Among my wife’s many charms are her neologisms. Her latest is ‘ismic’, by which is meant, according to its coiner: prone to think and speak in isms. An ism, in turn, is a suffix indicating a condition, as in autism,… Read More ›
Month: December 2020
CULTURAL APPROPRIATION (March 26, 2017)
Without social justice warriors we wouldn’t have any social justice. But every once in a while these moral crusaders get a little carried away. A case in point – well, at least on the surface – is the current crusade… Read More ›
DRESS LIKE A HUTTERITE DAY
Today, December 30, is Dress Like a Hutterite Day. The debate over this has been raging for a few years now, and it’s put the SJW in a difficult position. Mocking members of the dominant culture has always been more… Read More ›
AUTONOMY
This morning, a block over and ten blocks north of here, there was a woman tweaking out on something, probably meth or fentanyl. I’m reasonably certain something similar is happening a few blocks from your house too. I take it… Read More ›
WALLPAPER
We sometimes forget that though 2020 was hell for some, it was a banner year for others. If you escaped Covid, if your income and assets were protected, if the people you now had an excuse not to spend time… Read More ›
THE BANALITY OF THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER
Every now and then we all have one of those wait-a-minute moments. It’s when someone’s been trying to slide one over on us, but all of a sudden we notice. The latest, at least for me, is this mantra that… Read More ›
PRIVILEGE AND ACADEMIA
Imagine two colleges side by side with everything being equal, save that one has all and only white faculty and students, the other all and only black faculty and students. Imagine too that there’s some objective measure of student outcomes…. Read More ›
THE OTHER UNDRIP AND INTERSECTIONALITY
Shortly after having passed its Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People, the UN ran out of acronyms. So just to avoid confusion, it’s the other UNDRIP that’s the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Invisible People. Women and… Read More ›
Guest Post. Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Paranormal Activism. (scroll past image)
When you deny my ‘lived experience’, you deny my existence! We, the undersigned, petition our flesh and bone (zombies excluded) oppressors to recognize the following, Article 1. We are beings who refer to ourselves as ghosts. All other terms of… Read More ›
TO THE HUMANS
Trans women aren’t women, and indigenous people aren’t indigenous. But they’re both people. So are white people. So are rich people. Start with that. And if you do, you’ll notice that all people get constipated, and when they’re not they… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 