Seven Deadly Sins Meme, Day 3: Wrath

[browngirl]

1. Wilful ignorance. There is so much in the world that's worth knowing, and knowledge is so useful; I find the rejection of knowledge and the denigration of learning to be baffling and infuriating.
2. Hatred of science. Collectively working on comprehending the rules by which the universe around us works is, I think, one of humanity's finest achievements, and it breaks my heart when people want to discard all of that. The idea that science strips the wonder from the world is a bald faced lie and a piece of stupidity, even when said by Keats. Ignorance is not at all the same as mystery, and there is wonder and even exaltation in understanding and discovery.
3. The idea that some people are intrinsically superior. We are all Homo sapiens sapiens, no one is 'more evolved'. There are people who are better at different things, but there aren't lesser people and higher people, and one race or ethnic lineage definitely isn't superior to another.
4. Denial of privilege. There are often times when one person is given an advantage of social esteem over others due to demographics rather than what they have earned. This happens, and denying it is denying a fact. I could go on, but this is a list, not an essay.
5. Bigotry. This is, by the way, different than denial of privilege, even though many arguments about privilege involve some version of "You're calling me an -ist!"
6. Casual women’s pants and skirts that lack pockets. There are a great many women’s clothing items that come without pockets whose equivalent male clothing items never would be designed without pockets. I decided after the sociopolitical peeves to list a more personal one, but come to think, this is sociopolitical too!
7. Sitcoms. I have seen sitcoms I found amusing, but in general, the jokes leave me cold, the characters fill me with loathing, and I'd rather watch a test pattern than most sitcoms.

RAR.

*giggle*

This one made me laugh because of how hard it was for me to restrict myself to seven. Apparently, a lot of things piss me off, from bad advice to victim-blaming to stuff that gets caught in my hair.

Comments

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on the first six, but there are several sitcoms that I actually like. Big Bang Theory comes immediately to mind...

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

yeah, i'm a fan of sitcoms too :) the other six were spot on, though.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*blushes* Alas, The Big Bang Theory was my latest try at finding a sitcom I could like. I kind of wanted to slap wossface, Sheldon is it? Every time he spoke.

[gingicat]

Hey, if you want to add more, you could combine 3,4, & 5 ;)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I was going to, but I really wanted to draw a distinction between Denial of Privilege and Bigotry, and then I realized The Idea of Superiority was different too, since I mean that in all its iterations -- I hate the claim that polyamory is more evolved or everyone should be bisexual, to use as examples two facets of my personality that I cherish. I don't think someone who claims poly is more evolved can be said to be being a bigot against people who aren't poly, but I do think their claim is both wrong and unhelpful.

*stops self before I babble further*

[karadin.livejournal.com]

Yes to all, and laugh tracks do not make anything funnier, ever.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Often the opposite.

Hooray for wrath!

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

The steam from healthy, safe expressions of wrath is part of what keeps the world a warm, happy place!

I am SO in agreement with you about the pockets, by the way. I am also irked that pants and jackets that DO have them sometimes arrive with them sewed shut. I once had someone tell me that this was to "preserve the line" of the garment and that one shouldn't pick out the threads and start actually using the disabled pockets. I boggled in her general direction, and went ahead and made my pockets useful. I've even bought clothing in resale shops that still had sewn-shut pockets and once, horrors of horrors, the pockets were even CUT OFF! Either the owner couldn't figure out how to remove the thread, or really wanted to have sleek-fitting pants, and figured that pockets would ruin the look. Grrrr....

Re: Hooray for wrath!

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

The pockets entry seems to have been a touchstone. *grin*

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

The pockets things reminds me of a bit from Bujold's Komarr. There's a character who has tailor made suits. Where tailor made includes being very comfortable, with very large pockets. :)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, the Professor Auditor, right?

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Vorthys, I think his name is.

[intrastellar.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, hooray for you! This is a list that most people could stand to live by.

Especially those damn sitcoms.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*blush* Thanks.

A lot of people like sitcoms, and I don't begrudge them that as long as they don't try to waste my time with them.

[catalana.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I hear you on the whole pockets thing. I remember interviewing and having to run around the convention hotel in a suit. And I had to wear a purse at all times just to have somewhere to put the stupid room key. I mean, come on guys, how hard would it have been to have an inner pocket on the jacket like you do for guys? Really?

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I am amused and delighted at the touchstone the pockets entry has become. :D

[flwrpwr-vampyre.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, with you 100% of the way on the pockets thing. And I hate when the pockets are so small as to actually be useless! I need pockets too!

