Well, in case it does burn down, correspond with me at:
radiopaper.com/AudreyPollnow
(Different vibe, though.)
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Fertility. Meritocracy. Post-Liberal Pluralism. To correspond with me: radiopaper.com/AudreyPollnow
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Unsurprisingly, people averse to appearing naked in a locker room are more worried about alarming others than they are about being wronged themselves.
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If you prefer to cover up, it’s because
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artist's way, anyone?
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:: Alice Reed :: "Does anyone want to do the Artist’s Way with me? I’m planning to start this week, though I’m doing a sort of half-assed version. Here’s my plan: ¶ -listen to the week’s version on audiobook ¶ -consider doing the morning pages and the a…" radiopaper.com/correspondence
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Do tell: "What are some of the strangest or most fascinating literary-to-film connections that you all have made recently?"
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:: Matthew T. Scarince :: "A few days ago, as I was watching Sergio Corbucci’s 1968 Western Il Grande Silenzio ( The Great Silence ), I was struck by certain parallels in landscape and atmosphere with Ursala K. Le Guin’’s novel The Left Hand of Darkness…" radiopaper.com/correspondence
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Love that my poll about how to best help the homeless gets 2 votes, and my poll about whether you feel comfortable naked in a locker room gets 589 votes. Sounds about right.
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Beginning to think that IRL, the people of Twitter are not particularly bold…
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Sadly, the plurality of people polled will cover up, and a majority prefer to.
But enough people are sufficiently norm-following that if you manage to cultivate a naked norm, most people polled will undress. twitter.com/AudreyPollnow/…
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Sadly, the plurality of people polled will cover up, and a majority prefer to.
But enough people are sufficiently norm-following that if you manage to cultivate a naked norm, most people polled will undress.
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If you're in a gender-segregated locker room where nakedness is officially allowed, do you walk around naked or do you take pains to cover up? Or do you just follow the cultural norm in the space, with a preference for one or the other?
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Because it usually seems either under-theorized or badly theorized!
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Who are the best/most interesting thinkers about masculinity?
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Has there ever been a “we are manlier than our fathers” movement that didn’t go really badly?
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Has there ever been a “we are manlier than our fathers” movement that didn’t go really badly?
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Weird to read Manzoni in the early 19th c describe how men used to be defiant and masculine in the late 17th.
Either the decline of masculinity has been carrying on continuously for all human history, or it’s a myth, or ppl just don’t comment on increases in masculinity.
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Was there ever a time when men didn’t used to be manlier?
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nakedness is good:
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:: Audrey Pollnow :: "The human body is good. Being naked is a form of vulnerability, and being naked with others is a basis for solidarity. It’s good to have solidarity with other people, and to have solidarity on the basis of being human, rather than …" radiopaper.com/correspondence
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:: Audrey Pollnow :: "The human body is good. Being naked is a form of vulnerability, and being naked with others is a basis for solidarity. It’s good to have solidarity with other people, and to have solidarity on the basis of being human, rather than …"
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If you’re in the anti-nakedness camp, come argue with me! (Or just push the “disagree” button?) Nakedness is worth fighting for!
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If you prefer to cover up, it’s because
- worried about creepers2.2%
- fear of alarming others13.7%
- body conscious43.9%
- just don't like it/other40.3%
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If you're in a gender-segregated locker room where nakedness is officially allowed, do you walk around naked or do you take pains to cover up? Or do you just follow the cultural norm in the space, with a preference for one or the other?
