Let me preface this by noting that I’m a member of several downloads—email lists for women who are focused on technology. The discussions have been wide-ranging, quite educational and often flat-out useful.
Plus, they’re usually devoid of the kind of testosterone-fueled member-measuring antics you find on co-ed lists (including academic ones; I belonged to a discussion list on the First World War and you would not believe the sort of venomous invective and condescending claptrap that flowed on that forum). Women tend to behave better, and all the groups have list-moms who cut off threads if they go off the rails.
But this is not to say that the correspondents are always, um, the clearest of communicators. For one thing, many of them are technocrats; for another—just look at the comments on any publication for examples of people who aren’t bothered by syntax, spelling or punctuation considerations.
One of the lists has had a thread running for a few days on what to wear to job interviews, with many cogent experience-based suggestions for tech, creative or corporate environments.
However, the following post just completely flummoxed me. I’ve left everything is exactly as she wrote it, including spelling and capitalization; my only edits are to X-out the gallery name/location, which might serve to identify her. BTW—she misspelled the gallery name.
“Fashion yes, the connection we have to clothing, work, fitting in -all very real. Where and why does that matter and wow, really connects old skool with the "look like me" fear of the "other' on parade.
“Style is a form of editing that characterizes the uniform construct within cultures. It is funny because it's the diversity that pumps up creative volume. Ok that oxymoron is fun but the bigger thing here is "HOW?",
“Produced in a sweatshop, via chemically toxic, water fouling processes and subsidized transpotation that adds to atmospheric carbons and climate change?
“This should overrule any style aspect of 'what to wear.' When alert it is quite ez to slide it in and guess what, most people are liking the courage it takes to speak up.
“In fact people are signing up to participate in future events about these issues and more The show at the XXXX Gallery in XXX Center opens space for the discourse and it is so nice to know how many people are getting it.
“please come and see for yourselves!! It is a stunning, eclectic, unique, honest with enough whimsy to sweeten the facts...so sayeth the guests.”
The author describes herself on a social networking site (name in all lower-case, like you have to pay extra for caps; or perhaps she's channeling e.e. cummings) with equally pretentious buzzwords, which might explain her self-consciously edgy style. You should demonstrate that you know what the rules are before you break them. And she's not a recommendation for whatever institution(s) granted her four AA degrees and a certificate in Communications in Business and Media.
But could someone please tell me what the hell this woman is saying?
I get the fact that she’s got some sort of installation going on at the misspelled gallery. But what is the rest of it all about?
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I have only a very small clue what she's talking about (she obviously feels strongly that the negative environmental impact of the fashion industry should take precedence over a person's concern about what they wear, or fitting in, I guess). However, you've given enough info here to easily google this woman and ID her. She uses the description of herself that you post on several publicly available networking sites.
In which she has multiple spelling and grammar errors in her profiles, as well.
Okay, I'm busted. I removed the self-descriptors, which I hope will make her less easy to track down. & I still can't figure out what she's saying.
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