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When Engadget broke the news that the Microsoft Surface would be sold for $200, it caused quite a stir. Can it possibly be true? Microsoft is refusing to comment. An anonymous source kicked off the fuss by saying that the Microsoft Surface for Windows RT tablet would be going on sale on Oct. 26. That's believable enough because it's also the launch date for Windows 8. What's harder to swallow is the idea that even Microsoft can afford to sell it for $200. (By the way, in case you are wondering, Windows RT is a version of Windows 8 for ARM devices such as tablets.)
Competition is good for consumers
This kind of pricing is the sort of thing that capitalism fans always argued should come about because of fierce competition in the market. In theory, companies vying for our affections will drive prices ever lower. In practice, it rarely happens for a variety of reasons, or it happens until the competition goes out of business and the survivor can charge whatever it wants.
In any case, if it is true, then it's great for consumers currently considering buying a tablet. Stats from IHS recently suggested that Apple's share of the tablet market is heading toward 70 percent with a range of Android manufacturers accounting for the bulk of the rest. Of course, that was before Google launched the Nexus 7. If you were to buy a tablet right now and you wanted the best value for your money, it might be tough to see past the Nexus 7. If you want the best tablet and price is of no concern, then the iPad is the obvious choice.
Microsoft would really stir things up by releasing a 10.6-inch tablet at a $200 price point. Unfortunately, beyond the inclusion of Windows 8, we don't know much about the Microsoft Surface right now when it comes to specs. However, the 10.6-inch display and the choice of 32GB or 64GB storage is enough to suggest a higher price. So, how could Microsoft afford to sell it at $200?
Could it be a loss leader?
It would not be unheard of for a company to sell a product at a loss in order to stimulate sales of other products or services. It might be a practice that's more common in major supermarkets, but tech companies do it too. Sometimes, they can afford to lose money on something to gain market share. Microsoft poured cash into establishing the Xbox brand, building a user base for Xbox Live services. Once it was established, it began selling hardware that did turn a profit. The Xbox 360 made money and there was room to sell it below cost because it could be subsidized by a subscription to Xbox Live. Clearly it's a high risk strategy, but Microsoft knows it can pay off.
Techland at Time conservatively estimated the build cost of the Surface and suggested that Microsoft would lose at least $50 on each one, if it sold for $200. As it turns out, Microsoft lost more than that on the original Xbox. VentureBeat suggests a loss of $168 on each machine sold.
That still doesn't make it likely, but it is a possibility.
Bundle it with a contract or subscription
This is one of the most popular theories floating around. You get the tablet for $200, but to use it, you also have to sign up for a two-year contract or a subscription to a service. The fact that carriers are backing away from subsidizing tablet costs suggests that it won't be a 4G contract scenario. Microsoft also won't want to limit sales channels.
Maybe it's a subscription to Office 365, as the Guardian blog suggests? A subscription bundle could also involve Sky Drive, Xbox Live, or the newly branded Xbox Music (previously Zune Music). A monthly subscription that bundles all of Microsoft's offerings and maybe even ties in a deal with a third-party service could be in the cards, as well. Some kind of tie-in with a subscription to services seems far more likely than a straight grab for market share that Microsoft will look to capitalize on later.
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There are some compelling arguments against the suggested price point. As our own Geoff Duncan points out, Microsoft has to keep its RT partners onboard. It is expecting Dell, Lenovo, and Samsung to make Windows RT devices, so a loss-leading Surface tablet wouldn't help, especially when you consider Microsoft's licensing fee on top of manufacturing costs and marketing. A $200 Surface could make it impossible for them to compete.
Does Microsoft have to do this?
Amazon might be losing a small amount of money on each Kindle Fire in order to build a market share and sell content, but they aren't taking a huge risk. Google makes a modest profit or breaks even on the Nexus 7, but once again, the profit comes from elsewhere. Google makes its money on content and advertising. Apple makes a huge profit on every iPad sold and then makes more from selling content. Microsoft does have to work hard to break in here, but there's room to maneuver.
There's some middle ground between the bargain basement $200 price and the premium $500 plus price. The competition outside of the iPad is not unmanageably intimidating. A lower price could help Microsoft establish a foothold with the Surface. Selling a big tablet with decent specs at a break-even price or a slight loss is probably necessary if Microsoft expects to catch up with the competition.
Microsoft doesn't have to be as aggressive as $200, but if they go with that price point, the Surface would fly off the shelves. Maybe it ultimately comes down to this: How desperate is Microsoft to catch up?
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But it's funny. When I'm telling other women tales about my various adventures, I tend to perpetrate like I cry all the time. I even simulate crying to make whomever I'm talking to laugh as I'm telling a story. It has been my experience that most women tend to find humor in crying jags. Especially hormone-induced crying jags.
But I don't do this when I'm talking to guys. Probably because I want to be the "cool chick". Cool chicks don't cry. They make fun of women who cry.
(I once "shamed" a female coworker for crying at her desk when Heath Leather died. I'm glad she didn't return the favor when I did the same over Prince's death.)
First of all, the APA guidelines that you linked to are political propaganda, not science. They make this clear enough starting off with unscientific political claims such as "boys and men, as a group, tend to hold privilege and power based on gender".
The first paper that you link to contradicts your position. It discuss "emotional inexpression" among men involved in medical interviews. It notes that some men have difficulty expressing emotions but most men do not. It discusses differing possible explanations for "normative male alexithymia" (which is basically the theory you and others have been pushing in this thread, that males don't express emotions because they been socialized to conform to a certain gender norm). The paper says that this has been theorized; it hasn't been proven. It discusses different possible explanations for why a subset of men won't express emotions, some biological and some social, without endorsing any particular one.
To state the obvious, declaring that there exists a phenomenon in which a subset of men do not talk about their emotions in one particular setting, does not prove that society overwhelmingly orders all men and boys to avoid expressing emotions.
