Ana’s Comments (group member since Jan 08, 2016)

Ana’s comments from the Our Shared Shelf group.

Hannah, I'm so sorry that you had such a nice time (sarcasm) today. I would pretend I am surprised by the fact that modern girls would still make such blanket statements nowadays...but I'm not, actually, so yeah.

If it helps you feel any better, I totally understand how you just shit up, partially because of your friend, because I would have reacted like that, too, most likely. Moreover, I'm not sure that the best thing to do would be to reply. Now I know so,e people will disagree with me, but, I don't know. Why get a headache with someone who is clearly beyond hope?

No me digas, jaja. Yo pensaba leérmelo en inglés, la verdad, pero ahora me tienes intrigada.

I honestly don't even remember what is it that prompted me to grab a book for he first time and read. I guess it's sort of always been there, like just another trait of mine coded on my DNA. However, since I may be coming across rather pretentious and also since you wanted a concrete reason, I would say that it was curiosity. The first feeling there was, most definitely, curiosity. Then the rest of them came along and now it's like breathing,

Oh, my, I am particularly interested on this one, judging by the synopsis! :D Yay!

¡Hola a todas! Andrea, muchas gracias por crear este hilo. Como he dicho en otros, tuve que ausentarme un tiempo del foro, y ahora que he vuelto se me han agolpado los hilos y me pongo al día como puedo, jaja.

De hecho, tanto es así que tengo que sentarme a leer el libro y todo. Tengo ganas especialmente por toda la polémica que ha traído en el grupo desde que lo anunciamos, que nos ha sorprendido un poco al equipo de administración, la verdad. O mejor dicho, no la polémica, sino la actitud de "todo o nada" de algunos de los miembros. Por lo que he oído de la propia Moran y de ciertos aspectos del libro, sé que posiblemente no coincida con ella en muchos temas, pero también creo que merece la pena leerlo. ¡Intentaré regresar por aquí con mis impresiones cuando lo haya leído o al menos haya comenzado!

"It's just a waste of a powerful platform both in terms of being a white cishet abled person writing a book, and (...)"

I am sure (I am hoping?) that you did not mean that a book written by a white, cisgender, heterosexual and abled person is automatically unable to bring anything new or worth of an informed reader's attention. However, well, it did come across a bit like that. While I am far from even entertaining the idea that we suffer from discrimination and whatnot, it is also a little tiring to see the words white, cisgender and heterosexual used with a negative connotation in certain fields. I am more than willing to acknowledge my privileges, but the above does make me feel a bit uncomfortable sometimes, as if I had to wonder whether others will automatically dismiss my thoughts because I happen to be white, cis, straight and abled myself.
As I said, however, I guess you meant that it was a pity that such a person, who also happens to be in the realm of feminism, wrote a book that may not be truly inclusive and intersectional? My apologies in advance if I got it wrong. :)

Wow, I can only imagine how that friend of yours felt. Not positive, not fun, not pleasant. Obviously, it's usually women who get raped, but well, a breach of consent is a breach of consent, it can happen in many ways and it's exactly what your friend suffered from. :( Just like Bunny said, it's an important story.

"Striving to become a decent human being." This. A million times this. Seriously, that's how we should all see ourselves primarily. Human beings. Things would go better if we mastered this ridiculously basic notion.

Just wanted to chime in here to give a great welcome to all of you new members! :) So many people that we'd otherwise never get to meet. The stories, backgrounds, different views and experiences, it's all so enriching! We really wouldn't be able to be where we are today without you. :)

Hey! Hmmm. I wonder if we have it already but it's buried in the sea of threads that we awesome people create daily? Hard to imagine this didn't start as such a general thread back on its day. I will try and keep an eye on this.

*for, geez. Silly Autocorrect feature LOL.

Mod chiming in here! :) This is a great idea and something that we've kind of entertained up there for a while. Unsure about how to make it work so I will not say anything more got now, but we've toyed with stuff similar to your suggestion and would love for our ideas to go further, if not within the next few months, at least from a medium-term perspective.

Nope, still no news from The Boss, hehe. We will make sure to let you now as soon as there's any change in that department! ;)

Tim wrote: "I've voiced my opinion on women in high positions in society just about at nauseum, so I'll skip over that. As for this bank note decision, I don't really care to be honest, nor do I think the peop..."

Interesting take, but even so...well, at least now we're someone worth to make happy in society, right? It's an improvement.

It's one of those things that will have many people thinking, 'Oh wow, so what, big deal you've got going on there,' but that it will help change stuff and raise awareness. Thumbs up, I say! :) Obviously not an uber important thing, but in the big picture, change is composed of many little steps. :)

Geez, seven people. I would have felt so scared upon waking up from my fainting, like 'OMG what's so wrong that there are seven people here?!'

Other than that, I'm not really going to add anything new to the convo but jump into the training issues wagon. While some women would prefer to have other women there and I understand their point and would probably also wonder myself why there seems to be a shortage of women, I personally wouldn't care much...in this particular case, mind you. Not even if my period was concerned. After all, it's a pretty natural thing, plus they're emergency / medical staff so hey, they're used to all kinds of stuff and I would think that my period isn't going to get them all in giggles or blatantly inappropriate remarks. It just looks like your campus could benefit from a reassessment of said emergency services and their performance. Not only from the effectiveness factor, but also money wise, because I am guessing that these services cost your campus a hefty sum each year. Improving their performance and the assessment of the response needed in each case would probably help save money. :)

Hadn't noticed this thread before! Please feel free to add those books to our Bookshelf if you haven't already. :)

Hey, hey, folks. Just a gentle reminder that as long as the debate keeps being respectful, everyone has the right to share their ideas and thoughts, and that would include politics. Likewise, everyone is free to leave a thread if and when they feel like they are not enjoying the debate there so much, but no one is really entitled to limit a conversation.

There has been no Clinton bashing here. One may wholeheartedly support Clinton and therefore disagree with the article, but there has been no bashing so there is not any need to apologise.

Wow, Erika, your daughter looks like a cool little girl. :)

There's really no surprise coming from Utah, is it? Or maybe we should, given the state's record on online porn subscribers. Again, hypocrisy and the wrong sense of entitlement that inevitably come from the holier-than-thou attitude of some folks.

How about we all agree to disagree? There is no need for anybody to leave the boards.

Also, you can never please everybody. Caitlin Moran could totally tune her song to address a whole series of criticism, only to find that the chords are still unpleasant for yet another portion of people. It certainly looks like she has quite an attitude and manner of making her point on different stuff, which is probably a huge part of the reason she gets so much heat. Not that she doesn't want to, of course. But at the end of the day, well I have to agree with Aglaea here for a bit. It's a memoir. It is true that you cannot live 100% devoted to cover everyone's perspectives in a perfect, all-encompassing way - most of us can't, at least. It is even truer that it is wrong to befriend people in the spirit of a stamp collector. It just doesn't work that way.