My newest tattoo: it’s behind my left ear. Erin go Bragh!
npr:
Sometime between 1,000 and 2,000 years ago, people living in the Amazon region of what is now Brazil constructed huge land carvings: geo-glyphs in the shape of squares, circles, ovals, rectangles and octagons.
The New York Times reported on these geo-glyphs last week. These ceremonial symbols — if indeed, as some archaeologists suspect, that’s what they are — have been known for some time. As deforestation in the Amazon accelerates, however, more of these earthworks are coming to light. With them comes increased certainty that past Amazonian peoples carried out intensive agriculture and lived in large-scale geo-polities.
These facts have crashed up against my stubbornly implanted, but false, mental images of pre-Columbian Amazonia: huge swaths of emerald and unbroken forest teeming with monkeys, jaguars, birds, and insects — but housing only a few, small, scattered groups of human hunter-gatherers.
—Barbara J King
These are hilarious. Particularly the Christo one.
I post this with no comment.
By age 15 they’ve already lost half! (a joke, albeit a bad one)
No. Ubiquitously and definitively no. Marriage is marriage. No other thing is marriage. That’s how words work.
Plus, and not to harken back to my public high school understanding of human history, but marriage started as an economic practice designed to reinforce social structure and avoid inbreeding when possible, remember? It was completely separate from religion because it was a business transaction pretty hugely steeped in fortifying patriarchy and establishing women as property. It’s been incorporated into most religions over the ages because, duh, religion likes to address things that are important to people, but it has non-denominational roots that span all different creeds and cultures. And, if all of that is meaningless to you, there’s always the fact that Ancient Greece and China had same-sex unions.
I understand you have “student” in your bio and your blog contains such entries as “My dog has a stinky butt,” so I’m going to curb my edginess here, but from one woman to another you should probably take a more active interest in what marriage has meant to women over time, and maybe keep in mind the fact that we’ve had the right to vote for less than 100 years. Our country has a pretty cool history of treating anyone who isn’t a white, Christian male horribly, and it might be helpful to remember that if you were born a couple of decades ago, our law and policy would be taking huge dumps all over your personal rights and liberties too. Just because we’ve been privileged for five minutes doesn’t mean we leave other groups down there in the dust.
More importantly, the fact that you’re not part of the oppressed group du jour doesn’t excuse you from having wildly misinformed and lazy opinions, and if you’re going to express them and don’t want things like facts getting in the way, you might not want to hang out in the reply section of my blog.
Also you meant then, not than.
You are not my cat, Kitty. Why are you in my house?
These are beautiful.
(Source: skogstrollet)
silentpoets:by Oliver Barrett
For Paul.