On the other hand, with men, I avoid mentioning that I cried even if I did, because I know that that causes me to lose status.
Let me start out by pointing out how immaterial the crying discussion is.
It doesn't matter if current society considers crying something unmanly or not. What gets stereotyped as manly can change ... one generation it may be being stoic and another braggadocio ... the point is that there are stereotypes that become internalized, which in general are ones of toughness and assertiveness.
I am pointing out that the phrase "toxic masculinity" is crap at communicating that concept and actually counterproductive. I would likewise object to labelling racist stereotyping and its myriad effects (including how they can be internalized, be implicitly held, and play out by institutional factors) as "toxic whiteness" or "toxic Blackness." Or even the phenomena of white privilege as "toxic whiteness" and Black thuggery as "toxic Blackness." They'd be crap in pretty much the same way. I'd doubt monstro would promote use of that phrase to discuss these issues because of toxic nature of the message of not getting mental health help, or because of the celebration in some cultural circles of "thug culture."
The phrase does not well communicate the problem of monstro having considered certain traits as feminine and weak (to be avoided in a "man's environment"), nor how she plays to the crying woman stereotype with females co-workers but tough cool chick who mocks women who cry with men.
What it messages to those who are not steeped in reading deeply, i.e. most myself inclusive, is that there is some subset of men that are a problem because they act excessively manly, with the traits we expect men to have if they are "manly men". Not me and certainly not a problem that women contribute to with the stereotypes they hold ...
Physical traits are not what we are talking about. What are those differences in behaviors and personality traits that you are talking about?
Being tough vs fragile? Silently bearing it vs crying? Having a job like a lumberjack vs a nurse? Liking to hunt vs liking to shop? Being sexually aggressive vs a bit shy? Coming home and watching sports vs cooking dinner?
With me so far?
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I have no doubt that I have internalized toughness, tenacity, and stoicism as values to aspire to. Thing is that I think I got that from both parents as role models, not just my WW2 era boxer is his youth 1950s stereotype of masculinity father. And I think my daughter gets them messaged by me as values for her as much as my boys have. (Her mom possibly tougher and as tenacious but less on the stoic side. And her toughness and tenacity are part of what makes her such an attractive woman. And why I live in fear!) Whether you think they are good values or harmful ones or fine unless too much and then toxic, they are values and traits that are not male or female.
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The common response when I or anyone says such things is along these lines: "Yes, there's a lot of meaningless crap and phony research out there, but it's unfair to dismiss the entire fields based on a few useless or laughable papers." But I've never had anyone point me to any women's studies or feminist theory papers that they would consider to be good stuff that contrasts with the bad stuff.
I didn't even notice that your cite was Quilette.
Quilette: The Thinking Man's Daily Stürmer.
Clearly, this is a conversation that's worth continuing.
I'm going to shift to race again. I work in an intensive academic environment. As is pretty typical in this sort of environment, I deal with a lot of imposter syndrome and a lot of kids who worry they aren't really "smart". Some deal with this by working really, really hard. Others, however, deal with this by not working at all, and even lying about how little they work to make it sound like they do nothing at all. They seem to deal with the anxiety of potentially not living up to expectations by creating the impression that they don't try at all, and considering that, the fact that the do so well must reveal impressive inherent abilities indeed.
Now, all sorts of kids display this sort of behavior, but it's fundamentally different with the Asian kids that display this behavior. On both extremes--the hard-working and the extreme-slacking--there is more intensity to it. Furthermore, they persistently bring up their Asian-ness in relationship to their intelligence. Furthermore, in private conversations about their academics/college aspirations, this comes up all the time. Being "smart" is much more closely tied to their self-identity, and falling short of that standard is a threat to their identity. It's a fundamentally different thing than the pressure to excel non-Asian kids might feel: this is pressure not to meet the minimum standards for your self-concept. And it comes both from within and from without--and, again, both from other Asian and non-Asian kids. It's a pervasive thing.
Now, being smart isn't a bad thing. I also think we'd agree that being "Asian"--a term that encompasses half the world--doesn't indicate a genetic increase in intelligence. But the fact is that in the current construction of society, the stereotype that Asians are "smart" leads to a particular set of toxic behaviors that are counter-productive for everyone. I'm comfortable calling that "toxic Asian-ness". It's not enough to call it "internalized stereotypes".
I also think that no matter what the phase, people are going to complain because the issue is with the underlying concept. ANY discussion about how qualities associated with manliness might be negative is going to inspire defensiveness in some portion of the population. As has been pointed out, we started having this conversation centuries ago about Toxic Femininity, and were allowed to have it. But anything perceived as an attack on masculinity has to be shut down before it starts.
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Well, okay. I mean, the other discussion clearly ain't going anywhere, so I suppose it's more productive to talk semantics.
What would you like to see it called? What term should we be using, if the one that's generally agreed upon in sociology is so bad at communicating the concept?
Also, how do we discuss the existence of stereotypes without affirming stereotypes, in your view?
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I'm pretty sure that this is a noncontroversial issue for most people. I say this because it seems like that most people have some story about middle-age "Karen" doing something bad or some "gold-digging ho" doing something bad or some all-female workplace acting "bad". Or some teenage girl doing something bad(everyone always seems quite familiar with the "mean girl" concept). And the "something bad" always seems to fit in with offenses that line up with extreme femininity. Karens become hysterical when the waitstaff don't do something to their exact specification and use their hysteria as a weapon. Gold-digging hos are high maintenance narcissicists who use their feminine wiles to extract resources from others. All-female workplaces are petty and catty and backstabby. And teenaged girls are all about drama and shit-stirring and catching an attitude with people. These are stereotypes--yes--but there are some women who nonetheless fulfill them to a T. Are all of them carrying out social programming? Of course not. But I don't think it's crazy to think that some significant fraction engage in certain behaviors because they think that's what they are "supposed" to do. Maybe they have been explicitly taught this or they just picked up it from their environments by studying others.
