100: A Number By Which to Measure Progress

[jouis_sens]

I am told this is "the Women’s Century."   Tomorrow is International Women's Day.   It is women's day in what is, ostensibly, their century.

100 years. The number one hundred.  It is the basis of the mathematical concept of percentage, the number by which progress or amount is measured.

The United States Senate has 100 senators.  A mere 16% of

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[paracelsus]

In my small corner of the world it is also Labour Day (spelled with a 'u' as the British do, although our Labor Party omits it - confusing, I'll grant). It seems weird to wish you a happy IWD and Victorian Labour Day, as much because I'm unsure what gift to present because of its amusing contingency.

Although a bit of solidarity from the antipodes might just do it. http://populardemand.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/a-womans-best-weapon/

[jouis_sens]

Eloquent exegeses of capitalism's relentless deformation of the world are always welcome, and one reminding us of the indivisibility of feminism from anti-capitalism could not be a more apropros gift for the occasion. Nicely done, south|eastern hemisphere.

[signsof]

Sports?!? Has there been a paradigm shift I wasn't cc'ed on?

[jouis_sens]

Relax, I still find sports banal, the Olympics appalling, and skiing in particular odious, as it is, like golf, one of those vile monopolizations of natural lands use that the bourgeoisie is guilty of. You have to do really strange things, odd contortions (including choosing a highly uncharacteristic narrative context) when you're trying to translate across the complex/colloquial divide, it's a cognitive Cirque du soleil. (And all you really ever get for the effort of trying to build bridges between academia and the lay community is: 1. Suspicious looks from academicians; 2. Suspicious looks from lay persons; 3. Violent hate mail from internet nutbars. Thus, abandoning any planned or extant dalliances in this category and going to have a scotch and a feud with a still impressively vigorous Agnes Heller instead is probably the better part of wisdom.)

[lordtangent]

[dulcemia]

We actually have a gorgeous litho of this poster - in our kitchen!

[jouis_sens]

Emma was herself a 'beautiful, radiant thing.' Would that she had been given six or seven lifetimes!

[dulcemia]

You promised the agonistic pluralism draft for the women's day post. I was looking forward to it all week. /Huffiness/

[jouis_sens]

I got stuck North (still am) and didn't have the time or energy to whittle it down for the public post. I've just put the whole thing in the box. (the compressed PDF starting "Radicalism's..). Should you like to reciprocate, please feel free to send me several large boxes of sleep.