Wherein I read things, laugh [or not], and pass them on to you…
Bear cub in the garage
• Animal prints teach children their Elvish ABCs: It’s never too early to teach your children Elvish, and just as when learning real-world language, visual aids are often helpful. These pastel animal prints will get a child (or adult) started on their Elvish alphabet. It’s as easy as Tinco, Ando, Súlë. viaElvish ABC Animals [tiedyejedi via The Mary Sue] [io9/LAUREN DAVIS/23 June 2012]
On Scottish things:
• Scottish marchers told no swords allowed: STIRLING, Scotland, June 23 (UPI) — Participants in a march to commemorate the Battle of Bannockburn, the great Scottish victory of 1314, have been told to leave swords and axes at home. The Stirling Council, which has jurisdiction in the nearby village of Bannockburn, said weapons were banned during the short march to the battle site, The Daily Telegraph reported. But the National Trust for Scotland, which owns the battlefield, said weapons would be allowed on the field. Participants would have to leave them in their cars while marching through the village and then retrieve them. [upi/23 Jun 2012]
• On “Brave”: Scottish people, with their clans and tartans and ubiquitous red hair, have become the go-to group for makers of pop culture who want all the fun of racial stereotyping without the charges of racism. “Scots are tribal with weird indigenous clothing and silly instruments and some old language and funny words and goofy accent and ginger hair, and these facts have been used to marginalize this occupied nation for centuries, but they’re WHITE, so it’s okay!” These are the exact things that have been used to paint reductive pictures of people of color in animated (and non-animated) films for years. That Scots are now frequently used as “hilarious” sidekicks and broad comedic punchlines, and historical Scotland as a shorthand for “magical kingdom,” and that Scots are the most identifiably tribal white culture is not a coincidence. Whiteness is not a monolith. Acknowledging that a universal white culture is a fallacy even though a universal white privilege is not, is an important part of dismantling white supremacy. Othering certain groups of white people isn’t a part of dismantling white supremacy; in fact, it serves to reinforce the racist narrative that there is a default “normal (white) culture” from which people exclude themselves by being “different.” [Shakesville/Melissa McEwan/25 Jun 2012]
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Bears in your garage! [I read stuff]
Wherein I read things, laugh [or not], and pass them on to you…
Bear cub in the garage
• Animal prints teach children their Elvish ABCs: It’s never too early to teach your children Elvish, and just as when learning real-world language, visual aids are often helpful. These pastel animal prints will get a child (or adult) started on their Elvish alphabet. It’s as easy as Tinco, Ando, Súlë. via Elvish ABC Animals [tiedyejedi via The Mary Sue] [io9/LAUREN DAVIS/23 June 2012]
On Scottish things:
• Scottish marchers told no swords allowed: STIRLING, Scotland, June 23 (UPI) — Participants in a march to commemorate the Battle of Bannockburn, the great Scottish victory of 1314, have been told to leave swords and axes at home. The Stirling Council, which has jurisdiction in the nearby village of Bannockburn, said weapons were banned during the short march to the battle site, The Daily Telegraph reported. But the National Trust for Scotland, which owns the battlefield, said weapons would be allowed on the field. Participants would have to leave them in their cars while marching through the village and then retrieve them. [upi/23 Jun 2012]
• On “Brave”: Scottish people, with their clans and tartans and ubiquitous red hair, have become the go-to group for makers of pop culture who want all the fun of racial stereotyping without the charges of racism. “Scots are tribal with weird indigenous clothing and silly instruments and some old language and funny words and goofy accent and ginger hair, and these facts have been used to marginalize this occupied nation for centuries, but they’re WHITE, so it’s okay!” These are the exact things that have been used to paint reductive pictures of people of color in animated (and non-animated) films for years. That Scots are now frequently used as “hilarious” sidekicks and broad comedic punchlines, and historical Scotland as a shorthand for “magical kingdom,” and that Scots are the most identifiably tribal white culture is not a coincidence. Whiteness is not a monolith. Acknowledging that a universal white culture is a fallacy even though a universal white privilege is not, is an important part of dismantling white supremacy. Othering certain groups of white people isn’t a part of dismantling white supremacy; in fact, it serves to reinforce the racist narrative that there is a default “normal (white) culture” from which people exclude themselves by being “different.” [Shakesville/Melissa McEwan/25 Jun 2012]