"My husband needs to show his love by buying me gifts all the time and taking care of all the finances. I shouldn't have to lift a finger beyond running the vacuum and doing the dishes. Because that's how a beautiful woman such as myself should be treated."
"Yeah, I'm constantly talking shit about my best friend behind her back and that might not be nice, but that's just how we girls are. That's what we all do."
"I have no problem barking orders at waitstaff because I'm a three time mother and a five time grandmother. I'm entitled to queen treatment as far as I'm concerned. I demand it!"
No, they are not male or female--but men or women are disproportionately pressured to exaggerate a set of traits as a condition of their gender. I lie and said I cried at a funeral because I didn't want to be perceived as unemotional, unempathic--unfemale. And some dude drove to the ER with a knife in his leg because he didn't want to be perceived as "unmanly". I wasn't just worked about looking too stoic; he wasn't just worried about looking too weak; we both strove to live up to what Wollstonecraft called, 300 years ago, our "supposed sexual character". What do you think is meant by "turn in your man card" or "quit acting like a girl"? It's saying "this behavior is unbecoming to a man, if you display it, you lose an essential part of your identity".
Manda JO I appreciate your post but I'd have the same discomfort with "toxic Asian-ness" as a popularized shorthand for what you were describing. It would similarly fail to as a shorthand to communicate the concept. Try just using the phrase by itself to the families of these students, to non-Asian students, and ask what they would think the phrase means and implies. Go to them and begin a conversation by saying "I'd like to have a conversation about toxic Asian-ness with you." and report back if you think that set the table well for a productive conversation about the issues.
And the failure is precisely because these labels "are rooted in people's core sense of themselves", are fundamental aspects of their identities.
The broad concept is not mumbo jumbo; it's the same concept as applies across the board with all stereotyped groupings in our society. And I admit that the ideas of stereotyped expectations, of implicit stereotype being held, of within-group reactions to stereotypes (how they are adopted or rejected by group members), institutional factors, are not easy to communicate broadly, whatever the identity in the blank X of the discussion.
Perhaps "harmful X stereotypes" is not a completely adequate shorthand for the broad subjects, but IMHO, "Toxic Xness" is a complete fail for any X. And the former is less, well, toxic, to productive conversation and broader communication.
Do another little experiment maybe: informally poll a few dozen people today and ask them if they've heard the phrase "toxic masculinity" and what it means.
I will be shocked if the near universal response of what it means is essentially just men who are being "bros". Not sure how many have heard the phrase "toxic femininity" already ... might be more confused responses ... but I'd suspect the response would be dunno but it sounds sexist.
Yes, BPC, I think the crying discussion is analyzing not just one tree but one little bit of bark on one tree and missing the forest. OF COURSE there are stereotypes widely held over what are "manly" traits which in general include aspects of toughness and grit and the ability to endure and to persevere. Whether or not the stereotype is men don't cry or men cry only for real good reasons or a belief that crying is not a sign of not being tough after all is, to me, dumb. But do carry on.
How we discuss stereotypes without affirming them is - carefully. We discuss the stereotypes as objects that are used but we don't use them while we discuss them.
Perhaps a white person wouldn't be the best person to deliver a sermon on "toxic Asianness". Perhaps that would be a message better delivered by a member of that group, who has firsthand experience in the toxicity as well as the non-toxicity of the culture and thus can speak from a position of love and respect.
I probably wouldn't want to sit through a lecture about toxic femininity from a guy unless he was a well-respected feminist scholar. I probably wouldn't want to sit through a lecture about toxic African Americanness from a white person or a conservative black person. But all this means is that who the messager is is just as important as the message.
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While it's true that the choice of messenger can make people bristle, that's more the fault of the audience than the speaker - and it's the audience who should change, not the messenger. If a white person delivers a talk about 'toxic Asianness' and people bristle because the white speaker isn't Asian (but they would be perfectly fine with the speech had it come from an Asian speaker), that's ad hominem on part of the audience.
When people are replaced by robots you might have a chance.
For "toxic masculinity", I would use Ari Gold from Entourage (Jeremy Piven) as an example.
For "toxic femininity", I would use Selena Meyer from Veep (Julia Louise-Dreyfus).
While both characters are narcissistic, crude, obnoxious, offensive, racist, classist, sexist, homophobic, loud, abusive, bullies, there are some differences:
Selena seems to be able to turn on her "charm" like a switch. Going from "fuck, cunt, dildo up the ass" to very sweet, even flirtatious in the blink of an eye. Even while she is planning to stab someone in the back.
In contrast, Ari Gold is more or less Ari Gold all the time.
IOW, Ari Gold's "toxic manliness" is that he is constantly "alpha male"ing everyone around him while Selena Meyer's "toxic femininity" is that her charm and womanly guiles are means to getting what she wants and a mask for her true abusive nature.
Although, this does beg the question whether these potrayals of each character are fair. Ari Gold is shown to be competent, in spite of his lack of charm while Selena is shown to be superficially charming, but often inept and stupid.
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But yes a member of group X can get away with saying things to those of X that those not X cannot. Specific to stereotypical masculine behaviors and expectations even male may not be enough. I, a highly educated liberal who cooks and works with children may not be enough in group to say some things in some ways effectively to some male crowds. If I am to sell them on the concept I need to say it in a way that gets a real conversation going.
Is that fact the fault of the audience? Dont care if it is. My goal is getting the concept understood and in service of that goal I should play the room. The room that matters is not filled with people already convinced, steeped in the academic literature.
And velocity be real. I can make certain Jewish jokes to a Jewish crowd that a WASP or a Black Muslim cant expect to be heard the same. A Black rapper can say a particular racially tinged word targeted at a person and I cant even say the word out loud to say it is a bad word without awareness that such may greatly offend.
