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At least you gave us a cute kitten chaser to this drivel.
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Sorry, what was that drivel about personalities? I sees a cute kitteh.
What if your personality is based in being consistently unpredictable? What about that, huh?
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If that's the case, then I'll be happy to have the personality of a dishrag.
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From what I've learned in college psych, personality as predictable behaviors doesn't mean what you actively DO, necessarily, but more of how you repeatedly react to things. Like me for instance, I pretty much always get defensive when criticized, so that's a part of my personality. So the collection of your typical reactions to different situations would be considered your personality.
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But maybe I'm missing something.
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11/17/09
Of course, I think I'd much rather if he *were* a pornographer . . . there are some dark, plot-based films that could actually do it well (if it was based on the story and didn't try to promote it as "The Jaycee Dugard Story!"). Shane Ryan, no matter how they try to not make it exploitative, is going to do horribly. Ugh. #jayceedugard
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REALLY? REALLY? Do you not realize what you're doing then? #jayceedugard
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I'm not sure how to interpret this. Is it because at a certain point, the entire industry is so racist that the education of the patient is irrelevant? Maybe a more subtle racism, like doctors don't look seriously for the problems more often reported by black women? Because I'm having trouble thinking of other reasons. #jayceedugard
11/17/09
But your explanation is completely plausible. Depressing, but not surprising. #jayceedugard
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I would love a study that could say, "Here, look, we found some very specific numbers-based reasons that racism is bad and (more importantly) THAT IT STILl EXISTS."
@MalinaMango: It may be that there are different biological factors. Like white women are at risk for a, b, and c, while black women are at risk for x, y, and z, because of purely biological reasons. The thing is that despite being at risk for a, b, and c, white women still have a better time in the hospital (which you can see because college educated white women have a 30% reduced risk, but black women don't, so it isn't just about class but specifically about race; money makes things better for white women but not black women). This cannot be because white women are just naturally more healthy and naturally more able to have babies without complications. It is almost certainly because problems at affect white people (a, b, c) are researched and therefore the severity of the complications is lessened. Similarly, most medical studies use white people, unless they are specifically designed to look at race or a specific race. I remember reading something not long ago in which a doctor basically said that no major study of heart disease had ever been done on anyone except white men. So almost everything that is known and used in medicine about heart disease is based on what works and what happens with white men. #jayceedugard
11/17/09
I cannot begin describe how sad this makes me. If anyone wants citations to learn more about this issue, please PM me, I'm having trouble accessing my library account right now. For more reading on theories of institutionalized racism in the US, I recommend Joe Feagin's book Racist America as an excellent overview of the topic. #jayceedugard