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Feb. 26th, 2014 07:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jebbypalSo let's see,
1. I have a mega post brewing in my head about the whole Jonathan Martin events and the huge ass patriarchy induced bitching of commenters that there is no way that a football locker room could be held to a standard of decent speech etc. no offense, but everyone else in the world makes the transition from thoughtless and demeaning language one might use with friends to non-harassment levels of speech when they enter the work force or we shortly find ourselves unemployed. As one mail I. To mmqb pointed out, the language revealed in the investigation would not be allowed in the military under any half decent command.
Further, the whole issue also brings out the sexism and patriarchy privilege both with the commenters and with the locker room. Several folks have been spot on that beyond e race and homophobic language used. The whole incident reveals troubling attitudes pervasive in that locker room against women. And the language of incognito defenders does the same since Martin is called in the same breath pussy, bitch, whiny, and snitch.
Further from that, this incident is bullying on many levels -- and yet events that would be roundly renounced if they happened in grade school (I hope) are defended because it's adult men. Bullying is not okay no matter the age. Full stop.
2. And thanks to my month long procrastination delay, we've hit the busy period at work. Sigh. And some other stuff that needs to be discussed under lock (not bad).
3. My mom has fully entered the tea party nut phase of life. My dad's old employer is discontinuing health insurance for retires. In my moms world this is obamas fault and failure because he said they could keep their insurance. Sigh. I'm not convinced this wouldn't have happened regardless since AT&T has long history since my dad retired of taking away retiree benefits, especially of the retiree was nonunion management.
1. I have a mega post brewing in my head about the whole Jonathan Martin events and the huge ass patriarchy induced bitching of commenters that there is no way that a football locker room could be held to a standard of decent speech etc. no offense, but everyone else in the world makes the transition from thoughtless and demeaning language one might use with friends to non-harassment levels of speech when they enter the work force or we shortly find ourselves unemployed. As one mail I. To mmqb pointed out, the language revealed in the investigation would not be allowed in the military under any half decent command.
Further, the whole issue also brings out the sexism and patriarchy privilege both with the commenters and with the locker room. Several folks have been spot on that beyond e race and homophobic language used. The whole incident reveals troubling attitudes pervasive in that locker room against women. And the language of incognito defenders does the same since Martin is called in the same breath pussy, bitch, whiny, and snitch.
Further from that, this incident is bullying on many levels -- and yet events that would be roundly renounced if they happened in grade school (I hope) are defended because it's adult men. Bullying is not okay no matter the age. Full stop.
2. And thanks to my month long procrastination delay, we've hit the busy period at work. Sigh. And some other stuff that needs to be discussed under lock (not bad).
3. My mom has fully entered the tea party nut phase of life. My dad's old employer is discontinuing health insurance for retires. In my moms world this is obamas fault and failure because he said they could keep their insurance. Sigh. I'm not convinced this wouldn't have happened regardless since AT&T has long history since my dad retired of taking away retiree benefits, especially of the retiree was nonunion management.