Nance writes today about the 50th anniversary, on February 1, of the Sit-in of The Greensboro Four …

… an historic event which, due to the media attention it received and the momentum it launched for desegregation, has been called the Dawn of the Modern Civil Rights Movement.

In my 12th year, my family moved from New England to Nashville, to various comic effects. One of my fellow students complained about my “put on Northern accent” Read the rest of this entry »

Top Ten Thousand Ways Women Drive Men Crazy:

The contents of the collective unconscious are represented in consciousness in the form of pronounced preferences and definite ways of looking at things. These subjective tendencies and views are generally regarded by the individual as being determined by the object—incorrectly, since they have their source in the unconscious structure of the psyche and are merely released by the effect of the object. [emph. mine]

Isn’t that lovely … released.

But they are stronger than the object’s influence, their psychic value is higher, so that they superimpose themselves on all impressions.

Just as it seems incomprehensible to the Introvert that the object should always be the decisive factor

OMG.

… it remains an enigma to the Extraverts how a subjective standpoint can be …

Is.

… superior to the objective situation. He inevitably comes to the conclusion that the Introvert is either a conceited egoist or crack-brained bigot.

Or worse. It gets much worse. This piece was obviously written by a male—not that I remember the link. Links—feh.

The Introvert certainly lays herself open to these suspicions, for her positive, highly generalizing manner of expression …

Which may be #1 on the list. Higher than one.  Maybe the list goes to eleven.

… which appears to rule out every other opinion from the start, lends countenance to all the extravert’s prejudices. Moreover, the inflexibility of her subjective judgment in setting itself above all objective data …

I don’t know that you’d call it inflexibility so much as, Why waste my time and yours?

… is sufficient in itself to create the impression of marked egocentricity. Faced with this prejudice, the introvert is usually at a loss for the right argument, for she is quite unaware of the unconscious …

Who you callin’ unconscious.

… but generally quite valid assumptions on which her subjective judgment and her subjective perceptions are based.

I don’t know why he has to say unaware—projective identification, no doubt, for are we not the receptacle for all things inferior? Were we not thought to have the mental capacity of Idiots, and therefore unable to fucking vote? FCS?

Does that tick you off when you think about it? It does me. Think about it.

. . . as a former C.I.A. Middle East specialist, Reuel Marc Gerecht, said on ‘Meet the Press,’ U.S. democracy in 1900 didn’t pllet women vote. If Iraqi democracy resembled that, ‘we’d all be thrilled,’ he said. ‘I mean, women’s social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy.

Bite me.

Please. Bite me.

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