“According to the stableboys, the sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden’s virginity, while risking the maiden’s neck. Risking rather much for rather little, I thought at the time.” — Sheri S. Tepper, Beauty
Tag: safety
Quote of the Day
“No safety without risk, and what you risk reveals what you value.” — Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
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“If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing—court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.” — Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen
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“In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.” — John Kenneth Galbraith, The Guardian (1989-07-28)
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“It is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.” — James Baldwin, “An interview with James Baldwin” (1961)
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“Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.” — James Baldwin
“Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.” — James Baldwin, “Faulkner and Desegregation” in Partisan Review (Fall 1956)
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“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Player Piano
Misfortunate Miss by Fortune Magazine
The article, The Business of Cheer, was about the cheerleading industry. It presents a quick history including the facts that a safety organization was founded in 1987 and that cheerleading was the second-most-dangerous athletic activity in 2011, after football. In other words, 24 years after the founding of a safety organization, cheerleading remains more dangerous than hockey, a contact sport, and more dangerous than gymnastics, a somewhat similar athletic activity, and more dangerous than many other athletic activities like wrestling, boxing… .
Furthermore, this was an article focusing on a company that “controls cheerleading” and helping the foundation of the safety organization was given as accomplishment of that company’s founder.
I wonder about the efficiency of the safety organization if after 24 years cheerleading remains the second-most-dangerous athletic activity. I wonder about conflicts of interest when the founder of the company that controls cheerleading is a founder of that safety organization. What does the category ‘Closer Look’ mean if these questions remain unasked? I wonder if this article is written in Newspeak…
Quote of the Day
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” — H. L. Mencken, In Defense of Women
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