No, yes - no.
One of my worky-work bosses, the one who is immensely and impressively organized (and who shares my tastes in music to a large extent!) has been promoted and is leaving, though not leaving the organization as a whole. I am a bit nervous about the aftermath!
Indispensable? It seemed like he was, but of course that's very rarely thoroughly true. And ( Read more... )
Indispensable? It seemed like he was, but of course that's very rarely thoroughly true. And ( Read more... )
He's named this for his grandfather, who is dying, and by the time he's born, dead, and it's a reconcilatory gesture between generations. Not that there was a huge rift, more of a uneasiness.
He doesn't know the meaning at first, and he has a mild dislike for it because he is taunted by friends rhyming it with "fool" and "tool". But it's mild teasing and not prejudice-related. Eventually he finds out, and it seems all too appropriate.
Oog, I was about to think of having his mother point out that it also rhymes with "cool" and also "shul" and... is she Jewish? Or just a chaser like me ;) Hmmm.
Yeeeeah, I'm afraid that it's emerging that my motivations: a) Well, why not? Which I think is kind of valid... b) mostly showing off how much I know through reading and exposure about people who aren't WAS, as I happen to be. (Formerly WASP, but I have ditched the Protestant part!) c) experimenting with building characters who aren't me in a relatively safe space. I mean, if I hadn't mentioned it here, very likely no one who isn't a m-preg enthusiast would be aware of it and all the Issues bound up in it all... d) Perhaps gathering courage and practice to create characters who aren't me for view in the very, very critically aware space of dykes and their associates.
I guess that comes back to "why create those characters?" and I _think_ that `because they're there' is the answer. Well, the best short answer, anyhow.
At the same time it's sort of because it's `the future', and I'm thinking of it in a sort of post-racial, but not way. As in, there will likely be many many more people of mixed race but the old issues certainly haven't vanished. Since he's sort of the new Eve, in a way, for instance, his mother will gloat that any of these polite bigots who want their genes passed on will have to endure a touch of the tar brush. And he'll wonder what the heck she's talking about.
I'm aware I have a fondness both erotically and in cultural artifacts for people who are what I might dryly call "safely exotic", folks of color who are often estranged from their ancestral cultures and who mentally dwell mostly in the same realms of interest that I do. And, as pull_toy has playfully noted, I'm a matzoh queen!
This is highly suspicious and probably problematic for a whitely mcwhitestone such I... at least I'm aware of it. :/ Also, I think, at the same time a sign of my growing beyond my background. I hope. Hmm.
This story is also turning out to be a lot about gender, another of my fascinations, which is I think fine, as I have a lot more direct connection to that body of issues. Heck, maybe I should make my future as white as the original Star Wars. It's what I am bedrock familiar with...
Gee, thanks again, I will think more on this!
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