My parents were (and probably still are) big proponents of corporal punishment. They were not afraid to whip us kids if we stepped out of line whether intentionally or not. They are also big church-goers and love sitting through a well-articulated, passionate sermon. I really wish that the various pastors that had preached to them while I was growing up had occasionally put out a message like, "We sure do whip our kids a lot. Maybe we should stop doing that so much and instead talk to them. Can I get an 'amen'?" That probably would have resonated with my parents a lot more than whatever it was the family counselor we all went to told them.
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A woman who is deeply affected by something could have a meltdown while a man in the same situation could go into a rage. It would come from the same place but would manifest in very different ways. The man's way (fight) is more likely to cause needless harm and the woman's way (flight) is more likely to fail to engage in defense. Maybe 200 000 years ago, the woman's way was more likely to be inappropriate than the man's. We live in a society where the man's way is more often inappropriate.
Its no surprise that Quillete managed to find 12 people to agree with their editorial stance. (By the way: who wrote that editorial anyway?) It is a bit surprising they only found 12. The Truthers could find more people to support them.
You couldn't find any flaws in the sound logic and science in the APA so you smeared them by calling it propaganda. And you used a website that does regularly post alt-right propaganda to do so. Pointing that out to you is not a fallacy.
So I suppose congratulations are in order: you agree with people in the internet comments section. But you can't back up your arguments with facts and logic.
I did offer an argument that the APA guidelines are propaganda, specifically quoting that the guidelines say "boys and men, as a group, tend to hold privilege and power based on gender", and noting that this is a political statement, not a scientific one. The entire document is packed with political references to privilege, patriarchy, and other unscientific notions that only the left believes in.
Still Id guess most Amen! that which they already agree with most of the time.
Also, while we're bagging on that nonsense, let's be clear - there's a difference between "Ad Hominem" ("You're an asshole, therefore you're wrong") and "Extraneous Insults" ("You're wrong, and by the way, you're also an asshole"). My post was the latter, directed at Quillette. It's a pseudointellectual hotbed of alt-right nonsense - the thinking man's Daily Stormer. If you're looking for an excuse to believe any given nasty right-wing idea, it's a great place to look!
I'm not interested in what they have to say. I wasn't interested in your link, period - I didn't even click it, that's why it took me a minute to realize you had cited a source best known for its defense of the "human biodiversity" (AKA "race realist" AKA "scientific racist" AKA "smearing lipstick on the KKK pig") movement. I just read "First of all, the APA guidelines that you linked to are political propaganda, not science" and then stopped reading, because I don't care what comes after that statement. You've stated outright that the foremost scientific authority on the subject is "political propaganda", putting you firmly in the same camp as the people who are really pissed off that the APA doesn't still think homosexuality is a mental disorder. At that point, it's clear - it doesn't matter what evidence I cite, the most authoritative possible source was dismissed out of hand. So why bother?
I definitely don't in any way identify with anything I heard him say. And I am not remotely untouched by toxic masculinity. I don't know how many pissing contests I wind up getting into, for example. I'm better than my extended family who get into actual fights, but I still have toxic anger I have to deal with.
Do you have any links to videos that illustrate this aspect of his comedy?
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Anyone can read this thread and see that you dismissed the APA cite out-of-hand, choosing to cite alt-right propaganda to claim the APA was disseminating propaganda. It isn't an ad hominem to point that out. Your cite was utter garbage.
The "lecture" or "sermon," on the other hand, is specifically about telling someone else they are wrong. It refers to "calling someone out." At least, that's when the accusation is used against me--I'm calling out what I consider bad behavior, and I'm told I'm "lecturing." It clearly not the same sort of thing as a lecture at college.
That said, I do think the terms are overused, being used any time something you say makes someone else feel bad about their behavior. It's actually an aspect of toxic masculinity to see any challenge to certain ideas as a threat, and thus you are being "lectured" about it if someone brings it up. A key example is the Gillette commercial, which did not lecture anyone.
I do agree that toxic femininity as a concept makes sense. However, the term seems to have been coined by men being insulted by the term "toxic masculinity", and thus they do often turn around and use it as an insult that had nothing to do with the concept. Toxic femininity would simply be culturally accepted feminine traits that are actually toxic to one's well being. They would be things women think about themselves.
Toxic femininity includes stuff like valuing yourself based on beauty standards. That's toxic, but accepted as part of femininity. But nothing described in that article involves McCain doing something that is usually seen as feminine but is also toxic.
It seems to be just using "toxic femininity" as an insult. Nothing even tries to argue that she's treating a female Muslim congressperson differently than she would a male one. I could maybe call it toxic Christianity, since it seems to be about religion, and there is at least some subset of Christian who think it is Christian to say those sorts of things about Muslims. But then again, the underlying position is probably political, and she'd have no problem with the congresswoman if she were a Muslim REPUBLICAN.
On the other hand, toxic masculinity is definitely big in politics, as the President himself is full of it. What do you think all his grandstanding is about? He's constantly worried about being seen as weak. Hell, he does a toxic masculine handshake, for fuck's sake.
And there are some people who eat up that form of masculinity. That's his appeal.
All of this said, I do sometimes deliberately avoid triggering terms like "toxic masculinity" and "privilege." The latter is a bit hard, as there's not really a great word for the concept. I mostly use "take it for granted" and such, with more explanations. However, the former is really easy. You just call it the "Be a MAN!" culture, and most of the same people who get upset about "toxic masculinity" agree that it's bad.
If using a different name for the concept gets people to accept it and try and improve, then I'm fine using different terms.
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At a certain point, one's reluctance to add to the discourse in a receptive, constructive way does suggest there is more going on than failure to use just the right words to term the phenomenon of concern. In this very discussion, we're seeing posters deny that men are even socialized to act differently than women. It should make you wonder: Do these posters genuinely believe that gender stereotypes are not applied to men and don't affect how they are judged? Or is it more likely that their denials are simply knee jerk reactions to anything that validates the idea that those feminists were right and patriarchy is a problem?
