Totally
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
oh hey yes
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
i watched a little bit of it last night and decided to save the rest for lateri'm saving chicken for possibly never
― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 20:15 (nine years ago) link
Chicken truth is a truth we cannot afford to hear
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link
My dad called at the end of last week, horrified by that chicken documentary.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
I actually found the chicken documentary less horrifying than I expected! Salmonella is a bitch but relative risk analysis = a million other things will get you before it does. The chicken lobby is a fright, tho.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
the meat industry is horrifying
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 22:38 (nine years ago) link
looked at preview online of upcoming "rape on the night shift" and just kind of said to myself, holy shit, noooo
― computer champion (harbl), Friday, 12 June 2015 23:57 (eight years ago) link
the one on growing up trans was v good
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 5 July 2015 15:04 (eight years ago) link
Agree. It was interesting to see how the emotional vocabulary of the kids featured in the movie is soooo much more rich than when I was growing up. Even the boys who suggested to Alex that he burp more and ignore girls. It was really good!
― La Lechera, Sunday, 5 July 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
i think they deliberately chose, not only kids who were especially articulate, but -- perhaps more cynically -- kids who were unusually attractive in/as their 'new' gender.
it was very powerful and raised some very difficult questions. the psychologists (psychiatrists?) were very supportive and sensitive and yet i couldn't help but detect a kind of cheerleading that, seen from a different perspective, might seem troubling.
i think the key point in the documentary was the dad (?) who said that they were making the best choices in the absence of a lot of solid answers (answers that science may one day provide).
― wizzz! (amateurist), Sunday, 5 July 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
interesting that the doc essentially offered two endings, one notably ambivalent and the other brightly optimistic
― wizzz! (amateurist), Sunday, 5 July 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
the perspective of the somewhat older dude who admitted its really tough to gauge/appreciate irreversible changes as a young-er person was interesting, like that juxtoposed w the eagerness these kids have to take hormones is def kinda unsettling
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 5 July 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
xxp yea the clinician cheerleading too
the perspective of the somewhat older dude who admitted its really tough to gauge/appreciate irreversible changes as a young-er person was interesting, like that juxtoposed w the eagerness these kids have to take hormones is def kinda unsettling― johnny crunch, Sunday, July 5, 2015 4:16 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― johnny crunch, Sunday, July 5, 2015 4:16 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes, and you have to contrast this perspective with the fact (?) that undergoing these hormonal treatments in adolescence can make the transition easier than undergoing them in adulthood.
what's interesting to me is the seeming consensus among psychologists that gender dysphoria is a "thing"--that is, some kind of irreducible, discrete, empirically observable phenomenon that can't be reversed or placated. which it might be, but the psychiatric profession has a history of deciding such things when they turn out to be, at least, much more complex.
there's also the issue--which wasn't really broached in the documentary--about the relationship between gender and sex. is it just that people who have a sexual dysphoria inevitably express it in terms of the dominant cultural signifiers of that gender?
the mix of culture and biology here is so fraught....
― wizzz! (amateurist), Sunday, 5 July 2015 21:30 (eight years ago) link
that is, is it possible to desire to be another sex w/o assuming the dominant cultural characteristics of the gender generally associated with that sex? or does the desire to change one's sex (via hormones, surgery, etc.) follow from the desire to achieve those characteristics?
i'm not a hardcore cultural constructionist though and i'm comfortable with the idea that some of the cultural manisfestation of gender are a more or less natural, or rather evolutionary, extension of sex. but that assumption definitely flies in the face of some of the more radical implications of the queering of gender that a lot of activists have been invested in for a long time.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Sunday, 5 July 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
If you're interested in the topic, Andrew Solomon's Far From the Tree has a chapter about transgender kids (and their parents). The book is indispensable as an empathy-generating force. It's really great.
― La Lechera, Sunday, 5 July 2015 22:43 (eight years ago) link
heeeeey http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/immigration-2/rape-in-the-fields/female-farm-workers-awarded-17-million-in-florida-abuse-case/
― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 September 2015 22:12 (eight years ago) link
Exxon that climate change was real in 1977. Hope this expanded into a full hour-long episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppfpFZ92JAY
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 September 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
Inside Assad's Syria is on in just a few
― goole, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 01:41 (eight years ago) link
RIP Robin Poor Bear/Kind Hearted Womanhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/robin-poor-bear-1977-2015/
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 December 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
Oh wow, so sad.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 3 December 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
i know, i can't stop thinking about itif you haven't checked out David Sutherland's other documentaries, they are all great. i've wondered and worried for years about the kids in Country Boysi hope Robin is at peace
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 December 2015 22:23 (eight years ago) link
Oh nooooo :(
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Friday, 4 December 2015 01:12 (eight years ago) link
Shit.... :( :(
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 5 December 2015 06:55 (eight years ago) link
I'm trying to watch "Separate But Unequal" about the resegregation of public schools, and I know I should be able to at least listen to this as I fold laundry but I just want to punch every one of these white men in the fucking face.
