"I am so grateful they all expected better of me, and I am a more healed person today because they truly cared enough to want me to become better."
Sunday, August 20, 2023
Why not expect better than the colonizers wanted you to expect?
"An immigrant janitor faced sexual harassment. A Stamford group helped her break the silence"
Connecticut Public Radio | By Maricarmen Cajahuaringa
Sorry, but some workplaces are just less abusive/ colonized than others.
Just like some families, some friend groups, some cults, some churches...
"Getting our prejudices reaffirmed makes us feel temporarily validated in a very value dated way, though."
"Eating Tofu" = a temporary tactic for the colonized to feel more powerful.
"Government surveys this year revealed almost 80% of women who say they’ve been harassed in the workplace choose not to report it. Sexual harassment has been accepted quietly for so long that it has its own colloquial term. It is referred to as chi doufu or 'eating tofu,' because of a historical association with women being the primary sellers of tofu, and frequently subject to harassment by male customers."
~ Helen Davidson
Oh, but that's corny! No. You are still a nation of hungry, screaming children. Okay.
STEVIE NICKS - "EDGE OF SEVENTEEN (Original Video)"
Who wonders if they ever got paid, God?
Well, I wonder.
"Female Farm Workers Awarded $17 Million in Florida"
Because what that article said was...
I said, Jesus...
Some Bodies Have Got To Pick All Those Fruits & Veggies For Them!
"At a recent Lizzo show at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, Calif., lunch featured a juicing station with a blender-ready basket of vegetables. There were corn dogs, fried chicken sandwiches and plant-based Impossible sliders, as well as couscous, squash, carrots and cookies."
~ Soo Youn
"The Personal Chefs of Beyoncé, Lizzo and Linkin Park"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/dining/personal-chef-beyonce-lizzo-tour.html
Someone Has To Feed All These Big People!
"The Personal Chefs of Beyoncé, Lizzo and Linkin Park"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/dining/personal-chef-beyonce-lizzo-tour.html
Well, Friend, what if Old School Clarence Thomas Style Sexual Harassment was...
LESS invasive than Someone Else's Abusive Christianity Cult?
"Lizzo backing dancers allege Christianity was pushed on them"
Jesus. What a mess.
Colonizer's Mentalities are Special AF $ermonizer$ $ay
"Big Grrrl Dancers Share Support for Lizzo on Instagram"
https://people.com/big-grrrl-big-boiii-dancers-share-lizzo-solidarity-statement-instagram-7692718
"Lizzo dance captain posts video after lawsuit"
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/lizzo-dance-captain-posts-video-134347424.html
"Grimes Supports Lizzo Amid Dancers’ Lawsuit – Roll"
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/grimes-lizzo-support-dancers-lawsuit-1234801804/
"Lizzo’s former creative director backs allegations"
"Lizzo dancer lawsuit: The sexual harassment allegations"
Sunday Sexual Harassment Sermon Simmering
Saturday, August 19, 2023
Varying etymologies of "Hurricane" (& Other Lighter Thoughts)
Will the culverts that were being fixed on Hwy 38 up to Big Bear help with the rains? Will there be vernal pools again at Santa Rosa Ecological Plateau (if it stays open?) What are some nice short hikes to waterfalls that aren't too far (it will still be hot after the storm!)
"Hurricane Etymology and Word Facts"
https://www.thoughtco.com/where-does-the-word-hurricane-come-from-3443911
"Hurricane" | Etymology, origin and meaning
https://www.etymonline.com/word/hurricane
Tending is happening
I hopefully also assisted a shy outdoor feline creature. I hope the covered carports and/or other places will help outdoor kitties keep out of the rain.
I was there just recently (this week) what a coincidence.
"URGENT: If you live in SoCal & have a flatbed truck, Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center needs your help to evacuate 1,000 animals ahead of #TropicalStormHilary 714-374-5587. Ask for Debbie or Janet. Address: 21900 Pacific Coast Hwy Huntington Beach CA 9264. @KTLA #HurricaneHilary"
https://twitter.com/JohnFenoglio/status/1692998997600776273?t=-qVbhh--mhe5YTvoF9L_XA&s=09
It would be so very kind
If the power could please stay on.
Well, now I know about another film.
"East coast transplants trying to warn Southern California to take #HurricaneHilary seriously."
https://twitter.com/rayzemel/status/1693025351213998267?t=XK2zceWlqmq-3jG6tKFRsA&s=09
Take Shelter: Unbelievably underrated. Extremely well acted and directed. 10/10 film making.
https://twitter.com/rayzemel/status/1693030215658746168?t=GuQBf2pIHLP_uFszoUPnnQ&s=09
"Fun Dad" status is becoming quite rare, actually.
