Confronting Critical Race Theory

[mahagonny]

https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/removing-the-bedrock-of-liberalism-826

discuss?

[nebo113]

Oh goodness.  You are soooooo predictable.  Yawn.

[Mobius]

https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/removing-the-bedrock-of-liberalism-826

discuss?

Need a new hobby.

[mahagonny]

Oh goodness.  You are soooooo predictable.  Yawn.

https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/removing-the-bedrock-of-liberalism-826

discuss?

Need a new hobby.

Like yours, stalking? If the thread or the poster doesn't appeal to you you can skip it. Grow up.

[nebo113]

Oh goodness.  You are soooooo predictable.  Yawn.

https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/removing-the-bedrock-of-liberalism-826

discuss?

Need a new hobby.

Like yours, stalking? If the thread or the poster doesn't appeal to you you can skip it. Grow up.

You are just the sweetest thing.

[spork]

DNFTT

[mamselle]

I like threads that have zero responses sometimes.

We should have more of those.

I also liked the derailments.

We used to be very good at going off-topic and staying there for threads and threads and threads.

Sort of like a cloak.

M.

[Hegemony]

I'm sorry that cloaks aren't more popular these days. I used to have a wonderful cape — in fact I still have it — but little opportunity to wear it. They're certainly a lot more convenient to get in and out of than a lot of coats.

[mamselle]

My favorite is the medium tweedy blue wool one my 18th c. character wears when it's cold out.

She hasn't been out for the past year, and this summer isn't likely either, so it's being protected from moths now.

M.

[lightning]

Since there are cloak experts here, I've always wanted to know something. Why are Batman's and Superman's capes called capes and not cloaks?

[Parasaurolophus]

Since there are cloak experts here, I've always wanted to know something. Why are Batman's and Superman's capes called capes and not cloaks?

No hoods, presumably?

They also don't seem to use brooches or anything to fasten them.

[eigen]

Since there are cloak experts here, I've always wanted to know something. Why are Batman's and Superman's capes called capes and not cloaks?

No hoods, presumably?

They also don't seem to use brooches or anything to fasten them.

Hoods would be my guess for differentiating the two.

Not sure about the fastener- are you suggesting that a cloak has a hood and uses a fastener, like a brooch, while a cape has neither a hood or a fastener?

[Parasaurolophus]

Since there are cloak experts here, I've always wanted to know something. Why are Batman's and Superman's capes called capes and not cloaks?

No hoods, presumably?

They also don't seem to use brooches or anything to fasten them.

Hoods would be my guess for differentiating the two.

Not sure about the fastener- are you suggesting that a cloak has a hood and uses a fastener, like a brooch, while a cape has neither a hood or a fastener?

I think that capes can possibly be hooded (e.g. a rain cape?), but not fastened securely. But generally, I think that cloaks are hooded and capes not.


Also, I have a niggling memory (from learning about the Napoleonic Wars) that capes are perhaps shorter than cloaks?

[fishbrains]

Batman had a cape (hence the nickname: "The Caped Crusader"), but his headgear was separate. Robin, too, had a cape, yet no real headgear to speak of at all.

Hmmmmmmmm . . .

[mamselle]

Maybe it's the cut?

Seems to me that a cloak is cut to a pattern that goes more than 360 degrees around, making it fuller, and able to be wrapped around, while a cape is more spare-cut and falls with fewer folds.

But that's just by observation.

I could be wrong.

M.