estebanana -> RE: Building two under influence of a 1973 Sobrinos de Esteso (Dec. 31 2020 8:52:42)
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o were to go, no where safe anyway... What a phucshow! I've always been good at keeping me head down buried in whatever project kept my hands and mind busy, what's that saying in Japan, the nail that sticks up gets hammered. Thinking I feel hammered by this pandemic, the social responsibility, my own susceptibility with damaged lungs, I don't even go to the post office cause I live in one of the low information anti science all about my freedom states. Lucky! The expression the nail that sticks up gets smashed down isn’t popular anymore, if it ever was. I’m hear that a lot from other Americans. But I’ve come to see it as a cultural double standard because we do the same thing to our kids, but emotionally. We tell boys not to cry. They don’t do that here and it’s quite common for grown men to cry at joyous emotional stuff like winning or losing a sumo match. The PTA has gained a lot of power in Japanese public education, teachers are vigilant not to get on the wrong side of them, so much so that the ones who get hammered are the teachers. The joke among teachers is to stay clear of ‘monster parents’ what we’ve come to call ‘little league parents’ and helicopter parents. The kids grow in a more emotionally open state, but have a narrower career path than US kids because they still have to choose in the 8th grade if they will go through an academic program or a vocational technical program. Then spend the 9th grade preparing to go to that type of high school. It’s more like the US school system in the 50’s to 70’s in some ways. But boys don’t get ridiculed if they cry because they missed a soccer goal, or hit one from 20 meters out. US patriarchy is emotionally repressive, Japanese patriarchal order isn’t like that, is surprisingly not emotionally repressed. So who’s nailing down the nails? We both are to some extent. But I’m with you, stay clear of crazy trumpers who think this pandemic stuff is a thing you can play around with. When I was in little league baseball, one team manger worked at Lockheed, he was a bastard. And in the day we took his abuse because we didn’t know better. He would line us up against the backstop behind the plate and stand out about 20 feet with a baseball in his hand and lecture us. If he saw anyone not giving him rapt attention, he’d throw the baseball at that kid as hard as he could without going into a pitchers stretch. He was a fat, racist, abusive jerk who was an aeronautical engineer. His son was in the team, one day his son started bawling because he couldn’t perform as well as his dad wanted him to. The coach told him to shut up, stuff it down and be a man, or go home. I went to the same jr high as this kid. He started an informal club, non school sanctioned, called The Fourth Reich and they gave each other Nazi salutes and talked about how inferior the Jewish kids at school were. They were cruel and a petty white kid gang of cry babies who’s rich daddies emotionally damaged them. They all grew up to be trump lovin’ toady loud mouths on social media, who shout down ‘libtards’ ( guys like me basically) and think they are being kept from expressing their human rights by folks asking them to wear masks. I could go on.... Be careful out there and don’t John Wayne around with Covid-
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