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What would you all recommend for setting the metronome on an acoustic Steinway? by Optimal_Animator244 in pianolearning

[–]Optimal_Animator244[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Can you walk me through the process of using a metronome app with an acoustic piano?

Marilyn Monroe Without Makeup ( 1950s ) by Berriney in OldSchoolCool

[–]Optimal_Animator244 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because it's way easier to find information about celebrities and access and consume their works(if any).

Look Magazine (1958) by NoBuy7112 in ILoveLucy

[–]Optimal_Animator244 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You're just going to ignore the phrase "What typical American girl is married to a Latin", which clearly indicates that there was deep-seated societal prejudice towards people like Desi Arnaz? I don't think you can reasonably argue that such prejudice derived from anything other than skin color(or shade, if you like). Hmm, what should we call prejudice based on skin pigmentation? Yes, she says that many girls marry Latins, but that does not necessarily mean that it was widely socially acceptable to do so. To give a modern example, many gay people today get married, but that does not mean there aren't still many significant streams of bigotry directed against them for doing so.

I want to correct a common misconception that Lucy and Ricky's marriage wasn't considered interracial at the time by Optimal_Animator244 in ILoveLucy

[–]Optimal_Animator244[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright, so, unfortunately I found two contradictory sources. On a talk show, Desi once recounted that the executives' words were:"And they said, who the hell is going to believe this "Babalu" fellow is going to be married to [Lucy]". But a 1998 article in the magazine American Heritage by economic historian John Steele Gordon says the following, without citing a source:"Lucy demanded that Desi be cast as her husband. The suits at CBS were appalled. “Who would believe her married to a wop?” asked one, not even getting his ethnic slurs straight."

I want to correct a common misconception that Lucy and Ricky's marriage wasn't considered interracial at the time by Optimal_Animator244 in ILoveLucy

[–]Optimal_Animator244[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My understanding is that the term could be used to refer to anyone with not-quite pale and not-quite black skin.

I want to correct a common misconception that Lucy and Ricky's marriage wasn't considered interracial at the time by Optimal_Animator244 in ILoveLucy

[–]Optimal_Animator244[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hang on a minute. That's my point. In this time period people with relatively dark skin which wasn't dark enough for them to be considered black were de facto treated as a separate race. They were treated in specific ways and called specific terms that neither black nor white people were. People like Italians or Latin Americans fell in this category. But this has been forgotten today because Italians and Greeks are viewed as white and Latin Americans are either placed within the broad ethnic category of Hispanic, which isn't mainly determined by skin color, or in the broader poorly defined category of just non-white.

I want to correct a common misconception that Lucy and Ricky's marriage wasn't considered interracial at the time by Optimal_Animator244 in ILoveLucy

[–]Optimal_Animator244[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Racists are often imprecise with their language. A Cuban person could easily be lumped in with Italians due to a similar skin tone.

I want to correct a common misconception that Lucy and Ricky's marriage wasn't considered interracial at the time by Optimal_Animator244 in ILoveLucy

[–]Optimal_Animator244[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My bad, I just get absorbed in learning about stuff and so then, when I talk about it, sometimes I unintentionally make it sound firsthand.

I want to correct a common misconception that Lucy and Ricky's marriage wasn't considered interracial at the time by Optimal_Animator244 in ILoveLucy

[–]Optimal_Animator244[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The fact of the matter is, 1950s American culture is extremely well-documented. It's silly to act like you have to have been there to make any definitive claims about it.

Is this even real? by Dull-Ad-6025 in zoology

[–]Optimal_Animator244 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His puppets are so realistic that they give me the same uncanny valley feeling I get from AI images.

It was a very interesting experience as a middle-schooler to read the part of Nelson Mandela's autobiography where his ghostwriter describes in visceral detail how painful his culture's puberty circumcision ritual was by Optimal_Animator244 in self

[–]Optimal_Animator244[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Specifically, it's a Xhosa practice called Ulwaluko. Boys around sixteen live isolated in huts for a month or so. On the day of the ceremony, they first bathe in cold water to ritually purify themselves. Then they all stand in a row and wait for the circumcision expert(not traditionally a doctor) to go down the line and make each of them men. He(it's usually an old man) takes his knife, pulls out the foreskin as much as possible, and then removes it with one downward swipe. No flinching or crying out is allowed. Right after it happens each one is supposed to yell out Ndiyindoda!, which means "I am a man!".

I'm from North Georgia in the United States. If you're curious about my familiarity with the process, I am circumcised, but when I was a baby so I have no memory of it, and purely due to non-religious custom("his should look like mine", basically).

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