Posts by Danielle
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Vintage pink rabbit ears I keep on my desk at home, obsoletely. Seemed an appropriate thread contribution. :)
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Hard News: Rape and unreason, in reply to BenWilson,
whether there is a huge sector of the population who really do believe women deserve to get raped if they make certain mistakes
I don't think there's a "whether" involved.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Story, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Lorde really did mean to imbue her lyrics with all these crazy ideas
Well, to be fair, that's not exactly how cultural theory works. In that the text can unconsciously reflect societal attitudes without necessarily deliberately setting out to do so.
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Someone with some knowledge of New Zealand tried to salvage her argument in the comments by theorising that our racism expresses itself as a more generalised rejection of American cultural expressions, so Maori and Pasifika hiphop is coded as an imperialist "other" (but it's actually us being totes racist). I have a bit more time for that as an idea, actually, but a) she didn't fucking know any of that when she wrote her post: she didn't even know Lorde was from New Zealand, so it's retroactive CYA from a fellow theorist; b) the context of the song is part of a broader New Zealand context in which we are basically forced to engage with and react to these sorts of American popular cultural texts, because colonialism; and c) conversely, it's infuriating that the author didn't even get that we are an ENTIRELY OTHER COUNTRY and not *everything* is mediated through American structures of racism (our racism, for example, is a different sort of animal in many ways). The insularity of that post was *so annoying*. I almost tore my hair out over it on Twitter. :)
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Story, in reply to Matthew Littlewood,
You know what kills me about "Family Affair"? This lyric:
You can't leave cause your heart is there
But you, you can't stay cause you been somewhere elseThe way that summarises all of a young person's complex feelings about leaving home or leaving a small town... it's so beautiful and simple and right. Amazing.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Story, in reply to Luke Williamson,
Yay, I'm glad you liked it! I have a lot of admiration for how hell-raisingly righteous that track is. His delivery is so good. (I believe he's also the dude who does the "I catch a beat running like Randy Moss" verse in OutKast's "The Whole World", to go back even further.)
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Can I just have a moment to squee out about Killer Mike (one half of Run the Jewels) being at Laneway? I fucking LOVE Killer Mike. This is one of my favourites of his – obviously released in mid-aughts - and he was *pissed off*:
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Hard News: Being Jim, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
(Full Disclosure: I’m the Secretary, and would be happy as a sack of kittens if y’all signed up. End of infomercial.)
I'll be back one day. I miss it a lot.
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I’ll feel less guilty now.
Death to the on-topic police, is what I say.
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I am not particularly fond of woo either - yay doctors, yay medicine, yay science - but it is worth noting that medical practice is not actually "pure science" and doctors' attitudes towards certain things can change radically within the space of a generation, often based on social movements. I only really know about the women's health movement, so these are my examples: in the early-to-mid-twentieth century "twilight sleep" was considered a terrific way to deliver babies, and many western women formula-fed their babies from birth on medical advice. It wasn't solely the *science* that changed how people approached birthing and baby care. I'm therefore a little leery of assuming that science has every single answer to every medical question.
Homeopathy is some fucking bullshit, though. :)
ETA I had two caesareans and was re-admitted to hospital with life-threatening complications after both my children were born, so I am not exactly a hippy ambassador. Still, thought it was worth mentioning.
