I remember the first anxious months of Covid, when no one knew what it was, how it transmitted, or had any means to stop it, while every night we heard reports of morgue trucks piling up and hospitals overrun. My mom grew up during WWII. She recently told me about the high school assembly at the end of the day on 12/8/41, where they were told that FDR had declared war while they were in class that day. What Covid taught me to appreciate was the uncertainty they felt. I grew up knowing how WWII ended. That colored my feeling about all the events, without even realizing it. When Covid came and we had no idea for months if we were facing a Black Death type extinction, whether our family was safe, I looked back at my mom's experience and FELT how stressful just living through that had been. Some things you have to experience.
Spot on...and I laughed out loud watching the movie. I can remember the pleasure at seeing the horrible boss getting done in when the movie first came out.
Insightful, thx Tom - and yes, I too watched again the other day, enjoyed every minute - my wife asked about the exercise machine that was used to enforce Franklin Hart's compliance, I pointed out that it looked like a Kenmore garage door opener ... yes, you'd have to have been there ...
I loved that movie! I’ve seen it at least twice. And I too worked in offices and for men just like that. I’m in the same age group as the three lead actresses too. It hasn’t occurred to me that bit about the copy machine. I worked in a place once where the Xerox machine actually caught on fire though. For years I worked as a typist. You had to learn to make corrections invisible or you indeed had to retype the entire page.
But I’m pretty sure that many aspects of the misogyny depicted in the movie still exist. Our current times are demonstrating that those behaviors have not vanished. Trump has given permission to a whole range of guys to be chauvinist pigs just like that boss is, without embarrassment or shame.
Depth of understanding is not usually monotonic, Mr W. It is more of a semi-normal distribution, and there is a point on the experience axis that yields the greatest ability to affect comprehension. At one extreme is ignorance; at the other, profound fixation.
That's a curve with no data on it. Dressing a hunch in "semi-normal distribution" doesn't make it a measurement, and my piece doesn't claim more years equals more understanding. In fact. it claims the opposite about myself. You are apparently arguing with someone else.
I remember the first anxious months of Covid, when no one knew what it was, how it transmitted, or had any means to stop it, while every night we heard reports of morgue trucks piling up and hospitals overrun. My mom grew up during WWII. She recently told me about the high school assembly at the end of the day on 12/8/41, where they were told that FDR had declared war while they were in class that day. What Covid taught me to appreciate was the uncertainty they felt. I grew up knowing how WWII ended. That colored my feeling about all the events, without even realizing it. When Covid came and we had no idea for months if we were facing a Black Death type extinction, whether our family was safe, I looked back at my mom's experience and FELT how stressful just living through that had been. Some things you have to experience.
Spot on...and I laughed out loud watching the movie. I can remember the pleasure at seeing the horrible boss getting done in when the movie first came out.
Insightful, thx Tom - and yes, I too watched again the other day, enjoyed every minute - my wife asked about the exercise machine that was used to enforce Franklin Hart's compliance, I pointed out that it looked like a Kenmore garage door opener ... yes, you'd have to have been there ...
I loved that movie! I’ve seen it at least twice. And I too worked in offices and for men just like that. I’m in the same age group as the three lead actresses too. It hasn’t occurred to me that bit about the copy machine. I worked in a place once where the Xerox machine actually caught on fire though. For years I worked as a typist. You had to learn to make corrections invisible or you indeed had to retype the entire page.
But I’m pretty sure that many aspects of the misogyny depicted in the movie still exist. Our current times are demonstrating that those behaviors have not vanished. Trump has given permission to a whole range of guys to be chauvinist pigs just like that boss is, without embarrassment or shame.
So thought provoking!
Depth of understanding is not usually monotonic, Mr W. It is more of a semi-normal distribution, and there is a point on the experience axis that yields the greatest ability to affect comprehension. At one extreme is ignorance; at the other, profound fixation.
That's a curve with no data on it. Dressing a hunch in "semi-normal distribution" doesn't make it a measurement, and my piece doesn't claim more years equals more understanding. In fact. it claims the opposite about myself. You are apparently arguing with someone else.
Apparently? I wasn’t disagreeing. It was a metaphor.