Did the Native Americans have a building permit for their teepee? Conservation Commission approval that close to wetlands? Send in the clowns (Menino and staff).

Permits

By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 7:31am.

I think we should have to get them from the Native Americans, if treaty rights had the force of law.

I just won a dollar

By anon on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 8:48am.

I bet someone that there was no comment, no matter how benign, that Swirrly couldn't turn into a teachable moment and demonstrate her superiority.

Just kidding-- who'd bet against that?

Sorry if I made you think

By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 10:47am.

Too bad that "stating the fucking obvious reality" = "demonstrating superiority". If you feel maligned by that, your cowardly anonymous life must be truly limited and pathetic.

May the rest of your day be untroubled by awareness of your privileges.

Missing the point once again

By anon on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 10:48am.

which was, "Nobody asked you to edify us, or to point out the obvious."

By the way, why do you get such satisfaction out of pointing out the obvious? Do you walk through your day thinking that you're smarter than everyone, and we need your help? Do you really feel that superior?

You are nobody

By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 8:53pm.

You don't even have a name.

So I guess "nobody" is upset because he didn't ask for "somebody" to say anything that meant that he had to think. Pity.

WTF?

By eeka on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 9:18pm.

I don't see any of those qualities in that comment.

Seems like sexism to me; someone using a female-marked username makes some authoritativish quick-witted comments, and people flip out that the person is being superior, being a bitch, whatever. But if someone who's assumed to be a dude says such things, we just think they know what they're talking about. Lotta guys on here are way more self-assured than Swirly, and no one piles on them about it.

Seriously?

By RhoninFire on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 9:31pm.

I'm with you that Swirrly was just making a joke playing with Fish's joke. This is not one of the comments that fit with past criticisms.

Now for accusing that anon of being sexist, that I have a problem (thinking about this, if you saying past criticisms of Swirly are sexist, then I really have a problem, as it silences the ability to say anything with automatic criticism, but now I'm stretching this needlessly as you only said what you said). The anon was probably just looking too hard and took it too literally.

You got it right

By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 11:48am.

I was merely turning Mr. "Good European" Immigrants' comment on its head.

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And you still completely missed the point

By anon on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 12:10pm.

The person wasn't making a comment in regard to Native American or European anything; it was in reference to government bureaucracy-- a topic which is fairly universal and cross-cultural.

Nice try on the "I was just making a joke." It wasn't funny, it was just obnoxious, and I stand by my statement that you seize any opportunity to get up on your soapbox.

What makes you assume this person is a "good European immigrant", anyway? And why would that matter? And why would their background make that person's perspective inferior to yours?

You're funny

By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 2:30pm.

And you clearly haven't been around here much.

Gender oppression exists, but not everywhere you think

By differentanon on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 1:05am.

Even if UH didn't put names on the posts, I could almost always correctly guess the author of the comments by Swirly, eeka, Kaz, Ron, Will, and maybe a couple others... A lot of people here come across as distinct personalities, and the perception doesn't necessarily have anything to do with perceived gender. If Swirly and Ron exchanged usernames, you could be sure that some people would switch to being rubbed the wrong way by abrasive `Ron', whereas `SwirlyGrrl' would come across as involved yet mild-mannered.

And I could've guessed with confidence that the above comment was by eeka.

Yes and no

By eeka on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 1:35pm.

With familiar people, you'd likely be able to tell who was writing what if we all dropped our names, yes.

But the experiment has been done many times where people randomly attach gendered names to comments or essays or whatever; people find confidence and authority from women to be bitchy, pretentious, out of line, etc., but from men it's fine and normal and expected. People of all genders make these assumptions to a degree, because we've all been socialized this way.

I don't dispute that people

By anon on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 3:58pm.

I don't dispute that people in our society very often perceive and treat people differently based on their gender. It's often plainly evident (but be careful of some of those experiments, done by people with axes to grind). But if someone has a problem with a particular person's online manner on UH, it's not necessarily due to the person's perceived gender. I'd bet you that SwirlyGrrl could secretly change hir name to BiffTestes, and you'd still have the same people making the same snide remarks about hir manner or what sie has said.

You sound like a real joy

By anon on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 12:06pm.

So anytime somebody criticizes someone who happens to be female, that's automatically sexist? Wow. You're stupid. Not because you're femle though-- you're just stupid.

Let's say you criticize a man for something-- let's just hypothetically say that you might do that at some point. Does that make you sexist, or do you get some kind of special Swirrly pass?

A good, though factually suspect joke

By HenryAlan on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 4:49pm.

Still, as an anon pointed out, the comment about building permits was a jibe at the city, not something calling for a PC commentary.

WOW, square format,

By anon on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 12:55am.

WOW, square format, overwarmed, and tilt-shift?? where do I click to hear the auto-tune voice over?

hahah right? That'll be the

By anon on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 9:20am.

hahah right? That'll be the next IPhone App.

In all seriousness, I think this image was probably taken on an Iphone- they have a setting made to imitate Holga photos

Yeah, the app is called

By NU Student on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 6:07pm.

Yeah, the app is called instagram... you just take the photo all regular like, and then you have approximately 15 "filter" options you can apply to the photo, as well as a tilt shift feature that allows you to determine the width of the focus, and the tilt direction/angle.

We see JP teepee

Comments

With an 80 year-old camera,

It's Hipster-vision

Did the Native Americans have a building permit?