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CurtOne

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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #855 on: January 12, 2012, 07:55:58 am »
"Simply" and "woman" cannot be in the same sentence.
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« Reply #856 on: January 12, 2012, 10:57:54 am »
Quote from: dogstoothe on January 12, 2012, 03:08:58 am
You see how underlying and deceitful prejudices are . . . Why do I refer to Barb Johnson as a woman writer?  Why don't I refer to her simply as a writer? 

Because most writers have been men.  There is nothing prejudicial in pointing out the unusual, unless you are indicating approval or disapproval.
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CurtOne

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« Reply #857 on: January 12, 2012, 10:59:57 am »
"Because most writers have been men."

In the past, yes; today, no.
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davep

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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #858 on: January 12, 2012, 11:03:02 am »
Which is why I used the term "have been".
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CurtOne

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« Reply #859 on: January 12, 2012, 11:07:15 am »
"Because most writers have been men.  There is nothing prejudicial in pointing out the unusual, unless you are indicating approval or disapproval." was your whole quote.  You can't point out the "unusual" if it is no longer unusual.  Your "have been" clearly referred to the present as well as the past.  And the sun rises in the east and the sky is blue.
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« Reply #860 on: January 12, 2012, 11:35:30 am »
P2, don't know if you watch any of the Travel Channel.....Anthony Bourdain in particular.  He's got a new show called The Layover.  Last week he was in SF.  Went to lots of interesting, off-the-beaten-path type places.

http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2012/01/11/wherein-anthony-bourdain-plows-through-town-in-the-san-francisco-episode-of-the-layover/

Wish I had seen this before we moved away.  Would've liked to have visited these places.

The show was hilarious.  Bourdain loves to drink and that he did.  Dude was wasted towards the end of the show.
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CurtOne

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« Reply #861 on: January 12, 2012, 12:00:08 pm »
When Mrs. CurtOne and I went to SF last January, we took a pro tour on a bus.  We and this couple from England rented the whole full-size tour bus.  The driver took us places I never knew existed, and I thought I knew San Francisco pretty well.

I remember a famous columnist from SF who said one time he had spent every one of his vacation there and still hadn't seen it all.  Herb Caen?  That sound right, P2?
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« Reply #862 on: January 12, 2012, 01:38:45 pm »
Quote from: CurtOne on January 12, 2012, 11:07:15 am
"Because most writers have been men.  There is nothing prejudicial in pointing out the unusual, unless you are indicating approval or disapproval." was your whole quote.  You can't point out the "unusual" if it is no longer unusual.  Your "have been" clearly referred to the present as well as the past.  And the sun rises in the east and the sky is blue.

Even if it is not unusual, merely pointing out that a writer was of a specific sex is not  in itself prejudicial.  The term prejudice indicates prejudgement, and the mere mention of sex is hardly a judgement.  If one infers something from that, it is more a statement of their own prejudices than that of anyone else.
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« Reply #863 on: January 12, 2012, 01:50:30 pm »
Quote from: FITS on January 12, 2012, 11:35:30 am
P2, don't know if you watch any of the Travel Channel.....Anthony Bourdain in particular.  He's got a new show called The Layover.  Last week he was in SF.  Went to lots of interesting, off-the-beaten-path type places.

http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2012/01/11/wherein-anthony-bourdain-plows-through-town-in-the-san-francisco-episode-of-the-layover/

Wish I had seen this before we moved away.  Would've liked to have visited these places.

The show was hilarious.  Bourdain loves to drink and that he did.  Dude was wasted towards the end of the show.
Bourdain was hilarious when the show went to Amsterdam. He clearly didn't like the food choices he had there, but obviously enjoyed the other things the city has to offer.
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« Reply #864 on: January 12, 2012, 02:02:05 pm »
One would think that under those circumstances the food would all be good....not that I would know personally...just sayin.
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« Reply #865 on: January 12, 2012, 06:39:02 pm »
They butcher too many animals on Travel Channel shows. Especially on Andrew Zimern's show.  I haven't watched religiously, but I think I've seen only one thing that he couldn't stomach.

I like Bourdain's No Reservations.  His Layover: Miami seemed a little too contrived.

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Keysbear

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« Reply #866 on: January 12, 2012, 08:04:49 pm »
The only thing I've seen Zimern fail to eat was a durian fruit. I think it was in Thailand. Pretty unusual that a fruit would stop him when I've seen him eat so many other disgusting things with no problem
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« Reply #867 on: January 12, 2012, 08:29:48 pm »
Okay, had to look that up. From wikipedia:

Chef Andrew Zimmern compares the taste to "completely rotten, mushy onions."[24] Anthony Bourdain, a lover of durian, relates his encounter with the fruit thus: "Its taste can only be described as...indescribable, something you will either love or despise. ...Your breath will smell as if you'd been French-kissing your dead grandmother."[25] Travel and food writer Richard Sterling says:
 
... its odor is best described as pig-****, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away. Despite its great local popularity, the raw fruit is forbidden from some establishments such as hotels, subways and airports, including public transportation in Southeast Asia.[26]
 
Other comparisons have been made with the civet, sewage, stale vomit, skunk spray and used surgical swabs.



YUM!
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« Reply #868 on: January 12, 2012, 08:50:41 pm »
Thanks, FITS.  I hadn't seen that.  Always fun to learn some new things about my town.
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CurtOne

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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #869 on: January 14, 2012, 10:20:17 pm »
Just caught a few minutes of Shipping Wars.  Sheesh, they can add drama to the most brain dead jobs.  I cannot wait for Retirement Home Janitor coming this February.
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