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FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1yr ago
I went to see a local production of The Merry Wives of Windsor last week, twice. After the first time, I immediately knew I wanted to go back and watch it again, so my wife and I got tickets for another show and took my mother two days later! It was truly fantastic, a wonderful production, with actors who absolutely exuded charisma and interpretations of the setting that were beautiful and brilliant, life and joy affirming comedy. They did a mid-century modern setting: Falstaff was a down-on-his-luck fat-Elvis, his band were a bunch of greasers, Fenton was a jock, Slender a preppy doofus, Slender's uncle a southern sheriff. And it got me thinking:
Has every Shakespeare play more or less remained in production within a generation, such that we are watching an unbroken chain of transmission from producer-to-producer, or have some of them gone moribund and been revived from scratch?
Obviously, the producers and directors of this play had seen it before, if not in person in some filmed version. The stage directions, the character interpretations, the delivery of the lines, are partly derivative, surely, of other productions. When the Welsh preacher talks about pretty Anne Parson's "great gifts" and gestures to indicate breasts, or he and the uncle ask Slender whether he can please the girl and make lascivious motions to indicate sex, that is a particular interpretation of the language, not natural necessarily to the text, and I found myself wondering if that kind of thing is mostly passed down, or invented whole cloth at some later. Particularly for the canonical English writer in Shakespeare.
Are we watching a interpretation of the play that is based on productions earlier this century which have been recorded, which themselves were influenced by earlier productions, in a direct line more or less to the Globe? Or to when? Surely, even before recordings, most times some individual at the theatrical company would have seen an earlier production of Wives and been able to offer that experience as a basis for interpretation, and in that earlier production someone would have seen an even earlier production, how far back do we think that went? To Victorian times? To Shakespeare himself?
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1yr ago
Now, this likely pays out upon the formal nomination at the convention, the final day of which is 45 days away, as the rules clarify that the replacement of the nominee prior to election day has no impact on resolution.
I am not sure this is correct. The DNC is looking at doing a virtual nomination of Biden by July 21st. This has been planned long before the debate performance and is due to the state of Ohio's requirement that party candidates be nominated 90 days before the election (August 7th). In the past the Ohio legislature has done special sessions to extend this date when party conventions have gone later than it but I understand why the DNC doesn't want to risk it this time. Biden doesn't have to hold on 45 days to the convention, he has to hold on about a week and a half. At which point replacing him (short of his death) will probably be a logistical impossibility (I don't know the rules in Ohio on replacing candidates on ballots). If someone's plan to replace Biden involves a fight at the Convention they will be about a month too late.
Speaking of post-birth abortions, is this a real thing? My uneducated assumption : it's not, but also there is some kernel of truth there. Any abortion past fetal viability might look a lot like baby killing to someone who is watching it. How many of these happen every year? I will confess near complete ignorance.
While abortion is generally a winning issue for Democrats, they don't do themselves any favors when they hem-and-haw about late term abortions. It makes me think that the modal Democratic politician would support something that looks a lot like a baby being ripped from the womb. Biden, to his credit, did flatly say during the debate that he does not support late term abortions. Republicans in general should make this is an issue and force Democrats to take a stand against the more insane members of their coalition.
SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
seen as less offensive to call a woman a chestfeeder than to remind a man that he doesn't have breasts, and cannot breastfeed.
No, that's not why. "Chestfeeding" was coined for the benefit of trans men and enbies who don't want the word "breasts" being used to describe their breasts because they associate it with femininity.
TWs will talk all day long about how they can (sometimes, kind of, with pharmaceutical assistance) breastfeed. They love having breasts, and they love calling them breasts.
I'm not speaking as an apologist here. I'm just saying that the idea that they want to abolish words like "mother" and "woman" is not based on an accurate understanding of gender ideology. They want to redefine these words.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1yr ago
Counterargument: we are much less risk-averse on average than historical peoples, and as a result the people who throw it all up and risk everything are less extraordinary. Back in the day, when the average risk aversion may have been a 2/10, someone who played at a 5/10 or a 7/10 was extraordinary, and there was money on the table to be gained. Now, most people might be at a 5/10, and as a result playing at a 7/10 isn't that noticeable, and even a 9/10 doesn't pick up that much reward.
Historically, the vast majority of people lived in one place and died there, took the jobs in their town, more or less the same ones their parents held, attended the church their parents attended, married a local girl for life and had kids like their parents did. People died within miles of where they were born. Think of Sam Gamgee, early in Fellowship, stopping on their journey upon the realization that one more step would be the furthest from home he'd ever been, two days into their walkabout! Taking risks was completely foreign to historical commoners.
