Thanks for joining us at Kairoticast.
Our goal at Kairoticast is to show that rhetoric, with all its big, academic and effete sounding ideas, is really quite applicable to our every day lives. [Read More]
Thanks for joining us at Kairoticast.
Our goal at Kairoticast is to show that rhetoric, with all its big, academic and effete sounding ideas, is really quite applicable to our every day lives. [Read More]
Like many women of my age, I was brought up with a complicated relationship with “emotions.”
On the one hand, there was the very real stereotype that women are more emotional than men. We were brought up in a world that would dismiss us at any hint at an emotional response to anything because it was deemed women’s hysteria. I won’t tell you how my times my father called me a “drama queen” because I got mad at something that, looking back, I had every right to be mad about, but, like most men, he needed an excuse to not deal with things; so the easiest thing to do was dismiss me. This was the way we were dealt with for most of our lives. We were told we were overly emotional, so ANY emotion was an excuse to belittle and dismiss us. [Read More]
So, let’s get one thing out of the way: I don’t like TikTok. I think it is dumb. My friends send me TikToks and sometimes and I watch them and sometimes I don’t. I have some friends I can trust to send me good ones, but often I’m just like, “no, thanks,” because from what I have seen of TikTok it is just a repository of us at our most banal.
I am ALSO aware this puts me in a long, millenia old line of curmudgeons who just don’t like and don’t appreciate new mediums. I get it. The problem is probably not TikTok. The problem is me. [Read More]
There is a long-standing narrative from the right that Big Tech (which according to them is a nefarious monolith) is a left-wing behemoth, if not part of a conspiracy, acting in concert with the media, to oppress conservative voices and ideology. The “woke” (and I hope you can hear the air quotes I am putting around that) tech industry is actively conspiring against the Right to suppress their so-often maligned voices and characters so that the oppressive Left can maintain their stranglehold on the public imagination. [Read More]
So…the women’s movement got set back by half a century in the last year or two! That was a thing we all got to witness!
I mean, I shouldn’t make light of it, but what else can you do? Freaking Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are following right along in Scalia’s train of thought, who argued women weren’t guaranteed rights in the Constitution, so all of this was just noise. [Read More]
· Elizabeth · 2 Comments
Hi, fam.
It’s been a while.
I know I’ve tried to start up again once or twice, but things have just been hard. But I’m confident that I’m good to go, this time. Confident enough that we’re doing something special this time. We’re going back to the beginning. [Read More]