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lorei-writes · 3 years

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Trials and Tribulations of an Unconsenting Time-Traveller

Part 11: Those who scuffle like each other I.

OC x ???* Interactive Previous Parts: Masterlist Premise: I sent my OC to Sengoku. Help me decide where will this story lead!

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Content Warnings: none

Stopping a quizzical brow from raising itself, Maria stood and watched, his arms snaking around her as his lips drew close to her ear.

“What was that about, little mouse?” he whispered, his hold on her tightening so that she could not snap back. “The walls have both eyes and eras,” he added, his voice but a whisper.

“I was worried, that’s all,” she let out, more than aware of the need to pick her words carefully. “Have some more trust in me.” “I wish you told me more of your plans.”

Guide:

Each chapter you will be presented with a choice(s) which will influence the story - a question(s) at the very bottom of the post. Two answers to it are mine, the third one - is completely up to you.

You can add your vote by putting one of the options in the reblog / comment below the chapter.

Before I get to writing the next part, I will count up all the votes. The option the story will follow will be either the one with the greatest number of votes, or the one suggested completely by you (depending on which is more inspiring).

If no votes appear, I will simply go by my own choice. There is no set time limit of voting - as long as the next part hasn’t been released, assume it’s still okay to vote.

Characters in this story are assumed to be speaking few different languages. The following is assumed: normal dialogue notation = Japanese; dialogue written in italics = English. Any phrases not written in English will be put in the dictionary at the bottom of the work.

Kto się czubi ten się lubi I. = Those who scuffle like each other I.

Mitsuhide reached to push the flap of his tent to the side, his hand pressing onto Maria’s shoulder as to rush her inside – and he stood there, even if just for a moment, stealing quick glances all around, seemingly searching for something he could barely find. Perhaps content, or reassured with what he discovered, he followed suit, a gentle smile on his face. Stopping a quizzical brow from raising itself, Maria stood and watched, his arms snaking around her as his lips drew close to her ear.

“What was that about, little mouse?” he whispered, his hold on her tightening so that she could not snap back. “The walls have both eyes and eras,” he added, his voice but a whisper.

“I was worried, that’s all,” she let out, more than aware of the need to pick her words carefully.

“Have some more trust in me.”

“I wish you told me more of your plans.”

“And wouldn’t you try to stop me then?” he laughed, Maria pushing herself an arm length away from him, fingers curled into the fabric of his kimono.

“No. Of course not. But we are in this together. I want to know your plans,” she insisted, Mitsuhide leaning down slowly.

She nearly closed her eyes, her body freezing instead, the distance between them diminishing with each breath. Should she react? After all, it was all an act… Before any appropriate answer came to her mind, his lips brushed against her forehead.

“I do have something to ask of you,” he mouthed against her skin. “Albeit first we must farewell the audience.”

His hand reaching to cup her cheek, he urged her to lean into her touch, the tip of his nose nuzzling against her neck. Maria gasped, his touch on the small of her back locking her in place – and she reached for his wrist, her fingers wrapping around it, even if to no reaction from him.

“Mitsuhide,” she protested quietly, semi-suspecting no help would come regardless. It all might have been a play. However, she made for a poor actress.

“Trust me,” he uttered, coming onto stronger… And forcing her to look at the futon, then spread out in the corner.

He pulled away nearly instantly, her fingers curled around his. Somewhat regretful of her past curiosity, she led him, just as instructed, and just as instructed they fell, Mitsuhide hoovering above her, dexterous fingers working on dishevelling her kimono. As if to rush him, her objective being in fact precisely the opposite, Maria pulled him down by the collar, her lips locking with his. Seemingly stunned, he did not oblige instantly, instead melting into the kiss with a slight delay, grass beginning to hum unusually loud, only to grow quiet as the moments passed.

Mitsuhide pulled back, letting himself drop next to her.

“Effective and efficient,” he stated, breathing still unsteady. “Did Masamune teach you some of that?”

“Shut the fuck up,” Maria groaned, covering her face with her arms. “You said they were watching, no? So they are not now.”

“For now, little mouse,” Mitsuhide corrected her, turning onto his side. “Why?”

“I wanted to know if we’re traitors, but that bullshit excuse tell me we not.”

“Perhaps I indeed should call you a ‘kitten’, since curiosity nearly killed a cat there,” he sighed.

“Why am I even here? I’m a medic. I was supposed…!” she stopped abruptly, his hand pressing against her mouth. His breath on her cheek, Maria forced herself to relax, the grasses beginning to hum closer than she’d like.

“To kill two birds with one stone. Yet now, we cannot be found out,” he whispered, a tinge of irritation seeping into his voice. He let her go, Maria swallowing dryly.

Not to be found out, kurwa jebana jego pierdolona mać, she thought, disrobing partially and leaving only her undergarments on, Mitsuhide – much to her dismay – following the same plan, the both of them soon falling back into the bed.

“What now?” she whispered against his neck, few steps too many outside causing her heart to race.

“We need to hold them outside, where they still cannot see much,” he replied urgently. “Be as kind as to strain your voice.”

A moment of silence.

“I can’t moan on command.”

“Maria, our lives literally depend on it.”

Her face growing hot, she turned her back towards him, his hand already reaching to pull her back, threats to coerce her into co-operation forming in his mind. Mitsuhide froze, however, her voice coming out shyly: “Help me a little then. I… Ja pierdolę, just give me a back massage.”

“Maria, it’s –”

“If you ever use it aga –” she dropped the sentence mid word, a moan slipping out of her lungs as he pressed onto the sore muscle by her spine, her body jerking away from him.

His fingers worked her quite well, one arm stopping her in her escape, his other hand pressing over the tense back – and much to her dismay, it appeared it truly worked, for she could not hold her voice in. Utterly embarrassed, Maria attempted to bite into her hand, his voice by her ear reprimanding her.

“Now, little mouse, this is precisely the opposite of what you want.”

“Shut u – Oh,” she whimpered. “I hate you.”

Some time passed, and although seemingly relaxed, she could not believe herself nor stop her very own mind in its tracks, instead hiding her head in the pillow, thus muffling her groans. Something pressed against her back, yet once again – but this time warm and breathing, and for all she could tell, it was his head, the entire Mitsuhide shaking somewhat violently as he attempted to hold in his laughter.

“I hate you,” Maria repeated yet once again. “And they probably think I fucked you.”

“I surely do appear rather capable now.”

“If you ever use it against me, I… What am saying, you definitely will,” she wailed. “What next?”

A rustle of fabric answered her, Mitsuhide sitting up and reaching for something, although she was not quite sure as for what.

“Next, I shall explain to you your task, although your interference might have complicated it significantly.”

“My task?”

“I want you to deliver some messages. I take your offer still stands?”

“Where and when?” Maria turned onto her stomach, glancing up at him.

“To the camp set over the plains we’ve passed along the way. Tomorrow night.”

“That’s at least and hour... No, more... Walk in one way,” she yawned, but did not refuse, her eyes already closing.

What should Maria do?

a. sneak out sooner, but sleep less b. sneak out later, but sleep more c. Something else. (What?)

Dictionary

kurwa jebana jego pierdolona mać - literally: his mother, twice fucked whore; a string of profanities - kurwa mać, jebać, pierdolić; never really used in the literal meaning

Ja pierdolę - literally: I fuck; more appropriately: fuck my life; I’m fucked, I’m so done with this

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On which point a combination of the words certain and picky might have been a factor, particularly when you take into consideration the earlier pernicky form. Chances implying the different possibilities of competitors, as used in betting, was very first tape-recorded in English in 1574 according to Chambers, so making use of the 'can't chances it' expression could understandably be very old certainly. Cassells and also other reliable jargon sources state that 'take the mick' is cockney poetry vernacular, c. 1950s, from 'Micky Happiness', rhyming with 'take the piss'. No-one seems to understand who Micky Happiness was, which maybe shows a little weakness in the derivation. Conversely, and also perhaps in addition in the direction of the adoption of the expression, a much less widely known opportunity is that 'mick' in this sense is a reducing of the word 'micturation', which is a clinical term for urination.

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This to a specific degree clarifies why a lot of English words with French origins occur in way of living and also social language. Incidentally words French, to explain people or things of France and also the language itself, has existed in English in its modern form because concerning 1200, prior to which it was 'Frensch', and also earlier in Old English 'frencisc'. This stemmed from Old High German frenkisc as well as frenqisc, from and straight related to the Franks, the very early Germanic individuals who dominated the Romans in Gaul around the fifth century. The name of the Frank people is additionally the origin of the word France as well as the Franc currency. The most attractive theory for the best beginning of the word Frank is that it originates from a comparable word for a spear or lance, which was the favoured tool of the Frankish tribes. whatever floats your watercraft - if it makes you happy/it's your decision/it's your selection (although I do not necessarily concur as well as I do not care anyway) - a reasonably modern-day expression from the late 20th century with strangely little known origins.

