Fashion Writers: "Fat" People Lazy, Shiftless, Poorly Dressed [In Fashion] (4)
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Newsweek’s Sameer Reddy is railing against elasticized waistbands, chubbiness, Velcro, Juicy Couture, jean shorts, and the value of comfort in dressing. Does he hate puppies, too? I suppose it was about time to read another one of these articles where some writer wrings his or her hands over Americans’ allegedly inconsistent commitment to fashionable dressing. The rhetoric in these trend pieces never changes: we are always and in perpetuity too fat, too lazy, and too ...
The High Cost of Pretending (39)
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apophenia: Warning: Email Sabbatical is Imminent .. and other random thoughts [via trivium] danah boyd is finishing her dissertation, then going on vacation for a month. While, she’s gone, she’s not accepting email. At all. Got that? No apology. No “vacation message” to pretend she’ll read it later. And no implied promise that the stuff people send to her will magically be tended to by an invisble army of interns and elves. While she’s away, ...
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mattsingley said:
I love the idea of turning off email completely while on vacation. I probably will never do it, but I like flirting with the concept...
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Niall said:
Interesting thought. Might try it next holiday. I tried not putting one on at all this holiday. Will see how that went next week when I get back.
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Daniel A. said:
Excellent advice about creating sustainable expectations. The specific example, as noted in the article, won't work for most (I know I'd be slaughtered if I tried it in my field), but the premises behind this are great.
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John Pederson said:
Important. Especially the last 5 paragraphs.
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Chris Miller said:
Sometimes, I consider doing this very thing. Then tossing my cellphone in the ocean. I can live like it's 1980 again.
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Justin said:
Everyone should read this!
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Buster McLeod said:
I should have done this when I got married and went to Italy. Those 3,000 messages didn't really get read anyway.
