Godwin finds a new application

Have y’all heard of an internet phenomenon called Godwin’s Law? Put forth by Mike Godwin in 1990, it states, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

Apparently it is not only for usenet forums anymore.

Today was the first day of Physical Anthropology, which apparently has attracted every amateur Evolutionary Psychologist on campus. The pretension meter was at about 9.6 from hour 2 on. Anyway, we began by talking about the different streams of anthropology, and as we skimmed, we touched upon the concept of some aspects of human behaviour being biological while others are learned. This was a topic of no small interest for a couple of guys in the back, who began a lively, class disrupting discussion on whether cultural norms usually become law, or vice versa.

After volleying weak, poorly thought out arguments back and forth for a few minutes, one of them became suddenly enlightened and cried, “What about Hitler? It wasn’t a cultural norm to commit genocide, but he made it law.”

The class went absolutely silent, all his opponents stunned by his unassailable idiocy. If anyone is a discussion stopper, it’s good old Adolf. The professor, thanking his lucky stars, quickly resumed lecturing where he had left off before the incredulous moment passed.

Sweet Introductions

Why hello there, potential readers, and welcome to Snide Remarks.

My name’s Cady, and I’m a seventeen year old female attempting to navigate her way through first year Archaeology at a small Canadian university. It’s no cakewalk being one o’ them freaky feminists here, as most of the student population, my 4 roommates included, shop exclusively at American Eagle and think the Patriarchy is a book by Margaret Atwood. Not that they would know who she is.

This blog will largely be a personal one, full of observations and comments about daily life from a radical feminist perspective, but will also be dotted with essays, poetry, rants and other writings of my creation and from sundry other sources. I hope you enjoy reading, and if you do, comment! And if you don’t enjoy it, comment anyway!