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For such a well-used and popular expression the details of beginnings are strangely sparse, and also an usually not referenced in any way by the normal expressions as well as etymology resources. Other ideas refer to possible relate to card games, in which turning up a card would expose something concealed, or mark the end of a flow of play. It's specifically hard to guess regarding the beginnings due to the fact that the word 'turn' has many different definitions, especially when combined with other very adaptable words. If you can include anything to aid identfy when and also where and exactly how the 'transform it up' expression developed please contact us. The original phrasing was 'tide nor time tarrieth no male' (' tarrieth' implying 'awaits'). taxi/taxicab - fare-charging car, although taxi can be a fare-charging boat - taxi as well as taxicab are words which we have a tendency to consider approved without believing what the derivation could be.

In fact the beginning of taxi is the French 'taximetre' and also German equivalent 'taxameter', incorporating taxi/taxa and metre/meter. Taximeter appeared in English around 1898, at which time its use was transferring from horse-drawn carriages to automobile. Taxicab is an abbreviation of another French word cabriolet, which came into English in the 1700s, and also it shows up in the full French taxicab equivalent 'taximetre cabriolet'. Taxicab showed up in English indicating a steed drawn carriage in 1826, a vapor engine in 1859, as well as a motor vehicle in 1899. Chambers recommends that the French taximetre is in fact originated from the German taxameter, which interestingly generated an earlier the same but brief English term taxameter taped in 1894, related to horsedrawn taxis. sweep the board - win everything - based on the allegory of winning all the cards or cash stake in a game of cards.

Mojo possibly derives from African-American language, describing an amulet or witchcraft charm, and also is close to the word 'moco', indicating withccraft, utilized by the Gullah of the US South Carolina shore as well as islands. Words and the definition were popularised by the 1956 blues song Obtained My Mojo Working, initially made popular by Muddy Waters' 1957 recording, as well as ultimately covered by almost all blues musicians since then. The term gave the origin for the word mobster, implying mobster, which showed up in American English in the early 1900s. Hitch made use of in the feeling is American from the 1880s although the basic drawback significance of move by pulling or jerking is Old English from the 1400s hytchen, and prior, icchen definition move from 1200.

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melleonis · 5 years

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i know everyone gave alanis morisette a hard fucking time for not quite grasping the dictionary definition of irony, but i think what she was describing was at the very least a contiguous emotion which doesn’t seem to have a succinct english descriptor. like, that “well, isn’t that just typical” reaction to misfortune can occur appropriately whether said misfortune is technically ironic or not. i bet there’s a yiddish word for it, but honestly i say we let anglophones have “ironic” in this case.

anyway i’ll be watching wong kar-wai’s 1960s hong kong christmas noir/neon future android sex train movie 2046 this december, as is my tradition, a movie in which people smoke cigarettes in actual slo-mo while opera plays, rather than ever saying what they want to say to other people. this year, i’ll be watching it with a woman i’ve been desperately in love with more or less since january, as well as her boyfriend. is that ironic? no. does it feel ironic? yeah, it does.

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uglyducklingpresse · 5 years

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“WE ARE ALL SOMEWHAT COLONIZED IN OUR EXISTENCE”: JAMIE CHIANG IN CONVERSATION WITH ZAHRA PATTERSON

UDP apprentice Jamie Chiang interviewed writer and educator Zahra Patterson in February 2019 after the release of her UDP title Chronology, recent winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography. They discussed Zahra's journaling in Cape Town; her friendship with Liepollo Ranekoa, who passed away in 2012; the impact of language choice in postcolonial literature; tattoos; and more.

Taking as its starting point an ultimately failed attempt to translate a Sesotho short story into English, Chronology explores the spaces language occupies in relationships, colonial history, and the postcolonial present. It is a collage of images and documents, folding on words-that-follow-no-chronology, unveiling layers of meaning of queering love, friendship, death, and power.

Can you talk about the background of your decision to go to Cape Town to find who you are or the meaning of life? Did you find it? (In Chronology, Zahra refers to her journey to Cape Town as a search for herself.)

Yeah, I mean sometimes I get a little dramatic perhaps when I'm writing in my journal.

How old were you? How many years ago was that?

It was the end of 2009 into 2010, so I would have been in my late twenties. I feel a journal is a place to express one's ideas, but it's also a creative space. I wouldn't take myself totally seriously in everything that comes out in a journal. I think there's definitely some self-awareness of one's own—my self importance, but also the quest to find oneself is not just to be made fun of. I think it's an important concept.

How long did you stay in Cape Town?

I was there for around five weeks. As far as the decision to go, it was more spur of the moment. I was in South Africa for a wedding. My cousin got married and instead of going off traveling that far for a week, I thought I would just spend a couple of months if I had to go to that part of the world; there's no point in going for a week, so I was going to stay. I hadn't actually decided where I was going after the wedding until I got there, and Cape Town seemed to make the most sense to me.

It perhaps felt the least imperialistic to go and spend time in such a cosmopolitan, international city as opposed to going somewhere more remote. You're either a tourist or a local, whereas Cape Town is an easy city to integrate into.

I see. On page 33, you mention that you have a tattoo, and in the caption there is this word ke nonyana. What does ke nonyana mean?

It means I'm a bird.

That's the first word you spoke in Sesotho?

Yes. I found the words in Liepollo’s English-Sesotho dictionary one day, and when she came home I spoke them. It meant a lot to her that I’d engaged with her language.

If you don’t mind, could you elaborate the story behind Liepollo’s colleague’s Facebook profile picture. What happened?

It was the day she died, and his Facebook profile changed to her picture. It was an image of her. That was jarring because why somebody would put an image of a friend up, and there are very few circumstances that someone would do something like that and usually it's because they're dead. So when I saw that his Facebook picture changed to her face, it occurred to me that something terrible had happened. And I was at work at the time, so it was just very disorienting.

Sorry to hear that. Did you get your tattoo because of this?

Yeah, so I didn't have anybody to mourn with because I had met Liepollo in Cape Town and we didn't have friends in common. Actually, we had a friend in common—an American who interned at Chimurenga while I was staying with Liepollo who I met once at the house in Observatory and once for coffee in Brooklyn—but she had moved to D.C. by that time, so I didn't reach out to her. It was a very isolated mourning experience. That's kind of why I got the tattoo, just to have her with me and to have that symbol and to think of her every day. Because when you have a long distance friendship, you're not going to think of the person every day. We were in touch every few months. I don’t want to forget her due to not having a lot of people to remember who she was with, so I needed to make her memory permanent on me. I think everybody thinks about getting tattoos in this day and age. My rule for tattoos is if I want it for a full year, then I'll get it, and I've never wanted anything for a year. So it’s my only tattoo.

And ke nonyana sounds beautiful.

Thank you. I think it's beautiful also.

And on page 37 and 38, there’s an interesting conversation you had with a Muslim guy named Saed. I found some of his talk kind of sexist. What was your reaction when you were talking to him? It sounds like he's almost preaching to you, trying to change your idea about what a woman's purpose is in this world.

Exactly! But he also wasn't that; he was as if playing the role that he thought he was supposed to play and open to other ways of thinking. We're socialized beings, all of us. He wasn't terribly dogmatic. I don't think he'd been challenged too much in his way of thinking, but at the same time maybe he had because he was open to being challenged. So yeah, it was very interesting.

On page 47 to 48, you write about the panel What is the value of age and wisdom? at the Bronx Museum of Art. The five panelists are: Vinie Burrows, Boubacar Boris Diop, Yusef Komunyakaa, Achille Mbembe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. There’s a quotation from Mbembe: “If the language we use is in itself a prison...We have to put a bomb under the language. Explode language!” Could you tell us more about the context?

Achille Mbembe is a leading postcolonial theorist. I think his words are also quite poetic, so he's speaking metaphorically. The context of that part of the conversation is imperialism and language. That intellectuals from formerly colonized nations use the colonial language to express decolonial ideas is problematic, but it's still very accepted. And even these intellectuals who are on the panel, they write in English and they write in French, but they also find it problematic that they do that; however, it's also part of their survival. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o wrote Decolonizing The Mind in the early eighties, where he swore off ever writing in English again, but then he is put into prison and he's exiled, so he can't actually exist in his mother tongue and his mother land; the government there has ostracized him because he speaks out against what they're doing to the people. Therefore, he has to make his life in English in America, he teaches in California.

