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HTTP/2 301 server: nginx date: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:23:45 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 location: https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/comments/feed/ x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:23:45 GMT etag: "3198cb55ad5a369fc2ed873ef4d2292a" x-redirect-by: WordPress x-ac: 1.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=450.0 HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:23:46 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:23:46 GMT etag: W/"cecd6d30971d44cb86734a12d525f6b1" content-encoding: gzip x-ac: 4.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=412.0 Comments for things to think about https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com the world is very interesting. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:43:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ Comment on Today I am thinking about: BUYING THINGS IS NOT ACTIVISM by arielariel https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/buying-things-is-not-activism/#comment-252 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:43:16 +0000 https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/?p=520#comment-252 In reply to Travis.

I am just not sure that it does make it harder for another crazed, right-wing group with a small-minded agenda to try the same thing. At best, it reminds some corporations that there is resistance to this ideology, but it isn’t going to actually stop homophobia in any way shape or form. Is Penney’s doing anything other than saying it is willing to accept gay dollars? THAT, to me, is the real question. The legislators they support are certainly socially conservative in other ways (anti-choice, etc) in a way that makes me imagine their contributions are not all that pro-gay. I am unconvinced that this one choice is in any way something to feel great about.

]]> Comment on Today I am thinking about: BUYING THINGS IS NOT ACTIVISM by Memo https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/buying-things-is-not-activism/#comment-250 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:09:09 +0000 https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/?p=520#comment-250 Hi, Ariel. Interesting article. Don’t really agree with what you are saying. Corporations have a sort of dumb intelligence. I think of it kind of like a dog. You need to punish bad behaviour and reward the good. I believe boycotts are VERY effective. Money influences behaviour. And what we are trying to affect on one side of the activism coin is behaviour. We want equal rights. The side you are discussing, “The idea that I am going to thank a giant corporation for having the basic decency to not be douchey makes me sad,” is dealing with Corporate Psyche. You can change Corporate Behaviour. Corporate Psyche needs to evolve like new emotional dynamics in human brains do. I am jumbling everything up as I tend to do, but being decent and behaving decently are not the same thing. But both are gains, though. I don’t blame any company for trying to promote their version of moral standards. If I had a large company I would like it to reflect my ideology. That is why we must attempt to neuter financially the institutions that seek inequality. The companies that support us deserve our support. Stop shopping at Target and Best Buy for example. AND write them and let them know why. Most folks out there do not consider themselves activists. Those non-activists are probably the most influential people in this whole struggle. Americans tend to not want to sacrifice convenience for marginal gains. When people I care greatly about continue to shop at Target and drink Coca-Cola products it hurts down to my soul. If I knew how to get them to make small adjustments to their behaviour that would mean giant ripples in society… oh well. Boiling it down, which do you think is easier for the Average JoJo? Switching to RC Cola or taking 15 minutes a day to call an organization and question them on their moral values? I think both are incredibly difficult to achieve. And both are necessary.

Anyhooo, on a less confusing topic. I’m totally linking you on my blog. :oP MemosWorld.com and I am adding this response to the facebook post, because people are to lazy to leave facebook.

Much love,

Memo

]]> Comment on Today I am thinking about: BUYING THINGS IS NOT ACTIVISM by Travis https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/buying-things-is-not-activism/#comment-248 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:10:44 +0000 https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/?p=520#comment-248 He makes a point about the shop-in not being activism (though I hadn’t heard anyone refer to is as, either). I think people just wanted to send a big, sloppy, thank you kiss to JCPenney for doing the right thing- not exactly an impolitic gesture. You KNOW those numbers will be posted- especially is they are at ALL sizable. Perhaps making it just a littlle bit harder for another crazed, right-wing group with a small-minded agenda to try the same thing.

]]> Comment on Today I am thinking about: BUYING THINGS IS NOT ACTIVISM by Mimi https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/buying-things-is-not-activism/#comment-246 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:17:10 +0000 https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/?p=520#comment-246 I don’t necessarily think the Shop in is about activism. It’s more about a) showing support to Ellen, and b) showing support to a company who chose to stand by her even though they’re being attacked for doing so. It’s not hurting anyone, so why not? I don’t think people who chose to “attend” need to be looked down on, called unimaginative. It’s just a small way for people to show their support. And saying things like “our people” kind of puts this separation between those who are gay and those who are not. That’s sort of what these OMM women are doing, just in a much more forceful and ignorant way. But to me, there is no difference between us and there should be no separation. We’re all the same, all of us deserve to have the same rights, we all deserve to have the same choices. I digress though. If a bunch of people wanna shop as a way to show their support, let them. Trust me, it’ll go a long way to show the women of OMM and all the other haters just how many people support Ellen and equal rights in general.

