Luckily the Internet Remembers

[eumelia]

I read the Shrub Blog, which is a fascinating feminist geek blog which I urge all of you to read (if you're a geek and interested in social construct and change) and I came across a blog post I had somehow missed at the time:
Check my What?

...What you need to realize is that we all have privilege to some degree: white privilege, male privilege, heterosexual privilege, etc. The hardest thing is to do is to get over your instinct to fight and say, “But I’m not like that!”...

It's an dynamic post, constantly updating and changing, fixing broken links etc. And because of that there is always a discussion going there, and people like me who discover it link it to their own blogs, so you can check out the other people who linked this post.

Now I'm off to start my day.

Comments

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Ah, common Internet misunderstanding.

My roots are Litvak (Latvia, Lithuania, East Poland, West Russia), my great-grandparents and grandparents migrated from there between the two World Wars to South Africa (English in the Lingo ;).
My parents then migrated to Israel where I was born, I'm a total bilingual in English and Hebrew.

[talibah-nazahah.livejournal.com]

ah.. ok... that's cleared up :) that's interesting about South Africa... i saw a documentary on ISR/PAL called Encounter Point and the woman (jewish) who it was mainly about had started an Israeli-Palestinian bereavement group for parents of the kids killed in the conflict. she was born in south africa and her dad was nelson mandella's attorney.

still impressive. i wish i had learned another language when i was young. trying to learn when you are older is tough. there is a neurological reason for it. the part of the brain that learns language takes a ton of calories to function so as you get older and no longer need it like you did when you were a baby, it dies (in colloquial terms). if you still had it, you wouldnt be able to function because it would use all your food :) (from what i understand).

[antongarou.livejournal.com]

Totally OT, but do you have papers and/or academic books you can point me toward that show it?I'm very much interested in neurolinguistics.I know about the so-called "critical age" but wasn't aware that there was evidence it was shut down due to calorie intake choke and/or the area was found.