Circumstances don't necessarily allow a person to decolonize their lives because in order to survive in this society, we are all somewhat colonized in our existence. I think that saying to put a bomb under language is saying that we need to just get our ideas out there. There’s also the visual aspect of it, I see words and letters, like, splattered. Like fucking. . .we need to fuck with language; we need to push the boundaries of language.

As Diop said “Teaching Wolof enhances self-esteem.” Does Wolof have a writing system?

I’m not positive about the history of Wolof’s writing system but I know some, especially in more northern Sub-African countries had created writing systems using Arabic script and maybe some of them now use the Latin alphabet, so I would have to look that up for Wolof specifically.

You use your mother tongue to express yourself because ideas in a specific language can't be translated. When you lose the language, you lose the culture and the history of people. Also if you're writing in any of the indigenous languages to Africa, you're not writing for the colonizer; you're writing for the people who speak that language, which is also important.

A lot of this theory, especially academic theory that is taught in universities, is very limited in its reach. I think even though these are serious intellectuals who write academic works for academia, they're aware and they're problematizing the limits of writing scholarly work for institutions that isn't necessarily reaching the people.

What other languages do you speak?

I speak French. I lived in France for awhile. I would say I used to be bilingual; I'm kind of monolingual at this point in my life.

What about in Sesotho?

I was working on the project (an attempt to translate Lits'oanelo Yvonne Nei's short story “Bophelo bo naka li maripa” from Sesotho to English) originally, but the access to the language was limited. I wasn't able to access decent grammar books, I wasn't able to access the orthography that I wanted to access so I gave up pretty quickly...but it wasn't as simple as giving up. I stepped back because I didn't really feel it was totally appropriate for me to do what I was doing. I think that’s a hugely important part of my text, the part where I put myself into conversation with Spivak and she tells me, via an essay she wrote about translation, that what I’m doing is wrong. I want to learn a language in which I'm going to be able to speak to people. I’m still not totally sure if I should have published what was supposed to be such a personal exercise, so that section with Spivak is essential to me.

On page 72, you wrote Liepollo an email about a friend who taught you how to say Your sister is a whore in Tagalog?

A friend of mine, her first love was Filipina so she knew how to insult people in Tagalog. When she said it, it sounded Spanish to me so I was wondering if that kind of insult comes with colonialism...also a misogynistic perspective can come. Not to say that misogyny doesn't exist in all cultures, although I think there are probably some cultures where it doesn't exist. Just problematizing the way language can infiltrate into a culture and then become part of the existing language but isn't part of that cultural history—the etymology isn’t actually Filipino; the etymology is Spanish.

Are there any books and authors that inspire you a lot?

For this work, Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, that was a huge inspiration. Mouth: Eats Color by Sawako Nakayasu in terms of thinking about different ways, different things that can be done with form and then different things that can be done with translation. It was very liberating to read those two authors. I don't identify as a translator nor as a poet, so most of the things I've read are novels. My background is primarily in postmodern and postcolonial pieces of literature. I also thought about the nature of collage while I was working on Chronology. I looked at Wangechi Mutu’s work specifically for inspiration, but I’ve loved Romare Bearden’s work for years.

Thanks for sharing. The last question, what are you working on now?

I've started writing and hopefully I'm able to continue it. It's a piece that will potentially be called Policy. I'm an educator and I'm pretty passionate about how distorted and messed up the reality of public school systems is in this country. Although one could say I've been researching since I've been an adult, I started specific research for Policy last summer and I didn't start writing it until a couple of weeks ago. It's experimental in form. I'd say it's fiction meets theory, whereas Chronology is memoir meets theory. I'm not sure exactly where it's going but I'm thinking critically about charter schools and desegregation efforts in New York City and also the history of that. So going back to Brown versus the Board of Ed. . .I'll probably address school shootings, the school-to-prison pipeline, school lunches, teachers’ strikes; it’s about as intersectional an issue as there is—how we educate ourselves as a nation, and on the stolen land of our nation.

I think right now, especially with the current administration, though public schools have been in danger for a very long time, our current secretary of education is a billionaire who wants to privatize education, so her agenda is to destroy our public school infrastructure. It's worrisome. Processing this information in a way makes me very angry because it's systemic. It's how you keep people oppressed. If you don't give people access to education, you're not giving them access to themselves. Never mind the tools they need to achieve and succeed in a capitalist society.

I don't feel the United States has a liberatory agenda for education and I want to explore that a little bit in the history of curriculums and pedagogy because there have been, at the turn of the century, there were some really interesting education theorists like John Dewey and Ella Flagg Young, and their ideas for public education were very progressive, such as student driven classrooms, and not having really punitive systems. You find that education in private schools but rarely in public schools, so why are we not educating our youth in ways that let them think critically about the world that they're living in? Educating children to just follow rules and memorize doesn't work for most children. How many do you know in public schools who are excited to go to school every day? I think humans naturally are curious and want to learn and know things. So why is education taking that away from children?

I don't know exactly how the project is going to manifest. It will be weird.

Zahra Patterson’s first book, Chronology (Ugly Duckling Presse 2018), won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography and received a Face Out Fellowship from CLMP. Her short works have appeared in Kalyani Magazine The Felt, and unbag (forthcoming). A reading of her play, Sappho's Last Supper, was staged at WOW Café Theatre. She is the creator of Raw Fiction and currently teaches high school English at a Quaker boarding school. Her writing has been supported by Mount Tremper Arts and Wendy’s Subway, and her community work has been supported by Brooklyn Arts Council, The Pratt Center, and many individuals. She holds an MFA in Writing from Pratt Institute.

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“teamlronman: stardustparker: it’s that time of the day again ...”

THANK YOU i made a post about how starker is a pedophilic relationship and i got people defending it saying that it's not (technically it isn't because pedophilia means the child is not yet a teen so the more appropriate word is ephebophilia but either way it's fucking wrong lmao)

I was not the OP but for whatever reason tumblr notified me that you replied to that post... so here I am commenting on it. ;)

And honestly? I can not understand how somebody in their right mind would be defending this disgusting pedophile ship. Because yes, not to come across as rude or anything, but in my opinion:

Pedophilia noun 1. sexual feelings directed toward children.

Ephebophilia noun 1. the word used to try to make abuse towards adolescents less horrible sounding than it is 2. the word used to make perverts feel better about their sexual feelings towards children

That’s really all that word is.

Also fun fact: if you try to look up the word in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, it doesn’t actually exist. Which yeah... I dug a little further (not how I was planning on spending my morning btw, but oh well). Apparently the term was first used in a French book called Tares et Poisons: Perversion et Perversité Sexuelles (in English: Tares and Poisons: Perversion and Sexual Perversity).

I also ready a study called: “Looking at Ephebophilia through the Lens of Cleric Sexual Abuse” (Cimbolic, P., & Cartor, P. (2006). Basically as a part of the study the main reason to provide the distinction is to treat the perpetrators of this form of abuse more specifically and actually get them to... you know... not do it. (apparently the younger the age of the child, the lower the IQ of the perpetrator is).

There have been several studies that have shown a number of important differences between pedophiles and ephebophiles. Rossetti (1990) reports that ephebophiles were seen as more psychosexually mature when compared to pedophiles and have a better prognosis for treatment. Danni & Hampe (2000) found ephebophiles to be more reactive to stress when compared to pedophiles, and sexual behavior with minors was more likely to be in reaction to stressful events. They also found ephebophiles were more likely to be regressed than fixated in their offending style and this has been shown in other studies to be an indication of a more favorable prognosis (Groth et al., 1982). The fixated offender is conceptualized as someone with a longstanding sexual attraction to children and an absence of any movement towards relationships with adults (Holmes & Holmes, 2002). The regressed offender is someone whose sexual attraction to children is a departure from a more characteristic attraction to adults. The regressed offender’s behavior is typically precipitated by external stress (Gebhard et al., 1965). Recently, Cantor et al. (2005) reported that the younger the victim of child sexual abuse the lower the IQ mean age of the offender group and they go on to suggest that this could reflect an underlying deficiency of brain function in pedophiles when compared to men to who sexually offend other age groups. Thus, in our opinion, evidence supports the importance of distinguishing the pedophile from the ephebophile in that they represent two different and distinct sexual disorders of possibly different etiologies, but certainly of different prognoses which may therefore, have differing treatment implications.

Like literally! That’s the reason to distinguish! But if someone is using that term to distinguish in terms of shipping (like what Starker shippers keep on doing), they clearly do not see the problem! And the study very clearly defines both as being equally abusive!

The study goes on to note that another reason for the distinction is because the increase in male abuse (as opposed to female abuse) coincides with the increase in age.

