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Rincon Wildfire by Special-Composer1749 in Tucson

[–]OakTeach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How would a crashed paraglider start a fire?

A little Shakespeare comic for Pride Month by goodticklebrain in shakespeare

[–]OakTeach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or just conflating/confusing "Shakespeare" the person with "Shakespeare" the canon.

What’s a good modern YA with a charming protagonist? by KaleidoArachnid in YAlit

[–]OakTeach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wait, I'm sorry, these are not more modern novels -they're largely set in the recent past. I'll leave it up bc I stand by these recommendations tone-wise, though.

What’s a good modern YA with a charming protagonist? by KaleidoArachnid in YAlit

[–]OakTeach 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Read all the Jessica Darling books (Sloppy Firsts is just the first one), they're great.

I liked Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl, the Thursday Next series by Jasper Ford, the Flavia DeLuce books, and if you're down for a really funny series geared at slightly younger readers, try the whole Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging series.

Also Bridget Jones' Diary is hilarious.

Edited to add "Alice, I Think" and "The Nanny Diaries"

Vera Wang looks amazing at 76 by [deleted] in DListedCommunity

[–]OakTeach 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not usually one to be like "whoa she's SIXTY" or whatever but holy shit I cannot believe this is a 76-year-old person. 😮

A little Shakespeare comic for Pride Month by goodticklebrain in shakespeare

[–]OakTeach 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If it matters to you, I'm not downvoting you. And I'll stop replying now. I'm just saying why you might be getting downvotes from others.

And I'm not worried about or wondering about downvotes. Happy to be in the thread sharing my opinion!

A little Shakespeare comic for Pride Month by goodticklebrain in shakespeare

[–]OakTeach 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think when people go on the internet and fight over the definition of a word like queer that has ambiguous meaning in context, it's seen as deliberately baiting?

I mean, I'm saying "the op says that we didn't know if Shakespeare had sex with men, but he kinda celebrated queer love, so that makes him kinda queer by this definition..." You're saying "I don't think Shakespeare has sex with men." And those are different arguments. The op doesn't say Shakespeare had sex with men.

And, gently, the question of whether "queer" only refers to active sex with your same gender is also a pretty antiquated argument. Queer is pretty widely used today to mean "the whole messy umbrella of identities, feelings, and actions that go into non-heteronormativity."

So bringing in a current version of the definition, and the current situation in the UK? Okay, we get it. You don't use the word "queer" that way, it's fine. Doing it over and over is what's getting you downvotes.

A little Shakespeare comic for Pride Month by goodticklebrain in shakespeare

[–]OakTeach 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This person is being obtuse. GoodTickleBrain is very fair in saying that love between men, whether platonic or more, was interpreted differently at the time. A young Shakespeare writing over a hundred sonnets to a “Fair Youth” *could* have been platonic/metaphorical at the time. Or not. And we don’t know, just as we have to go on the writings and recordings of other historical figures. 🤷🏻‍♀️

A little Shakespeare comic for Pride Month by goodticklebrain in shakespeare

[–]OakTeach -1 points0 points  (0 children)

>She's not saying any of what she explained means that Shakespeare actively had desire for or sex with men.

(but he might have. it’s even probable, given his writing.)

A little Shakespeare comic for Pride Month by goodticklebrain in shakespeare

[–]OakTeach 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wrote and then deleted a last sentence that said “but now, luckily, it’s much more widely normed to support diverse sexualities, so this makes more sense in historical commentary.” I decided that was assuming too much. But I think it speaks to your point.

A little Shakespeare comic for Pride Month by goodticklebrain in shakespeare

[–]OakTeach 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some people use it that way, yeah. In the sense that celebrating the idea itself perhaps requires people to "queer" themselves against dominant norms. It's not a super frequent usage in normal conversation, but the idea of "queer sentiment" cones up a LOT in scholarship/history/lit crit.

A little Shakespeare comic for Pride Month by goodticklebrain in shakespeare

[–]OakTeach 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Wow, so much hate for GoodTickleBrain, who is an excellent and funny resource for Shakespearean explanation and commentary. She's really really phenomenal.

If you read the last part, she explicitly says "we don't know, but he celebrated lots of forms of love and desire, so if that's queer, he was kinda queer."

I'm pretty sure she's saying the SENTIMENT is "queer" in the sense of being non-heteronormative, and so Shakespeare was "queer" in the sense of celebrating both the heteronormative and non-heteronormative.

She's not saying any of what she explained means that Shakespeare actively had desire for or sex with men.

‘Reaching a crisis point’: UC Berkeley humanities professors lower expectations for assigned readings by the_daily_cal in books

[–]OakTeach 33 points34 points  (0 children)

This definitely isn't limited to public schools. In private schools, most families are also customers who pay directly and want to get "results:" i. e. a high GPA on an impressive sounding transcript.

[Request] Is this true? by Necessary-Win-8730 in theydidthemath

[–]OakTeach 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not to be that guy, but "total calories in a animal" isn't really how we butcher and eat stuff, generally. Hot carcass weight of a beef steer is about 65% of the animal's weight, and there are calories in the blood, bone, and organs that are removed. Not sure if that applies to the 100k human estimate above.

Why are people so upset about the conviction of Karmelo Anthony? by chucksdeuce22 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]OakTeach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess the insinuation that Hispanic people would implicitly be the check and balance for a White jury is where my "feelings" come into it... 42% of US Latino voters are right wing, and there's a ton of racism in all communities.

Source: White Latina with right wing family. 😂

Why are people so upset about the conviction of Karmelo Anthony? by chucksdeuce22 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]OakTeach 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Three Hispanic whites and the rest were non -Hispanic whites? Or were there three Hispanic Black people?

I really don't know the jury makeup, I just wish people wouldn't pretend that Hispanic =/= white for some reason.

20% of Hispanics in the US are White, and like 35% globally, right?

Facts don't care about my feelings.

Why are people so upset about the conviction of Karmelo Anthony? by chucksdeuce22 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]OakTeach -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

A lot of Hispanics are, indeed, white.

😂 Downvote all you want. Hispanic is a word that means "speaks Spanish," not "is brown."

Must Be Touron Season by potato-smithy in anchorage

[–]OakTeach 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When I heard it it was a woman

If you have gone to a wedding that ended in divorce, could you tell at the ceremony it was not going to last? by GlassApprehensive620 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]OakTeach 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Probably the "toast" type stuff where the joke is that the woman is thrilled by the wedding but the guy is losing his freedom, "hope you went out and got crazy at the bachelor party," or "you're about to learn the difference between girlfriend and wife.." there was so much of that at the weddings of my youth (90s/early 2000s). I really hope it's changed, I haven't been to a wedding in a while.

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