And most importantly, would coining just the perfect replacement term for "toxic masculinity" do anything to change their view? I'm going to say no.
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We talk all the time about how media portrayals of super skinny women contributes to eating disorders and other obsessions in women who internalize the idea that to be beautiful and worthy, they have to be thin. Toxic femininity in other words. What we really havent discussed is how media portrayals contributes to analogous pathologies in men.
I have been male my whole life. I learned rules of behavior from childhood based primarily on the fact that I am male.
Rule one: Don't hit girls. The absence of a don't hit boys rule was never explained.
Rule two: Help girls with big muscle stuff. (This never made sense to me while I didn't have big muscles, but by the time my muscles got bigger, it was already a habit.)
Rule three: (actually an exception to the rule applying to both sexes to walk away from fights.) Don't walk away from fights and leave girls alone.
Rule four: Crying doesn't change what you are crying about. (my dad was a lot more complex person than it takes to just say don't cry.)
Rule five: Don't kiss girls who don't want to kiss you.
There were other more subtle expectations, but those were the hard and fast rules.
These rules shaped my behavior over my life. I broke rule one three times. That is the primary reason I got a divorce. Lots of things about divorce are bad, but for me, the knowledge that I broke rule one hurt the most. Losing my children was almost as bad, but not quite.
Rule two has been just a habit for a long time. I don't think about it at all, but offer whenever I notice it. Now I am old enough that most of the women I offer are significantly stronger than I am. It's not an issue.
Rule three has been the source of significant number of unfortunate experiences. Self confidence and an understanding of principles of behavior modification have been the most beneficial characteristics in reducing the unpleasantness of those encounters. Are those elements of masculinity?
Rule four has been a source of some consternation to me. I don't cry much. A Bambi/Thumper single tear now an again over trivial tragedies would be the bulk of those experiences. Actually crying? Three or four times, face down on the ground abjectly weeping, all alone. Three of those times someone came to help me. I stopped crying as soon as I knew they were there. Turns out for me the rule was right. Crying did not change anything.
Rule five had a huge impact on my life. Turns out, most girls wait for you to kiss them before they let you know how they feel about it. If you don't kiss them, after a while they decide you don't like them. Boys who just kiss them to find out have a lot more girlfriends.
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But no question that there will be some who will be unreceptive to these concepts no matter how they are presented, likely a big overlap with people who are unreceptive to the concepts of institutional and implicit racism no matter how they are presented. And some who will be receptive no matter how poorly a concept is popularized.
Most importantly, would some hypothetical perfect other term do more to help some significant additional number be open to consideration of the concepts? My WAG is that most people are somewhere between those two groups and that some significant number would be more open to thinking about the concept in that case. Just like I think that there are some who would be less likely to understand implicit and institutional racism if we referred to the issues as "toxic whiteness" than the terms we do use.
I think it speaks to some fairly old concepts of the man as "warrior" or "explorer" or "athlete" with the woman as a "manipulator" and "schemer".
You are probably not going to see that clearly when you start out biased, though. Everyone you disagree with is going to look female and progressive if you're in the habit of dismissing females and progressives.
So what would be a better term than TM?
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As for your claim that Quillette is associated with or similar to the KKK or Nazis, normally someone who makes such a claim would be expected to provide evidence. Needless to say, you can't do so. No member of the KKK, any Nazi group, or any other racist group has ever written a word for Quillette, nor has any white supremacist material ever been published there.
I don't know if these terms have any vital function. I do think it is easy for them to be misused even before getting into the human tendency of expanding definitions. Toxic masculinity and toxic femininity are fairly incoherent to me, as traits among genders are in flux often overlapping, and if I knew of a situation that happened with a blindfold that obscured knowing the genders of the parties involved, I'm not sure I'd ever feel comfortable applying such a label.
If the labels are looked at strictly through a lens of socialization, that is more clear. One of the pitfalls within that I see is assuming socialization is the cause of something. If I'm a young man in a society that tends to promote a toxic behavior among males and I engage in that behavior, that doesn't automatically mean the nurture influence took. My problem could be primarily genetic. I think we should be cautious of words stifling other lines of inquiry that could be educational. When a man goes on a shooting spree, often we can look at factors going on in his life and make a possible case his thoughts were marinading in toxic masculinity. This can be reduced to evil which can then make probing other factors seem like ways to excuse evil.
Having said that, if I am less picky and guarded about language for a moment, I would say instances of toxic masculinity directly causing external ripples do appear to be more ubiquitous and easy to spot, so I understand why it is discussed more. I would think discussion of internalized self-sabotage due to expectations merits a balanced consideration between genders; I don't easily draw connections why these toxic masculinity and femininity terms are also lumped in with this.
But if someone like Jordan Peterson--someone with conservative bonafides-- preached against "toxic masculinity" and framed it in the context of being a better father, brother, citizen, or Christian, there's no doubt in my mind that the denialists here would be more accepting of it.
Because there is nothing controversial about, "Look, brothers. Stoicism is wonderful, but it's also wonderful to admit you need help. We guys often think have to take on all the problems of the world with a stone face. But that's so not healthy. It's not healthy for us or the people who love us. It's toxic."
Someone needs to start preaching this. The skyrocketing suicide rate among middle-age white guys indicates that someone needs to start doing something differently. Denial certainly isn't helping anyone.
Maybe it's not even necessary to say "toxic masculinity" to call out problematic behaviors. But I really do think this is a case of a term being OK for some people to use (conservative men) and not OK for others to use (liberal women). In other words, it's not the message that's problematic. It's the perceived messenger.
Girls changed a bit over the decades, though. They are more likely to ask about the absence of kisses now, rather than just walk away. That helped a whole lot more than the crying.
Into each life a bit of rain must fall. So, learn to dance in the rain.
