Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Men Crossing Their Legs
CR is derisive: Universal Logo Of The Feminized Male
It is very common for British men and actors (Jeremy Irons in Brideshead Revisited?) to cross their legs at the knees, many Hong Kong and South Korean actors and celebs do so too... is it really a subconscious denial of their masculinity? Or is it more for "ease" and "comfort"? A Q&A at GQ in which the practice is criticized as being effeminate. (Another Q&A, less critical.)
Ladies avoided sitting with their legs apart. (Regardless of whether they were wearing pants or dresses?) But how they adjusted and avoided the fatigue of keeping their legs together varied: crossing at the ankles vs. crossing at the knees (wikihow). According to this internet piece on Victorian manners, it was considered improper for both men and women to cross their legs - I assume that crossing at the knee is meant. According to this link for visitors to Hong Kong, men should try and keep their feet on the floor.
It is very common for British men and actors (Jeremy Irons in Brideshead Revisited?) to cross their legs at the knees, many Hong Kong and South Korean actors and celebs do so too... is it really a subconscious denial of their masculinity? Or is it more for "ease" and "comfort"? A Q&A at GQ in which the practice is criticized as being effeminate. (Another Q&A, less critical.)
Ladies avoided sitting with their legs apart. (Regardless of whether they were wearing pants or dresses?) But how they adjusted and avoided the fatigue of keeping their legs together varied: crossing at the ankles vs. crossing at the knees (wikihow). According to this internet piece on Victorian manners, it was considered improper for both men and women to cross their legs - I assume that crossing at the knee is meant. According to this link for visitors to Hong Kong, men should try and keep their feet on the floor.
Monday, July 09, 2012
How Real Is Reality TV?
How much do they reveal about the personality and character of the contemporary Uhmerican woman? Is reality TV an accurate portrait? Watching Hell's Kitchen could be an eye-opener for some, especially if they are living overseas and not used to women acting poorly.
We're all Uhmerican now.
KoreAm: Dying Alone: An Elderly Korean Immigrant’s Worst Nightmare
Not all are guilty of senior abandonment, but we do overvalue "independence" as well as mobility for the sake of "prosperity." And sometimes, the seniors prefer to live on their own. (Like in the case of my grandmother.)
The Copts Take Action
Byzantine, Texas: Copts Form "Christian Brotherhood"
Some may argue that this will make things worse and eventually encourage violence between the two groups. Should the Copts just play martyr and let the Muslims gather strength? So long as Egypt is relatively pluralist, the Copts probably need to organize politically so that they can protect themselves and find allies.
Peter Hitchens: The Hollow Crown (a new adaptation of Henry VI, Part 1)
BBC2
Some may argue that this will make things worse and eventually encourage violence between the two groups. Should the Copts just play martyr and let the Muslims gather strength? So long as Egypt is relatively pluralist, the Copts probably need to organize politically so that they can protect themselves and find allies.
Peter Hitchens: The Hollow Crown (a new adaptation of Henry VI, Part 1)
BBC2
Jack Donovan Elaborates on Our Zombie Obsession
Zompocalypse Now
America’s Training Wheel Tribalism
Part I: “Zombies Are People, Too”
Related: Jim Goad, The Nagging Persistence of Tribalism
America’s Training Wheel Tribalism
Part I: “Zombies Are People, Too”
Related: Jim Goad, The Nagging Persistence of Tribalism
James Kalb, The Left, the Right, and Catholicism
CWR (via Insight Scoop)
Catholicism sees freedom as directed toward the good life, and fills in the details with its understanding of God and man. Liberalism likes to avoid big issues like God, man, and the good, because they cause arguments, so it sees freedom not as freedom to pursue anything in particular but as freedom to choose freely. Freedom is freedom to go after whatever it is you happen to want.
The result of that view, along with the view that freedom is the highest political goal, is that the good life drops out of sight as a public concern. That’s a problem for Catholics who want to promote the good life through politics, because almost all politics today are liberal. Even the battle between liberals and conservatives is mostly a dispute between two groups of liberals. The two sides may differ in their interpretation of freedom, but they agree that it comes first, and that in essence it’s freedom to do whatever you want.
Sunday, July 08, 2012
What to do about health care insurance?
Where Health Care Can Happen by Peter J. Leithart
Something at Free the Animal that is germane to the question of insurance, and I recently posted this: The Manufactured Debate Over Obamacare, by Kevin Carson.
Relevant posts at Distributist Review.
