Right, then.
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silveradeptTried again to do work. Was greeted with locked doors. Am now beginning panic phase, which included e-mailing other persons to see if they could get in. Nobody else seemed to have had a positive response. May have to ask for switching just to make sure a project can get done. Not full-fledged panic yet. Getting there. Getting there.
Other stuff, as well. I'm the kind of person who's slightly panicked any time that I have an assignment due. It can be a month off and I'll still worry about it. Mostly because I'm afraid that it will sneak up on me when I'm not ready for it.
There's art in mathematics, in Binary Pi. The Art of War, some say, is a myth, a creation of the same media blitz that many decry as an immoral product bent on corrupting the children. The argument cuts both ways, though - do you consider that being told that military life is good and that war is acceptable could be a corruption as well? Images like what we saw about abuse, and the bodies that are laid to rest with flags on them tell you that war is not always glamorous. What then?
I've been in the toys section of one of the local chain stores. I saw in the descriptions of the aisles, two separate entities: "Boys' Action Figures", and underneath it, "Boys' Role-Play". Something there strikes me as odd - Boys' Role Play? Isn't that what the uber-macho action figures are supposed to do? Is it simply a classification of the toy guns and swords so that the boys can be the action figures themselves? What came to mind for me, and I suppose it may be my university atmosphere slowly corrupting me, was that "Boys' Role-play" was where one found both the dresses and the superhero costumes. The dresses are the only thing that I remember thinking of specifically. I've since tried to add other things that could be in that spot along with them. Funny, that I think action figures is where all the hyper-macho stuff goes, and that in role-play a more cosmopolitan attitude takes precedence. It's just another example of the eccentric way my mind works. Mind you, anything that resembles a dress in a boys role-play section would probably have to be either an armor suit or a wizard robe or something safely male so that people didn't get up in arms about it. And that poem I linked before came back to me, as well as discussion I'd read here and there about whether or not the "traditional" colors for boys and girls were already trying to lock them into gender roles. I mad a point on a different list that tradition isn't always the best way to do things... is the existence of "Boys' Role-play" an acknowledgment of that reality, or it is merely a further sectioning of the attitude that boys like guns and swords, and we need to separate the dolls from the costumes?
Would you like to have an argument? Very simple thing to do.
Other stuff, as well. I'm the kind of person who's slightly panicked any time that I have an assignment due. It can be a month off and I'll still worry about it. Mostly because I'm afraid that it will sneak up on me when I'm not ready for it.
There's art in mathematics, in Binary Pi. The Art of War, some say, is a myth, a creation of the same media blitz that many decry as an immoral product bent on corrupting the children. The argument cuts both ways, though - do you consider that being told that military life is good and that war is acceptable could be a corruption as well? Images like what we saw about abuse, and the bodies that are laid to rest with flags on them tell you that war is not always glamorous. What then?
I've been in the toys section of one of the local chain stores. I saw in the descriptions of the aisles, two separate entities: "Boys' Action Figures", and underneath it, "Boys' Role-Play". Something there strikes me as odd - Boys' Role Play? Isn't that what the uber-macho action figures are supposed to do? Is it simply a classification of the toy guns and swords so that the boys can be the action figures themselves? What came to mind for me, and I suppose it may be my university atmosphere slowly corrupting me, was that "Boys' Role-play" was where one found both the dresses and the superhero costumes. The dresses are the only thing that I remember thinking of specifically. I've since tried to add other things that could be in that spot along with them. Funny, that I think action figures is where all the hyper-macho stuff goes, and that in role-play a more cosmopolitan attitude takes precedence. It's just another example of the eccentric way my mind works. Mind you, anything that resembles a dress in a boys role-play section would probably have to be either an armor suit or a wizard robe or something safely male so that people didn't get up in arms about it. And that poem I linked before came back to me, as well as discussion I'd read here and there about whether or not the "traditional" colors for boys and girls were already trying to lock them into gender roles. I mad a point on a different list that tradition isn't always the best way to do things... is the existence of "Boys' Role-play" an acknowledgment of that reality, or it is merely a further sectioning of the attitude that boys like guns and swords, and we need to separate the dolls from the costumes?
Would you like to have an argument? Very simple thing to do.
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Date: 2005-09-21 09:09 am (UTC)Gotta plan for the future.
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