cisNormal2017
Introduction/Definition/etc
Poking around the Safer Space stuff from Bike!Bike!
SouthEast and looking at other possibilities...
Body
cis means this side of, as in cisMale, assigned / born Male,
and keeping it that way, while trans means changing it,
so mostly from the transsexual communities, and all
the permutations thereof... cisWhite, as a comedy
thing for Colbert, assigned White, and happy with it,
not trying to change that...
From another's perspective though, it might be out
of bounds, if the boundary between people is somewhere
between them, and you set the boundary one place,
and they set it another... So normal for them is probably
different... Applying Statistics and Abnormal Psych,
and you quickly learn that what is abnormal is relative,
as you learn more and more oddities out in the world...
Say you were born into a community that was 90-98+% White,
and then move to a big city, where it's say 50% White,
you would then have all sorts of adjustment stuff to
deal with, say meeting your first neighbors who weren't
what you are, Marshmellow (really mallow, but mellow,
is kewl too...) bread, let's say...
Like Crunchy Granola types, the earthy people,
who go to coops, food coops, and let their hair grow,
Birkenstocks, and other stereotypical attire,
maybe tie dye t-shirts, or went corporate and
black t shirts like Apple, genius or not..
There was something in there, but I'm forgetting,
so cisOld...
Oh, watched a Cornel West, Ph.D. video,
talking at Southern Illinois University
(one of those I states out west,
but not Idaho, Indiana?... Yep), he had a cold,
and one of the first times I've seen a video
of him... A Nelson Mandela event...
His rhetoric of Love, and took questions
at the end, some of which were off the wall,
even for me... The audience was not shown
until the end, and just the front row(s), for
people going up towards him...
Someone handed him a napkin/ paper towel/
Kleenex, and then someone else gave water,
the first one got a hug, and later he thought
of not giving them his cold...
Reading up on his issues with Harvard,
from Wikipedia and looks like it was just
the one President (Sommer?),
and back to normal, for them...
More recently Harvard wants him back,
and some between department/college
things, cross fertilization, as we used to
call it... West shows a broad spectrum of
interests and gets lots of media coverage,
he has done Hip Hop, and Spoken Word,
CDs, and collaborated with just about
everyone...
Wikipedia mentions he has / had prostate cancer,
so not sure how that is going, but not really
any of my business... He is only 10 years older
than I, and doing well for himself, giving Love,
lectures and basically preaching philosophia
and other terms you can learn by watching the
video... Maybe not one of his best,
but not that far from Furgeson (sp?), and he's
been arrested many times, I guess it doesn't
matter, as he is a public figure and it is
protest arrests, even after Race Matters
and comments about Obama, he doesn't
mind criticizing anyone, though I haven't
seen him self criticizing, but not seem
much of his stuff...
Depressives, on the other hand, probably
do that a lot, so self effacing humour is one
thing but to put it out to others is another...
How can you say that of other people?
Well, you don't see how critical I am of
myself, do you?
If depression is anger turned inwards,
as some people think, where does the
anger start? In childhood? Critical parents?
Drinkers? Society? As a red haired kid
growing up, well, bigger, not really maturing
in the normal way, still ride a bicycle,
still running away from home, but I get
tired and hungry fairly quickly, run out of money,
found Girl Scout cookies, but could only buy
one box, as poor, and needed emergency funds
for soda, etc... Peanut butter cookies and liquid
is really required, especially when warm out,
the cold snap has ended, for now, rainy,
April Showers starting early, and the
Cherry Blossoms were just late, not early,
as I had previously assumed...
/TangentialEndForNow
Dr. West talks of being able to civilily (sp??)
talk about (discuss?) issues, mostly race,
but other stuff... Most people are called
Brothers and Sisters...
And he wants to make his parents proud...
Even though he lost one of them...
One was a teacher, and another a priest/
pastor, iirc... Back before corporate takes
over the churches too... He was critical of
success, if only monetarily, and willing to die
for a cause like Who Would Die For You?
