tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post6565845048790385929..comments2024-03-18T21:09:10.627-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/19/24: Texas notes: KarenNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-65534991380957881122020-07-13T23:36:06.677-05:002020-07-13T23:36:06.677-05:00I’m so glad to hear some good news tonight & h...I’m so glad to hear some good news tonight & hope Barbie has stayed well. I’ll just pretend she has. Carenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948322374348472360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-63937765850566907732020-07-13T23:33:30.955-05:002020-07-13T23:33:30.955-05:00Glad you are here!Glad you are here!Carenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948322374348472360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-50993432641969402752020-07-13T12:41:10.419-05:002020-07-13T12:41:10.419-05:00Great to be reading this blog Karen. I'll brow...Great to be reading this blog Karen. I'll browse alot more. <br />Hugs Robert K (ciceros.org)Cicerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11399922128207563759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-11735095498859677402020-07-13T00:16:47.940-05:002020-07-13T00:16:47.940-05:00Sounds like you have been through the ringer yours...Sounds like you have been through the ringer yourself, and thus can empathize with other disenfranchised folks. Thank you for your comment.Carenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948322374348472360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-45754348690213982812020-07-13T00:15:43.354-05:002020-07-13T00:15:43.354-05:00Ah, corrections: I've met many folks down her...Ah, corrections: I've met many folks down here who I can't relate to. Also, not sure what I meant to say about the woodwork, but think it was that they'd gang up on me if they could, since the gossip around town was that the Yankee social worker was on her high horse again. Carenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948322374348472360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-10997347815155974892020-07-12T23:07:28.320-05:002020-07-12T23:07:28.320-05:00Wow...calling you a "socialist worker" a...Wow...calling you a "socialist worker" and thinking a free bus pass for a black man enables him to "milk the system." Texans certainly have no love for "Yankees"... <br /><br />As for Barbie, she stayed single and kept her long Polish maiden name. Maybe she just didn't want to keep on hearing: "Really? You don't look at all like a Barbie doll." That would get old pretty fast. We hung out for a while, and had a few laughs, but she had substance abuse problems.<br /><br />Years later, I bumped into her at a restaurant. She had gotten clean and sober, found another boyfriend, and seemed to be quite happy.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-78591055879364819752020-07-12T18:08:53.435-05:002020-07-12T18:08:53.435-05:00Oh that poor Barbie Dahl. She could have kept her...Oh that poor Barbie Dahl. She could have kept her last name like Elisabet Ney did! (I speak of her in an earlier post).<br /><br />Good question. I moved to Texas to be close to my sister and nephew. I am glad I did for many reasons- mostly the landscape you mentioned but a few other reasons too. I agree, I've met many folks down here who I can relate to at all. On that elevator I did say a thing or two but it fell on deaf ears. My boss was a very mean person who did not listen to any of her staff when we tried to stand up for ourselves and liked to remind us, as we were abused and harassed, that the doctors and nurses were our customers. I did call the Mr. Black person out, and the nurse who yelled about slavery being over? My push back caused her to become hysterical and scream at me. I'd have spent time I did not have trying to dig deeper with these people, they'd come out of the woodwork when they saw me coming. Sometimes I was hated upon sight as soon as they realized I was not "from here."Carenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948322374348472360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-74695293481702210642020-07-12T18:02:54.981-05:002020-07-12T18:02:54.981-05:00Lord. Folks can be so mean and bullying! What a ...Lord. Folks can be so mean and bullying! What a world. Carenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948322374348472360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-25441811502974747492020-07-12T01:22:38.404-05:002020-07-12T01:22:38.404-05:00Caren, why did you ever move to Texas at all? It s...Caren, why did you ever move to Texas at all? It seems like such a mean, nasty, racist place. I've been there. It has a great deal of natural beauty, but I did not enjoy being among Texans very much.<br /><br />Back in the day, it was neither safe nor acceptable to call out racism, anywhere, but especially down there. Very uncool. As a low-ranking social worker, you'd have probably been reprimanded or fired for confronting hospital staff. Doctors and high-ranking nurses were once regarded as being just below God. You didn't challenge them in any way, or you were toast. A lot like our Dear Orange Leader, and his cult.