Today it is very common for ordinary people to move cross country, thousands of miles, to places where they know no one. Few people go into their father's profession, few take over the family land or the family business. I'm an extreme outlier in my PMC peer group for living on the street I grew up in without a drug addiction or a failed marriage holding me back. People are constantly changing careers or homes or marriages. Taking up a new career, moving far from family support networks, borrowing multiples of your net worth to start a business or go to college, leaving your current partner to look for a new one, these are all huge risks that no responsible peasant would countenance, which are routine parts of a middle class American life story.
As a result, taking really big risks doesn't deliver as much value. The great explorers and traders and settlers and entrepreneurs of the past became heroes and gods. and kings, because there was money just laying about waiting for someone to pick it up. If you were willing to throw your life up and move, you were instantly extraordinary, one in a million. Today, you're one of a million, just another guy.
SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
This strikes me as kinda sanewashing or bad-faith
I don't claim or believe that what I'm describing is any more or less sane than what the OP is describing. It's just different, and I believe a more accurate characterization.
FtttG
1yr ago
The thing that most transitioners (and a whole lot of others who don't go down that path) have in common is that they want, very badly, to be the opposite sex.
I think this accurately describes pretty much all trans women who are making even a token effort to medically transition. For a lot of trans men (the canonical example being Ellen/Elliot Page), to me it looks less like wanting to be a man and more like wanting not to be a woman (including not being able to have children, not being someone who is the object of sexual desire etc.). For trans women, medical transition tends to scan as an attempt to fulfil a fantasy; for trans men, an elaborate form of self-harm and self-obliteration. The difference in the tone of trans memoirs is striking: trans women's tend to read like "coming out was the most joyous and uplifting moment of my life, I finally truly understand who I am and now I'm free to be my best self", while trans men's tend to read like "it was after my third suicide attempt during my second hospitalisation for anorexia (prompted by getting raped) that I finally realised I'm actually a trans man, and I am exactly as miserable and dysphoric since my mastectomy as I was beforehand".
sliders1234
1yr ago
I disagree because I think the Dems have shot their credibility. Anyone connected to the establishment is going to be taking on these credibility issues.
I don’t think you can swap in Newsome and people will view him as an outsider. He even has his own issues here of the French Laundry incident where he’s out in public and about to shut the state down.
This is why I mentioned Dean Phillips because he was calling Biden senile in the primaries. You need a guy whose disconnected from establishment.
KMC
1yr ago
I think it's simple, really. The latest abortion must take place before the earliest premature baby is born, otherwise it's very clearly baby killing.
That's about 21 weeks, last I checked.
KMC
1yr ago
Is it autogynephilia? No clue. It feels a little impertinent to ponder, though that’s the sort of question that I might have said mattered a lot before.
If you gave me even odds, I would bet the house that Mark has masturbated in women's underwear before he showed up at your work in women's clothes. Whether that makes him an autogynephile is a matter of definition, but I don't think it's impertinent, and I think it's equally obvious the answer is yes. That's just what happens when middle-aged autistic men transition.
If a random person insists on referring to Mary as a man, and I’m required to say that between the two of them one is a fool, I’d have to say that Mary is not the fool.
And if you had to follow one into combat, to lay down your life in the company of other men, fighting for your home and hearth, would you rather follow Mark who calls himself Mary, or would you rather follow the one who calls him a man? Everything in this world is downstream from violence, although we've done wonders to conceal that. I might trust Mark at th
On a visceral level, it still doesn’t make sense to me, and I can still make it gross if I want to, just by thinking about it. But why do that?
Probably because gross things are bad, and viscerally gross things are especially bad, and it's a normal and healthy reaction to the abnormal and diseased world about you. Sure, you can stick your head in the sand, pretend nothing is wrong, and ignore all your warning instincts and soothe your raised hackles, by why do that? Why not instead see the world for as it is, and spare yourself the dissonance? I've never understood the desire to repress your instincts like this.
zeke5123a
1yr ago
My only point is that what Biden says he is going to do is not strong evidence of what he in fact will do given that he would say he is staying in until seconds before he announces he will drop out.
And maybe momentum has stalled. It’s hard to tell.
jkf
1yr ago
A ballot that accurately represent the intent of an eligible & qualified voter who has voted only once is not invalid in the sense required to be fraud.