Health After Oil: Crafting Resilient Health Systems: An Introduction by Dan Bednarz
The Catholic Knight: Only One Solution to Obamacare
Something at Free the Animal that is germane to the question of insurance, and I recently posted this: The Manufactured Debate Over Obamacare, by Kevin Carson.
Relevant posts at Distributist Review.
Health After Oil: Crafting Resilient Health Systems: An Introduction by Dan Bednarz
The Catholic Knight: Only One Solution to Obamacare
I have noted, going through job postings for local farms, that many of the positions require someone who is bilingual (the other language being Spanish), or that this is preferred, since those who [actually] work on the farm speak Spanish [only]. Doing jobs that Americans don't want to do? How much are these workers being paid? If they are not being paid a living wage, how much more would the food cost if this were the case? Before farming can be a feasible occupation for young people in California much else in the political economy must be changed. (Instead of allowing it to be dominated by the e-tech industry and affluent immigrants who push the standard of living up?)
The Trophy White Wife
Last night I was having dinner at Bombay Garden, and I noticed that there was a group of white women sitting at the table next to the dessert area. With them was a young man, ostensibly the boyfriend of one of the women. I couldn't tell if he was Indian or not, though he could pass for one. (He was lighter-skinned than the Indians you would see in the Silicon Valley.) It brought to mind something that an "Indian" reader wrote at VFR:
Whilst they are strictly endogamous, and almost militant about marrying within their caste, all rules go out the window when their precious child wants to marry a white. As with blacks, marrying a white is the ultimate Indian status symbol, especially when it’s a white girl.It is understandable why we non-whites who were born in the United States might idealize white beauty, though this may be changing slowly as television and the movies becomes more ethnically diverse. Why wouldn't this also be true overseas, with white women being perceived as the "exotic" beauty? I can't say white beauties have dominated through the export of movies abroad, as native beauties can compete through the mass media as well, but their presence in movies has had an impact on the popular imagination. Still, it does intrigue me when a white Catholic woman marries an Indian man. I know of at least two instances of this; I think at least one of the grooms was Catholic as well. How well did the first adopt the culture of her husband's family? She did visit India and got her skin colored with henna. iirc, she also wore an Indian dress for part of the wedding festivities. She came from a traditionalist family; were there no white traditionalist Catholic men interested in her?
Impressions of Haywire
The movie's soundtrack has a 70s feel and the movie is rather artsy in its visual feel. This isn't a surprise since the director is Steven Soderbergh. As an action movie is it better than, say, the Bourne series? A movie fan can be grateful that the action sequences are not shot with a shaky cam. They may show off her MMA skills but nonetheless lack realism since she manages to kick every male ass in the movie. The viewer can tolerate her wooden acting since her role does not demand much of her. (Though she is able to act like an Uhmerican woman when she is undercover with Michael Fassbender.) But the girl power exhibited by the movie is just overwhelming, as she is trying to be more of a man than her male co-stars. Can we blame James Cameron's Vasquez in Aliens? At least Vasquez showed her vulnerable side towards her end. The movie would have been much more enjoyable if her character had been a man. While the technical aspects of filming the action sequences should be an example to other directors, the perpetuating of girl power theme needs to end.Yahoo
Rotten Tomatoes
Related:
One female marine tells part of the truth about women in the military: A Few Good Women
Celebrating an Uhmerican Holiday
On the night of Independence Day, I walked to a local park to watch the city's fireworks show.
It was a diverse crowd, reflecting the demographics of the local residences. A lot of Indian families; you could smell some of them. Perhaps the distinct odor acquired through a specific diet is better than plain body odor due to sweat. It may explain how such a diet arose in the first place, given the temperature (and humidity) of certain parts of India.
There must have been a few thousand people at the park, all there to enjoy the fireworks display. Something pleasing to the senses after a nice day off from work, right?
Independence Day is devoid of meaning for these people; if they knew what it really meant they'd be out protesting instead of pretending all was well with a frivolous display of fireworks. They are ostensibly celebrating a dead constitutional order that no longer exists, for the most part. The date of its disappearance? The beginning of the WBTS for Southrons. It has been a multifaceted decay, beginning with the Federal judiciary, and then spreading to the legislative and executive branches. One must also consider the degeneration of the states, along with the rise of the corporations and the moneyed elites, the destruction of communities that comes from a wrong notion of property rights and excessive mobility, already present at the inception of the colonies.
