#worldofhurt

[khurt-24]

#WoH (pronounced WHOA) is here! More #comingsoon! Link is in my bio SN: I got da yams. Get you some 😂 #WorldOfHurt https://www.instagram.com/p/B2f3eMugqn4/?igshid=16y1aaczg5dhs

[artisricconjurations]

World of Hurt painting I sold at the pop up exhibit for charity to help woman just coming out of jail. #artbyreed #artisticconjurations #worldofhurt #art #painting #batteredwomen #womaninjailart #womaninjail #artforcharity #artforchange #undogmaticreality

[inkwellspoken]

The Separation of #Church and a #WorldOfHurt: #ChurchHurt exerts a force that separates it from the #StateOfTheWorld. #STEELYourMind #InkWellSpoken #SeparationOfChurchAndState

[stephincredible]

When your #edema is so bad you squeeze your foot and leave dents 😂😭😞 #edemaproblems #cellulitis #worldofhurt

[klugscheissen]

Als Nazi-Enkel schweigt der Klugscheisser lieber zu Israel, statt Falsches zu sagen. Und überlässt es Anderen, das Richtige zu sagen.

[alicetesla]

online.wsj.com

What if the crusade against cholesterol had fed the spread of obesity by encouraging a population to retreat from the very foods that would have satiated its hunger more efficiently than the hallowed grains and fruits and vegetables of the great dietary pyramid? What if the low-fat mantra had driven a population into feeling perpetually hungry? What if you were better off eating meat, eggs and dairy than a diet bloated in carbs and vegetable oils?

[alicetesla]

Ta-Nehisi Coates on ‘colorblindness’: ‘Color isn’t the problem. Racism is the problem’

rawstory.com

Bill Moyers: Having read the article, I know that you do not mean reparations as white folks writing checks to black folks. 

Ta-Nehisi Coates: [laughing] Right. 

Moyers: So in an ideal world, what form would reparations take?

Coates: In an ideal world, when we talk about social justice, we would understand it as a part of healing that heritage and dealing with that legacy. So, for instance, take health care right now, like Obamacare right now. When you look at a whole swath of the country again where we had plantation slavery on a very very deep level, and you look at that, and you say, why is there not a Medicaid expansion going on there? We'd be very clear about why there's not one going on there. [...] Right now, following John Robert's line—I think what he said was "to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basic of race." What we want is a kind of of color-blindness, we think that's the answer. But colorblindness isn't the answer—color isn't the problem! Racism in the problem. And being conscious of racism is the solution. [...] I would like to see that in our policy.   

One of the attacks [on the ACA] from the right, from people like Rush Limbaugh, was that 'this is reparations'. Well not quite, but it would be nice if it could be! [Laughs.] It would be nice if that was part of it, you actually did say that. [...] 

In the realm of just straight talking about this, yeah, this will disproportionately benefit African-Americans, and yeah, that's a really, really good thing. You know, it might actually help heal this heritage that we have over here. 

And in an ideal world, you could actually say that. In a world in which people are actively considering reparations, and actively thinking about it, and talking about it in a serious way, you could say that.

[alicetesla]

Misfortune in the modern age: Introduction

Scroll far enough down and you'll find that I linked to a piece about the controversy on the Underwear Man, but I never got around to writing a piece about it. And now here he pops up again, in of all places a NY Times piece about a new-to-me trend on campuses to warn students about potentially discomfort-causing material they might encounter in their coursework.

While all reports indicate that the modern college experience is awash in undeniably traumatic sexual misadventures, slapping warning labels on syllabi seems an inadequate and illogical response. After all, such a policy does nothing to address the actual problem, namely, a campus environment rife with sexual assault. 

Someone looking at this problem through the pre-feminist lens of generations past would find it pretty obvious that the problem is fraternization—leave young men and women to their own devices, and the result is mayhem and misery. Of course, nowadays the notions that women can't be trusted to regulate their sexual lives, or that men can't be expected to accept no for an answer, are all horribly retrograde.

Maybe so, but I don't consider women feeling threatened by the sight of a statue of an old guy in his undies to be a sign of progress on the sexual liberation front. If anything, I'd have thought that these educated, self-possessed young women would be the perfect audience, the one most likely to catch all the ironies and, after perhaps a brief shock, have a hearty laugh. 

This obsession with trauma and a demand for what we might call trauma concessions seems to be a misplaced backlash against the college environment. We have been victimized, these feminists seem to take pride in proclaiming, and as part of our commitment not to sweep our trauma under the rug, we assert the right not to be blindsided by it in our schoolwork. It's not that these women don't read magazines or ever watch TV—or surf the Internet. I mean, any given episode of Law & Order: SVU is inarguably 100 times more traumatic than The Great Gatsby. But these sources of cultural messages are optional, as opposed to the students' (almost certainly tamer) syllabi. The former are excused under the right to free expression. With the syllabi, though, it is different: these women are paying consumers and thus demand the right to shape the college environment. And since they are apparently unable to effectively demand that this environment be free of sexual assault, they demand—as a sad, poor proxy—that their syllabi warn them of upsetting material. 

This notion of trauma (the "raped all over again" principle), and the imperative—indeed, a feminist right—to be free of it simply makes the status of victim permanent. If the only hope of living a happy life post-sexual assault is in a good-news-only environment, well, for these co-eds there is no hope at all. While it is true that one's statistical belonging to the category of victimhood has no expiration date, it would seem a healthier attitude to claim that, given the right counseling and enough time, a woman would emerge out from under this mantle and simply go on with her life without every single subsequent experience she encounters—whether in film, literature, or in life—reducing her, or rewinding her, back to the sole status of victim.

It is easy to claim that I am not being understanding enough; certainly there are experiences from which it is very hard, if not nearly impossible, to recover. Many women may never feel 'the same' as they did before being raped. But almost as certainly, these feminists who are trying to avoid all reminders of past trauma, be it personal or cultural, are being naive, not only about themselves, but about the world in which we live. People do bad things, even college students, but the true feminist response, in my opinion, would be to claim that one negative experience does not brand someone a victim forever.

Violence is an event, violation is a crime, but there is nothing in our biology or psychology that says we need to bear the marks of it forever. Indeed, that was the old way of looking at a woman; once she was deflowered or degraded, she was permanently damaged. Why on earth would feminists want to claim the forever-branded mantra as their own? 

It's not just feminism that seems suddenly enamored by this right-to-coddling. It's rampant in all sorts of areas of life. Stay tuned as I continue with this theme.