It may not be as relevant to you as you have been running for 2 years, but I highly recommend this book as a way to train while avoiding injury, especially to anyone else in this thread who are new runners looking for a resource.
I also had lots of shin splints when I was a beginner runner, and I followed this training program. I essentially just repeated weeks in the program as many times as it took until I was pain free and able to progress to the next week (basically each week incorporates more solid blocks of running and fewer walking breaks, so the first weeks of the program start with the most walking and least running, and the final weeks are when you're just running the whole time).
who said we are? feminism doesn't equate all men as equally privileged nor equally guilty, that's just a myth - feminism to the contrary is pointing out the way patriarchy victimizes men and women, and the way a minority of men perpetuate the violence and system of patriarchy.
Yes, but we continue to fail to communicate - I was never undermining your point about material commitments, I think that point is well-taken, it's the conclusions you draw that I disagree with, i.e. in terms of lumping the capitalist class together with members of the working class ... When I say Che Guevara was a valuable member of the revolution, it is to highlight an example of how valuable class consciousness can be from members of the working class who are more privileged but are not members of the capitalist class.
I wish to resist the tendency to view someone like a software engineer as equivalent to the capitalist class, just because material incentives exist. A software engineer is not a capitalist, they are working class, and the revolution is served by viewing professional and managerial workers as workers, worthy of being included and incorporated into the revolution. Not because they are that way already, I am agreeing with you by suggesting the opposite, that they aren't aware of their status as working class because they have some material incentives, so they align with the wrong class interests.
The right response to this, in my opinion, is to work on raising their class consciousness, while it feels like you are suggesting the opposite (essentially lumping them together and furthering the entrenched idea that they are helplessly aligned with the capitalists and thus basically capitalists themselves).
sure, but it doesn't feel particularly relevant, those people aren't that different from less economically privileged working class folks who defend capitalism despite gaining no material benefit from doing so. The upper middle classes that align that way are still exploited in their jobs and victims of the system they align with, and that's no different than everyone else. Division among the working classes doesn't help our cause, and those middle upper classes would be some of the most valuable allies in cultivating change if their consciousness was raised, since they at least are not completely empty-handed. Think of people like Che Guevara who had such immense influence - he was precisely one of those middle upper class people whose consciousness was raised when he witnessed the American-backed coup in Guatemala.
we're talking about the average person; the idea that the average person in the US is using their higher income as savings to compensate for lack of social programs is delusional imo, I think most people have significant debt and will just fall between the cracks if they lose their job or get sick and can't work, etc.
focusing on income is distorting, socially and politically some of the wealthiest and most powerful people have the lowest incomes, it's just not the best lens of evaluating power or wealth.
thanks for the pic! very practical, love that in a purse. Thicker strap is more functional and fits this purse well - easier and more comfortable to carry on your shoulder, and across the chest.
I have a few purses that look like this one, love it! 🖤
I remember first buying a purse when I was a teenager (unaware of my gender issues).
There was this weird conflict brewing inside me, debating whether I could get away with buying and having a purse - would my mom let me? Would my dad find out and threaten me? Would I get bullied at school?
My girlfriend at the time was with me and was so supportive, she was the real reason I felt the freedom to take that little step, to sheepishly choose a purse and buy it.
Wearing a purse was one of the few gender non-conforming activities I took a risk on when growing up: I wore a purse everywhere in high school and didn't stop as an adult.
Usually of course I chose purses that were more subdued (in colors of browns, blacks, greys) and usually plain and not too feminine in style. But I corrected people when they called it a "man-bag", insisting it's really just a purse.
So yay for purses, have a great purse day, enjoy that mojito!! 🥂💖
you mean why the post makes so much sense ... it's literally pointing out the paradoxical situation of patriarchy - that it victimizes the same class it simultaneously elevates to create the hierarchy in the first place, which is crazy
right, but when comparing my chances of economic survival, somewhere like Prague seems even more likely to work than Denmark just from a job market competition perspective, and Prague seems equally "idgaf" in attitude towards trans people (not that this kind of tolerance is the same as acceptance, non-discrimination, or integration)
this book was written to help new runners avoid injuries and to help them slowly and safely train to the point of being able to run a race:
The Beginning Runner’s Handbook: The Proven 13-Week RunWalk Program by Ian MacNeill and Sport Medicine Council of British Columbia
It may not be as relevant to you as you have been running for 2 years, but I highly recommend this book as a way to train while avoiding injury, especially to anyone else in this thread who are new runners looking for a resource.
I also had lots of shin splints when I was a beginner runner, and I followed this training program. I essentially just repeated weeks in the program as many times as it took until I was pain free and able to progress to the next week (basically each week incorporates more solid blocks of running and fewer walking breaks, so the first weeks of the program start with the most walking and least running, and the final weeks are when you're just running the whole time).