'Jaynestown'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Race relations are not what they used to be, even when they're bad
Of course of course, but I think the general conception of "back then" (not your's, ita) doesn't get that, for example, that anti-micegination laws were passed because people WERE miceginating, they were miceginating up a storm.
that anti-miscegenation laws were passed because people WERE miscegenating, they were miscegenating up a storm.
That was the most valuable thing I learned from a queer history seminar I took at SFSU. And it applies generally. If governments were passing laws against stuff, it generally means it was going on.
For the record, there were people who contemporaneously protested things like that.
For the record, if I were the teacher who assigned such a project, the letter of protest better sound more like Fox and Penn than King and Kennedy or risk public ridicule.
if I were the teacher who assigned such a project, the letter of protest better sound more like Fox and Penn than King and Kennedy or risk public ridicule.
No argument there.
If governments were passing laws against stuff, it generally means it was going on.
The bible too. It was a real 'ah hah' moment when I realized that.
Oooooooh, fun thought: House as history prof, assigning projects like these just for the fun of snarking at poorly-thought-out responses.
heh heh heh
I'd be watching, for sure.
hey, if mayflower women wrote you could write it as a slave...
Interesting idea.
These topics are for discussion credit not graded papers. I have not gotten my grades for the first week yet, so I don't know how he really grades these, but they are supposed to be launching points for discussions. I just hate the whole "suspend what has happened since and write this shite as if I were someone who lived back then and had no clue".
If I wanted to take a creative writing course, I would have. This is supposed to be a history class, you know, learn from the past so we don't repeat it and all that.
I think my overwhelming reality right now is hampering my ability to suspend belief and delve into the past without consideration of what has happened since.
Here's one for the Bitches. There is an older 6-unit apartment building in town whose owner has decided to convert the small apartments into condominiums.
Pretty typical, happens every day. No problem. My problem is with the big banner across the building. It says, including all punctuation:
"CONDO'S" FOR SALE
Any comments?
Comment: Grammatically sucktastic.
Else, what's that so-called "Condo" person have to sell?