asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com
a sledge and crowbar | deconstructing identity and culture | Page 2
https://asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com/page/2
A sledge and crowbar. Deconstructing identity and culture. That Day in Detroit. January 28, 2016. January 30, 2016. A sledge and crowbar. The mind creates reality by putting pieces together into a puzzle, synthesizing, and evaluating sometimes from the slightest bits of evidence, the degree of an object’s attractiveness, the colour of the clothing, the quality of the atmosphere, one’s own background. I imagine people at home watching, jumping up at about that point, raising their arms, saying things to t...
asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com
Dick-tatorial Divisions | a sledge and crowbar
https://asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com/2015/06/13/dick-tatorial-divisions
A sledge and crowbar. Deconstructing identity and culture. June 13, 2015. June 13, 2015. A sledge and crowbar. The means don’t justify the end, they predict the end. This week was the 70th anniversary of D-Day. I went to a concert, a Requiem for Peace that included The Stupidity of War by Victor Hugo. The poem ends with the question, How to bring down an emperor without creating another? It is a problem, but I doubt that it’s confined to Western feminists. Have you heard of chick flicks? Any book about a...
asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com
POTUS: A Linguistic Analysis | a sledge and crowbar
https://asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/potus-a-linguistic-analysis
A sledge and crowbar. Deconstructing identity and culture. POTUS: A Linguistic Analysis. July 7, 2015. November 17, 2015. A sledge and crowbar. Although it’s an acronym for President of the United States , POTUS is not the most obvious acronym and it’s clear a team of presidential scriptwriters and public relations experts spent a lot of time creating it. By that logic, the most obvious acronym for the President of the US would be PUS . American power brokers would love that, wouldn’t they? POTUS is an a...
asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com
January | 2015 | a sledge and crowbar
https://asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com/2015/01
A sledge and crowbar. Deconstructing identity and culture. Random Readings Pt 4. January 20, 2015. A sledge and crowbar. Random Readings pt. 3. January 15, 2015. A sledge and crowbar. The King Must Die. When I left Paris, I also left behind Gone with the Wind. By Mary Renault because it was set in ancient Greece and I was heading back in time as well as south. Avignon, where six or seven popes lived during the break with Rome, was a step towards Rome. Random Readings pt 2. January 6, 2015. Being reincarn...
asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com
August | 2015 | a sledge and crowbar
https://asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com/2015/08
A sledge and crowbar. Deconstructing identity and culture. Ethics, the Feminine and the Thriller part II. August 24, 2015. August 24, 2015. A sledge and crowbar. The Sum of All Fears. It is with these thoughts in mind that I consider. The Sum of All Fears. It’s over, the only reason I haven’t walked out is the kids. So go ahead, make your pitch. Tell me that he still loves me and all that. He doesn’t have the guts to talk about it to me himself, but I’m sure he had something to do with this,’...The other...
asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com
May | 2015 | a sledge and crowbar
https://asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com/2015/05
A sledge and crowbar. Deconstructing identity and culture. May 27, 2015. November 16, 2015. A sledge and crowbar. I like to imagine Rene Descartes sometimes, sitting as a shadow among shadows in his little Rembrandt painting, an exile from the kingdom of France. Perhaps smoking a pipe, he glances up at his mistress/wife and says, Madame, you know it has occurred to me that I think, and therefore I am. Men can be so dense, her neighbor replies. 8220;I think and therefore I am”. It was then that he had his...
asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com
A Man’s Home is His Castle | a sledge and crowbar
https://asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/a-mans-home-is-his-castle
A sledge and crowbar. Deconstructing identity and culture. A Man’s Home is His Castle. June 30, 2015. November 17, 2015. A sledge and crowbar. Political history is a long history of destruction. It’s hard to study it and not come away ashamed to be human. Almost all the history we know is the history of POP Cults patriarchies run by people-of-power for their own benefit with incomprehensible suffering among the lowest on the ladder. What would or could replace POP Cult? Perhaps because they knew they wou...
asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com
Lesbians Unwelcome at Pride? | a sledge and crowbar
https://asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/lesbians-unwelcome-at-pride
A sledge and crowbar. Deconstructing identity and culture. Lesbians Unwelcome at Pride? August 4, 2015. August 4, 2015. A sledge and crowbar. There is much misognyny in the current backlash against women, and some of that is being spearheaded by trans*women. This week there was an article in Everyday Feminism by a trans*woman on language that women need to avoid in order to become allies of trans*women. Rather than link to the article, I will quote at length from it. I was preparing to give a keynote, an...
asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com
July | 2015 | a sledge and crowbar
https://asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com/2015/07
A sledge and crowbar. Deconstructing identity and culture. July 20, 2015. November 17, 2015. A sledge and crowbar. When I am differentiating between male and female cats, I am applying all kinds of associations to their ‘maleness’ and their ‘femaleness’ these are the associations I’ve learned through my own conditioning. It’s because of the associtions that I modulate my voice and choose different words. I doubt that I’ve taught my cat her gender. Animals learn much more by instinct than humans do, a...
asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com
March | 2015 | a sledge and crowbar
https://asledgeandcrowbar.wordpress.com/2015/03
A sledge and crowbar. Deconstructing identity and culture. A Man and His Hero. March 28, 2015. November 17, 2015. A sledge and crowbar. In the March issue of The Atlantic,. It seems more than coincidental that at the same time this article appeared in The Atlantic, a short story on the subject of heroism appeared in Harper’s Magazine (March 2015). In No Slant to the Sun , T.C. Boyle tells the story of a recently retired man, Sten, who thinks of himself not as retired but as. He asks. Indeed, the vari...