Table 3 (John Jay College, 2004, p. 53) indicates the vast majority of alleged victims were between the ages of 11 and 17. Specifically, 5,016 or 50.9% of the victims were in the 11–14 year old age group and 3,394 or 27.3% of the victims were in the 15–17 year age group. If we combine these two groups it accounts for 81.8% of alleged victims of sexual abuse incidents reported in the study. Upon further examination if we consider the gender of the victims we see some very interesting patterns of abuse based on the interaction of age and gender of victims. For example, in the youngest group of victims, ages 1–7 there were a total of 487 incidents with 41.7% occurring against males and 58.3% against females. Of course this age category of victims would reflect offenders who would be classified as pedophiles. For the 8–10 year old age group we see a clear shift in victim gender, namely of the 1,390 sexual incidents 992 were committed against males accounting for 71.4% of the total. In the 11–14 year age group we see the largest number of total allegations numbering 5,016 of which 4,282 or 85.4% of that total were alleged to have been committed against males. For the 15–17 year age group of the 3,394 alleged incidents 2,892 or 85.2% of that number were alleged to have been committed against males. These data show that clerics who were alleged to have committed sexual acts against very young children, did so against predominantly young girls, but for those men who were alleged to have committed acts against the older children between the ages of 11–17 the overwhelming majority of victims were males. There were a total of 10,287 alleged incidents but 8,410 of these alleged incidents occurred in the 11–17 age group or 81.8% of the total of all allegations. In the 11–17 age group over 85% of all the alleged incidents involved males.

Also please note: all of these children, whether they’re age 1 or age 17, are referred to as victims. So basically, when looked at through a scientific lens, the word “ephobiphilia” literally exists to 1) Better treat the offenders so that they will stop victimizing children 2) To protect young males from this abuse because they have been singled out more than young female are!

So I guess if I were to re-define the word (as I did at the top of this post), it’d have to look more like:

Ephebophilia noun 1. the word used to distinguish types of abusive behavior so that the perpetrator can be treated 2. the word used to bring awareness to and protect the increasing number of male sexual abuse victims

But sure, Starker shippers: use “ephobiphilia” instead of “pedophilia” to make your disgusting abusive ship seem less abusive. But studies very clearly are proving you wrong.

The bottom line?

Starker is abusive, and if you are using a distinction in terms that exist to protect abuse victims in order to justify your ship, you are only proving just how disgusting and abusive your ship is.

#rdjrants #anti starker #WTF it's 10am and I just spent the last hour researching this shit #when I'm supposed to be researching a paper about geology that's due TONIGHT #my thoughts #replies

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Gifts to You - RENJUN

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Pairing: Renjun x fem!reader

Genre: fluff, idol!au, drabble

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Imagine exchanging Christmas gifts with Renjun...

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It’s quiet in the dorm where you sit with Renjun. There’s a small Christmas tree in the corner with multiple gifts underneath and around it, and the floor is littered with bits of cookies and dishes you cooked up together.

You sit on the couch, snuggled into Renjun’s side. He has an arm around you, and every now and then he fiddles with your hair a little. It feels nice.

“It’s really quiet without the rest of the boys,” you mumble, half-asleep.

“Mm,” Renjun agrees softly. “I kinda miss them.”

You feel a stab of sympathy. Mark went home to Vancouver for Christmas, and the others are spending time with their families. Chenle managed to get a plane back home to China, or he would’ve been with you too. Only Renjun wasn’t able to go home.

Your parents decided to go visit your older brother at university in New York, so you’re alone for the holidays too.

“Me too,” you agree.

