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Topic: can anyone answer this?
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Yukoner
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posted 14 October 2005 02:20 AM
It was a jab at AOLers and those like them who have no regard for grammar, punctuation or basic rules of the English language. I am dyslexic and try to run each of my posts through a spell checker. Given that this is a forum where ideas are exchanged via the written word and occasional linked image all a person (especially a n00b ) can be judged on is their handle and how they present them in their posts. One could be lead to believe that an AOL or 1337 typist is either lazy, ignorant or some combination of the two. In this specific situation, a person registers with what seems to be the sole purpose of harvesting information from babblers who are abreast with modern feminist issues. This person registers, starts a thread, makes little effort to explain why s/he would like to discuss the issues(s) and can’t even be bothered to toss in even a single uppercase letter at the beginning of a sentence. It did sound like a ‘do my homework’ question to me, which is not all that uncommon on BBS’s.
From: Um, The Yukon. | Registered: May 2004
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Ski Big
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Babbler # 10624
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posted 14 October 2005 03:06 AM
quote: Originally posted by Yukoner: It was a jab at AOLers and those like them who have no regard for grammar, punctuation or basic rules of the English language. I am dyslexic and try to run each of my posts through a spell checker. Given that this is a forum where ideas are exchanged via the written word and occasional linked image all a person (especially a n00b ) can be judged on is their handle and how they present them in their posts. One could be lead to believe that an AOL or 1337 typist is either lazy, ignorant or some combination of the two. In this specific situation, a person registers with what seems to be the sole purpose of harvesting information from babblers who are abreast with modern feminist issues. This person registers, starts a thread, makes little effort to explain why s/he would like to discuss the issues(s) and can’t even be bothered to toss in even a single uppercase letter at the beginning of a sentence. It did sound like a ‘do my homework’ question to me, which is not all that uncommon on BBS’s.
im sorry for not using capital letters when im writing on these boards...i honestly think you're going into that more than needed. i am not asking anyone to "do my homework". i am asking for ideas so i can have some help on it, but if that's how everyone here wants to look at it, then it's cool. sorry for bothering you all.
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skdadl
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posted 14 October 2005 09:18 AM
Yeah. I think that was a bit rough, guys.Ski Big, to me those three women were so different -- in their lives and in the ways that they wrote -- that it is a bit hard to argue a tight "progression" among them, except in the sense that they lived in successive historical periods and things had indeed changed for women in general, period to period. (No pun intended, but you can smile if you want to.) One historical curiosity about them, biographically: in a sense, Wollstonecraft lived the most dramatically unstereotypical life of the three; she was a very public rebel and eccentric (in the literal sense of that term -- off-centre), although it could be argued that it took some class advantage to do that in her time. A Room of One's Own is a very moving testament and has inspired so many women since. Woolf had a literary genius that I don't think you can claim for the other two, but she also lived a much more severely repressed and constricted life than they did -- to which, of course, she is partly testifying in Room. It is hard not to see evidence in her writing of both the damaged psychology and the snobbery of the class and time (Victorian upper-upper) she was born into. de Beauvoir was also a privileged bourgeoise, but like Wollstonecraft she was nervy and resilient and relatively defiant. To me, her writing is more influenced by her contemporaries, more determined by a "school," than Woolf's, which is a formal breakthrough all her own. But de B. held her own among an intellectually very aggressive crowd. What do they share? They all wrote manifestos; they all sort of lived defiance of much of their socialization; and yet you can see how much more trapped each of them was in her historical situation than we want to believe women are now. We could be wrong about ourselves, of course. Everyone else always has been.
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ShyViolet
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posted 14 October 2005 01:02 PM
quote: Originally posted by Yukoner: It was a jab at AOLers and those like them who have no regard for grammar, punctuation or basic rules of the English language. I am dyslexic and try to run each of my posts through a spell checker. Given that this is a forum where ideas are exchanged via the written word and occasional linked image all a person (especially a n00b ) can be judged on is their handle and how they present them in their posts. One could be lead to believe that an AOL or 1337 typist is either lazy, ignorant or some combination of the two. In this specific situation, a person registers with what seems to be the sole purpose of harvesting information from babblers who are abreast with modern feminist issues. This person registers, starts a thread, makes little effort to explain why s/he would like to discuss the issues(s) and can’t even be bothered to toss in even a single uppercase letter at the beginning of a sentence. It did sound like a ‘do my homework’ question to me, which is not all that uncommon on BBS’s.
oooh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize that you were dyslexic nor that all lowercase makes things harder for you. I type with all lowercase for non-school things just b/c, well, sometimes I'm lazy. And I did understand the whole "it looks like she wants us to do her homework for her deal." When I saw her question, I thought that too. What I didn't get was why you were making such a thing over the lowercase typing. But I get it now.
From: ~Love is like pi: natural, irrational, and very important~ | Registered: Aug 2004
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Tehanu
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posted 14 October 2005 09:44 PM
quote: Originally posted by Yukoner: ... the sole purpose of harvesting information from babblers who are abreast with modern feminist issues.
... is that Freudian, Yukoner, or a truly delicious pun? mmmm ... abreast feminists ... Back to the thread topic, Ski Big, I hope you do well with your paper and I also hope that you continue to read feminist thinkers ... particularly those who wrote later in the 20th century, as fortunately I think a lot of the issues that the first/semi-second wave feminists were discussing have, in fact, been won. For the most part. In most places. Okay, because I'm thinking as I type and qualifying as I go, just to say that there's a lot else out there that is perhaps more apropos and modern than the three authors you named. Does it make me a bad feminist that I have -- in spite of having loved and enjoyed hundreds of books -- never been able to get past page 5 of a Virginia Woolf novel? [slaps wrist] [edited because I put "sky big" not "ski big" and I think I actually like the first name!] [ 14 October 2005: Message edited by: Tehanu ]
From: Desperately trying to stop procrastinating | Registered: Jul 2005
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