Comments | greenie_breizh: On Japan, nuclear power, and, unrelated to both, slut-shaming

greenie_breizh

On Japan, nuclear power, and, unrelated to both, slut-shaming

Mar 23, 2011 13:12

Instead of getting angry about nuclear power and ranting at all of you guys, for once, I'm just going to link to a note (in French) by Dominique Voynet that's particularly articulate, I think.

I also want to link to all these photos from the aftermath of the tsunami/earthquake in Japan; they're awesome and incredible (both in the original sense of ( Read more... )

sex & sexuality, gender & co, public, nuclear power, disasters, photography, ecology

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lvs2read March 23 2011, 20:43:13 UTC

I can't read the slut-shaming article. :( (Not your fault, can't even access the magazine via google. Weird.)

Japan... Seeing the devastation there is so heart-wrenching. :( Mother Nature's a force to be reckoned with, which we often forget. And to have the man-made hazards of nuclear fallout on top of it all makes it even worse. :(

shiraz_wine March 25 2011, 07:08:42 UTC

Try using Firefox or Opera to see the slut-shaming article.

lvs2read March 27 2011, 03:16:12 UTC

I was using Firefox. ;) Must have been an issue on my end, b/c it's opening fine now.

greenie_breizh March 25 2011, 17:49:40 UTC

I'm actually so confused as to why you can't access the article? There's really nothing special about it as far as I can tell!

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shiraz_wine March 25 2011, 07:11:36 UTC

Wow, I see how limited the Google Translate feature is. I tried to read the note about nuclear power, but it was almost incomprehensible and I don't think the gist I got from the Google translated article is what the author intended at all. Can you try translating the article to English using Google Translate - if you're using Chrome the option automatically appears - and tell me what you think of the translation. I already know it's awful, but I want to know just how awful it is.

greenie_breizh March 25 2011, 16:05:41 UTC

It's definitely bad. I think part of what makes it really bad (and makes automatic translations terrible) is that it can't handle (1) the different ways sentences are constructed in French and English, (2) prepositions, (3) unusual turns of phrase. Not that the article uses turns of phrase that are unusual in French, but it's not always the subject-verb-complement model, and that screws up automatic translations...

I wish I had time to translate it properly for you into French! Although it does speak more to France and its obsession with nuclear power than to many other nations, so you're not missing out on too much :)

semisweetsoul March 25 2011, 19:21:07 UTC

Just found this post. Thanks LJ.

Last week, I learned that 80% of our energy comes from nuclear power. 80%! It sort of left me wondering how did we come to that? I have no answer. And I feel powerless.

Those pictures are terrifying. And yet, we won't send help, cause you know, it's a civilized country, so they can take care of themselves, right. I actually heard that.

I read the slut-shaming article. The only thing I'm left wondering is did that happen when I was 11? Feels like these days kids are growing up really fast.