It’s the night before Christmas, and the two of you fall asleep on the couch, cuddled into each other’s sides.

~~~

Renjun’s annoying alarm wakes you up at seven in the morning. You blink blearily, trying to get your bearings.

You snatch up Renjun’s phone, ready to snooze the alarm, but the date stops you short.

It’s Christmas!

Next to you, Renjun stirs, groaning slightly from falling asleep in such an awkward position.

“Renjun, it’s Christmas!” you say excitedly, poking his side. He mumbles something you can’t quite hear before opening his eyes.

“Christmuth?”

“Christmas, Renjun, Christmas!!”

Finally, something clicks in his brain, and his eyes widen.

The two of you zoom over to the small Christmas tree in the corner of the room, eagerly looking at the gifts underneath. Together, you sort them into different piles- some are for the other members, but most are left for you and your boyfriend.

You take turns opening your gifts. First is a beautiful new notebook from your parents, hardcover and shimmering white and blue. You hug it close, remembering when you offhandedly mentioned that you were running out of space to write in your old diary. You will definitely use this one next.

From Mark to Renjun is an English dictionary. You snort at Renjun’s unimpressed expression. “It’s the thought that counts,” you say, stifling laughter.

“Easy for you to say. You’re already fluent,” Renjun grouches, tossing you another gift.

Haechan has given you a signed, framed, photo of him.

“Jesus Christ,” you say, gazing at the photo in grudging admiration for just the amount of guts that kid has. “Now I wonder what he got you.”

Renjun’s rolling around the floor laughing. “Shut up! At least he didn’t get me an English dictionary!”

That sobers Renjun a little, enough so that he can catch the gift you throw at him, also from Haechan.

It’s another signed and framed picture of the boy himself.

“I think for Christmas next year I’m going to give the boys a course on how to select appropriate presents for people,” you say as Renjun rummages through the small pile of gifts.

“I wholeheartedly support that decision,” he agrees, handing you another package, this time from Jeno.

“Jeno’s a good kid. Let’s see what he got me,” you say, unwrapping the gift with slight hesitation.

Inside is a book you’ve been dying to read for months but couldn’t because the library didn’t have it. “Oh my god,” you breathe. “I love Jeno so, so much.”

Renjun fakes betrayal, holding his hands close to his heart. “More so than me?” he gasps. You scooch over to him, hugging him tightly. “Of course not, Renjunnie,” you say.

“Good. Let’s see what he got me.”

Inside his package is yet another Moomin plushie.

“Another?” you ask, raising an eyebrow.

He glares at you over the plushie. “There’s no such thing as too much Moomin, Y/N!”

“Whatever you say,” you mutter, selecting Mark’s gift from your pile.

A half hour passes in this manner, groaning and yelling over some gifts, promising revenge over others, and holding a few of them close to your heart.

You’ve left your gifts from each other for last, and it’s with slightly trembling fingers that you reach for the package he hands to you. He takes the box you extend to him with equal nervousness.

God, you hope he likes your gift.

“You open yours first,” you both say at the same time. You glare at him. “You first!”

“Fine,” Renjun grumps, putting you in a chokehold. “When did you get so demanding?”

You look up at him in annoyance. “Let me out!”

He does, thankfully, and begins to take the wrapping paper off your gift carefully. You watch him closely, trying to gauge his every reaction.

The wrapping paper finally comes off, and two books tumble to the ground. Renjun picks the first up, flipping through the pages eagerly.

It’s a Moomin sketchbook you saw at the arts and crafts store about a month earlier. When you saw it, your thoughts immediately flew to Renjun, and you knew you had to get it.

“Do you like it?” you ask hesitantly.

“Do I like it?” he asks, looking at you with shining eyes. “I love it! Thank you, Y/N.”

You grin. “Then look at the other thing that fell out.”

He puts the sketchbook down carefully to pick up the other thin booklet.

On the front is a picture of NCT Dream and you, smiling widely for the camera. You remember that day. Taeyong took the picture.

It was the day of their first win.

Renjun flips through the pages silently, taking in every single picture. Some include you, some are of just him. Some are candids, and others are posed. Many include the Dreamies.

And on the last page is a picture of just him and you, laughing together as you sit on the couch. You hadn’t known Yuta had taken that one until he showed it to you, and though you were annoyed at first that he’d taken a picture without you knowing, you quickly got over it when you saw how cute Renjun looked.

Underneath, in your neat handwriting, is written, “Thank you for always being with me.”

Renjun’s eyes are glassy now as he tries to hold back tears. “This…”

“Took me hours to make, Renjun, so don’t cry on it now,” you say, closing the book and placing it on the table next to you. You wrap your arms around your boyfriend, and he buries his face in your shoulder. “Thank you,” he mumbles, voice muffled by your hair.

You stay in that position for some time until Renjun finally pulls away, motioning for you to open his gift.

The box is beautifully wrapped, with a nice ribbon bow and gorgeous wrapping paper. You take care not to rip the paper as you open it, carefully pulling the tape off of each edge.

Inside is another small box and two signed albums.

“What…”

“EXO. Signed by all members,” Renjun supplies.

“Holy shit.” You hug the two albums to your chest, gazing at your boyfriend with wide eyes. “I can’t believe you got these for me.”

“It was no sweat,” Renjun mumbles, trying to downplay his emotions. “I just asked them if they had extra albums and if they could sign them.”

“Shut up, you dummy,” you say, flinging your arms around him yet again. “God, I love you.”

Those three words make you freeze, and you feel Renjun tense up as well. Embarrassed and shy, you let go quickly. “Sorry if that was too fast.”

“N-no,” Renjun says, still looking shell-shocked. “I’m just… surprised.”

“Well, I hope you know it’s true,” you say, looking away shyly.

Renjun smiles widely.

You turn your attention to the small box that’s left to avoid squealing over how adorable his smile is.

Inside is a locket, with a little picture of Renjun on the left side and you on the right.

You really can’t hold back your emotions as you stare into the tiny locket. A tear wells up in your eye, and a huge grin stretches your face.

“I love it,” you breathe, gazing at your boyfriend. “Thank you.”

Renjun laughs shyly, taking the locket from you. He turns you around and clasps it around your neck.

“It’s beautiful,” you say, looking down at it.

“I’d say the one that wears it,” he says, so quiet you almost don’t hear it.

“Why are you so sweet?” you whine. “It makes me feel bad.”

“Don’t be,” Renjun says, pulling you closer. “I love you the way you are.”

When you recover from his words, you two sit there, leaning against the couch as you talk and laugh. You miss your family and friends, but for now, you’re content.

Having Renjun with you is enough.

He and his love are a gift to you.

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Actually the origin of taxi is the French 'taximetre' and also German comparable 'taxameter', integrating taxi/taxa and also metre/meter. Taximeter appeared in English around 1898, at which time its usage was moving from horse-drawn carriages to automobile. Taxi is an abbreviation of an additional French word cabriolet, which came into English in the 1700s, and also it appears in the complete French taxicab equivalent 'taximetre cabriolet'. Cab appeared in English meaning a steed drawn carriage in 1826, a steam locomotive in 1859, and an electric motor automobile in 1899. Chambers suggests that the French taximetre is really originated from the German taxameter, which surprisingly triggered an earlier similar but short-lived English term taxameter videotaped in 1894, applied to horsedrawn taxicabs. move the board - win everything - based on the metaphor of winning all the cards or money risk in a game of cards.

Mojo probably derives from African-American language, describing an amulet or witchcraft beauty, and also is close to the word 'moco', meaning withccraft, made use of by the Gullah of the United States South Carolina shore and islands. Words as well as the significance were popularised by the 1956 blues track Got My Mojo Working, first made famous by Muddy Seas' 1957 recording, as well as subsequently covered by just about all blues musicians ever since. The term provided the beginning for words mobster, suggesting gangster, which showed up in American English in the early 1900s. Hitch utilized in the feeling is American from the 1880s although the general hitch significance of action by pulling or jerking is Old English from the 1400s hytchen, as well as prior, icchen meaning action from 1200.

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The N Word

“Nigger” Warning: This is not an article about removing the word “nigger” from our discourse, however advisable and consensus-driven that idea might be. This is an article about removing our reactions to the word “nigger” from our discourse.

The purpose of this article is not to encourage anyone to intentionally hurt anyone for any reason; it’s to make readers think about how we use language, and what it means to be offended.

Because I specifically avoided cowardly constructions such as “the N word” or “that word”, you’re going to see a lot of “nigger” here. If you have strong feelings against seeing the word “nigger” in print, you are respectfully advised to avoid both this article and Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn.

1. Censorship of any kind is anti-democratic.

The First Amendment in the United States protects anyone’s right to say anything because free expression is essential for human freedom, and it doesn’t cause any real-world damage. The word "nigger" doesn't cause any real-world damage. For a certain sort of counter-cultural person, or an internet troll, the taboo nature of “nigger” may even increase the chance of usage; either to shock or annoy in the case of the latter, or to demonstrate the fragility and stupidity of a general consensus in the case of the former.

This is from Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary (2001):

nig.ger n (taboo) 1 a highly offensive term for a Black person 2 a highly offensive term for a dark-skinned person [late 17C. Alteration of NEGRO]

CORRECT USAGE This term is arguably the single most offensive racist slur in the English language. The fact that African Americans and other people of colour sometimes use the word in reference to themselves (sometimes as nigga) does not excuse its present day use by members of other ethnic groups. White students may be accustomed to hearing it in its pop culture context. They should avoid using it, even in fictional dialogue. Those who persist in using it should remember that their use of the word reflects directly on them, the users. The terms of choice are African American, Black person, and person of colour.

Conversely, in a characteristic effort to cover every angle, the Oxford English Dictionary records examples of the word as used: by people who are not black as a relatively neutral (or occasionally positive) term; by people who are not black as a hostile term of abuse or contempt; by black people (esp. African Americans) as a neutral or favorable term; and by black people (esp. African Americans) as a deprecatory term.

Nearly all modern dictionaries make the distinction between being prescriptive and being descriptive. The modern understanding of the purpose of a dictionary is that they are essentially descriptive, that is, they catalogue examples of spelling and usage. It is a point of pride for dictionary editors that their books are not prescriptive, that is, they have no interest in telling people how they “should” spell words or use them.

The fact that the quoted paragraph above is correct is irrelevant: my freedom of speech is in every sense more important than your right to be offended.

For instance, if you've ever giggled at the Muslims getting worked up over some cartoons just because they seem to have a violent reaction against depictions of Muhammad, then you have no business having any kind of opinion on anyone's use of the word "nigger".

2. It's just a word.