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Sunday, 20 December 2015 21:09 (eight years ago) link
you should occasionally glance at the screen so you know what they look like -- that way if you see them irl you can punch them in the face :)
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Sunday, 20 December 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link
Did anyone watch the one about Netanyahu?
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 20:52 (eight years ago) link
this supplement one was good & like theyre doing a gambling/fantasy sprts ep
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 24 January 2016 02:20 (eight years ago) link
its cool they have the entire transcript - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/supplements-and-safety/transcript/
― johnny crunch, Monday, 25 January 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
I haven't seen a Frontline episode in a few years. I eat chicken seemingly every day so I will not be watching that, lol. Netflix used to have many episodes, but I've seen them all. Are they shown anywhere else, like Hulu Plus or something?
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Monday, 25 January 2016 17:49 (eight years ago) link
The Frontline website has them all, or at least almost 200.
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Monday, 25 January 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
They also post transcripts for virtually all of them there too. It helps my students take notes while they watch.
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Monday, 25 January 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link
I just watched a couple on MRSA-type infections in hospitals while doing repetitive work at work, but found them to be kind of thin... could not bring myself to watch the ISIS ones though, despite strong interest in the subject. Too grim. Which is silly of me, since, you know, Frontline.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 25 January 2016 19:39 (eight years ago) link
Frontline also podcasts the audio of their episodes with the descriptive subliminals. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/podcasts/
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 08:29 (eight years ago) link
ok i'm watching the one about supplements and the first lady they interview (Purity First) is so -- i don't even know. when she was asked about her husband's medical background, she said "he was a chemist in college and then he went to chiropractic school" which, let's be honest, does not suggest a promising future in chemistry. i look forward to the hucksterism/snake oil on display in this episode!!
also -- the podcasts are the most terrifying, no question, and audio ISIS might be insomnia material
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:43 (eight years ago) link
"I've got these incredible bleeding scales on my head and I can't go to work" --Purity First customer
wowowowowowowi thought this one might be boring but no
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:46 (eight years ago) link
there is a free PBS iOS/appleTV app that has at least the most recent season, maybe more
― gr8080, Friday, 29 January 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link
the one about supplements was so goodperfect for a lesson about snake oil or a casual hour of lol/wut?!
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Friday, 29 January 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
Ha, didn't even think to check if they had a website, thanks.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 02:38 (eight years ago) link
Two things -- 1) Frontline is going bananas with the microcephaly photos/stories about the zika virus2) I recently wondered if somewhere there is a porn parody called Frontloin but I am not googling for it from work or ever
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Friday, 5 February 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
Zika is total Frontline bait though, there's no way they wouldn't go all in on it!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 5 February 2016 19:08 (eight years ago) link
frontloin would +/- = 'gunt' i guess?
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Friday, 5 February 2016 19:09 (eight years ago) link
Also I have a Pavlovian pizza-craving response to Frontline, even today.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 5 February 2016 19:13 (eight years ago) link
not googling "gunt" either!
waiting for ZIKA ON ICE
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Friday, 5 February 2016 19:18 (eight years ago) link
I had my co-worker google frontloin; results 0% salacious. I asked him to do it because his search history is already guaranteed to get him fired if anyone happens to look at it. Mine will just show that my interests, while work-appropriate, are worryingly obsessive.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 5 February 2016 19:21 (eight years ago) link
hahahagood move
seriously the one about supplements is unintentionally hilarious, really recommend for lighter fare
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Friday, 5 February 2016 19:24 (eight years ago) link
I am absolutely going to watch that this afternoon while taping receipts!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 5 February 2016 19:35 (eight years ago) link
the one about fantasy gambling was good from what i saw of it (only watched half) not a heavy topic, but somewhat interesting insight into what happens among groups of friends that i will likely (hopefully) never be a part of. the reporter was fun to watch too. trip to curaçao, don't mind if i do…
also saw the one about heroin. very thorough and focused, informative. depressing.
received an email from frontline today with subj head: In Case You Missed It: Heroin, Pot, Zika, and South Sudan and i loled :-/
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Friday, 26 February 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
lol thanks frontline
― gr8080, Friday, 26 February 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link