To have an idea of the kind of impact gender socialization can have, look at how black men are differently affected than black women by racism. Black men are far more likely to engage in self/other-destructive behavior than black women. Not because they're black but because they suffer from being in a stressing racist environment combined with many of them having been raised in a honor culture that feeds toxic masculinity.
When you combine a stressor like racism, economic anxiety or some other hardship with toxic masculinity, you can end up with some very nasty results, probably because it gets some men to see a hostile world (which may indeed contain major elements which are unfairly hostile) to which they may respond as if there were a war between them and the whole world.
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Us and the Game Industry explores computer game development.
A developer cluster was invited to contribute to discussion on design outcomes with this new form.
Developers share their motivation, design process, focus and execution of game ideas.
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Each developer has a different style and takes a different direction. Each wonders about the potential of digital game design.
Filming begins in San Francisco and expands significantly to an observation of processes at thatgamecompany as the team builds, completes and offers JOURNEY, a networked game play for two on PS3, to the public.
Composer, Austin Wintory, for JOURNEY, breaks new ground with a score made interactive for networked play. Many aspects of the game design process for JOURNEY received world recognition. Antichamber went on to be heralded as an engagement in "an Escher-like world".
Other explorations are here: Mutazione from Die Gute Fabrik and J.S JOUST are presented. The Castle Doctrine from Jason Rohrer and SpellTower from Zach Gage are considered.
And, threading through, Robin Hunicke, Jenova Chen, Kellee Santiago, John Edwards et al - are exemplary figures of a long-term excitement and engagement with this design field who celebrate life and challenge the threat of mediocrity in the form. All participants in the film remain active with next games or ventures.
Jenova Chen is President and CEO of thatgamecompany. Graduate of the University of Southern California interactive programme, Chen, in 2006, was excited to head towards a commercial game developer career. Sony Santa Monica took on the company for a three game contract. The company put out now well renowned games FLOW, and FLOWER, establishing a reputation for creating games that had emotional impact.
In 2013, after thousands of sales and much touching feedback, Chen affirms the pleasure in game creation. The earlier games are now bundled for the Playstation 4. JOURNEY, since first release, has been bundled again, this time with the UNIFINISHED SWAN, a game that was being discussed during the time of making this film.
We exclusively follow the studio build of JOURNEY with it's music orchestration developments between 2009 – 2012 as the principle narrative element in this film.
A past interview with Kellee about JOURNEY indicated her activity as a spokesperson for the game. "Journey was inspired by a conversation my business partner and I had with a space shuttle pilot. Being the pilot, he got to take people to the moon, though unfortunately never went on the moon himself. But he got to witness the experiences of these astronauts.
Many of them were agnostic or atheists before the journey. And then every single one of them, he said, at some point, whether it was immediately on the trip itself, or months after they returned back home, had a deep spiritual experience, and became very religious.
Our creative director (Jenova Chen) felt like this was because of the sense of supreme awe and wonder you probably have when you're standing on the moon, looking back at Earth. And that even a smaller sense of awe and wonder is something that's kind of lacking in our day-to-day lives now."
Gage has developed puzzle games for the iPad generation and his research interests straddle the challenges of designing board and card games.
His gameography:
Here's an essay by Sam Anderson about Gage and a later article in WIRED.
Robin Hunicke is a game designer. Her early work was at EA on My Sims and Boombox and its sequel in the 2000's. She is completing a Phd at Northwestern University in A.I. Hunicke was the producer for JOURNEY for the Playstation 3 at thatgamecompany from 2009.
She was interim Advisory Board chair for Indiecade, 2011 and was an advisor for its steering committee, 2012. This is an International Festival of Independent games held in Culver city, Los Angeles.
Hunicke now lives in San Francisco and co-runs a new company Funomena.
Rohrer has developed small games as a sole developer. He has contributed intently to thought on aesthetics, philosophy and design.
He has explored puzzle, abstract, the single player, the two-person player, strategy games and massive multi-player frameworks. Titles include: Gravitation, Primrose, Passage, Inside a Star-Filled Sky, Sleep is Death and Diamond Trust of London.
We hear about his latest game The Castle Doctrine in the film. The Castle Doctrine, very MMO, offers a meta-experience with anxiety in his newest fiction where he opens up vulnerability inside a male myth.
Douglas Wilson teamed up with developer colleagues and started the Copenhagen Collective in Denmark a few years ago. It is still active.
He defended a Phd on low frequency interactive entertainments in May 2012 and it's interesting to hop through his views on new games values. In the film we hear about the adventure game, MUTAZIONE and you may have heard of J.S. JOUST.
Alexander Bruce is an independent developer. He brings to this film his thoughts during 2011 whilst in final development of his significant game, ANTICHAMBER. The game is described variously as a mind bender or puzzle platform video game.
Bruce used his capacity to 'be in game culture" in several world sites during the game's development. He entered it a number of competitions, by doing so getting as close as was possible to player and player surprises. Along the way he garnered peer and game popularity well before the game's release in 2013.
In 2009 Stephanie founded Common Dreams Ltd. Over some decades of involvement with documentary production and teaching with and about media, she has sustained an ethnographic interest in the human condition in the modern and then contemporary world.
The film was born as a commissioned work out of a United Womens' Convention. "The organizing committee asked me to make something of the conference, take free reign to "find a topic and choose an approach." 1977 was a catalytic, informative and energetic time for debate and experience for women in public spaces. 1977 was an ideological time for feminist thought."
A film on patterns of play, improvisation and performance devised as a workshop for women who had experienced domestic violence. It screened at NFT, London and at Universities in New Zealand and the USA and was exhibited at the 27th Oberhausen Documentary Film Festival.
Robin Greenberg's film about a T'ai Chi master from China who was employed in the New Zealand fisheries from 1967, and who was part of a crew who sailed an old Chinese junk from Taiwan to San Francisco in 1955 without sailing experience. Greenberg's sequel film is called "The Free China Junk" (2010).
