The Park Slope Hat Spat
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- PostModernStuff
..."i can’t help but chime in here. i wrote to helene privately as i felt she had been treated quite badly. but in all honesty, i think this is an internet age issue. would lisa have reacted in the same way had she been face to face with helene? had helene stopped lisa in the park and said “excuse me, does this boy’s hat belong to you by any chance? i just found it on this corner,” would lisa have allowed herself to act offended and outraged by helene’s practical assumption that this was a boy’s hat?
i feel that there are inherent problems with internet use in the way that people react to each other’s words. i won’t try to dissect what it is about the internet thatcreates these situation, but maybe there are internet experts out there that can shed some light on this issue. in general i feel that it is important to consider whether you would say what you type to the person if they were in front of you - human to human. or does this medium allow us to lose inhibitions, boundaries and a fundamental respect for each other? and to assume the worst about the other.
best,
-nati"that is the question. hilarious, absurd and worrying. here:
- paraselene0
brilliant. that's park slope all over.
gender and all of its constructs will not amount to a hill of beans for these kids once they're safely installed in mount holyoke with their trust funds.
christ.
- Crouwel0
hahahahah oh my ..
- Crouwel0
anyway, did not read all of it, but did the hat belong to a lesbian?
- Crouwel0
.. with a small head ofcourse.
- paraselene0
they never found the owner in the end.
what gets me is that nobody involved in that discussion noticed that one of the women who started the whole thing was expressing outrage that in this day and age, her four-year-old neighbour wouldn't touch anything pink (because pink is a girl's colour), saying:
"I had to really supress my feelings because it wasn’t his fault that his father was teaching him that kind of stuff..."
eh? you dizzy bitch? can't mothers teach sexism?
okay. i'll stop now. maybe i should move to fucking park slope.
:l
- Crouwel0
hahaha