conuly

I think she's missed hanging out with me as much as I've missed hanging out with her. The dogs are nice, but they're not cats, and they're not Callie-cat.

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From:

robby

I have a Cali-cat, as well. She wants to be petted regularly, but my two lap cats are an orange cat and a tuxedo cat.

From:

conuly

Callie is my lap cat, but she's only cordial with most other people.

And not at all with dogs, so it's taken her the better part of a year to venture into my room since we first got doggies.

From:

robby

I keep the dogs and cats separated, but Halo, my Australian shepherd, especially seems to like the cats. Dinah, I'm not certain about, but at every opportunity I tell her those are MY cats.

From:

dragonyphoenix

I miss snuggling with cats. My roommie has a dog and she's lovely but it's not the same.

From:

isis

I was going to be proud about what Colorado has done for disabled voters, then I clicked on the article, and when I saw Colorado in the tags I started to feel snitty, but then I actually read it, and hah, they mention how accommodating my state is, so yay!

I used to be an election judge back when we had to vote at polling places (our elections are now mostly by mail, though for the big ones there is a long in-person availability plus no-reason-required mail ballot availability) and even then, a few years back, we were required to have ADA accessible polling places and allow people with disabilities to have a companion help them, or be available to help them ourselves. We also have electronic voting machines that will read out the options for blind voters through a headset. We have at least one quadriplegic voter who uses a motorized chair and has limited hand mobility, and two blind voters, in my precinct, and so I felt very pleased and proud that they are able to exercise their voting rights here.

(I wish my cat would snuggle with me! She prefers my husband.)

From:

siderea

Belief in brain myths and child development myths continues even among those who’ve studied psychology

*rolls eyes*

From:

siderea

What If Online Movie Ratings Weren’t Based Almost Entirely On What Men Think?

There is something extremely wrong with their math. How can it possibly be that an actual score could be well below or above both the men's and women's scores???

E.g.:

2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Actual:8 W:2 M:4 Gender weighted:4

1957 12 Angry Men Actual:5 W:27 M:7 Gender weighted:8

?!?!?

ETA: Oh, I think I figured it out. It's not an average across the row, it's ordinal within the column, so these weird results are a function of how severely other movies skewed.

Huh. It seems to imply that, for example, men put "12 Angry Men" at 7th, but two of their higher-ranked choices were so objectionable to women reviewers, that they got knocked out when gender weighted, even though women didn't think anywhere near as highly of 12AM as men did.

ETA2: Ahah! Women's votes knocked "The Godfather: Part 2" (men's #5) and "Inception" (men's #6) below #7.

But strangely, women's rating "The Godfather" #10 had absolutely no effect on it's rating: #2 for men, #2 gender weighted, and #2 actual.

ETA3: It's actually kind of facinating that everyone agrees that "Shawshank Redemption" is the greatest movie ever. Not even a little bit of controversy.

ETA4: Also, can I just say...

2003 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 Actual:174 W:89 M:114 Gender weighted: 111
2004 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 Actual:> 250 W:116 M: 157 Gender weighted: 141

"Kill Bill" is too a chick flick.

Edited Date: 2018-03-10 08:32 pm (UTC)

From:

conuly

At the article or the myths? Because I gotta say, if anybody is still believing that ten percent of the brain thing after being educated, they really ought to have eyes rolled at them.

From:

siderea

The article. I'll give it this, though. It was so fucking irritating that my muse finally coughed up a proposed name for that particular sort of bullshit. I think I'll start calling that "contempt psychology". Or maybe "contempt pseudopsychology" where warranted.

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siderea

How Native American Slaveholders Complicate the Trail of Tears Narrative

Thank you so much for posting this. It's so so important, and for an unobvious reason. Have you read Lowen's Lies My Teachers Told Me? He discusses how one of the dimensions of on-going (he wrote in the 80s IIRC and this hasn't changed) of racism against Native Americans is the characterization – stereotyping is not a strong enough word – of them as "primitive" and "savages" who "refused civilization", i.e. Western/European lifestyles, and that is massively false: the historical record is edited to removed evidence of the massive instances of wholesale assimilation of native peoples into the Euro-American lifestyle: adopting not just English and Christianity and the white style of dress, but taking up homestead farming and the whole ball of wax. When we hear about the forcible relocation of Native Americans, we imagine deerskin clad forest-dwellers who live in tipis and hunt with bow and arrow, when it might (depending on the instance) be more accurate to imagine darker-skinned church-going pioneer families driven from their farms.

So when something like this comes along and – to the shock of moderns – shows a wealthy Native American landholder, and, yes, slaveowner, who was driven from his property, it pointedly demonstrates a long-concealed ugly truth about American racism and history: Native Americans were not unwilling to assimilate, it was white Americans who would not let them, and who punished them ruthlessly when they did.