tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987034451869317078.post8375734529051773476..comments2023-06-19T01:42:09.481-07:00Comments on D constructing D: A Different Take of Racial PoliticsDaktarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08291715601733518982noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987034451869317078.post-76138582632368917402009-04-30T20:40:00.000-07:002009-04-30T20:40:00.000-07:00Ah, ok. Probably a good thing to have a cooling-o...Ah, ok. Probably a good thing to have a cooling-off period. Hopefully this won't happen again (not holding my breath on that one), but if it does you've already had the internal dialogues of what you want to say.Mama beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245565933429926406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987034451869317078.post-60912751074293853992009-04-30T14:54:00.000-07:002009-04-30T14:54:00.000-07:00I love Guv. Guv is my previous internet boyfriend...I love Guv. Guv is my previous internet boyfriend up until he got married and then I became his internet mistress, I guess. LOL In any event, Guv talked me out of going in there half-cocked and blasting her. So I'm giving myself a cooling off period before launching my attack. Unfortunately, she is leaving town for a few weeks and I won't see her again until I'm out in the field and I doubt that will be the appropriate place for this discussion. In any event, there are times it is good that I don't get the opportunity to do the things I planned. At least for the security of my own future.Daktarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08291715601733518982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987034451869317078.post-15587817344832919772009-04-30T13:14:00.000-07:002009-04-30T13:14:00.000-07:00Hmm.... good luck! Or, perhaps the showdown alre...Hmm.... good luck! Or, perhaps the showdown already happened. In either case, I think you have the right of it of course. Though I also think this is one of those cases where you put eight times more thought into it than she did. You have a pretty good case for her harboring the various biases and idiocies you attribute to her, but I think that these are a little more sublimated, or at least unconscious to <em>her</em> than they appear. For instance, rather than making these comments as a reflection of her real thoughts, her real thoughts generated verbal garbage and "humor" that reflected her deeper prejudices transparently. I guess I'm trying to say, her prejudices may be less strongly felt than latently present, and shaping her idiotic and thoughtless behavior. What you perceived -- correctly or at least reasonably -- as a deeply unprofessional personal attack, she perhaps thought were laugh-worthy gentle nudges or some such.<br><br>Frankly, actually, I can't imagine what the fuck her problem is. Way out of line -- the only thing I'd perhaps slightly disagree on is actually an agreement with your previous post -- that she had already made her mind up on this other student and the well-qualified dude posed an obstacle to this. And she sounds like someone who feels the need to assert her power and "confidence" by standing behind idiotic choices, no matter how idiotic they prove to be, thus it could be that she's standing by Student #1 to show your evaluation of that student wrong, in her mind, and further insulting you about Candidate #2 just furthers her pissing on you to make herself feel more justified. After all, if you're a reasonable person, she'd have to listen to your points and caveats, and take the risk you were right. if she shits on you and tells you it's raining, that is, discredits you in her own mind, then even if Student #1 turns out to be a total jack-hole, she can say you got lucky rather than made a good call, because obviously you're so far out there anything wise or reasonable you do is a matter of chance rather than competence. For whatever reason, she seems to view competence on your part as a threat to be fervently wished against.<br><br>I... I don't know what else to say about this one-woman clusterfuck, except, finish and get the hell away from her ASAP (and it's not as if you needed anyone to tell you that). --JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10444952585830773530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987034451869317078.post-46291899383917073762009-04-30T10:52:00.000-07:002009-04-30T10:52:00.000-07:00Hope the talk goes well. I'm sure I'd be ...Hope the talk goes well. I'm sure I'd be furious if put in your shoes. I have no good insightful words of wisdom to offer. Just know that if J and I lived closer, we'd have you over for some drinking, bitching, commiserating and hugs.Mama beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245565933429926406noreply@blogger.com