"Grimes On Elon Musk Removing The Block Feature On X"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/chelseastewart/grimes-elon-musk-block-x
Tres INCLUSIVE!
FUN Dads will be helping the ELDER Moms, who in addition to Normal Parenting Duties, are working hard at raising funds for 13-year-olds who were forced to become mothers due to the Supreme Court's brutal treatment of the most disenfranchised, to see the HUMOR of it ALL, so that the grandchildren won't think they were a bunch of self-absorbed, insensitive ogres, TOO.
I've watched "Barbie," but not "Bombshell," YET. E TU, FUN DAD?
"'Bombshell' is another ripped-from-the-headlines story where Robbie uses her Barbie visage to expose the way women are trapped by narrow and conflicting expectations...Robbie plays a composite character named Kayla Pospisil. Pospisil is young and ambitious, her doe eyes sparkling with verve. When she starts dressing the part of a Fox News anchor, her more cynical co-worker (again, the wonderful Kate McKinnon), says, 'Oh, my God, it’s anchor Barbie!'”
Manohla Dargis, who also reviewed 'Bombshell,' described the emotional heft Robbie brings to the role, as a young woman 'brutalized' by Ailes, writing, 'it is Robbie — with her panicked, darting eyes and tensely resistant, then capitulating physicality — who conveys the horror of sexual harassment, a degradation that seeps into body and soul.'”
~ Jessica Grose
“…Interpretation of the Feminine Ideal”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/opinion/margot-robbie-barbie-feminine-idea.html
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
"(My 7-year-old daughter still wants Ken’s Mojo Dojo Casa House.) At first, when I left the theater, it irked me that Robbie and her band of Barbies — with the possible exception of exiled Weird Barbie, who doesn’t fit the mold (Kate McKinnon) — didn’t get to have as much fun as any of the Kens or Allan (a hilariously disgruntled Michael Cera, who plays the only male doll not named Ken). A movie called 'Barbie,' and Barbie didn’t always feel like the main character.
But after reflection, I wondered if that was an intentional commentary on what it means to be a woman — doing the necessary and unsung labor of plot exposition while the men in the film get to be Mr. Fun Dad. I also kept thinking about Robbie as Stereotypical Barbie. Her movements were always precise and embodied — it’s not easy to play plastic. But crucially, it was quietly moving to watch the dawning realization of mortality, human cruelty and prejudice register on her luminous face."
~ Jessica Grose
“…Interpretation of the Feminine Ideal”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/opinion/margot-robbie-barbie-feminine-idea.html
It seems to be accessible!
"Rustic Oracle isn't strictly about the indifference of the settler world to Indigenous trauma, but it's baked into the film's grammar and structure. The road trip is only necessary because the police won't do their job. The people who provide Ivy and Carmen with support tend to be Indigenous people, not settlers, while Ivy's discovery of the cruel adult world coincides with a road trip off the reserve and into settler spaces.
The film is realistic about colonialism, but not confrontational, focusing instead on asking settler audiences to empathize with the characters. We feel their extremely justified frustrations with settler institutions and racism — but mostly, we're invested in their relationships. And with the final title card, the film encourages us to stay invested in the stories of missing and murdered Indigenous women."
~ Alex Heeney
https://www.cbc.ca/arts/why-you-need-to-watch-sonia-boileau-rustic-oracle-1.6939280
Watch Rustic Oracle for free on CBC Gem.
I feel curious about this film as well.
"Rustic Oracle is the best fiction feature film I've seen that addresses the national tragedy of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG). It's also a touching, sensitive story of a grieving family — a young Mohawk girl losing her innocence as she discovers the cruelty of the adult and settler world, and an estranged mother and daughter finding their way back to each other.
Set in the late 1990s, the film follows eight-year-old Ivy (Lake Delisle) and her mother Susan (Carmen Moore) as they head on a road trip in search of Ivy's 18-year-old sister Heather (McKenzie Deer Robinson), who disappeared without a trace. When the settler police service meets Susan with openly racist comments and indifference about solving the case, she has no choice but to look for her daughter herself, with Ivy in tow."
~ Alex Heeney
https://www.cbc.ca/arts/why-you-need-to-watch-sonia-boileau-rustic-oracle-1.6939280
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