#flexner

[kogcrew]

" Thrilled to be working as a BG & Color Designer on Knights of Guinevere! Glitch Productions has been one of my favorite experiences working in the animation industry. " - By Background Artist/Color Designer - Andy Garner-Flexner/oh_heyyy_andy

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[haggishlyhagging]

Between 1839 and 1850 most states passed some kind of legislation recognizing the right of married women to hold property. In some cases this was due to the interest of large property owners in protecting their bequests to female legatees; in others it was due to the efforts of liberal-minded men aided and aberted by a few energetic women.

In 1836 the fist petition for a Married Woman's Property Law in New York reached the state legislature. It carried the signatures of six women and was the work of Mrs. Ernestine Rose, who had just arrived in this country. Although born in Poland, Mrs. Rose became one of the outstanding women orators of her day and was often called "The Queen of the Platform." She was also one of the first women to try to improve the position of her sex through legislative action, and she found the task a difficult one:

After a good deal of trouble I obtained five signatures. Some of the ladies said the gentlemen would laugh at them; others, that they had rights enough; and the men said the women had too many rights already . . . I continued sending petitions with increased numbers of signatures until 1848 and '49, when the Legislature enacted the law which granted woman the right to keep what was her own. But no sooner did it become legal than all the women said: "Oh! that is right! We ought always to have had that!"

-Eleanor Flexner and Ellen Fitzpatrick, Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the United States

[welcometogrouchland]

Btw the reason why the hexsquad had kinda weird Grom outfits in the photo set during the timeskip is bc their junior Grom was themed "back to the 'fraidies" (pun on 80s) and was one of those cheesy vintage themed school dances. They're all wearing old outfits scoured from thrift stores and their parents closets.

Speaking of, the entire hagsquad was there to chaperone and they spent the night being nostalgic and sorting out their own issues (bc their own Grom was very very Messy. The dalador friendship breakup happened here, there was tension between Lilith and Eda over it being the first year Eda had a date (Raine, who had drama at home that year and ended up crashing on the Clawthorne's couch after Grom rather than going home) instead of going stag w/ Lilith, who almost didn't come that year, but ended up going with Perry Porter, who was generally just kind of awkward around his miserable "date" the whole night. It Was Not Fun)

The soundtrack was boppin' and the fashion was horrendous. Darius and Alador made out that night in a corridor. The school, led by Gus, teamed up to defeat Grom permanently. Bump announced his retirement and Eda cried. Overall fun night!

[gracehosborn]

Realized just now as I was shuffling books around on my overcrowded bookshelf to try (and fail) to find space for my new additions, the sheer amount of books I now own with Alexander Hamilton as a subject, or just with his name on the cover, is a staggering 33.

Thirty-three. 🤯

[rulersreachf4n]

[angstandhappiness]

Neat

some of my favorite promotional/production art of luz

[jm522415]

Los estudiosos que, como los poetas y los músicos, se han ganado el derecho a hacer las cosas a su gusto .../... logran los mayores resultados cuando se les permite actuar así. ABRAHAM FLEXNER [1866-1959]

[asfaltics]

putterings, 373-371

                                                  into strange paths so nearly featureless. lists, mislaid names, a matter of spectroscopy, Nomen mutabilia sunt                                                   away and was heard freedom, see the forbidden table, puttering at its pages not strange. how it came about, no idea res autem immobilis                                                   “Names are mutable, things immovable.”  

puutterings     |     their index     |     these derivations     |     20231116  

[puutterings]

spectroscopy, into strange paths

  Again, what is known now as “group theory” was an abstract and inapplicable mathematical theory. It was developed by men who were curious and whose curiosity and puttering led them into strange paths; but “group theory” is to-day the basis of the quantum theory of spectroscopy, which is in daily use by people who have no idea as to how it came about.

ex Abraham Flexner, “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge,” in Harper’s Magazine (October 1939): 544-552 (547) : link (pdf)

discussed by Maria Popova at The Marginalian (27 July 2012) : link

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context at 371  

[hamburrgist]

me: bending the internet in order to find one (1) Hamilton biography

the chernow one I have in my shelf that’s 1/4th read:

[haggishlyhagging]

Opportunities for women to teach advanced students while carrying on research themselves were largely limited, then as now, to women's and coeducational institutions. Having won the battle, albeit with difficulty, to go to college, they still encountered the same old obstacles to more advanced training. When M. Carey Thomas went abroad in 1879 to work for and win her doctorate in Germany, her mother wrote to her that family friends never mentioned her name, as she was felt to be a disgrace to her kin. The entire community considered plans for research and teaching as tantamount to relinquishing any hope of, or interest in, marriage; nor was there much possibility of advancing to the higher academic posts or being taken seriously as scholars and investigators.