(With you on all the other things too but I was just thinking the other day about how much girls clothing sucks just because of the lack of good pocket room.)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I love the responses I'm getting about the pockets.

[bearfairie.livejournal.com]

YES TO ALL OF THESE, especially the denial of privilege. This is a huge huge hot button for me, and one that I get into many arguments about. (really, I'm trying to be less fight-y. I'm just sure I'll have a bigger impact if I speak from the patient compassion heart-centered place, but then fools piss me off, and then it's harder to not start gnashing my teeth). But seriously, I'm with you on all seven of these. Ok maybe not quite as much on the no-pockets - I agree on the socio-political front, but I also have been experimenting with the idea of belts with pockets & pouches hanging off - strap-on pockets FTW!! :)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*fistbump*

I also have been experimenting with the idea of belts with pockets & pouches hanging off - strap-on pockets FTW!! :)


Now I'm picturing you with a utility belt and a thigh-band, like the current Batgirl (http://thefaust.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/steph.jpg). I always knew you were a superheroine!

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

My first take was actually all sociopolitical, and that felt lopsided and like I was trying to grandstand.

I had Team Sports on there at one point but decided that would be trolling (even though I really do resent their overweening place in US culture).

[capra-maritimus.livejournal.com]

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Yes, pockets, dammit! :D:D:D:D

(and WORD on the rest of the list \o/)

Oh, and here's another rage-inducing thing:
http://www.firedupmissouri.com/content/jane-cunningham-says-enough-our-stupid-child-labor-laws-already

And a loltastic rebuttal:
http://angryblackbitch.blogspot.com/2011/02/are-you-there-satan-its-me-jane.html

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

She wants to UNDO CHILD LABOR LAWS. Holy crap. Holeee crap.

*shakes head*

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

What got me started on a pockets-related tear is the realization that a larger percentage of the clothes for my newborn son had pockets than did my maternity clothes. RAR.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

What is he going to put in his pockets? Sheesh.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the frog video?

http://popularyoutubevideos.blogspot.com/2008/12/who-needs-pockets-frogs-in-diaper.html

(Okay, she's definitely not a newborn...)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Youtube took it down! The pikers!

[trinker.livejournal.com]

boo!

Drat. Trying again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3nOC-AQN_U

[trinker.livejournal.com]

I actually loathe pockets. Not dislike, not hate, loathe. They press things against the body that affect how one stands and walks, and produce friction in looser fitting pockets that would be there otherwise.

It's a kinesthetic objection on my part. I get the practicality of it.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Huh. Thank you for telling me this -- I should remember that however good something personally looks to me, it's not necessarily for everyone.

There are likely other people who share your loathing of pockets, to judge by the clothes in thrift stores with the pockets removed.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

I haven't yet done that, and I do use pockets on occasion. I just have a sub-squick irritated awareness when I'm using pockets. (I'm a lot more likely to use a pocket in a non-dressy jacket than anything else. And motherhood has lead to more pocket use, as having yet-another dangling thing is also irksome.)

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

SItcoms that rely on embarrassment humor make me fleeeeeeeeee.

And, generally, hell to the yes on the rest of these.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*nod* I can't abide embarassment humor. One of the most useful terms I ever learned in my LIFE was 'embarassment squick'. I have a really strong one.

[callibr8]

I don't even bother to watch #7, but you're right on with numbers 1-6. Skirts aren't too hard to add on-seam pockets to (email me if you want a short tutorial, or you may find an even better one on the web). Except for a couple of pairs of very dressy pants, I simply won't buy pants without pockets. And you bet it's sociopolitical! Consider the limitations imposed by such lacks... they smack of outmoded patriarchal cr@p that was lame in the 17th century, let alone four centuries later.

Ahem! I'll, um, get off my soapbox now. :-)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for offering to teach me! I've learned how to fairly reliably find clothes with pockets, but I may take you up on that sometime.

trinker pointed out a reason not to include pockets, but then a 50/50 ratio of pockets to no pockets might be nice, so everyone can get what they want. I think it's more like 20/80 of with to without in women's clothes, yet flipped in men's, which is indeed extremely pathetic.

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

The lack of pockets regularly enrages me. Even when looking at outdoorsy clothes, the men's model will often have extra pockets that they leave off of the women's version. Makes me so mad. Sometimes, that jacket is considered Gear, not merely aesthetic decoration! Give me the chest pocket! I see that I'm not the only one frustrated about pocketless clothes. There are so many bad sitcoms out there but some of them make me laugh so I'll watch those. Sadly, I still struggle with being guilty of #4. Took me a long time to accept that I was indeed guilty of it.