Quickies
Quickies: Altered Bible verses, softball, and Saartjie Baartman
- Bible verses where the word “Philistines” has been replaced with “haters” – “His father and mother replied, ‘Isn’t there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised haters to get a wife?’”
- Male anchor wears the same suit every day for a year to make a point about sexism – From Arturo.
- The blacktop slide – A girls softball team has to play on blacktop but doesn’t let it stop them from sliding into bases. From Jac.
- You can’t ignore the degradation of Saartjie Baartman to connect her to Kim Kardashian – A response to Jezebel’s piece entitled “Saartjie Baartman: The original booty queen.”
“… but it is the fact of [Baartman’s] denigration that provides the context for the considerable missteps in the Jezebel article.”
The root word of “denigration” means “to blacken”. And it’s really obvious, right there in the middle of the word? Probably a word that should go the way of “hysterical”, especially given the context here. I’m surprised the writer used it, unless the irony was intentional.