-Eleanor Flexner and Ellen Fitzpatrick, Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the United States

[ordinaryschmuck]

I don't know who's idea it was to give Camila cute little cat socks...So I'm just going to thank all those were listed.

Thank you Andy Garner-Flexner, Shawn Responts, Lina Schlolter, and Dresden Douglas. You gave Camila so much personality in the tiniest thing that never got shown in the official episode.

[pollywiltse]

You know, when I said it was good to have an André biography from a British perspective, I meant because the author would have access to sources that it's harder for Americans to get to and because they would be less focused on the Revolution, and especially the Arnold plot, which is honestly less than a third of his life and hopefully more focused on his time before he came to America, about which less is known. I didn't mean "because the Brit would contort him into a Young Hero that bears minimal resemblance to the real John André and then claim his version like that because it was unaffected by American biases (and intellectual integrity, evidently)".

It's especially obnoxious because Flexner and Hatch, despite their issues (Flexner especially needed to chill. out) really did seem to be trying to write fair and intellectually honest biographies about André that weren't solely focused on the Arnold plot. And Flexner's book is actually a joint bio of the two of them, so he could be excused for not caring much about André outside of his time in America. But actually if you look in JSTOR at reviews of The Traitor and the Spy from when it was first published, while the reviewers don't seem terribly impressed about the Arnold sections (they don't think they're bad, just not anything new), they do talk about how Flexner found a significant amount of info about André's early life, including correcting the year of his birth. (I would say you can see this yourself from reading the Sargent and Tillotson biographies, but the Tillotson bio is so pointless I actually can't remember what it was like.)

Also the dude interviewing him is living down to my preconceptions about how little every historian who didn't specifically study André can be trusted when they talk about him.

Starting to listen to this podcast and already wanting to put my head through drywall. Good lord, Ronald, he was a desk jockey. He was an admirable, competent, intelligent person who was also a desk jockey because he was good at it and the army needs people who do paperwork too. (Also I have a feeling that he hated working in the family business because he didn't want to be a merchant, not because he hated paperwork.) He doesn't have to be a super spy to be "worthy of respect". (Honestly, managing to make friends with Henry "Paranoid and Hates Everyone" Clinton is probably a feat more worthy of respect than anything he could have done in battle.)

Also, the fact that he royally screwed up when it came to meeting Arnold doesn't mean that he wasn't generally intelligent and competent. (He evidently did have enough of a reputation for intelligence and good judgement that on the rare occasions he did do something silly, there are contemporary quotes from people going, "......Did he wake up and take stupid pills this morning?") He was doing something he had no training in and evidently not much natural aptitude. He's not required to be magically good at everything or be considered forevermore a pathetic loser. Especially because I suspect most people are not naturally good at what he was being asked to do.

I am so tired of people going "Well this person wouldn't be cool if they were like what they actually were like, so I'm going to make them completely different", especially since a lot of times what that person was actually like is perfectly worth reading about.

Also it's irritating that when he talks about "Monody for Major André" at the beginning he leaves out that Anna and John were really close friends for at least part of John's life (I suspect he did continue to write to her while he was in America), and she wasn't coming in from nowhere to make it all about her. (Also nice sexism there, especially since I don't think it was just her and her womanly lack of knowledge about war going "hdu hang him Washington you barbarian" - see also the inaccurate report of André's last words in whatever English paper it was that claimed he said his execution reflected badly on Washington. André Would Never, but a lot of people on the British side thought it.)

[rulersreachf4n]

[thoughtkick]

I wait every year for summer, and it is usually good, but it is never as good as that summer I am always waiting for.

Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn; in a letter to Hortense Flexner and Wyncie King

[perfectquote]

I wait every year for summer, and it is usually good, but it is never as good as that summer I am always waiting for.

Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn; in a letter to Hortense Flexner and Wyncie King