of LJ, this is not a time for "you wouldn't understand". If your bits are that sensitive, if you're not used to being a male in a crowded city like New York yet, just stay standing!
Medical professionals -- I have a real disease. My being female doesn't give you permission to assume I don't.
President Bush -- "I take full responsibility" involves what other than saying those four words, exactly? To say you've done nothing for NOLA, and really all of this country, since your election is generous.
Anyone concerned about education in America today -- Even if every school and child met the "No Child Left Behind" standards, American children would still be receiving woefully inadequate educations, because the standards are meaningless. Yes, I had an upbringing that emphasized education and I am smarter than the average idiot, HOWEVER our kids can't read, can't write, suck at math and don't believe in science! Stop patting them on the head and make them do some work. The answer isn't for "everyone to go to college" -- it's for every level of education to have meaning -- i.e., stop dumbing everything down to churn out more graduates at every level.
The ladies of Judy's Book -- you are some of the whiniest, most fearful, provincial, emotionally immature freaks I've ever deal with, and I've been on the Internet since 1990! This site is supposed to be to provide people with local business and product recommendations -- so I don't have an opinion about what colour you should dye your hair (although I do have an opinion as to whether you should list it as an "emergency" question). What I do have opinions about are your feelings that Christians are the most persectued group in America today and that it's unreasonable for school to ask you to pack school supplies for your children, but trust me, you don't want to hear them.
People who are afraid instead of aware -- The following things are not going to kill you: lipgloss on an airplane, ebola, anthrax, wilding teens, people on the Internet, going to the movies alone. STOP IT. Fear doesn't make you safer, it makes you stupider. Concern is different. And no, it's not the same thing, renaming your fear concern doesn't work. Being informed and dropping the superiority routine as if he who dies with the most terrors while hiding in their bathtub wins is usually a good start.
Historical reenactors -- Please get over this business about women in pants and breeches. We're not portraying women dressed like this.
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Date: 2006-08-31 03:08 am (UTC)Also, gender-balanced balls count me as a woman, not as a man, even if I attend as a man, meaning that unless I have a male escort it can be very hard to register. Luckily, my preferred events arn't gender blanaced and are perfectly lovely about all this.
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Date: 2006-08-31 05:21 am (UTC)The problem with "gender-balanced" events is that even if the idea is to make sure that everyone gets to dance, it doesn't quite work. I know of one vintage dance week where women get their husbands to sign up as a "partner" but the guys don't like dancing, so they are off golfing all day and it's pretty much the same as if they had signed up solo. At some swing dance events I've been to, you sign up as "lead" or "follow" and that's all there is to it.
Women dressing as men might have been rare, but it definitely wasn't unknown, and I've always suspected that it was more common than we think because no one thought or knew to write about it.
My current research is on all-women's productions of Shakespeare.
Try writing to Walter Nelson through the Lively Arts History Association Page (http://www.lahacal.org--hit "contact us"), tell him what's up and tell him Melissa Aaron sent you. Walter's a great guy and might be able to help, and I am pretty sure that he is not starchy and humorless about history: he always points out that out here in the West, women were scarce and guys often danced with each other at balls, or they didn't get to dance! Can you fake it with riding breeches, or do you need the full drop-fall thing with buttons down each side?
Good luck and keep me posted,
~~moonyprof
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Date: 2006-08-31 05:24 am (UTC)