Food for Thought – Honi soit qui mal y pense
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I am a technical communicator – and this site contains the things I like most: thoughts and ideas, some background information on some of my hobbies, poems I like and sayings I endorse. Hope you find it of interest, entertaining or even helpful…
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The prince and princess, the lovers, the heroes, the white stallion, the knight and the lady in distress, they are images, similar in many countries’ folk stories and fairy tales. “Moving” – it’s a word that in the English language has several rather distinct meanings. One of them is about emotion, basic human feelings. They …
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There is a way of putting this succinctly and shortly. In human passion these two taboos apply: Never do it forcefully. Never do it with children. This amounts to: Consenting adults! Anything that amounts to deeds done or winked at or profited by or used by breaking these two taboos… is not only a punishable …
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Patriarchy is an old concept of society but not the oldest ever. Even older is the one about matriarchy. What they mean? They are about power in societies and describe the fact that either the male or female aspect reigns, the eldest being the head of the family, respectively. Patriarchy in particular has won a …
Continue reading “Competition and Patriarchy – or: Manipulation as Doubtful Means to an End”
This section is about selected movies. The ones I like or consider special. A movie actually was starting point for my little site: ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ also called ‘A Midwinter’s Tale’ by Kenneth Branagh. It had been unavailable from any kind of broadcast or digital sources. So I digitised my VHS copies and put a description online… find that here, too. By and by I will add a few of my most liked movies as a small reference.
I am a technical communicator – and I like to do things that are related to technical matters just as much as I like dancing, writing, cooking, knitting, crocheting, thinking, watching movies, reading, listening to music, doing nothing…
I hope this little site provides some information or food for thought, entertaining insights – or just plain fun.
If you like it, leave me a comment, if you don’t – constructive criticism is also welcome!