Lost my phone.

[conuly]

Found my phone! I think I nearly hugged the guy at the Whitehall Terminal lost and found! Today was an awful day for losing my phone, the girls and I were running all around from math club to chorus and girl scouts and all. Tuesdays. Not a fun day. (Math club, "conveniently located" on the Upper West Side! Every time somebody says that on the homeschool mailing list, I wanna scream. How on earth is the Upper anything convenient? Lower Manhattan is convenient to me. Midtown is more or less convenient to everybody. Once you get into nosebleed territory, I don't even know....)

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What Every Block of New York City Looked Like 400 Years Ago

Puffs, Flakes and Dollars: Why Your Breakfast Cereal Costs So Much

FOUND: The World's Tiniest Snail More! (It fits in the eye of a needle, in the way that camels don't.)

How to Parent Like a German

Biologists crack centuries-old mystery of how cell growth triggers cell division

Why Some Left-Handed People Are Having Big Problems With the iPhone

Sneaker Wars: Inside the Battle Between Nike and Adidas

Sneak a Peek at the Facebook of 400 Years Ago

Inside the Elite Forces that Guard the Pope

The 5 Scariest Cults in Modern History

Save the Parasites (Seriously)

Is Cultural Appropriation Always Wrong?

Blindsight: The strangest form of consciousness

The Orthodox Hit Squad

Earth-like planets around small stars likely have protective magnetic fields, aiding chance for life

The Rise and Fall of the Cash Railway

How One Man Ran the World's Only Menstruation Museum from His Basement (The Museum of Menstruation is probably the first place I ever heard about menstrual cups....)

Mammal–Carnivorous Plant Mutualism

Don't Panic: Why Technophobes Have Been Getting It Wrong Since Gutenberg

What one college discovered when it stopped accepting SAT/ACT scores

Twitter Behavior Can Predict Users’ Income Level, New Penn Research Shows (This is even more interesting than the title suggests)

China's Xi says to commit 8,000 troops for U.N. peacekeeping force

Judge sides with Planned Parenthood in suit against Utah

Comments

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

"‘The moment you say a male American writer can’t write about a female Pakistani, you are saying, Don’t tell those stories. Worse, you’re saying: As an American male you can’t understand a Pakistani woman. She is enigmatic, inscrutable, unknowable. She’s other. Leave her and her nation to its Otherness. Write them out of your history."

Precisely. The whole 'cultural appropriation' thing is all about so-called 'ethnic' cultures drawing an Us/Them line in the sand. Unfortunately, that leaves all their 'non-ethnic' allies on the 'Them' side of the line.

I've been fighting for equal rights for everybody since I was a teen, and I will continue to do so, but because of 'cultural appropriation', I no longer have anything to do with 'ethnic' cultures at all. The First Nations were first with that: they've made it inescapably clear that my European genes make me irrevocably Other, and therefore I am not welcome to come to their festivals, eat their food, buy their stuff, wear their fashions, learn their languages, tell their folk-tales, sing their songs, etcetera etcetera. So fine; I will leave them to their self-chosen, exclusionary Otherness and pay no further attention to them.