Yes, slavery happened. Yes, there are many issues of legacy racism which still affect black people today. Yes, it upsets many people as a function of that racism. After all that, it's still just a word, and white people who use it to describe black people are probably assholes.

However, in practice, whenever the word "nigger" causes offense, it is overwhelmingly likely that the offense is caused by the word alone. We live in a society where it's far more socially acceptable to say, "I think black people should be treated as second-class citizens," than it is to say, "I think niggers should be treated equally."

If a reader strongly disapproved of the first sentence but actively winced at the second, he must surely realize that he’s reacting to the word and not the racism which ostensibly informs the horror of the word.

To me, the thing that offends me most is every time that I hear "the N-word." Not "nigger", by the way. I mean, "the N-word," literally. Whenever a white lady with nice hair on CNN says "the N-word," that's just white people getting away with saying "nigger". That's all that is. They found a way to say "nigger": "N-word." It's bullshit, because when you say "the N-word", you put the word "nigger" in the listener's head. That's what saying a word is. You say "the N-word" and I go "Oh, she means nigger." You're making me say it in my head. Why don't you fucking say it instead and take responsibility for the shitty words you want to say.

- Louis CK, Chewed Up

If someone says you've hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't. While this is true, it’s nothing more than a re-framing of: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion”. It’s true, but utterly worthless. You might as well say the sky is blue and claim that it’s a contribution to a discussion.

In 1990, a Washington state high school teacher, John Foley, wrote an opinion piece for the Seattle Post calling for a ban on Huckleberry Finn, not directly because of any arguably racist content, but because “students just hear the N word”. Instead of addressing reality, or even using the students’ shock as a springboard into a useful discussion of language, racism and American history, Mr. Foley just wants the word removed from his field of vision.

In 1999, an aide to the mayor of Washington D.C. was fired because he used the perfectly appropriate word “niggardly” about a city budget, after a complaint by a presumably illiterate employee. The aide was rehired after someone consulted a dictionary.

The good news is that you can now buy a copy of Huckleberry Finn on Amazon which has all those troublesome words deleted for you by the publisher. If you’ve had enough of hipsters, you can even download a free edition, assembled as a protest, which replaces all instances of the word “nigger” with “hipster”. How long can it be before some South Park fan creates a version which replaces all the “niggers” with “people who annoy you”?

3. Empowering someone to hurt you is nonsensical.

When racists are enjoined to avoid the word “nigger” because it's abusive and hurtful, it validates them. Racists want their words to be abusive and hurtful, and compassionate attempts to stop them enable their negative ambitions. Yes, race-haters gonna race-hate, but if you get offended every time you hear racist language, you're part of the mechanism which recommended that strategy. This is not “blaming the victim”. Racists are still the assholes in this scenario, but it’s a simple fact that if people didn’t react so negatively to racist language, racists would be utterly disempowered to use any of those words.

In the absence of physical harm, or criminal activity, visiting racial abuse on someone amounts to a kind of bullying. Although movies may have given you the impression that physically standing up to bullies is a noble endeavor, experts think it’s a bad idea, and there are no official government anti-bullying programs that recommend fighting back. In fact, most anti-bullying strategies promote two main strategies: ignoring the source of unpleasantness; and leading by example.

Remember that foul words or blows in themselves are no outrage, but your judgement that they are so. So when any one makes you angry, know that it is your own thought that has angered you. Wherefore make it your endeavour not to let your impressions carry you away. For if once you gain time and delay, you will find it easier to control yourself.

- Epictetus

Like all verbal abuse and bullying, the best thing to do is ignore it. Make a decision to not get offended by it. It’s not easy, but it really is that simple. It’s not about dismissing or minimizing the abuse; it’s about taking decisions to improve your life. If I’m trying to hurt you, anything you do to register that hurt (for any reason) is a victory for me.

4. "Offensive” is subjective.

Civilized societies need to move beyond the idea that people need protection from being offended, either legislatively or socially.

Being offended is a choice. You have the right to choose to be offended by anything you like, for any reasons you see fit. You do not have the right to live your whole life without ever being offended. When you retreat into, “I'm offended”, you’re telling everyone you have no control over your emotional responses and you need others to do it for you.

“It's actually nothing more... than a whine. ‘I find that offensive.’ It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."

- Stephen Fry

Ordering people not to use ostensibly oppressive slurs immediately puts you in charge of deciding what is or isn’t “offensive”. While you might like to eradicate from the planet everything you personally find offensive, a moment’s thought will reveal you how that attitude is dangerous to the fabric of society. Think about all the historical attempts to control how we use language. There is no way to create a society where everyone is nice to everyone else all the time, so think about the kind of society you want which includes that reality.

There are those who would claim that those who use the word “nigger” should accept responsibility for their actions. But “their actions” amount in total to saying a racist word. Everything else is happening inside your head, and you have to take responsibility for that. No one can “make” you feel a certain way. Unless you’re a small child or you have a mental condition, at some point you have to take responsibility for how you choose to react to things.

"Now you have adults going, ‘I was offended! I was offended! I have rights!' Well, so what? Be offended! Nothing happens! You’re an adult, grow up, deal with it. 'I was offended!' I don’t care! Nothing happens when you’re offended … 'I want to live in a democracy, but I never want to be offended again!' Well, you’re an idiot."

- Steve Hughes

You have the right to say horrible, hurtful things, and that right needs to be protected. You should have that right, because as soon as you take it away, you’re empowering the people who make these decisions to decide what counts as hurtful. Who should be in charge? You? Me? Who decides what’s hurtful? Does someone getting offended by something automatically make that thing offensive? I would say no. But that’s just my opinion. Aren’t you glad you’re allowed to disagree?

5. The Thirteenth Amendment was passed over 150 years ago.

It’s time to move on. Although there are certainly racist problems in America (for instance there are more black people in jail and fewer black people in university than there should be), dwelling on the historical reality of slavery is not helping black people, in the same way that Jewish people dwelling on the Holocaust will not be helpful in combating current antisemitism. No one will relate to these concerns except other black people or other Jewish people (and a quick survey of social media suggests that any attempt on the part of dominant groups to relate to these experiences will be interpreted as racist or patronizing). We know the Nazis were the bad guys. We know that slave-owners were the bad guys. The people that don’t know are not going to be swayed by any factual information, so pretending otherwise is equal parts axiomatic and otiose.

We need to acknowledge that fact that the past has created the present, and then concentrate on how to deal with real, current disparities of opportunity and income. Everything else is smoke and mirrors distracting us from the real issues. Oppressive dominant groups will delight in people complaining about trivial issues, or blaming historical events that require no action in the present, while the serious unpleasantness continues.

6. There are white people who regard black people as second-class humans.

They would never admit to it, of course, and they would certainly never use the word "nigger" because that would be wrong. There are also white people who believe that black people should be equal in every way, and who would have no problem saying "nigger" all day (but for the risk of having their heads kicked in). Which of these people do you think black people would prefer populated white America? If you are a black person reading this, which would you prefer?

This is, of course, a false dilemma here, but it demonstrates a point. The point is that the real racism isn't with under-educated white people running around in sheets and burning crosses, nor with anyone who uses the word "nigger". That's just a bunch of assholes. The real racism is with the private (and to a lesser extent, government) institutions who make decisions based on race, whether they're aware of it or not; it's with the people who would never consider using that word because they hold positions of power and wish to connote respectability. If anything, the adopted horror of the word "nigger" is breathtakingly patronizing.

Example: I'm sure Jeb Bush wouldn't be caught dead saying "nigger", but he would have no problem favoring measures to deny black people their Fifteenth Amendment rights. I suggest your anger be directed towards that, if you feel anger is a necessary part of your reaction to racism.

AFRICAN, n. A nigger that votes our way.

- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

Horror of racist language may actually be counter-productive, because it reduces a complicated and inter-related network of legacy racism issues and reduces them to one word, and one act. The United States is now filled with white people who believe that are beyond racism because they actively eschew the word “nigger”, and black people have conditioned them to believe that.

7. There are many better ways to combat racism than attacking a word.

And although it's nowhere near the most horrible thing that could happen to a black person, being called a "nigger" will garner the most disapproval - even from white people!

It’s trivial and trite to say that offensive language is best avoided. Rather than asking people not to use specific words, it’s a far better use of your time to learn how to deal with it, and help others learn how to deal with it, when it does occur.

Getting angry about (or trying to prevent) the use of the word "nigger" is, as explained individually in the respective paragraphs above, anti-constitutional, misdirected, counter-productive, obsessional, useless and distracting.

We need more communication between our different communities, not less. We need more information exchange, not less. We need fewer walls between us, not more.

Sources:

Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary definition of “nigger” is in the (IRL) Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary (2001)

Oxford English Dictionary brief tour of the usage of “nigger” is here: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/126934?rskey=Dj73u0&result=1#eid

Louis CK’s “N word” bit of Chewed Up is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1NUposXVQ

Seattle Post opinion piece on Huckleberry Finn is here: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/opinion/article/Guest-Columnist-Time-to-update-schools-reading-1296681.php

You can buy the “nigger”-free edition of Huckleberry Finn here: http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Twains-Adventures-Sawyer-Huckleberry/dp/1588382672

This is Hipster Huckleberry Finn: http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_69/9998000/9998839/1/print/9998839.pdf

The mayor of Washington D.C. learned that “if you are driving down the road when it's raining, you ought to slow down”: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/williams/williams020499.htm

South Park reference will make sense when you see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuvLUhuo52w

The official English government (although they all say pretty much the same thing) website for dealing with bullying is here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/182421/DFE-RR098.pdf

