ma~~~ for your sister Connie
Mal: Can I come in? Inara: No. Mal: See? That's why I usually don't ask.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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beth b - Nov 21, 2009 5:41:11 am PST #1213 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Laura - Nov 21, 2009 5:55:43 am PST #1214 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I'm sorry, Connie. I hope your sister's chemo is effective. It has to be a plus that she is in good health otherwise.
Absurdly lazy this morning. I had a headache when I woke up at 6, so I just fed the animals and went back to bed with aspirin. Stayed there a few hours. I still haven't done anything more ambitious than make a pot of tea and catch up on the internet. Need to get going, and yet.
sj - Nov 21, 2009 6:35:07 am PST #1215 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
{{{Connie}}} Tons of ~ma for your sister.
Steph L. - Nov 21, 2009 6:56:09 am PST #1216 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I don't want to re-open a can of worms here, but remember the recent conversation about ableist language?
I know this is something I have to decide for myself, but as I read blogs by (mostly) women with disabilities, I'm increasingly thrown for a loop as word after word gets called out as an ableist word.
Such as "intelligence." Really??? I don't get that one. Even reading that whole entry, I don't get it. Or perhaps what I mean is that I don't agree with it. But then I don't know to what degree my lack of agreement is clinging to my privilege.
I just don't know.
DavidS - Nov 21, 2009 7:08:21 am PST #1217 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I know this is something I have to decide for myself, but as I read blogs by (mostly) women with disabilities, I'm increasingly thrown for a loop as word after word gets called out as an ableist word.
As I worked through it in my discussion with smonster I think it's counterproductive to follow every logical parallel to an offensive phrase to its conclusion. I think that curbing the language use needs to be in response to specific instances of objection, and shouldn't be a broadly generalized principle.
DavidS - Nov 21, 2009 7:10:11 am PST #1218 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Her specific gripe seems to be with the politics of intelligence testing.
erikaj - Nov 21, 2009 8:37:50 am PST #1219 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
If a person can't have a disability and be snobbish about her intellectual gifts, the terrorists have won, Teppy. But I confound nearly every educational theorist who's ever met me anyway.Because I'm both Gifted and LD.(maybe a lot of people are?) but testers are always flummoxed.
sj - Nov 21, 2009 8:42:00 am PST #1220 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
If a person can't have a disability and be snobbish about her intellectual gifts, the terrorists have won, Teppy. But I confound nearly every educational theorist who's ever met me anyway.Because I'm both Gifted and LD.(maybe a lot of people are?) but testers are always flummoxed.
Bwah! Yes, I would be more offended with the automatic assumption that one cannot be both disabled and intelligent. An assumption I have encountered more than once.
Hil R. - Nov 21, 2009 8:48:43 am PST #1221 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yeah, I remember reading that post, and definitely disagreed with it. She's right about how intelligence testing has been used, but I don't think that's a reason to throw out the entire concept altogether.
Jessica - Nov 21, 2009 9:00:24 am PST #1222 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
She's right about how intelligence testing has been used, but I don't think that's a reason to throw out the entire concept altogether.
Yes - there's a HUGE difference between saying "IQ tests are flawed and have been used to justify all sort of horrific racism/etc" and saying "No human being is more or less intelligent than any other human being," and she seems to be conflating the two in a big way.
[eta: And while I can see where she's coming from with the "let's stop testing intelligence and just teach everyone everything" stuff, I'd be pretty fucking uncomfortable in a world where that line of thinking extended to, say, medical school.]