In For A Penny

[drasecretcampus]

I'm not sure how to recover from a three day conference in insufferable heat,* but last week was not the way to do it. I so need to get back to reading and watching seventies stuff, but this week I had to read and comment on a PhD thesis, and ponder whether the c and related p words are appropriate discourse for a thesis which is, after all, about

Comments

[steepholm]

Interestingly, whilst the black man's cock joke of The Office (see here) was not felt to be racist, the unknowable intention of Black People Love Us was.

Bizarre. And they were definitely saying that about the joke itself, rather than the scene in which it appears?

I'd never seen Black People Love Us before. Its intention seems pretty clear to me, but the comments suggest that's not universally the case.

[drasecretcampus]

I tried to take it through the various frames - but the joke being told was mostly felt to be ok, in part because it's not felt to be saying anything bad about black men. (And even though the clip itself interrogates the stereotype.)

[maryread]

I'm with you on editing out repetitious words, unless they're working towards a rhythmic, rhetorical thing. Oh look, I just got rid of excess verbiage ("the editing out of"? orly?) And "which"/"that" are words that, er, never mind, oh, I just try to get it to sound right. Which, er, um, for someone who likes to hang clauses together on and on and on is a regular problem. I am leaning more toward informal use of "And" with fool-the-eye periods. To make it look like the sentence has actually ended. Which you & I know it has not. Yet.

Ya know what I like about the internets? one thing anyway, is that I can use the full range of the ever-expanding informal language. Not that the formal language isn't expanding too, but maybe in less fun directions.