The Epictetus quote is in the public domain, but you can find a discussion here: http://www.iep.utm.edu/epictetu/

The Stephen Fry quote is from an article he wrote for The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jun/05/religion.hayfestival2005

The Steve Hughes quote is from his stand-up set here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHMoDt3nSHs#t=4m

Jeb Bush was governor of Florida during the 2000 election his brother won, which hinged on the Florida vote. One report of the “injustice, ineptitude and inefficiency” of his purging of African-Americans from the electoral roll is here:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jun/06/uselections2000.usa

The Ambrose Bierce quote is from The Devil’s Dictionary (1906): http://www.gutenberg.org/files/972/972-h/972-h.htm#link2H_4_0002

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For Christmas, one of my close friends gifted to me a self proclaimed “ayurvedic vegan cookbook” called Eat Feel Fresh. The author of the book, who I follow on instagram, posted various links to this account. When I noticed the name Ojas, I gave it further inspection and discovered that it is “food and lifestyle brand” based in New York. On their mission statement page the company claims that “A nod to the Sanskrit word for “vitality” Ojas Studio is a food and lifestyle brand created to spread the love and wonder of Ayurveda.” Mostly, they create health food snacks that are designed for each of the doshas-Pitta, Vata, Kapha (they have a quiz on their website that tells you what kind of dosha you have). They sell their products online and in store, if you have the time and money to visit them in NY anyways.

Ojas (ntr.) translates to “strength or power” (Ruppel, page 414). It comes from the root Vaj or Uj, meaning “bodily strength, vigor, energy, ability, or power” (A Sanskrit English Dictionary, Sir M. Monier-Williams, page 235) I think that this word is used correctly in this context. The food is designed to be a health food, snacks that boost energy that don’t contain artificial sweeteners and are crafted using primarily spices, dates, and grains. Healthy food gives you power and energy, while junk food makes you tired and lethargic.

I have conflicting reactions to this company. I was initially interested in their “East meets West” ideology that they state on their mission statement page, and the focus on Ayurveda in 21st century America. I thought, “wow, how cool that they are bringing this Sanskrit term and the longstanding history of Ayurveda to people who may have never otherwise been introduced to it. However, with this type of engagement with Sanskrit does introduce the notion of appropriation. There is a difference between appreciating a culture/language and trying to engage with it/introducing your friends and peers to it and allowing them to engage with it, and using that culture for promotional/material reasons.

I’d also like to make note here that I’ve seen more and more companies pop up around the U.S that make their basis on “Eastern” culture. I think it can be argued that the “West” seems to have an odd fetishization with the “East,” viewing it as more spiritual or mystical. This should be recognized early on when aligning one’s view points. This is exactly the issue the Edward Said introduced us to in his book “Orientalism.” The notion of appropriation should be kept in the back of one’s mind when viewing other cultures, in this case Indian culture, as the basis for a Western company, especially if those westerners do not have either 1. a relationship to that culture ethnically or religiously, or 2. do not have a significant breadth of LEGITIMATE knowledge on that culture. With that being said, it is possible that this company can be seen as benefiting financially from the use of Sanskrit and Indian culture in contemporary life, especially with the cultural focus that Westerners have on “Eastern values/culture,” and can be seen as possibly culturally appropriating.

I think that the question of appropriation or non-appropriation lies with ownership of the company; is it owned by an individual that has no concrete knowledge on Sanskrit or Ayurveda and is just using the popularity of "the East” in contemporary culture? Or, is it owned by an individual who does have concrete knowledge on these topics, and does have proper respect for them? From their website, which is not always an accurate portrayal of that company’s motives, it seems that they do promote a genuine understanding of Ayurvedic philosophies, although their use of Sanskrit is less elaborated on. I think that using Indian culture and ancient/sacred language in this way can be a fun and valuable way to spread this knowledge with a large group of people, who, like I said previously, would not have been exposed to it otherwise. However, there is a fine line between appreciation and appropriation, and the fact that this company is using these cultural aspects in a financial way seems very close to crossing that line. What do you all think about the concept of appropriation? Is it applicable to this scenario, or is this actually a promising way to promote Sanskrit and Indian culture in contemporary life?

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I had an interesting experience recently on a popular social media platform. Now before I get in to detail about the experience, allow me to start by saying my first mistake was to engage in a discussion on this particular platform. Firstly, to have any form of meaningful discussion on Twitter is going to be difficult due to the limited characters available in a tweet. And secondly, it is close to impossible to gauge any sort of tone, and often the text written can either be misinterpreted or misunderstood. Or it is simply to difficult to elaborate before being bombarded with negative comments, by which point the discussion becomes irrelevant and it can turn in to a mud slinging contest.

So to give context to the situation, there was a picture posted, the main message portrayed was not to call a woman who has sex for money a whore. I commented saying that often the word ‘whore’ didn’t have to have negative connotations and it can simply be used as a term to label a sex worker who offers sexual services in exchange for money (this is not word for word, but similar). I also explained how as a male sex worker who associates with many other sex workers (male and female), we used the word and did not find it offensive, whether used by a sex worker or non sex worker.

The comment itself was not made to offend, persecute or insult anybody. However what ensued seemed to be insults, passive aggressive comments, and many people who I assume were rather offended by my comment. My comment wasn’t my personal opinion, I actually agree with the vast majority of opinions. The term whore has historically been used to persecute and offend women. However I don’t agree that non sex workers should not use the term ‘whore’ to label a sex worker. For us as sex workers to forbid 99 percent of the global population from using the word ‘whore’ seems a little drastic. To use it as a tool to ridicule and persecute a group of people is unacceptable, yet to assume the word is only an insult would show naivety of the English language, but also hand over significant power to anybody who has used this word to harm an individual.

At the risk of coming across as arrogant and obnoxious (I hope by now anyone who reads this realises that is not who I am as a person) The oxford dictionary provides synonyms for the word whore, among many was sex worker. This was quite literally my point, that the word doesn’t have to be negative, and can quite simply be a label for sex workers. I’ve spoken to female sex workers about this, they all made it very clear. They know me, and who I am as a person. Therefore they weren’t offended by what I wrote or said. Unfortunately the vast majority of people on Twitter don’t know who I am as a person. This is what ultimately drove me to finally touch on all manner of subjects in a more appropriate forum such as this,

So now that that’s cleared up, it led me to think about some of the responses. Many of which really intrigued me. The first type of response was insults / antagonistic attacks. I thought long and hard about why such a simple comment could evoke random insults. Was it that my comment was poorly worded and therefore misinterpreted? Perhaps. However does a poorly worded comment warrant offensive insults? Perhaps. I believe the reason for this type of response was that this particular woman has been directly affected by this word. Perhaps it has been used to hurt her in the past, perhaps in my comment I unknowingly failed to acknowledge the hardship she has experienced in the past, and the harm this word has inflicted on her purely from its nasty and toxic delivery. This alone may have opened old wounds that have been inflicted over the course of ‘x’ amount of years. I believe this alone was the cause of an antagonistic approach (I’m guilty of this reaction myself), and in saying that I also acknowledge I have done exactly the same in the past.

The second reaction was explaining the persecution of sex workers as opposed to lawyers and doctors (I compared the term ‘whore’ as a job label such as lawyer or doctor). This isn’t a new concept. Persecution of sex worker’s has been prevalent since biblical times. I have been hassled at airports myself, I’ve had toys and equipment confiscated and been asked inappropriate and probing questions by security. And I have no doubt it is magnified for female sex workers. The reason I don’t find this an issue is because I understand different states / countries all have their own different laws and legislation’s regarding sex work. I also understand and accept that this line of work will always carry a substantial level of taboo and society will never be as accepting of sex worker’s as they are of other professions considered ‘normal’. I have never stated that sex workers are not ridiculed, persecuted or targeted any more or less then any other profession. And again the irony is that I agreed with this individuals stance on this particular matter. Yet it was written with a strange assumption that I was completely opposed to it.

I am not free of blame in all of this. I responded inappropriately when I was accused of ‘mansplaining’ the term ‘whore’. Regrettably this did frustrate me. As a man, it feels somewhat insulting that any opinion we have is automatically labelled as mansplaining. A term which in itself is antagonistic and used to evoke a negative reaction, which again isn’t helpful in trying to establish good communication. I can already predict the response to this paragraph. And as I am writing it I realise my feelings of being dismissed and not being allowed to have an opinion on a matter that is so heavily intertwined with female persecution become completely void and unimportant. And I don’t blame people for reacting that way either. I can’t provide the answers, but I don’t think it is to label any male voice as mansplaining,

In hindsight, although this may have ruffled a few feathers, it has a silver lining. It gave me the final push I needed to start writing about a topic within the industry. It also gave me the opportunity to hopefully reach out and maybe show a person or two that I’m not entirely naive (yes I know female sex workers are heavily persecuted). I have no doubt there are going to be a handful of individuals who sling a little bit of hate. I’m a professional cage fighter, so to those of you who want to engage in that type of behavior, it takes a bit more then mean words to hurt me. There’s going to be a handful who couldn’t give a shit about a single word I have to say. And that’s cool too. Hopefully there is small minority of people who gain something from this, or encourages some form of positive communication in future. Regardless of whether we agree with an opinion or not.

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Halifax councillor under fire for use of ‘outdated and offensive’ term

Halifax councillor Matt Whitman is facing backlash from members of the African Canadian community for a word he used on CTV Atlantic News at 6 Thursday evening.

It was part of a story about an ongoing debate around the word “marijuana,” after Halifax Regional Municipality councillor Shawn Cleary declared he would not use the term because of “racist connotations.”

Whitman had this response:

“I had a problem with (Cleary) saying that marijuana is racist because of Mexicans. The word marijuana might be racist because Caucasians, Negroes, or some other race, but not because of a nationality.”