<br /><br />But in 2020, it's far less risky to challenge racists and their inexcusable and boorish behavior. Would speaking out now, in similar situations, still cost you dearly? Or are even doctors and nurses no longer immune? More importantly, would you do it? I hope so. They deserved a good chewing-out.<br /><br />It must be tough to be a Karen these days. Or even a Caren. It used to be tough being a Barbie. I knew one, years ago, long before women kept their own names. She rejected her boyfriend's proposal because she didn't want to become Barbie Dahl. Even though she was short and dark-haired and overweight and looked nothing at all like a...well...you know.<br /><br /> Names carry such power. They always have...and they probably always will.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-34479099748091324562020-07-12T00:53:14.419-05:002020-07-12T00:53:14.419-05:00Years ago (Eighties), I briefly was a scalper of b...Years ago (Eighties), I briefly was a scalper of bleacher tickets at Wrigley. After the game started, some punk kid confronted me and was enraged because he hadn't been able to find a seat. He began yelling: "Where's my seat, Izzy? Where's my seat, Moe?" I grabbed him, while saying:"I could easily kick your ass, but I really want to see this game." <br /><br />Years later, somebody called me a "Jewboy" and I went for his throat, even though he was younger than me, and a lot bigger. "Izzy" and "Moe" I could let slide. The J-word, not so much. Security grabbed me and roughed me up and threw me out, my only ejection from a ballgame, ever.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-45345963925570550402020-07-11T23:00:17.903-05:002020-07-11T23:00:17.903-05:00Glad you're here!Glad you're here!Carenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948322374348472360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-77828352161137248042020-07-11T23:00:00.806-05:002020-07-11T23:00:00.806-05:00Thank you for reading!Thank you for reading!Carenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948322374348472360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-90117345427332632462020-07-11T22:59:34.766-05:002020-07-11T22:59:34.766-05:00I've never heard that one, interesting. I won...I've never heard that one, interesting. I wonder where it came from?Carenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948322374348472360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-90950746838834347582020-07-11T17:17:19.953-05:002020-07-11T17:17:19.953-05:00First encountered the Karen meme reading redit, th...First encountered the Karen meme reading redit, the male counterpart being refereed to as a Kevin. Never heard anyone actually call someone a Karen. <br />My Dad often worked double shifts, and Mom didn't like to drag around five kids on a bus trip. As the oldest starting at fourth grade, I had the job of going to downtown department stores and purchase items on sale. My parents were frugal which meant our cloths at times were somewhat worn. In addition to racism there used to be (still is?) whites who looked down on lower class people and take every opportunity to disrespect them. Dropped kids fare into the fare box, at times white bus drivers would demand adult fare from a scrawny little kid, or get of the bus. Clerks would follow you, then ignore you waiting at the register. Make a show of glaring at you snapping a twenty then holding it up to the light. Eventually noticed African American clerks treated me with respect. In high school it gave me a tendency to disdain the racist attitude of some of my peers. The epitaph I was most familiar with was being called an n-word lover.Berniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17157600812959885192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-70572913606163915152020-07-11T14:34:13.655-05:002020-07-11T14:34:13.655-05:00Brothers on the west side been calling all white g...Brothers on the west side been calling all white guys Joe for some time. It took me a while to get hip to it being a minor pejorative . Pretty harmless in the grand scheme of things considering slurs overall. FMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829632906445535928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-25754174507925441272020-07-11T14:31:25.386-05:002020-07-11T14:31:25.386-05:00You write squarely, looking at the issue of the “K...You write squarely, looking at the issue of the “Karen” and yourself straight in the eye. Thank you for sharing yourself and your writing! I learn so much. Debi Winston Buzilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14995979072573934034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-48234504777632579582020-07-11T10:40:43.543-05:002020-07-11T10:40:43.543-05:00As one of the multitudinous "johns" in m...As one of the multitudinous "johns" in my age cohort, I'm guessing that pejorative "Karen" won't last long.<br /><br />john<br />tatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06215684866966011198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-42824857508862244692020-07-11T06:22:03.946-05:002020-07-11T06:22:03.946-05:00Thanks - I've been looking forward to you addr...Thanks - I've been looking forward to you addressing your namesake meme. kganderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11005895232135682751noreply@blogger.com