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After graduation, Clay immediately filmed pilots for every major network, establishing the look of such series as Life of Luxury with Robin Leach (ABC), Gene Simmons: Family Jewels (A&E), Rattlesnake Republic (Animal Planet), and Junk Gypsies (HGTV).
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He established Martini Crew Booking as a gear and service provider for television and film productions in 2000. While at Martini, Clay filmed the Emmy-winning documentary The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club.
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Imaginaut released its first feature, the award-winning documentary Popatopolis in 2009, and a heartwarming doc for HBO in 2013 about a pageant for young disabled girls. He also released Mr. Twister, a documentary about an autistic young man, produced by Academy Award-winner Mark Harris.
Clay resides in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles with his wife and daughter, and is in development on multiple documentaries and television pilots while writing two feature screenplays.
One viewer, a youth, said, "Thank you. I came here in a really bad mood, but I'm leaving so inspired and happy. Seeing this encourages me to keep going."
"I enjoyed seeing that indie games are not just one thing for all people."
40 people watched the movie. They felt very motivated about what they watched mainly because in countries like Mexico is not easy to do make games.
Wow. What a beautiful collection of art, sound, games, and the people who want to change the medium! When can we get a download?
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Campus security bills for speakers challenged
When a UC Berkeley student group invited a speaker known for his hard-line pro-Israel stance, the university feared clashes with Palestinian supporters and billed the group more than $3,000 for police protection.
It was a common response by campus officials in a security-conscious era. When a speaker's controversial topic or history suggests the possibility of a violent reaction, the thinking goes, the sponsoring group should pay for protecting the speaker, the audience and public property.
That sounds logical, but it's also unconstitutional, says the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a conservative-leaning group that defends free speech on campus. Citing a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the foundation has been challenging security fees at colleges around the country.
"It doesn't matter how unpopular or controversial the speech is," said foundation spokesman Adam Kissel. "The amount of security has to be the same as for all other events."
UC Berkeley, the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, got the message. Saying its police may have misunderstood the nature of the event, the university lowered its fee to $460 for two officers for the March 3 speech at Dwinelle Hall by Elan Journo of the Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine.
Journo said about 60 people attended and listened peacefully to his message that the United States should stop trying to promote an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians and instead should encourage Israel to "uproot, dismantle and destroy the Palestinian cause, which seeks to destroy Israel."
'Stifling real debate'
He said his sponsors, the Objectivist Club of Berkeley, probably would have canceled the event if the university hadn't reduced the security charge.
"When they're asked to pay an excessive fee, that is stifling real debate," Journo said.
In a similar dispute two years ago, Kissel said, UCLA planned to charge a conservative student group $12,000 to $15,000 to pay for 46 security guards at a debate on illegal immigration, but relented after a protest.
He said the foundation is now challenging a $725 fee that the University of Massachusetts at Amherst charged for police protection at a March 11 speech by a conservative columnist who disputes the concept of hate crimes.
The foundation is also backing a left-leaning student group that is contesting fees that the University of Colorado wants to charge for security at an appearance by two speakers earlier this month.
William Ayers, a leader of the 1960s radical group Weather Underground, and Ward Churchill, a former Colorado ethnic studies professor, spoke at a student-sponsored forum on academic freedom March 5 at the university's Boulder campus.
'Little Eichmanns' furor
Churchill was fired on plagiarism charges in 2007. He claims in a lawsuit that the university was retaliating against him for describing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as a response to U.S. abuses and calling some of the victims "little Eichmanns." The reference was to Adolf Eichmann, the main Nazi coordinator of the Holocaust.
University spokesman Bronson Hilliard said about 1,100 people attended the event under tight security, which included pat-downs at the entrance, and behaved peacefully. He said university officials have planned to bill the sponsors about $2,700, but listened to the students' objections and have not made a final decision.
"There's no relationship between the cost of the security and the content of the speaker," Hilliard said. He said police consider the likely audience reaction when making security plans and should be able to pass along those costs to event organizers.
"What our law enforcement officials look at is, are we going to have a full venue and might we have audience members who disagree with the message?" Hilliard said. "That's a basic security planning protocol."
Other factors to consider
Kissel said security fees should be based on factors unrelated to either the speaker's message or the audience's anticipated response - for example, the expected size of the crowd, the location, and whether a security guard will be needed for admission money collected at the door.
The Supreme Court set constitutional standards for such disputes in the 1992 case of a white-supremacist group, the Nationalist Movement, that wanted to demonstrate in Georgia against the proposed national holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
The group canceled its plans when officials said a permit would cost $100, and instead challenged a county ordinance that allowed authorities to charge as much as $1,000 for a permit to hold a demonstration, parade or meeting on public property.
In a 5-4 ruling, the court said the ordinance was unconstitutional because it allowed officials to base the fee on the costs of controlling hostile onlookers.
Government's job
Kissel said the ruling means public speakers shouldn't have to pay for protecting themselves or their surroundings from an angry crowd. Speakers who incite a riot should be responsible for the consequences, he said, but "security is a basic function of government."
Controversial speech should be especially welcome at universities, "society's ultimate marketplace of ideas," Kissel said. He said UC Berkeley could help other schools get the message if it followed its recent agreement on fees with standards for such disputes.
Michael Smith, a lawyer for the university, said he had reviewed the security fee for the March 3 speech agreed that it shouldn't be based on the speaker's viewpoint or the expected reaction. He said he had discussed the proper standards with campus police, who set the fee levels in most cases, so that such overcharges won't happen again.
But Smith said neither Berkeley nor the 10-campus university has a formal policy on the subject.
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Crafted in Valencia, Spain, the birthplace of paella, this pan showcases the traditional Valencian style. The wide, shallow carbon steel cooking surface is designed to sauté meats and vegetables prior to adding rice. This set pairs the pan with our Williams-Sonom Rustic Spanish cookbook, with more than 100 recipes – including paella – that reveal the immense breadth of the rustic Spanish culinary tradition.
