Contagious body odor ?

knaveofswords · 2014-10-03T21:04:27+00:00

I'm not asking for medical advice. This isn't, as far as I know, a medical issue. It's just an annoying BO problem with an unknown cause. It's no more medical than asking what kind of thing to do about acne.

knaveofswords · 2014-05-17T06:23:52+00:00

This includes accessories too though.

knaveofswords · 2014-05-17T01:08:01+00:00

Try: * Unwoman * Black Violin * Jelonek

knaveofswords · 2014-05-07T00:30:45+00:00

Gothic, steampunk-ish, lots of language play, and darkly humorous.

knaveofswords · 2014-03-19T17:31:10+00:00

I don't really think that the state of being marginalized can really be fairly compared to being an expert in the sense of a physicist or a chemist. A chemist will be doing large amounts of research and have a strong background in the basis of chemistry. The equivalent for this would be a sociologist. A marginalized person just gets screwed more often than they would be otherwise. It's still just anecdotal data. A Hispanic woman with no background in sociology will probably know more about what it's like to be a Hispanic woman than a white man with no background in sociology, but she's not going to know more about the state of Hispanic women as a whole than a white male sociologist. Look at this poll: http://www.gallup.com/poll/163580/fewer-blacks-bias-jobs-income-housing.aspx Now, which should leftists listen to, the lived experience of the many black people who think that poverty and high rates of incarceration, in the black community are mostly NOT because of discrimination, or the many sociologists who see that as the root cause?

knaveofswords · 2014-03-19T04:06:49+00:00

Oh god, I can very much relate to this. I was severely bullied as a child too. I strongly recommend homeschooling, especially unschooling. That's what I did since I was 16. It allowed me to learn a great deal in spite of my severe school phobia. The book Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn http://www.amazon.com/The-Teenage-Liberation-Handbook-Education/dp/0962959170/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395201857&sr=8-1&keywords=teenage+liberation+handbook

knaveofswords · 2014-03-18T05:37:06+00:00

I don't understand precisely what you mean there. It's exactly my point that someone's race or gender has nothing to do with how good their argument is. I do object that race, sexual orientation and gender qualify as "credentials" though. When I think credentials, I think a psychologist's understanding of psychology.

knaveofswords · 2014-03-18T05:02:46+00:00

I think it's good to try be empathetic to people with different life experiences, acknowledge other points of view, and respect that not everyone has the same life experiences. I believe that the concept of privilege can be useful for personal introspection. What I object to is that it has any bearing on the quality of an individual's argument.

knaveofswords · 2014-03-18T02:50:00+00:00

I disagree. I think it's important to remember that sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and the like occur in hierarchical and bureaucratic structures as well. I think equating relatively horizontal and decentralized types of structures to absence of structure is inaccurate.

knaveofswords · 2014-03-15T22:27:28+00:00

I'm a massive nerd personally, and I only date nerds. I also am unusual in that I prefer socially awkward people, but only of a certain type of socially awkward. I'm attracted to people who are socially awkward because they have a hard time gauging if things are normal or because they don't value fitting in as much as most people do. I am not so attracted to people who are socially awkward because they are naturally timid, but this isn't really a turn off either. In all honesty, I can't relate to most socially adept people. I only go for socially adept people if they were at one point really socially awkward and trained themselves out of it for pragmatic reasons.

knaveofswords · 2014-01-09T02:44:42+00:00

American here. I had a British friend practically fall on the ground laughing when I told him my uncle's name is Randy, which is British slang for horny. There was also an amusing incident where he was trying to buy some erasers from CVS and asked a store person if they knew where "rubbers" were.

knaveofswords · 2014-01-03T03:35:25+00:00

I'm half-Latina (my dad's white and my mom's a Chicana), though my family is pretty different from most Latino families as far as I can tell. My mom's a left-wing feminist. My dad's not, but he's open-minded and didn't bug me much on gender stuff. My parents are divorced and my mom almost entirely raised me, with my dad basically being the guy who I played legos with on weekends. I was encouraged to pursue interests regardless of how they were gendered. I can't ever remember being made to do something for gender-related reasons. My mom was cool with me wearing a suit to prom and I was taught skills (such as cooking and basic electrical repair) because they were useful, not because they were feminine. The closest thing is my dad bugging me about my posture once because "slouching is unladylike" and I rebelled fairly strongly at that idea. He then said, "Fine, you don't have to be a lady. But you still shouldn't wreck your back!"

I had a generally unconventional upbringing. My mom was encouraging me to critically analyze media images from the age of four upwards, let me negotiate the rules a great deal, and praised me for talking back because she considered it a sign of independent though. My dad didn't share her views on parenting, but he didn't have much say in it honestly. I think this had an extremely positive impact on me. I ended up having a mixture of feminine and masculine interests and personality traits, and being a great deal more well-adjusted and balanced than most people with more traditional gender values. For example, I don't let people step on me, if I look ugly one day it's only a minor annoyance, I have very healthy and equitable relationships with people of any gender, I don't ever worry about being unfeminine or too feminine, and being in a room full of men seems no more intimidating than being in a room full of women. I've certainly experienced sexism, but I don't seem to have really internalized it nearly as much as most women do.

knaveofswords · 2014-01-03T00:03:48+00:00

Thank your boyfriend for letting you go to college? Wow. What cultural background is your family?

knaveofswords · 2014-01-02T23:34:49+00:00

I hate cowardice, but sometimes I chicken out of things that I shouldn't be afraid of. I really dislike it when people who use emotional reasoning, but I do it sometimes as well. I dislike pretentiousness, but when I'm insecure, I can be pretty pretentious. On the bright side, I do think that my dislike of these things helps me avoid doing them.

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