May 22
SantiagoFan commented on I, Anonymous.
Chile receives these "donations" by the ton. (It is definitely a business.) People buy 100 kilo bales of clothes shipped in from the US and resell them on the street. I can go to thrift stores here and peruse racks and racks of unworn t-shirts from charity races, christian summer camps, and family reunions being sold at higher prices than in the US. Seriously, people in the US need to stop making t-shirts for every event.
Apr 10
SantiagoFan commented on Savage Love Episode 337.
Oh, nudist parents. My parents fit every meaning of that term. They didn't wake me up for school naked, but that might have been because if I wanted to go to school I had to get myself up. I would see my mom running outside to go pee in the yard naked while I was getting ready for school.
The bathtub at our house was the view from the living room through a large picture window. So if you wanted to bathe, you had to do it in front of anyone who happened to be around. There were no doors or curtains on any of the rooms in the house, etc, etc.
When I was 3 my mom made us dolls that looked like my parents and were anatomically correct so we could make our parents have sex and then push a blobby baby doll up inside the mother and pull it out again to prepare us for my little brother's birth. Which I did watch sitting on the diaper pail for the cloth diapers, naturally.
Am I messed up about sex, of course. Is it because of this? I am not entirely sure. It all seemed normal at the time. I did get a bit uncomfortable seeing my brother and father naked when I was a teenager. But it didn't happen all the time.
One bit of solace, these kids will win the who had the weirdest fucking parents contest when they get to college. I certainly did.
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The bathtub at our house was the view from the living room through a large picture window. So if you wanted to bathe, you had to do it in front of anyone who happened to be around. There were no doors or curtains on any of the rooms in the house, etc, etc.
When I was 3 my mom made us dolls that looked like my parents and were anatomically correct so we could make our parents have sex and then push a blobby baby doll up inside the mother and pull it out again to prepare us for my little brother's birth. Which I did watch sitting on the diaper pail for the cloth diapers, naturally.
Am I messed up about sex, of course. Is it because of this? I am not entirely sure. It all seemed normal at the time. I did get a bit uncomfortable seeing my brother and father naked when I was a teenager. But it didn't happen all the time.
One bit of solace, these kids will win the who had the weirdest fucking parents contest when they get to college. I certainly did.
Feb 26
SantiagoFan commented on "Why does he have boobs?".
Oh, that is nothing. I have had male security guard start to do a pat-down on me and grab my breasts and then get super embarrassed and call for a female one. But this might explain why I had to go through the machine twice the last time.
I cause gender confusion everywhere I go and I generally think it is hilarious. I have bitched out a few people in bathrooms, but mostly I just let people think whatever they want. Why does it really matter?
If gender is socially constructed, we can't assume people are mind-readers about what gender we identify as. Yeah, it is a problem the male/man is the default assumption. But we have to be ok with questions if we are going to break the binary down.
I cause gender confusion everywhere I go and I generally think it is hilarious. I have bitched out a few people in bathrooms, but mostly I just let people think whatever they want. Why does it really matter?
If gender is socially constructed, we can't assume people are mind-readers about what gender we identify as. Yeah, it is a problem the male/man is the default assumption. But we have to be ok with questions if we are going to break the binary down.
Feb 4
SantiagoFan commented on The Money You're Spending On College Tuition?.
One problem is that as a society what we say about education (everyone should go to college right out of high school and study whatever they want to become better people) and how we fund it (it is a personal investment that must be paid back based on job skills) don't match.
If we want universal education, for the sake of education, we have to fund it as such. If it is an investment, kids should be told that up front and given options and tools to make better decisions. It can be a great investment, but not for everyone under the current system.
If we want universal education, for the sake of education, we have to fund it as such. If it is an investment, kids should be told that up front and given options and tools to make better decisions. It can be a great investment, but not for everyone under the current system.
Jan 9
SantiagoFan commented on A Real Rapid Ride Is Also in Bogota.
@4 and 6- Thanks for asking. The answer is nowhere yet. I am just 6 months into a 2 year research project on this subject. (I work for an international research centre on BRT.) So check back with me in a year.
Jan 9
SantiagoFan commented on A Real Rapid Ride Is Also in Bogota.
This is quite interesting, because at the same time as being about democracy of public space, TransMilenio and other BRT systems in Latin America are essentially neoliberal projects. They are taking previously unsubsidized and under-regulated individually/family owned bus companies (which for numerous reasons didn't work) and creating a system that requires large, in some cases multinational, bus companies with the need for large amounts of capital and then subsidizing them with public funds (to differing amounts in each case).
The introduction of public funds has, for the most part, not been linked to any increase in public accountability. This is public transit, but the public doesn't own it, and the ownership is being accumulated in fewer and fewer hands. This creates a very interesting tension and luckily I get paid to study it. So thanks for justifying my reading slog at work everyone!
The introduction of public funds has, for the most part, not been linked to any increase in public accountability. This is public transit, but the public doesn't own it, and the ownership is being accumulated in fewer and fewer hands. This creates a very interesting tension and luckily I get paid to study it. So thanks for justifying my reading slog at work everyone!
Jan 8
SantiagoFan commented on Rapid Ride Is Not Bus Rapid Transit.
The Institute for Transportation & Development Policy has a BRT standard that defines what should exist for a bus line to be called Rapid. The idea is to protect the brand of BRT from being ruined by bad implementation.
Most of the bad implementation is happening in the US. Although here in Santiago there are so called 'bus only lanes' which everyone drives in because they are not enforced. But in general South America is leading the way in BRT.
Most of the bad implementation is happening in the US. Although here in Santiago there are so called 'bus only lanes' which everyone drives in because they are not enforced. But in general South America is leading the way in BRT.
Dec 25, 2012
SantiagoFan commented on White Wine In the Sun.
Finally a Christmas song from the perspective of the Southern Hemisphere!
Dec 20, 2012
SantiagoFan commented on Newtown Will Not Bury the Mother of the Killer.
Suppose she had not been killed by her son, would we be calling on her to be prosecuted for her child somehow getting access to her guns? Perhaps. Would we be calling for her to get the death penalty? No, definitely not. She did not deserve to die.
Dec 6, 2012
SantiagoFan commented on There Is A Man Who Takes Drugs to Make Self-Portraits.
When I was a kid my mom took mushrooms and did a self-portrait for a class she was taking. All I remember about it was that it was entirely in red colored pencil and very strident looking.
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