Yes, but if your essay contains anything like what you just stated, Allyson, then I think anyone misconstruing your sincerity and intentions is going to be LOOKING to misconstrue it. And there ain't nothing you can do about that.
Spike: Lots of fuss over one girl. Other things to do around here--important things. Angel: You know that whoosh thing you do when you're suddenly not there anymore? I love that.
'Unleashed'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Strix - Dec 17, 2011 5:39:25 pm PST #12039 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Allyson - Dec 17, 2011 5:39:55 pm PST #12040 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Anyway, fucking hair lady has no shame at all. She's doubling down.
Strix - Dec 17, 2011 5:43:28 pm PST #12041 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Also: art is subjective. Music is art. So what Chuck D's intentions may or may not have been, when he sent it out into the world, the listeners are going to synthesize their experiences into/onto it.
And that's what art is all about, right? The author writes a book. The author's intention may be transparent, they may be oblique, but the way the myriad of readers interpret the book can be vastly different. (Otherwise, we would have no English departments, right?!)
Allyson - Dec 17, 2011 5:45:34 pm PST #12042 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Oh of course! On explication, I want to first know, "what did the creator of this piece intend to tell me?" Second, "What does this mean to me?"
Strix - Dec 17, 2011 5:50:29 pm PST #12043 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I think hair lady is fucking desperate to people to think she has hood cred. Hood cred, street cred is like being "cool." You can't fake it.
I have no hood cred, jokes aside. How could I have? But I listened, and I learned from my kids, and and I learned when to code-switch (hell, I code-switch all the time; that's why I can talk to anyone; I have a good ear, I listen, I ask and I love language.) But I didn't bullshit, and I never tried to be anything I wasn't, and people respond to that. They know when you fake or try too hard, and that gave me my own cred, which is the only type I want.
Allyson - Dec 17, 2011 5:51:32 pm PST #12044 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Some folks start with, "How can this piece piss me off?"
There is nothing anyone can do about those folks, but they are mostly distracted by any news article posted on Yahoo and busying themselves by writing Barack HUSSEIN OBAMACARE SOCIALISM!@#$@!#! one million times, each day. I do not think they purchase books.
Strix - Dec 17, 2011 5:52:27 pm PST #12045 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh of course! On explication, I want to first know, "what did the creator of this piece intend to tell me?" Second, "What does this mean to me?"
And those are the interesting questions that you want your readers to ask. But remember, m'dear, lots of people go straight to #2 and never thing about #1.
ETA: Dur. Xpost, basically!
Nora Deirdre - Dec 17, 2011 6:28:47 pm PST #12046 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Hood cred! Hood cred! Can you believe it? She's trying to explain to people *why* she's earned the right to tell black people how to live, because she has some undefined HOOD cred. I despair that I have to accept that people are so stupid. And I'm appalled that she's raising a biracial kid with such blatant issues
Ugh. No. Just...no. I can't read it, I've had enough racefail for the week (I went back in time to revisit the whole Slut Walk/N-Word debacle the other day.)
tommyrot - Dec 17, 2011 6:34:13 pm PST #12047 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Lately I've been depressed that there's too many idiots in the world, and the Stupid is winning.
ION, here are some pretty pictures of David Bowie: [link]
Outtakes from the Heroes photo-shoot.
Cashmere - Dec 17, 2011 6:44:49 pm PST #12048 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Watching The Wizard of Oz for the first time with the kids and near the end Owen said, "All this just for shoes?" He has so much to learn about women.