- Carbon steel construction ensures even heating over the entire cooking surface.
- Dimples in the base mimic those of traditional Valencian paella pans and encourage uniform heating.
- The pan's sloped sides make it easier to stir ingredients.
- Large red loop handles make it easy to carry the pan from oven to table for serving.
- Williams-Sonom Rustic Spanish by Paul Richardson offers simple, unfussy recipes reflect the way Spaniards cook at home, bringing their own style, seasonings and techniques to fresh Mediterranean ingredients.
- Pan is made in Spain.
- Cookbook is hardcover, 192 pages.
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- 15" diam., 2" high; 4-qt. cap.; 3 lb.
- 17" diam., 2" high; 6 1/4-qt. cap.; 3 lb. 12 oz.
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- Made in Spain.
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Turning Stone Resort and Casino, Vernon Downs holding St. Patrick's Day entertainment
A big helping of some St. Patrick's Day luck o' the Irish might be just the thing to make a visit to the local casino a memorable experience. But even without some magical intervention at the gaming tables, the holiday brings festive music, food and fun to both Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona and Vernon Downs Casino and Hotel in Vernon.
The green-themed party kicks off at Turning Stone on March 14 from noon to 3 p.m. as the Season's Harvest Buffet hosts their Irish Swingin' Seniors Dance Party. With an Irish-oriented menu of St. Paddy's Day favorites including traditional corned beef and cabbage plus a scrumptious green chocolate fountain, the party welcomes guests who are 55 and older. Admission is $12.95.
The Turning Stone holiday festivities will include green derby hat and shamrock bead giveaways while supplies last. The Irish Rovers play in the Turning Stone Event Center on March 15 at 3 p.m., and tickets to their show are $25. That same day, Turning Stone's Winter Garden Stage brings out free Irish entertainment including the Stoutmen at 11 a.m. and 12:45 p.m.; Irish Dancers from the McDonald School of Irish Dance at 12:30, 2:30, and 4:30 p.m.; and Rattlin' Bog at 3 and 4:45 p.m.
Enter the Haggis keeps the party going in the Turning Stone Showroom on March 16 at 8 p.m., and tickets to that performance are $15. Free entertainment that day in the Leopard Lounge features Kindred at 3 p.m.; Kevin McKrell at 5:30 p.m.; and the Blarney Rebel Band at 9:30 p.m. The McDonald School of Irish Dance performers return in the Emerald Lobby at 4, 5, 7, and 8:40 p.m.
Even the Bingo Hall is getting in on the St. Paddy's Day fun with a "greenest person" contest March 16 at 7 p.m. and cosmic bingo following at 11 p.m. And since many Irish are known to enjoy a drink or two, there will be specials on their traditional beverages including $3 Guinness bottles, $3 Jameson cocktails, and $8 Irish and Dubliner martinis.
The St. Patrick's Day festivities wind down March 17 with an encore performance by the Blarney Rebel Band at 3 p.m. in the Leopard Lounge.
Other upcoming musical entertainment at Turning Stone includes:
March 7: The Oak Ridge Boys in the Showroom at 8 p.m. Tickets are $35, $40, and $50.
March 7: Broken Nails at the Leopard Lounge at 9 p.m. Free.
March 8: Night Fever tribute to the Bee Gees at 8 p.m. in the Showroom. Tickets are $15.
March 8 and 9: Broken Nails at the Leopard Lounge at 10 p.m. Free.
March 14: Letizia Duo in the Leopard Lounge at 9 p.m. Free.
March 15: Letizia Duo in the Leopard Lounge at 10 p.m.
DJ Bill T spins favorite dance tunes every Monday through Wednesday from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the Leopard Lounge.
The LOL Comedy Club at Turning Stone's Lava Lounge delivers top-notch laugh-out-loud shows to keep the audience giggling to the gags. Admission is $20 for booth seating and $15 for table seats, with $5 off table seat prices if paid before the day of the show.
Performances at the LOL Comedy Club are Wednesdays at 8 p.m. and are for 18 and older. The club offers a full bar and snack menu with table service, and room and show packages are available for comedy club performances as well as concerts.
Call 1-877-833-SHOW for tickets or more information on their live entertainment schedule.
Turning Stone Resort and Casino is located at 5218 Patrick Road in Verona, right off of New York State Thruway exit 33. For more information visit: www.turningstone.com
At Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs also puts on their best Irish party green with St. Patrick's Day buffets featuring corned beef and cabbage, Brunswick stew, and Irish chicken and dumplings at Champions. Holiday lunch buffets are March 16 and 17 from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. for $10.99, and dinner buffets are March 16 from 4-9:30 p.m. and March 17 from 4-8 p.m. for $13.99.
Players will have the chance to win St. Paddy's Day beads on March 17 for every 75 points earned at the machines, while supplies last.
With St. Patrick's Day near it means spring is close behind, and the opening day for live harness racing at Vernon Downs is scheduled for April 12 at 6:45 p.m., pending regulatory approval, celebrating 60 years of racing at the Vernon track. The season starter event will also feature a live bugler, T-shirt and magnet giveaways, and then fireworks after the racing.
Even before St. Patrick's Day arrives, the Rockokie contest tryouts start March 7 at Ring Eyed Pete's Bar from 5-8 p.m. for crooners 18 and older. The competition continues every Thursday from 6-8 p.m. until the $5,000 prize winner is named in April. Backing music is performed live by the Bob Greco Band.
Other acts coming up soon at Vernon Downs's Ring Eyed Pete's Bar include:
March 8: Hilbily Delux
March 9: Dubonnet
March 15: Dan Elliott and the Montereys
March 16: Bob Greco Band
All Ring Eyed Pete's Bar shows are at 8 p.m. and free.
Vernon Downs Casino and Hotel is located at 4229 Stuhlman Road in Vernon, just south of the intersection with Route 5. For more information, logon to: www.vernondowns.com


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