Unpopular thoughts
Oct. 23rd, 2009 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltd1) I don't believe in hard work. If you have to work hard, you're a) doing it wrong b) probably shouldn't be attempting the task. I don't believe it leads to success. Interpersonal relations lead to success. Luck leads to breaks that lead to success. I see too many people working hard and not making it while too many goof-offs climb.
2) I only have so much privilege-checking interest. If I want to wear a batik broomstick skirt or a man's suit, eat Taco Bell, write sexy men kissing each other or kissing sexy women or sexy aliens or any combination of the above, use family slang that includes words from at least five languages and participate in a pseudo-Celtic moon ritual, then that's what I'm doing. Get over yourself.
I'm reasonable. I don't worship pantheons that aren't mine. I don't borrow cultural clothing (until it arrives in Wal-Mart's mainstream). But you can't tell me having dinner at Fu Gai is a problem for anything but my daily points. Do not even try to give me "by having Chinese food, you are not only participating in cultural tourism and colonialism, you are propping up a repressive and sexist government." I just wanted an egg roll and to contribute to a local small business owner instead of a national franchise. Hold the oppression.
3) I only have so much outrage. Do not ask me to expend it on things that are commmonplace. Very little humans do to each other surprises or horrifies me anymore. I prefer to channel the outrage into activity where it will do something useful.
4) My blog, my space, my rules. No gendered insults. No attacking another commenter on a personal level. Ideas are fair game. "That's a dumb idea" is not the same as "you're dumb." This is not, however, a Safe Space. I will talk about almost anything and there will be NO warnings.
5) I don't believe in challenges. That which doesn't kill you weakens you so the next thing can. Challenge is a soft word for "failure."
2) I only have so much privilege-checking interest. If I want to wear a batik broomstick skirt or a man's suit, eat Taco Bell, write sexy men kissing each other or kissing sexy women or sexy aliens or any combination of the above, use family slang that includes words from at least five languages and participate in a pseudo-Celtic moon ritual, then that's what I'm doing. Get over yourself.
I'm reasonable. I don't worship pantheons that aren't mine. I don't borrow cultural clothing (until it arrives in Wal-Mart's mainstream). But you can't tell me having dinner at Fu Gai is a problem for anything but my daily points. Do not even try to give me "by having Chinese food, you are not only participating in cultural tourism and colonialism, you are propping up a repressive and sexist government." I just wanted an egg roll and to contribute to a local small business owner instead of a national franchise. Hold the oppression.
3) I only have so much outrage. Do not ask me to expend it on things that are commmonplace. Very little humans do to each other surprises or horrifies me anymore. I prefer to channel the outrage into activity where it will do something useful.
4) My blog, my space, my rules. No gendered insults. No attacking another commenter on a personal level. Ideas are fair game. "That's a dumb idea" is not the same as "you're dumb." This is not, however, a Safe Space. I will talk about almost anything and there will be NO warnings.
5) I don't believe in challenges. That which doesn't kill you weakens you so the next thing can. Challenge is a soft word for "failure."
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Date: 2009-10-24 12:23 am (UTC)But, that's me and not you. :)
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Date: 2009-10-24 12:48 am (UTC)I understand the flail. Having a bit of it myself. I started a straight-up horror story. I've started it three times. It's due next Sunday, eight days. Since none of those tales is coming, I know they aren't the story I need to tell right now. I've done the "on a deadline, gotta pull the teeth" writing. It never ends well.