From tomorrow night until Sunday afternoon, I will be home alone. This will mark the first time I have spent the night alone since MB defended her dissertation. I have big plans to get a lot of work done. Luckily, I live in the middle of nowhere and face few distractions.
By the way, I just finished collecting data for a relatively big study on rape proclivity and proclivity to blame the rape victim. I realized that there are all sorts of icons and literature and stuff all over this site, but I never tell anything about my work…which, lately, has been all about sex, death, and dentistry.
dentistry!? you are a sick, sick man.
:)
by kathy—Oct 20, 07:49 PM
well, ladeeda…i’ll just keep my virgin to myself
i do hope you get work done…somebody around here needs to
by hermit x—Oct 20, 09:11 PM
nothing wrong with the virgin. the world prob needs a few more.
by chris—Oct 21, 07:21 AM
aye. all I’ve seen of your work is the study of solitude you published. In my thinking the monk was relevant to that, but what you’ve been doing lately I had no idea. We could have a help section that’s all about gathering data…
To where will MB & R be going off?
by greg—Oct 21, 08:17 AM
MB to the ATL; R to Mississippi.
by chris—Oct 21, 09:03 AM
Man, I never thought of using the “blame the victim” response when asked about my wife being violently raped. I wonder how that would have gone over…
Them: “Would you use violence to defend your wife if she was being violently raped…by Adolf Hitler?”
Me: “I dunno. Maybe she deserved it, or was asking for it by wearing that short skirt with the swastika print…”
by Greg K-B—Oct 21, 12:06 PM
an interesting side note—my research assistants collected data from athletic study halls in order to get enough men. because of the relative ethnic homogeneity of our campus, the athletes happen to be the most ethnically diverse group we’ve got. three different research assistants working with different sets of atheletes reported that athletes started talking among themselves about the study as the RA’s were gathering up their stuff. The RA’s all said that among the athletes saying that the victim was blameworthy were mostly white guys and among the athletes saying that she was not were mostly black guys. I draw no conclusions from this—it is neither scientific nor what we are studying—but it does make me wonder what that is all about.
by chris—Oct 21, 01:03 PM
btw i was dismayed to read the “hypothetical” on your (g k-b’s) blog about your wife being raped. i think one could come up with a “hypothetical” that was thoroughly hypothetical and did not implicate a non-hypothetical woman who was not participating in that discussion and who, if she were among a disturbingly high percentage of women, may have actually experienced that particular “hypothetical.”
by chris—Oct 21, 01:12 PM
MB and R are back, very happy to see C. Atlanta was a delight, esp MARTA, on which I was the only white person the great majority of the time (and there was a lot of time on MARTA). I saw ONLY white people at the conference I was there for, though. I didn’t discuss blaming rape victims with anyone I talked with in either setting, so can’t offer insight on C’s RAs’ findings.
by mary—Oct 23, 10:14 PM
so, were you able to find the market?
i hate that i missed your presentation…three white men showed up to mine…one kept talking about foucault, i talked a little bit about the french illness
by hermit x—Oct 24, 06:30 AM
Was this conference SAMLA?
by greg—Oct 24, 08:17 AM
sixteenth century society and conference
by hermit x—Oct 24, 08:32 AM
oh. that’s really not very sexy, is it?
by greg—Oct 24, 08:42 AM
and samla is sexier?
a note on the antipodian. we saw said person this weekend. said person was preaching and came and said hi to us.
here is the line and order of his questions…
so how are you? (fine and you?)
where do you go to church? (the disciples)
are you a deacon? (yes, both of us)
what’s your ministry area?
oh, that’s very interesting…here we want to do thus and this, and this and that, and this is a great place to be, but we need a new location
so…what is that you do?
oh, you need to meet him and what…did you know that there are 4 ex-profs here? (self-included)
well, great to see you.
congrats on your child.
by hermit x—Oct 24, 08:50 AM
no, i suppose SAMLA’s not especially sexy, either—although the SAMLA conference was much snazzier than SCMLA.
wow. he includes ‘imself as a ex-profess’r? I mean, it was my understanding that he never got higher than presidential bootlicker.
by greg—Oct 24, 08:56 AM
such viciousness for a monday morning.
it does sound like an odd conversation, though.
by chris—Oct 24, 09:09 AM
i was just reporting the facts :)
btw.
i’m wondering about the whole “planned diversity” thing…
were my responses that banal, or off topic?
by hermit x—Oct 24, 09:38 AM
i don’t think your responses were off-base. all i was trying to say was that the whole affirmative action debate could be improved by more explicitly defining diversity and by coming up with a relatively “automated” set of methods and decision rules for generating groups with the type of diversity desired. Determining what kinds of diversity are beneficial and exactly how diversity is beneficial seems to me to be a useful target of research.
All this is based upon the premise that people could agree to decision rules that would create the desired diversity in the group. Of course, privileging group-level characteristics over individual-level characteristics is unacceptable to some people because it seems unfair to particular excluded individuals. Perhaps if the definitions were made more explicit and the decisions made more automated, then everyone would at least know exactly why decisions were turning out the way that they are.
by chris—Oct 24, 11:09 AM
i didn’t find the conference sexy.
i did find the market sexy. thanks sooooo much for telling me about it. it did take a while to get there (bus 8 doesn’t run on sat) but i had a good book.
by mary—Oct 24, 07:06 PM