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The Kramer Is Now: Life Is A Mutual Aid Association
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The Kramer Is Now. Accidental girl philosopher encounters modern life. Monday, February 15, 2010. Life Is A Mutual Aid Association. For years, I had a really troubled reader-author relationship with P. G. Wodehouse. I knew Wodehouse wrote the kind of books I might like. A lot of people whose taste I admired loved Wodehouse. The humor was said to be clever and pleasant. But I'd sit down with one of those Jeeves books, or with a Blandings Castle book, and I just . I just couldn't get into it. About how lis...
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The Kramer Is Now: Mencken's "Mixed Martial Arts" For And Against Women
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The Kramer Is Now. Accidental girl philosopher encounters modern life. Friday, May 27, 2011. Mencken's "Mixed Martial Arts" For And Against Women. H L Mencken. Funny, angry, and. Good-looking. Why hasn't there been a major motion picture about this guy? I knew going into it that reading H. L. Mencken. S In Defense of Women. Money quote for this part of the book:. The book is also full of rage and hatred. Mencken was driven crazy by the ways in which he thought marriage benefited women way more than m...
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The Kramer Is Now: The Dream Of The Fundamental Law Of Human Behavior: WTF?
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The Kramer Is Now. Accidental girl philosopher encounters modern life. Monday, July 6, 2015. The Dream Of The Fundamental Law Of Human Behavior: WTF? One of the trends in modern thinking that really mystifies and annoys me is the dream of the simple fundamental law of human behavior. What is up with that? 8232;But the dream of the simple fundamental law seems to requires seeing humans not as overgrown mice but more like . I don't know, planets or something. Large, inanimate bodies whose movement ...The p...
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The Kramer Is Now: So You Want To Be A Princess?
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The Kramer Is Now. Accidental girl philosopher encounters modern life. Thursday, July 29, 2010. So You Want To Be A Princess? Princesse de Conti, from Wikimedia Commons, here. It's a joke in our house that I was born with a princess gene. This is an allusion to the princess in "The Princess and the Pea" who couldn't sleep because there was a pea underneath her twenty mattresses. The older I get, though, the more I think you have to be true to yourself. It's like one of the main duties of a princess: to k...
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The Kramer Is Now: Treats
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The Kramer Is Now. Accidental girl philosopher encounters modern life. Saturday, November 7, 2009. You know what's been bugging me a lot lately? The concept of treats. But if you're like me, this "indulging all the time" tends to happen regardless. It's easy for treats to become, well, part of what you expect on any given day. After all, they're things you like and enjoy so . . . you start to expect your treats, and demand them. And from then on it's all downhill. But it turned out to be easier not to dr...
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The Kramer Is Now: Dear Modern Life
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The Kramer Is Now. Accidental girl philosopher encounters modern life. Sunday, September 26, 2010. Dear Modern Life,. You and I have to have a talk. Not just any talk. A relationship talk. Obviously, I'm in this for the long haul: really, where else could I go? So I'm taking the long view. And I know you and I have had our ups and downs over the years - both very intense. We had some great moments over feminism, gay rights, and the internet. Good times! What about the internet? Be a little quieter? I don...
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The Kramer Is Now: Philosophical Melancholia
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The Kramer Is Now. Accidental girl philosopher encounters modern life. Monday, June 15, 2015. Albrecht Dürer, Melancholia I, via Wikimedia Commons. Though I am, overall, a much happier person than I was when I was young, as an adult I've experienced a a lot of what I like to think of as melancholia. By melancholia I mean some mix of sadness, low life force. Discouragement, and a feeling of "Oh, whatever, what's the point.". At the top of this post. Then, too, there's a sense in which philosophical reflec...
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The Kramer Is Now: The Hegemony Of Improvement Culture, Or, Why Can't I Just Enjoy BodyAttack?
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The Kramer Is Now. Accidental girl philosopher encounters modern life. Monday, June 29, 2015. The Hegemony Of Improvement Culture, Or, Why Can't I Just Enjoy BodyAttack? BodyAttack: doesn't it look like fun? There are silly moves, like where you're doing jumping jacks and every fourth one you jump as high as you can. There's the anthemic track 8, which is basically a high-intensity chorus line to an emotional pop song. There's an outstanding mix of songs like the hip-hop track " Dibby Dibby Sound. Now Yo...
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The Kramer Is Now: Sex and Sexism
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The Kramer Is Now. Accidental girl philosopher encounters modern life. Monday, December 13, 2010. From an article about women in video games. I used to be a little puzzled by the connection between sex and sexism. Discussions of sexism often bring together several different things, things like discrimination against women, treating women in a way that is degrading or demeaning, and treating women as objects of sexual desire. But being treated as the object of sexual desire? What's so bad about that?
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The Kramer Is Now: _1984_ And Life After The Humanities (Was_1984_ in 2011, Redux)
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The Kramer Is Now. Accidental girl philosopher encounters modern life. Sunday, October 9, 2011. 1984 And Life After The Humanities (Was 1984 in 2011, Redux). A couple of weeks ago I started rereading 1984. Last week I finished. Probably you remember that in 1984. The Party controls everything, and they make sure people believe what they're supposed to believe. But do you remember how sophisticated they are about it? They don't just fuck with your head; they fuck with the actual evidence. Winston is perpl...
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