Modelling responses
Apr. 19th, 2012 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
malkaI often go off about how humans are story-based[1] entities, and how the stories we're loaded with make a big difference to the actions we take (and can take).
With that in mind, I really liked this, linked by Geek Feminism. It's a set of stories on a theme, portrayed well and humanly, in an easily absorbable way. Nice.
[1] I'm using "story" here to mean something akin to scripts, or playlets. "Man overcomes woman's initial resistance to have fabulous love together"[2] is a story, but so is "The driver in front of me stopped short with no warning so I honked at them" and "Susan takes the 234 bus to work every weekday morning at 8:15." and "Five-year-old Eddie lives with his mother and his father and his little sister and nobody else." They're little pieces of plot and characterization and setting.
[2] *eyeroll*
With that in mind, I really liked this, linked by Geek Feminism. It's a set of stories on a theme, portrayed well and humanly, in an easily absorbable way. Nice.
[1] I'm using "story" here to mean something akin to scripts, or playlets. "Man overcomes woman's initial resistance to have fabulous love together"[2] is a story, but so is "The driver in front of me stopped short with no warning so I honked at them" and "Susan takes the 234 bus to work every weekday morning at 8:15." and "Five-year-old Eddie lives with his mother and his father and his little sister and nobody else." They're little pieces of plot and characterization and setting.
[2] *eyeroll*
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Date: 2012-04-20 04:35 am (UTC)The "useful stories / scripts" factor is part of why I've been enthusiastically reading through Captain Awkward's archives. (Advice columnist / agony aunt, with good explanations and a surprisingly good commenting community.)
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Date: 2012-04-22 12:46 am (UTC)(Is there a rule that good advice columnists should all have titles? Miss Manners, Captain Awkward, ... .)