- Undress13.9%
- Cover Up42.1%
- Norm (prefer undress)14.4%
- Norm (prefer cover up)29.5%
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:: Audrey Pollnow :: "Boomers and Gen-X have their issues, but here’s one thing millennials need to work on: prudishness about homosocial nudity. ¶ I suspect that the current shyness about these things is downstream of other issues, but things keep ratc…"
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If you have close friends/family who are homeless b/c of mental health or addiction, what change would help them most:
- more permanent housing100%
- more temporary shelters0%
- rehab more available0%
- different laws0%
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:: Alice Reed :: "For those who have close friends/relatives who are homeless because of mental illness or addiction: what would be the most helpful changes at a society-wide level? More beds in permanent shelters (with relatively few rules) like the on…"
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“Politically, Gance seems somewhat confused. At one moment he condemns Marat, Robespierre, and Danton. At another, he presents them as heroes of the Republic. He can tolerate contradictions, in fact he seems to thrive on them, because he believes above all in the glory of FRANCE”
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“This is a film interested in crowds, parades, and armies, and it is better at evoking the emotions stirred by such things than it is at depicting tender feelings.”
Notes by on Gance’s Napoleon. Clearly I need to watch this movie!
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:: Alice Reed :: "Within Arendt’s labor/work/action framework, where does “teaching a child math or poetry” fall? ¶ If you’re a schoolteacher, teaching has some of the characteristics of labor: you need to keep doing it over and over again, you rely on …"
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...regardless of how submissive you are to others.
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Something analogous can be true in certain cases of "flirtation vs harassment."
"Personal boundaries" don't exist in a vacuum; they rely on other social boundaries: conventions re what you can't do & re what things *mean*, and also thick communities where you can belong...
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Of course, "everything depends on the exact character of the activity, and often on the exact character of the initiator/perpetrator."
And I'd add that the social context matters too, in terms of whether teasing is ordered to respect/belonging/intimacy.
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Of course, "everything depends on the exact character of the activity, and often on the exact character of the initiator/perpetrator."
And I'd add that the social context matters too, in terms of whether teasing is ordered to respect/belonging/intimacy.
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"hazing, teasing, and even what we might call 'bullying,' seen from a different angle, are pro-social, and necessary in for any kind of healthy grouping of humans....Groups in which these things do not occur generate depression and disaffection."
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The woman who was arrested shares a mutual friend with one of my siblings:
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“If you are seeing this video, that means I have already been taken by the police”
Chilling words of a young woman in China, who was arrested shortly after filming this
Saw her friends get taken away one by one after the Beijing protest
Said they went to mourn, attend vigil @cnn
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Would *love* to read an updated version of _An Everlasting Meal_ about how to cook around children.
, have you written anything about this?
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:: Alice Reed :: "How do you cook with children? There are really two questions here: 1) how do you cook with children around, which is to say under conditions of frequent and unpredictable interruptions (particularly if there’s a baby)? and 2) how do y…" radiopaper.com/conversation/X
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“The pacing worked for me in the same way The Green Knight did—the sense of waiting impatiently for life to begin in earnest.”
Great conversation re: the Soviet film adaptation of War and Peace. twitter.com/DavidSchaengol
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TBH, very fun to imagine all the Twitter people flocking there, peopling northside and otr, delhi and college hill to live out the last 20 years of Twitter.
Sort of like “left behind” but with Twitter and Cincinnati.
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Actually, the end of Twitter is one of the few times I *don’t* want to be in Cincinnati.
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When the end of Twitter comes I want to be in Cincinnati. twitter.com/DavidSchaengol
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Also, I feel like UBI advocates should invent something called “leisure subsidies,” so they can frame UBI as the sober, moderate compromise between wage subsidies and leisure subsidies.
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One big program with wage subsidies: you need to decide whether wages paid by family members are exempt, and either way of answering that question is problematic.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem?
(I really *like* the idea of wage subsidies.) twitter.com/RadiopaperHQ/s…
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One big program with wage subsidies: you need to decide whether wages paid by family members are exempt, and either way of answering that question is problematic.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem?
(I really *like* the idea of wage subsidies.)
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:: Audrey Pollnow :: "Yes, though in the end I don’t know which (if either) I’d favor ¶ UBI is attractive in that it’s simple, which both reduces administrative expense and spares people who are going through difficulty from jumping through extra hurdle…" radiopaper.com/conversation/e
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