That sparked an entirely separate language debate.

Jason MacLean, president of the Nova Scotia General Employees Union, says the term “Negro” is outdated and offensive.

“I was shocked. My jaw dropped,” MacLean said. “We've evolved into using other terms. So is it a racist term? No, but it's what was used in the 60s to describe someone that looks like me.”

There's also been reaction online, including from fellow Halifax councillor Lindell Smith who tweeted: "Please don't use the word. It's not appropriate and we are not in 1950."

Smith declined to comment further to media. As did Whitman, who sent CTV Atlantic News the following statement:

"My comment is a word in the English dictionary as a race. It's not racist. Mexican is not a race in the dictionary. It's a nationality. Enough time has been spent on this. Each minute spent being offended & falsely accusing others of racism is giving real racism a free pass in Nova Scotia."

African Nova Scotian Affairs Minister Tony Ince was not available for comment Friday, but in a statement said, "The use of that term is not acceptable. People do not want to hear it. It is hurtful. As a province, we must address the legacy of systemic racism. We can do this by understanding our past, focusing on education, and raising awareness."

Irvine Carvery says he's experienced racism in Nova Scotia regularly. He thinks public officials need to be held to a higher standard.

“I just wonder, like, where has he been?” Carvey asks. “It's even more surprising when you consider that councillor Whitman has such a large African Nova Scotian population within his district.”

Carvery says it's time for all levels of government to start implementing recommendations in the recent U.N. report on anti-black racism in Canada.

With files from CTV Atlantic’s Sarah Ritchie.

Editor’s note: Part of Jason MacLean's criticism was against CTV Atlantic News for airing Matt Whitman's comment at all and without a disclaimer. CTV Atlantic News Director Dan Appleby says it was important for viewers to hear Whitman's full response and judge his language for themselves. He adds that holding public officials accountable to viewers/readers is a responsibility we take seriously.

But he also agrees that a warning should have been given before the original story. We regret that omission.

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My answer to: How do I teach a really stupid student?

How do I teach a really stupid student?

Enna Morgan, International English/ ESL Instructor and Education Counsellor for 8 years.

Answered 4h ago

Thanks for the A2A, Michael

Before answering I would like to, (1) define the terms we are using and also to set the preambles of our assumptions on this topic (2) answer from the perspective of why others would have an allergic response to my response.

First, to define the term, ‘stupid:’

Definition of stupid

According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, the lexeme stupid means,

1a : slow of mind : obtuseb : given to unintelligent decisions or acts : acting in an unintelligent or careless mannerc : lacking intelligence or reason : brutish

2 : dulled in feeling or sensation : torpid still stupid from the sedative

3 : marked by or resulting from unreasoned thinking or acting : senseless a stupid decision

4a : lacking interest or point a stupid eventb : vexatious, exasperating the stupid car won’t start

The Oxford Dictionary defines it as:

stu·pid

ˈst(y)o͞opəd/

adjective

1. having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense.

synonyms:unintelligent, ignorant, dense, foolish, dull-witted, slow, simpleminded, vacuous, vapid, idiotic, imbecilic, imbecile, obtuse, doltish; Moreinformalthick, dim, dimwitted, slow-witted, dumb, dopey, dozy, moronic, cretinous, pea-brained, halfwitted, soft in the head, brain-dead, boneheaded, thickheaded, wooden-headed, muttonheaded, daft “they’re rather stupid”foolish, silly, unintelligent, idiotic, scatterbrained, nonsensical, senseless, harebrained, unthinking, ill-advised, ill-considered, unwise, injudicious; inane, absurd, ludicrous, ridiculous, laughable, risible, fatuous, asinine, mad, insane, lunatic; informal: crazy, dopey, cracked, half-baked, dimwitted, cockeyed, lamebrained, nutty, batty, cuckoo, loony, loopy

Good, now that we have that established, we can move on!

So using that definition, I would like to get a handle on the question and apply it appropriately.

I am going to assume that you are asking this question because like me, and many other teachers, you have encountered students who exhibit the traits mentioned above in the definitions and you are perplexed as to how to ‘get through’ to them.

Just a short two years ago, I would have concurred with the view that there is no ‘stupid’ person, and that all students can be taught. But the truth to this will depend on many factors, several of them being:

the class size

the interest and motivation of the student

the subject being taught

the interest and motivation of the teacher

the general campus milieu

the politics of the school system

This is not an exhausive list, but a fair amount of consideration. The fact is that if you have truly taught for many years, in various countries, with a diverisity of social, economic, and demographic factors attending, then you will understand that there are indeed some students who will fall squarely under that definition of ‘stupid.’

For example, I would go into a classroom twice weekly for 16 weeks, and you use the same word, explain and demonstrate the meaning of the word, and have the students use it (verbally and physically) in a sentence and also practise speaking it and writing it in their note books. The term is also used many times during the semester, and incorporated in games to help concretise its meaning and usage.

Then at the end of the semester, during review, I select particular students and ask them to explain the meaning of the word (while I have it prominently displayed on a PPT), and having spoken about it for the last 20 minutes. When called upon, a select few of them would stand up and look at me as if I had just asked them to reconcile the territorial dispute between Iran and Iraq.

MEANWHILE, THE DEFINITIONS ARE PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED ON A PPT!!

So what term would you like to give to that?

Now we can embellish it, by using certain words, such as ‘special;’ we can circumambulate it; and we can even pointedly avoid it, but continuing to push through in the face of that those types of results would indeed be an exercise in futility, and would serve only to traumatise the student.

Further, it would entail deluding myself that I have some sort of magical powers that would make the student suddenly acquire interest in the subject. And since delusion has never been my forte, nor have I won accolades for it, I will carry on with teaching those students who display interest and aptitude.

I will get to the point then and proceed to answer how one can teach ‘a really stupid student.’

You can’t!

As a teacher, I see my main purpose as being: to lead students to their own thoughts.

I am therefore there to:

facilitate

catalyse

motivate

inspire

instruct (deliberately last in the list)

I am never there to traumatise

And trying to tamp knowledge into a student’s brain against their will, is neither my purpose nor my job. In order for the lesson to be successful therefore, these two parts must work in tandem – the teacher must have the desire, interest, and accompanying knowledge and skills, and the student must have the desire and aptitude to learn.

Without those two essentials, there is nothing happening, except a general conversion of oxygen to carbon dioxide…..and that is not my job either.

So if you have students with desire, but no aptitude, you will have an arduous road ahead, but nonetheless, it can be a rewarding one, albeit challenging. But if you have students with no desire and no aptitude……I feel for you!

On the other hand, if you have a student with aptitude (almost all students, with a few rare exceptions) and latent or no desire, then your task becomes one of figuring out where their interest lies, and capture them through those access points.

For example, many of my male students have a keen interest in sports, and little interest in learning English. I therefore integrate sports news, games, and exercises into the lesson. Do I engage them? You betcha!

Some of the girls have their interest in little else than eating, sleeping, and boys, so what do I do? I pair them up with boys during the lesson, I use the boys to demonstrate certain aspects of the lessson, and I also engage them all in some ‘domestic’ and ‘reality’ topics.

Do they speak? Volumes!

I currently teach oral English, my job is to get the students to speak, my emphasis then is more on the act of speaking than on the topic of conversation. So I do not really care what they speak about, as long as they speak to the top of their intelligence, and with the vocabulary I provide.

Using this method, and with a daily diet of new vocabulary, the result after 15 weeks of laboratory (I see my classroom as a language lab, and not a lecture-style class), is startling….and commendable!

Commenting on answers from other respondents, and addressing the issue of why readers may have an allergic reaction to my post.

I typically do not read answers before writing my own response, but I did in this case because I knew that there would be the typical response, ‘there is no stupid student’ combined with the effort to shift the blame onto the teacher, and make them feel guilty for even thinking of the word ‘stupid’.

If we are being ascetically honest with ourself and we acknowledge every thought we have, we will find that at some point(s) in our teaching career, we will encounter a student (or students), who will cause us to entertain thoughts and terms such as ‘stupid.’ Now, the key here is that as a teacher we would not act upon those thoughts, we may even decide to not give them voice, validity, or latitude. But, there is no denying that they do come to mind.

To become better teachers and humans, we must first acknowledge those thoughts and then seek to find ways to either work through them, thus finding ways to access the student (which we are being paid to do), or understand the limit of our engagement and influence. But pursuing the line of thought that informs us that ‘there is no stupid student,’ I feel could be a set-up for disaster at both ends, the teacher as well as the student.

On the flip side of this desire to disown this ‘ugly’ labelling, there lies a peculiar phenomenon that I have witnessed more often than I would care to admit.

As parents, it is interesting that if our child does something simple as crash the car (yes, crashing the car is simple, it is simply a material issue), or clumsily drop the pie, we quickly call them dumb, stupid, and a colourful string of assorted, ‘endearing’ terms!

Yet these same parents, as teachers in a classroom, will cherry-pick their words to avoid blurting out these terms, and will become febrile at the mere mention of these terms within the classroom.

Hmmm! Why exactly is that!?

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Is it because we are being paid, or is it because we are suddenly under a behavioral (moral) microscope?

So, does our behaviour and chosen language adapt to our environment? It certainly does!

Sigmund Freud purported that we have a tripartite ‘self,’ or psyche; The id, the ego, and the superego. The id, being who we really are, intrinsically; the ego, being the rational person we have become in mediating ourself against the ethics and morals of society; and the superego, being the ideal self – that which we aspire to being, and which we would like society to regard us.

Accordingly then, the responses to this question posited, will vary significantly, as they will come from these three different approaches.

I am curious to further explore this phenomenon though, when did the perception of the same child/ student shift, causing us to view the person as a student and no longer as a (our) child?

And did the student automatically become ‘intelligent’ or less stupid when they walked into a collegiate environment? Or did the teacher/ parent become more cognisant, conscientious, rational, and less critical when he/ she walked into an academic milieu?

Or is the difference in our behaviour stemming from the fact that we are being paid in one environment, and not in the other?

In other words, is the word ‘stupid’ context-bound? And……

Is morality retailed?

……Things that make you go, “Hmmm!”

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