If the residents, my neighbors, knew political liberty, would they be voting for Democrats who seek to take political liberty away? I learned that disgrace of an Asian Paul Fong was re-elected, though it was no surprise. The day before, SB249 passed committee. An armed citizeny is necessary for a healthy republic and as a check on those who hold political office. But those who live around here have no desire to have that sort of control over their own lives. They're sheeple comfortable with their suburban middle-class life with all of its comforts and pleasures.
How many true patriots were in attendance that night, people who believe that they have roots in this area and will tough things out? How many are committed to the other people there?
A couple of deputies were on their bikes, doing crowd control and ordering people off the sidewalk. How can it not be detestable work if one does not possess the proper motivation or intention? I didn't find them to have a calm commanding presence; their attitude sounded more like annoyance with the crowd. A failure in inculcating masculinity, perhaps. Have the police academies lost the knowledge of what it means to be a true man? Having women, who learn an exaggerated notion of masculinity, present in law enforcement doesn't help, either, as this mentality starts to infect the men as well if they associate with one another too much as equals? (If they were really 100% alpha, wouldn't they put the women in their place, and subtly push them out of law enforcement? Or is that a harrassment charge just waiting to happen?)
While I was exiting a couple of Koreans passed by. Has the size of the Korean population grown that much here?
I do want to move somewhere else. Felton the other night for the music at Don Quioxte's; felt out of place. There were a couple of older white men with long beards in attendance. Ex-hippies? Or true country folk? I ddi feel a bit out of place walking the streets of Felton.
The STOP SB 249 (Yee) Campaign
California: Anti-Gun Bills, Including an Attack on Many Semi-Automatic Firearms, to be Heard Early Next Week
Calguns
Someone took video of the 2010 show:
Related:
The Thinking Housewife: Quintessentially American Fireworks
It was a diverse crowd, reflecting the demographics of the local residences. A lot of Indian families; you could smell some of them. Perhaps the distinct odor acquired through a specific diet is better than plain body odor due to sweat. It may explain how such a diet arose in the first place, given the temperature (and humidity) of certain parts of India.
There must have been a few thousand people at the park, all there to enjoy the fireworks display. Something pleasing to the senses after a nice day off from work, right?
Independence Day is devoid of meaning for these people; if they knew what it really meant they'd be out protesting instead of pretending all was well with a frivolous display of fireworks. They are ostensibly celebrating a dead constitutional order that no longer exists, for the most part. The date of its disappearance? The beginning of the WBTS for Southrons. It has been a multifaceted decay, beginning with the Federal judiciary, and then spreading to the legislative and executive branches. One must also consider the degeneration of the states, along with the rise of the corporations and the moneyed elites, the destruction of communities that comes from a wrong notion of property rights and excessive mobility, already present at the inception of the colonies.
If the residents, my neighbors, knew political liberty, would they be voting for Democrats who seek to take political liberty away? I learned that disgrace of an Asian Paul Fong was re-elected, though it was no surprise. The day before, SB249 passed committee. An armed citizeny is necessary for a healthy republic and as a check on those who hold political office. But those who live around here have no desire to have that sort of control over their own lives. They're sheeple comfortable with their suburban middle-class life with all of its comforts and pleasures.
How many true patriots were in attendance that night, people who believe that they have roots in this area and will tough things out? How many are committed to the other people there?
A couple of deputies were on their bikes, doing crowd control and ordering people off the sidewalk. How can it not be detestable work if one does not possess the proper motivation or intention? I didn't find them to have a calm commanding presence; their attitude sounded more like annoyance with the crowd. A failure in inculcating masculinity, perhaps. Have the police academies lost the knowledge of what it means to be a true man? Having women, who learn an exaggerated notion of masculinity, present in law enforcement doesn't help, either, as this mentality starts to infect the men as well if they associate with one another too much as equals? (If they were really 100% alpha, wouldn't they put the women in their place, and subtly push them out of law enforcement? Or is that a harrassment charge just waiting to happen?)
While I was exiting a couple of Koreans passed by. Has the size of the Korean population grown that much here?
I do want to move somewhere else. Felton the other night for the music at Don Quioxte's; felt out of place. There were a couple of older white men with long beards in attendance. Ex-hippies? Or true country folk? I ddi feel a bit out of place walking the streets of Felton.
The STOP SB 249 (Yee) Campaign
California: Anti-Gun Bills, Including an Attack on Many Semi-Automatic Firearms, to be Heard Early Next Week
Calguns
Someone took video of the 2010 show:
Related:
The Thinking Housewife: Quintessentially American Fireworks
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