Just some notes

[ritaxis]

1. Tonight's favorite: Taraf de Haïdouks, Romani-Romanian band. I shouldn't have to tell you not to read the comments, but of course I did, and now I know thatr there are people who are unable to parse "Romani-Romanian" in four languages, and also that for some people the important thing about this music is that Romanians should actgually be called Vlachs (not actually true unless you are a loony, but why else would you be talking about this in youtube comments?).

2. Also, now I want to write a story in this setting, which is an urban neighborhood made of facades only, for police training exercises.

3. I just saw some people who said that a lifetime in the abolition movement means nothing because Susan B. Anthony said something stupid to Frederick Douglass once. This actually happened weeks ago, but I just saw it.

4. Also I saw somebody lie about what I said in the comments of one of James Nicoll's posts, but I'm not going to go say anything more because I don't want to argue with this person, who is so over the top in their second- and third- hand accusations that I don't put anything past them.  Then I saw in their comments that this person has at least one friend who thinks they are consistently bullshit-free.

5. I wonder how many stories I have to sell before it stops being an event of amazement and wonder that I have to tell all my friends about and starts being a routine part of my life?

6. Truffle likes having another dog in the house so much I wonder...

Comments

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Woo. We spent the weekend at an academic conference that is exploring not only the history of abolitionists in our national history, but also with the foundational mission of returning them and their work to the formal historical narrative. The young academics and grad students are incredibly excited by this.

Several of the presentations were about the women in the abolitionist movement, and the connections among them and women's rights.

I described it, to a degree, here: http://al-zorra.livejournal.com/1134310.html

The snarky person you link to, snarked merely for the sake of snarking. It's not helping -- and by now, presumably this fairly youngish still person, is far removed from what was academically fashionable when she was an undergrad. Nor does she really know much about this history of Stanton and Douglass and women's rights. By the way, as much as I admire Douglass and his achievements, it cannot be denied that he was as patriarchal about women and any man of his time. Now, let's see if this person does the same snarkitude passing for lordess knows what on Douglass and how he married white women ....

The women did feel terribly betrayed that when African Americans were given the vote, the vote went only to MEN, not women, and they, with their own achievements, education and incredible effort, were passed over -- because they were women. It had to hurt and create a terrible bitterness, which it did. Consequently, in time-honored fashion, that the women expressed their anger, resentment and bitterness was held up by sneering white men as proof that women weren't fit to handle the vote. All this helped put back the movement for a long time, in so many ways. Sigh.

Love, C.