Edgardo talked to Karina for a minute. She is in our apartment since her house doesn't have electricity. The relatives down south are ok. She said Tio Alfonso's house has cracks in the walls. Edgardo and I are scouring pictures hoping we don't recognize anything. The autopista in Santiago was VERY new and I'm surprised it didn't hold up better.

Sandy "lindsey vonn" Dougher had a collison on the ski hill today...blood everywhere, ski patrol and a ride in the snowmobile sled involved. Turned out to be a bloody nose and a bit tongue. Ski instructors do not give way like snow does.

For the U of I grads, there's an article about Dorie Byard in the latest edition of the alumni news. I didn't get to read it all, just saw the article and pictures.

Ed's parents are ok. Not sure about the family in Los Angeles yet. Hard to reach anyone. Watch Schmitz.cl if u want.

I think you can attribute "this guy" to my buddy Marcus(Silky). It usually precedes a chest pound.

I think I'm moving to Florida. Who's in? This guy! No snow, just hurricanes...I think that might actually be easier to drive through.

Oh geeze - thanks but no thanks TAOD. I already ate too many of my own. Ugh.

Who is going home... This guy

A seminar you don't want to miss:
Tuesday at Northwestern University. The event is titled "Ethics in Politics: An evening with Former Governor Rod Blagojevich."

This weekend! Sandy and I and tons of Girl Scout cookies.

RSJ has it. Who worked until Midnight and still had to be at work at 8am --- "This guy" I used that quote last night then I couldn't remember where it was from so I just looked awkward.

I think she means as in, "Who has two thumbs and enjoys ice cream? This guy"

do you mean the term "this guy"? as in, "'scuse me while I kiss this guy"?

can someone tell me where this comes from.... "this guy"

Which weekend? Maybe the one when your mom has the girls....

Girls' weekend at the Doughers....who's in?

eo, read the dictionary while waiting for the train to get fixed? Ugh!
More snow today. No school for the kids again. I think they will be going until July at this rate.

I thought you were doing really good if you were choking and could manage to type it....

it must have been really bad if I can't even type chalking

that whole article throws me for a loop. probably just because RPS is something completely different in my industry.

I am choking today(really yesterday) up to a really bad day.

Cool AO, you've got tenure already!

What the hell, I never said that. Who's posting under my name?

Its an inside INSIDE joke. LMLP, D.

Sex-y. And you've got the whole joke backwards.

Sexist? What's wrong with being sexist?

Given the negative view typically associated with the word, I tend not to use it so casually. When I painted Roman the color of the sky, it made him blue, probably because he's racist.

tulip mania

At the peak of tulip mania in February 1637, tulip contracts sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled craftsman.

In early February, as contract prices reached a peak, Dutch authorities stepped in and halted the trading of these contracts.

The mania finally ended, Mackay says, with individuals stuck with the bulbs they held at the end of the crash—no court would enforce payment of a contract, since judges regarded the debts as contracted through gambling, and thus not enforceable by law.

TAOD meant that women were discriminated against because they couldn't use the Dr. title, but their husbands could. Has nothing to with whether or not Dr. is superior (though it can have that connotation). So I did mean sexist.

I've read the whole damn dictionary, turns out the zebra did it.

Merel: I have tulips poking up in one of my planters! I ended up planting all of the bulbs in pots. Some I put in the garage and some I've left in the dining room -- which I'm not heating this winter. The ones poking up are in the dining room.

Perhaps I should have said, "Sexist would imply for most people that being a Dr. somehow makes you superior. The word you are looking for is stereotypical, because it's clearer what you mean. No?"

Or maybe Taod just meant that Dr.s are superior. Who knows?

No, they show the same thing. You've skipped the definition that didn't agree with you, and selected "related words". That is by no stretch of the imagination "defines as male chauvinist". I did test the thesaurus there, and the lack of non-prejudice synonyms would lend support for your statement related to the noun form, but as I stated, the definition does not, especially since the word was used as an adjective.

You're right about the teacher. Maybe that was so. The usage is an aside though. Your definition is correct and is probably more commonly used, though it remains incorrect to claim the alternative usage is incorrect.

That aside, I've learned that the word sexist is not in many dictionaries. Now then, isn't it sexist to claim male chauvinist is the definition of sexist?

Our computers must show different things for dictionary.com

Maybe your chemistry teacher was in an argument because his use of the word sexist was confusing people. Most of the synonyms on thesaurus.com are pretty negative words: bigot, misogynist, chauvinist, prejudiced. If he thought he was saying 'splitting the labs is discriminating by how gender learn', and everyone else thought he was saying 'splitting the labs was being misogynistic', then he might end up in an argument.

Thanks for the memory nto.

Celebration of Sandy's birthday on Sunday around 6pm at Buffalo Wild Wings. Don't ask me why she chose that restaurant.

And Sandy starts regular 5th grade today...just one class, but it is a start!

Sara Schroth had a little baby girl. Aawww! so cute.

The first (dictionary.com) doesn't define it that way. The second (wordNet) does, but only as the noun, not the adjective, which is not how it was used.

Dictionary.com states:

sexist - pertaining to, involving, or fostering sexism: a sexist remark; sexist advertising.

sexism - attitudes or behavior based on traditional stereotypes of sexual roles

The last (wikitionary) doesn't support your claim. There are two independent statements there, the second of which negates your claim of incorrectness:

sexist - someone who practises sexism

yet one of the definitions it provides for sexism is:

sexism - Promotion or expectation or assumption of people to behave in accordance with or deviate from a gender role.


I distinctly recall my chemistry teacher in high school vehemently arguing it was sexist to divide lab groups into all girls or all boys. I don't agree with your assessment of the word usage, especially based on the sampling of dictionaries.

The first defines sexist as male chauvinist, and on the model of racist. The second two support my claim because the individual has to discriminate, which I take to mean 'unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice'. Perhaps the main conclusion here is that the use of the word 'sexist' is confusing. But given the negative attitude laced with the word 'sexist', I doubt very many people define the word using the benign definition of simple stereotyping.

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