The original impetus for this article was the North Carolina Bathroom Bill. I am writing this from the perspective of a male who has been sharing bathrooms with women all my life—not always at the same time, of course, but most of the time, people use bathrooms one at a time. There are exceptions, of course. Public bathrooms (airports, highway rest stops, restaurants, and other public places). If you have ever flown anywhere with a woman, you know that when people exit the plane, men enter the men’s room, take care of business, and exit. In all likelihood, the female . . . → Read More: Stuff That’s On My Mind
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 Comments are closed  Blog  Ally McBreal, American way of life, Chinese Revolution, Christian metaphors, clean air, clean water, climate change, conservation, conservatives, cutting apricots, democracy, education, Eisenhower, environment, European invasion, fear, food production, fracking, French revolution, Gangs of New York, GOP, Interstate Highway System, Irish, Italians, Julian Barnes, LGBTQ, literalists, metaphorical truth, Mexicans, Noah's flood, North Carolina bathroom bill, Old Testament, postmodernist, Rachel Dolezel, redwoods, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Russian revolution, sharing bathrooms, the environment, the less you fear, the more you know, Trans-Blackness, Unisex bathrooms, wildlife In my spare time, I follow political discussions as best I can, primarily because politics influence all of us in ways both large and small, including the taxes we pay and the way our collective dollars are spent. The past several years have provided a wonderful opportunity for noticing how linguistic framing influences the way we think about the decisions politicians are making about how our money is to be spent. The best way to know what’s really going on in politics is by understanding the rhetorical concept of framing. The word frame applies to discourse in basically the . . . → Read More: Language Matters Comments are closed Blog abortion, Affordable Care Act, children, conservatives, conversation, demonize, DUI, framing, Heritage Foundation, housing, influence, linguistic shorthand, Obamacare, perception, political affiliation, political discourse, politics, pro-choice, pro-life, reality, Reify, right-to-work, Romneycare, self-interest, serial killers, train wreck, union, unions, visual arts, war, war on cancer, war on drugs, war on poverty (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1”; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’)); In a recent opinion piece in the Washington Post (Liberals and conservatives don’t just vote differently. They think differently.), Chris Mooney addressed some of the reasons the differences between liberals and conservatives have become so acrimonious over the past few election cycles. According to Mooney, “There’s now a large body of evidence showing that those who opt for the political left and those who opt for the political right tend to process information . . . → Read More: Possibilities and Necessities Comments are closed Blog "other", abortion, Chris Mooney, conflict, conservatives, conversation, cultural dynamics, different drummers, discovery, Eve, exploration, failed, forgiveness, George Lakoff, Gomorrah, Greek myth, job-killing, Liberals, Muslim, NLP, nurturant parent, Obama, Pandora, perdition, political, punishment, reality, reckless agenda, Republican Party, self-reliance, self-responsibility, sexuality, sin, slavery, slaves, social degeneration, Sodom, straight and narrow, strict father, strict rules, talking points, transgressions, Washington Post, women |
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