I keep seeing this photo being shared. You probably have as well. You might be thinking that this post is going into a threatened direction, but it is not. This post is going in a perspective direction. The thing here is that when I first saw this my initial thought was, "Well, yeah. They like Whiskey, they made it. Life was good for 300 years, so why mess up what's good?" I don't even like alcohol, much less whiskey, but I can see how this might be utopian and life was good. Whether that's the case or not, that was my first thought.
My second thought was upon realizing that the vast majority of people sharing and commenting on this don't see it that way. They see that the Irish created Whiskey and then were too drunk to do or accomplish anything else for the next three hundred years. Somehow I found logic and whimsy in this, while all the other humans saw a big giant joke. Perhaps Irish people are also laughing at the joke. Perhaps they'd think I'm ridiculous for my perspective on this photo. Perhaps they are upset over this photo. I have no idea. I would think, gathering what I know of the word, which is not a lot in the grand scheme of things, that some Irish people would think I'm ridiculous and others would think it's a good perspective. Some Irish people are probably laughing along with other people while others are incensed by the joke. Some Irish people probably don't care one way or the other. While the collective group thoughts of the people that something is being said about is important, it's not important here because A] I don't know the collective thoughts of Irish people and therefor it's all speculation; and B] I'm really just discussing perspective; as in how groups of people or their lives are viewed by other groups of people. This post also isn't about whose right or wrong, but more about I suppose how people fit in society together. I feel like I don't fit. My perspectives are rarely matched by a collective group anywhere. I'm not different or better or less than and there are other people who have matching perspectives on certain things; it's just that it doesn't necessarily jive with the collective group. I'm reminded of girl talks in my teens and early twenties. Girls discussing stereotypes of male lovers that weren't American (since we were all American). I never understood the point in discussing these things and I was sometimes seen as a Debbie Downer during discussions. Because unlike all the other girls in the discussion I wasn't oohing and awing over this culture for being better lovers or for being more well endowed, nor laughing over this culture or that culture who was a poor lover or less endowed. No, I was the girl wondering why it was even discussed in the first place and then saying, "Ya know, I think men are all the same. Man junk varies and so do intentions and experience." I was also the girl who figured that I should perhaps broach this subject in a socialogical manner, which went over about as well as you'd expect from people who don't necessarily like to think in such terms. I asked black girl friends about black guys and I asked a German girl friend about German guys. Once I explained that I wasn't into the stereotypes and genuinely wanted to know if what was being said was true or not, from a scientific standpoint if you will, it went over better (as in they were not offended), but it was still weird, let me tell you. If you hadn't figured out, what they told me and what I'd learn later from scientific write-ups on sex is that the stereotypes are unfounded. German men are not forceful and fast lovers and black men are not superhumanly well endowed or the best lovers out there. These men are all just men and therefor any one of them could be any of the things. But this is not a post about how stereotypes are wrong (though they are in that useless and uninformative way), but how they spring up in every culture and group and I find that fascinating! (Although while it was slightly sad that British men, here, are termed as sappy, boring, and poor lovers, the worst was that Asian men have practically non-existant man junk & probably in the case of this group is used to make them seem "less human" which is wrong). It is weird that I'm fascinated by sex and the sexual workings of people, though myself am not very interested personally. I feel like an alien who was dropped down here on planet Earth and I'm all "Ooh! You humans are weird, tell me more, because my people somewhere in the stars will need to know." How many people do you know that look at sex in a strictly scientific way? But moving forward, so there was the thing being shared recently asking black people to ask the question they've always wanted to know of white people. Most of the questions were hilarious and I ask the same ones of my fellow white people. The best (most amusing), I think was "Why did you raid the world for spices, and then never use them?" It pains The Sister and me when white people toss out perfectly good spices thinking they have a shelf life or that they refuse to stray from the ever popular salt, pre-ground black pepper, garlic powder, and onion powder. Apparently, the stereotype here (in these questions) was about white women giving good head. I had no idea there was a sexual stereotype about (me) white women. It makes sense there would be, but I'd never heard it. "Who teaches you ladies how to (...)... everyone says you guys are amazing... is there some secret white woman head hunting society mixed with those Tupperware parties?" Yes, yes there is. Obviously I'm kidding. Or am I? I've actually never been to a Tupperware party, but I've been to plenty of (non sexual, so not sex toys) selling parties and no. Nothing even remotely sexual is brought up, though her question was funny! I think though it's the same perspective here too. Most white women will see this and either nervously laugh and clutch their pearls because one doesn't discuss such things, especially in reference to themselves, or they will think it's funny because they understand the world of giving head. Not that either is an incorrect response, however my response was still scientific. "Hey! It's a stereotype about us! File that away in useful world understanding knowledge. That Tupperware party bit was funny too." It's just not the same reaction here. It doesn't mean mine is wrong or there's is wrong. It's just that I'm pretty certain that 99.9% of white women reading her question are not going to to have the non-sexual and scientific excitement that I felt. These are just the two incidents swirling around in my brain today as I can't recall any other times off hand, but it happens more times than I can count. Even though I gather all of this knowledge to mix into some equation of how humans work in this world, it still doesn't change my initial reactions on things. It might give me a secondary thought, but it still has never changed my first thoughts. Like I could have garnered a whole messa information on some life experience; we'll say sex. So, this joke or that joke is sexual in nature. While I know that as it's in my information database, it's only my second thought, "Oh... this is that joke/reference... Ok." But my first thought will probably be something whimsical, childlike, logical, or really far reaching and rarely spot on with the collective group.
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