]]> Comment on today i am thinking about: THERE WAS A FARMER HAD A DOG by jess https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/there-was-a-farmer/#comment-245 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:03:58 +0000 https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/?p=499#comment-245 PITTSBURGH.

]]> Comment on today i am thinking about: fuck gentrification by Sarah Silverman https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/eff-gentrification/#comment-241 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:25:51 +0000 https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/?p=356#comment-241 Every time I go to Cap hill I think about this. Safeway is now condos and fancy shops. QFC and the Taco Bell where Beau ran in after we got off work at the UPS store and shouted “two kittens” are condos and fancy shops. Freddy’s went through so many incarnations. It had a theater that’s a gym now, GaP is gone. Hot topic is gone. That perfect sunglasses kiosk near the elevator where I got my purple John Lennons is gone. QFC is there and they sell paint and house wears. My gaming store is American Apperal now. My middle eastern restaurant with the black sage tea that cured the common cold is gone. My music store is now a Castle Megastore. Buffalo Exchange is only on the Ave now. The only part of my Broadway that still exists is The Metro gothy emporium, but as a working adult, instead of a kid with an allowance, I can’t afford to shop there.

Same thing is going on at U Vil. The landlords get greedy. They raised the rent of Atlas Cafe where I’ve shown and sold art and they had the best corned beef hash ever and even Barnes and Nobel got the boot! It’s such bs. I live in the burds. I make minimum wage and live in a house with 3 guys, but our 4 bedroom + den, 1 bathroom house is underpriced for what our landlord could get for it. He’s the only non greedy landlord I know

]]> Comment on today i am thinking about: ACTIVIST FASHION by aaronheartsjesus https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/activist-fashion/#comment-232 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:20:28 +0000 https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/?p=454#comment-232 I know you did not write this post looking for validation. Still, I have to tell you: I love your radical fashionable genderful fabulousity so much. I’m not saying there’s an excuse for the consumption trends we all have pounded into us, and I know it’s possible to thrift-store your fashionable heart out, etc etc. But I am so inspired by your fashion because, culturally, I was raised to be a huge hater on people with any fashion sense. One third of that has to do with lack of money (on a personal, family, and community level), one third is about feeling inadequate around city people (on a personal, family, and community level), and the last third is because I do not have the gift of a fashionable eye AT ALL (S., bless her heart, is trying… really she is trying so hard with me). When I became a teenage marxist, I threw a healthy dose of anti-capitalist analysis into the mix, but mostly that was just a cover for the other anxieties. And eventually, the flip side of that analysis forced me to stop being a hater, because I have come to know and respect that fashion can be one amazing way that people with limited resources make art, make beauty, and mark out boundaries for the sacred in their own lives. An example: omfg I HATE northwestern white suburban church fashion BECAUSE CHURCH IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE LAZY. And that’s not about resources or having the fanciest church hat, but it IS about presenting your best self to God and it IS about claiming full dignity before God and your community. The northwesterners we go to church with are so rigidly committed to casual. But when we went to church in Harlem, it MATTERED for all the members of the choir to be able to wear a robe– some of the choir members were homeless, and carving out that dignified, sanctified space (in a uniform that placed them, at least visually, on equal footing with everyone else in the choir) MATTERED. And when I think back on the dirt poor, rural, elderly congregation I grew up in, I remember clearly that people wore their best flannel shirts and hand-knitted sweaters on Sunday. And “best” might mean there was only one shirt that didn’t have holes in it, and that’s what they wore, as an offering to God (and because hello! in a very small community, church is a major social event!). And the older ladies always made sure to have their hair set perfectly ❤ ❤ <3. Anyway. The way I feel about church and the way I feel about The Movement are often parallel, even though the cultures can be very different. And so, Ariel, I love your movement fashion the same way I love church lady fashion. Because I love people practicing their full dignity and joy as a little glimpse of the life of the world to come, where everyone is free and able to be as relentlessly fabulous as they need to be.

]]> Comment on today i am thinking about: THE BECHDEL TEST by eliza ridgeway (@elizaridgeway) https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/bechdel-test/#comment-229 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:29:40 +0000 https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/?p=450#comment-229 what?!?!? YES?!!? (still reading, totally titillated just by your lead!!!!!)(between this and the related FB pic, you are my MVP for media this week!!!)(have now used all punctuation budgeted for month of october you have led to my grammatical doom)

]]> Comment on today i am thinking about: BABY I HATE MANARCHISTS by rherrera2457@yahoo.com https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/manarchists/#comment-228 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:55:47 +0000 https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/?p=447#comment-228 For me, other than the use of the word “hate”, this is right on!

]]> Comment on today i am thinking about: BABY I HATE MANARCHISTS by arielariel https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/manarchists/#comment-227 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:26:46 +0000 https://interestinginteresting.wordpress.com/?p=447#comment-227 In reply to honeyandlocusts.

A+++ well said on all points.

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