As with the homemade crayon ballot, the person submitting that ballot is not committing (deliberate) fraud -- the person who counts it is. What is 'central to election fraud' if not 'counting ballots that do not comply with local laws'? (particularly in this case, as the ballots in question were known to skew D)
charles
1yr ago
You've not detailed any criteria, so this suggestion assumes you are willing to spend for quality.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DTMZL56/
If you make coffee, get the gooseneck option.
It is insulated, has constant temperature control, C and F, well built, simple. Boils very fast. The best feature of this is kettle imo is that it doesn't make any sounds. No beeps or chirps of any other unnecessary racket when you're trying to boil water. It was remarkably hard to find a kettle that did this.
TowardsPanna
1yr ago
Not all of it, no.
charles
1yr ago
I'm a tea purist with a $200 usd kettle, and I'm fine with using a microwave if that's all that I have around. I probably spent a decade making tea at work this way with zero issues. I even tried intentionally causing a "superheating" situation and couldn't make it happen. Do let the water cool down a bit before making (black) tea; 99c is the ideal temperature. Water that is actually as a rolling boil with ruin the flavor of the tea by boiling out some of the oil in the leaves. You can tell when you've done this by a lot of small bubbles forming on the surface. For green tea let it cool a bit more, 90-95c.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1yr ago
I consider transition a primarily religious belief, having to do with a metaphysical gender-soul which exists separate from any physical evidence thereof, and a philosophical requirement that one live in conformance with it.
I remember a particularly memorable anecdote, I'm pretty sure from The Rest is History podcast, comparing the craziness of the last decade or so to the Reformation: we've got our statue-toppling iconoclasts, and our loud philosophical debates including over, effectively, transubstantiation after terrestrial rituals. It's not "this bread and wine have literally and physically become body and blood" (here, try that and let me run it through a mass spectrometer!) but "this organism, previously male, is now female and always has been." I'm not sure it's an answer to your thoughts, but I found it comforting that this sort of disagreement has long-standing precedent in history.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
In Washington state we get mailers from the state public health agency to tell us how to raise our babies. They use the term "chestfeeding."
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1yr ago
I don't think that the actual intent is as much serving trans men as it is serving lesbian couples who, presumably, would have two parents who want to be called mothers.
KMC
1yr ago
What difference does a gooseneck kettle have on my French press coffee? It seems like that's only relevant if you make pour over. Any kind of immersion brewing and the gooseneck doesn't seem to matter.
I have a normal thermostat kettle and I love it, so I will second the recommendation on principle, but I still don't understand the gooseneck thing except as a matter of style.
HeimrArnadalr
English Supremacist
1yr ago
I never even considered having the fan particles run along the length of the belt! What a great idea.
Sloot
1yr ago
There’s also some Celebration Parallax in the mix: “That’s Not Happening and It’s Good That It Is.”
Replacing “mothers” with “birthing persons” is a totally brave and stunning practice if you’re supportive of it, otherwise it’s but a paranoid rightwing conspiracy theory.
Sure, when progressives call women “bodies with vaginas” they get an “awww, how sweet,” but when I do it I get a “hello, human resources?!” Hmph… ruuude.
It's also not even clear that this sort of precision is worth chasing. Just consider how many more people there are who speak English as a second language than are trans (this has already potentially caused questions about the UK census)
vorpa-glavo
1yr ago
I feel like that's a bit presumptuous though, unless you mean it in some trivial sense like, "All communities emphasize hard-to-navigate social rules (for either sex), therefore all trans people come from such communities."
I would tend to think that so-called "autogynephillic transexuality" would be a kind of transness that only requires that men and women wear different kinds of clothes and look physically different, which isn't a "hard-to-navigate social rule" in my book. Heck, even so-called "homosexual transsexuals" don't require the existence of hard-to-navigate social role for either sex, just for a "gay" person to realize on some level that they'll have more of the sexual options they prefer if they transition.
I'm inclined to give my hypothesis a label more like "pseudo-dysphoric autistic transsexuality", and would tend to consider it distinct from either of Blanchard's two categories (though I'm sure there's comorbidities.) I actually wonder if most transmen in the modern rise of transness don't belong to this category. Though I could also see an argument for something like "pseudo-dysphoric cluster B transsexuality" or a more general supercategory of "pseudo-dysphoric 'weird outcast' transsexuality" (which I suspect would often line up with neurodivergence of some kind, though it might never be diagnosed.)
Good point, I think I got the type of offense to be avoided backwards.
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