Bunch of random articles

[conuly]

Unwanted childbearing is a greater demographic force than the desire for large families, and may have been for centuries.

Well, duh!

The Mystery of Parental Psychiatric Diagnoses
And a related post by ABFH

Another article on urban farming
And another one indeed

One on being a closeted gay, and, incidentally, on homophobia

One introducing the word kyriarchy, which is a bad choice for a word for a bad thing because it just sounds so dang pretty!
And a related post here.

Say, listen. I might start cataloging the nieceling's books one of these days. Would anybody be interested in my posting quick-ass reviews of them here? There's a lot of books to go through, so I won't do it unless at least one person says yes.

And, also, does anybody know where I can get one of those stands that they have in bookstores and libraries that have small shelves on all four sides and spin, so they're a very economical way of storing paperbacks?

Comments

[siderea]

"Kyriarchy" means what "patriarchy" originally meant. "Patr-" doesn't mean man (that would be "vir"), it's Latin for "father"; in Roman society, a paterfamilias was a head of household, which included junior men and slaves. The paterfamilias social organization was the ancestor of Western feudalism and the concept of the "lord" and the great chain of being. The whole point of the concept of patriarchy is that it was precisely "a complex pyramidal system of intersecting multiplicative social structures of superordination and subordination, of ruling and oppression."

Here's hoping rebranding it sells a few more bottles, but I think you're right that putting a pretty name on a ugly thing is not wise.

[conuly]

Here's hoping rebranding it sells a few more bottles, but I think you're right that putting a pretty name on a ugly thing is not wise.

I also vote we rename the diseases bronchitis, leukemia, and emphysema for that reason, you know :)

The whole point of the concept of patriarchy is that it was precisely "a complex pyramidal system of intersecting multiplicative social structures of superordination and subordination, of ruling and oppression."

If only people didn't read the word as being "it's specifically feminist-related".

[siderea]

Wait... bronchitis? Really? I vote for "spirocetes".

If only people didn't read the word as being "it's specifically feminist-related".

I'm grumpily allowing as how we do, in fact, desperately need a new, improved word for this concept.

[conuly]

*shrugs* I know it's a weird choice, but I've always liked the kie in the middle of bronchitis.

[siderea]

"Kyriarchy" means what "patriarchy" originally meant. "Patr-" doesn't mean man (that would be "vir"), it's Latin for "father"; in Roman society, a paterfamilias was a head of household, which included junior men and slaves. The paterfamilias social organization was the ancestor of Western feudalism and the concept of the "lord" and the great chain of being. The whole point of the concept of patriarchy is that it was precisely "a complex pyramidal system of intersecting multiplicative social structures of superordination and subordination, of ruling and oppression."

Here's hoping rebranding it sells a few more bottles, but I think you're right that putting a pretty name on a ugly thing is not wise.

[conuly]

Here's hoping rebranding it sells a few more bottles, but I think you're right that putting a pretty name on a ugly thing is not wise.

I also vote we rename the diseases bronchitis, leukemia, and emphysema for that reason, you know :)

The whole point of the concept of patriarchy is that it was precisely "a complex pyramidal system of intersecting multiplicative social structures of superordination and subordination, of ruling and oppression."

If only people didn't read the word as being "it's specifically feminist-related".

[siderea]

Wait... bronchitis? Really? I vote for "spirocetes".

If only people didn't read the word as being "it's specifically feminist-related".

I'm grumpily allowing as how we do, in fact, desperately need a new, improved word for this concept.

[conuly]

*shrugs* I know it's a weird choice, but I've always liked the kie in the middle of bronchitis.