He spoke at West Point and they thought him
a soldier (self reported), he calls it a Love Soldier
and a lot of rhetoric, that I've heard before,
but not sure where from, turns out it's all
around me... And not just rhetoric
to everyone, for some, it has meaning...
Links
https://en.bikebike.org/conferences/Southeast2017/
Safer Space Policy
https://en.bikebike.org/policy/
cis
https://www.google.com/search?q=cis&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender
Cornel West, Ph.D.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West
USI
https://www.usi.edu/news/releases/2016/10/cornel-west-to-headline-usis-mandela-social-justice-day/
Pursuit of Justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YHG1lLOiG0
And Some I've not Seen, Yet
Santa Clausification of Nelson Mandela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx9MEoRDgZc
Race Matters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRZcfEToN-A
Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
Oddity going back to D.C. after last weekend,
this time finding and buying Girl Scout
cookies, kind of like Spring Is Here,
as cookies, and cookie monster
temporarily satisfied, not happy,
but not growling at the moment,
either...
Discussion
A place for feedback on the page presented
What Identities do you claim?
cis?
Trans?
Normal?
Gay?
Homo?
Hetero?
Straight?
Queer?
Lesbian?
Green?
Republican?
Dem?
Independent?
Autistic?
Married?
Single?
Swing?
UnFaithFul?
Dog?
Cat?
Hamster?
Snake?
Squirrel?
Dino?
What characteristics set you apart from the Norm?
So what dimensions exist for describing a person?
Gender?
Androgenous?
Hemaphrodite?
ASexual?
Orientation?
Race?
Ethnicity?
Class?
Wealth?
OnePercent?
NinetyNinePercent?
Education?
Pretty soon it's more like GeekCode of all the attributes you
might have, that might not really matter, in the business world,
does it matter what Race you are? Do you speak HipHop?
French? Russian? Greek? SnoBall? Lisp? or are you
a Fortran only Model Bot?
Why Label?
Do you have to Declare?
Is it safe to Declare in various environments?
Or would that lead to problems?
Saw a bumper sticker Neanderthal Rifle Association
and began to wonder...
They used to say you could not unring a bell...
In substance abuse classes, and wondering
about whether declaring so much out there
on the InterWebs is that smart an idea,
as had qualms about it at StreetSense,
but had to write about what we know,
and what the editor/ group wanted,
pimp us out to the world for a few
papers per month, and a chance
at Fame... Or was it just a way to
have something in print, before we die,
like at least three SS people did...
(Cliff, Jesse, and likely many others)
West describes music as a function and
relates to the blues, as a story telling
method, do you agree? Is it really
the Black Culture being transmitted,
or do they pimp out to the RIAAA,
etc? Back to Gospel? To Really Sing?
What deviations of Religion do you Declare?
cisMuslim? cisCatholic? cisAtheist?
cisAgnostic? cisNonFaith? cisSecular?
Would declaring Hispanic heritage be a
disqualifier given the current political climate?
Like one drop of black is an indication of
unpure, somehow?
How does this compare to Nazi Germany
and the rising Nationalism leading to the Holocaust?
cisGerman?
cisNeo?
cisMatrix?
cisGeek?
cisBoring?
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Page History
20170328 20070510EthicsDignityRiskJerry
- cleanup some things
- word usage, not spelling as spelled,
- but the spell checker didn't fire,
- as it was a known word, but not the right one,
- in the right place, but the wrong time...
- make links open in a different window
- some strike, keeping some original stuff,
- but cleaning up USI? as known to be USI,
- just not which state, out in the MidWest
- beginning with I, so far from East Coast
- slavery, but so cisWhite, that the oddity
- of West going there, speaking, maybe
- what is needed, as recussitation of the
- few minorities, really majorities, some places,
- but whatever...
- /TangentialEscapeEnded and similar code
- for going off and know it after the fact,
- like a dangling participle, and other such
- logic stuff, dumping to the web,
- instead of planned writing,
- more MourningPages2016
- and FreeWriting
- but a topic to start at least
- /WhatEverDude/ette
20170327 Jerry
- Jerry created this page to put something out there,
- some updates of other things mentioned recently,
- and just because...
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