Reaching Out

So I'm going to repeat myself here:

While writing today, was struck by how much I like writing about jacket lapels, and of characters holding them, touching them, and stuff.

It's like jacket lapels are the textile equivalent of labia.


There is your thought for the day.

Sez I, on Twitter today:

Quick! Give me a list of things you associate with the term "Oriental"!
or terms, or adjectives, or descriptions.

Lovely_Lici: Noodles, dry cleaning (a place in Bahamas), slippers (the cheap ones with sequins), rice

joverm: rugs, porcelain, silk, demure womrn, stern mrn

SteamScholar: I Ching, Feng Shui, Acupuncture, the Korean guy from my theology class 16 years ago, Buddhism, Shinto, Haiku, Brass Temple Bell

SteamScholar: Bruce Lee, Tai Chi, Shogun, Samurai, Ha Jin, Tienanmen Square, Everest, Sherpa, Tibet.

SteamScholar: Anime, Manga, Akira, Godzilla, Big Trouble in Little China, "Raiden wins!", my best friend in grade 2, Kitaro.

snoboe: "...Station." A now defunct restaurant in the town I grew up in.

THEN, SEZ I, Let me rephrase: Give me a list of ADJECTIVES you associate with the term "Oriental"! Because things will go on forever.

heathercorinna: (free-association, bias likely intact) Old, structured, conflicted, soft-spoken, family-oriented, rigid, stubborn, artful, strict.

Note: I really appreciated Heather Corinna's response, because it was the one that was quickest and possibly most honest with bias.

SteamScholar: that's a real mix - it's a blend of wise, smart, quiet, refined, and the noisy lady from the busy today.

Koifla: rugs, cooking, massage

writersyndrome: Noodles. Rugs. Fetishes. (:P) Orientalism (art movement & post-colonial theory) & that line from "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist"


I may collect more tomorrow.

In the meantime, enjoy this quick rumination which spawned the question.