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1 Took a powder
5 Wake-up call
alternative
10 Real estate ad
abbr. after 2 or 3,
commonly
14 Golfer Aoki
15 Blender button
16 “Wonderfilled”
cookie
17 One of a daily
three at the table
19 __ colada:
cocktail
20 Heart rate
21 Tempo
22 Tar Heel State
university
23 Hunting dog
25 Israeli currency
27 __ out a living
29 Fiber-__ cable
32 Temperate
35 Jinx
39 Tokyo, long ago
40 Drink cooler
41 Ten-spot
42 Ga. neighbor
43 Voting mo.
44 Ditching class,
say
45 Visa rival, for
short
46 Mournful toll
48 Former OTC
market regulator
50 Trendy, with “the”
54 NFL team that
moved from St.
Louis in 2016
58 Perfume that
sounds
forbidden
60 Foes of us
62 “The Bourne
Identity” star Matt
63 Universal donor’s
blood type, briefly
64 Reality show
hosted by rapper
M.C.
66 “Golly!”
67 Suggest
68 Salinger title girl
69 Aardvark fare
70 Affectionate
nickname
71 __-Pei: wrinkly
dog
DOWN
1 Talks like
Sylvester
2 Suffix with arab
3 San Andreas __
4 Like much
breakfast bread
5 Jungle chest-
beater
6 Sugar cube
7 Real estate
calculations
8 Gunslinger’s
“Hands up!”
9 Brawl
10 Girl with a
missing flock
11 Military marching
unit
12 Gambling town
northeast of
Sacramento
13 Sound of pain
18 Smell bad
24 Halfway house
activity
26 Oddball
28 Spreads, as
seeds
30 Sitting around
doing nothing
31 Win over gently
32 Luxurious fur
33 Twitter’s bird, e.g.
34 Utmost effort
36 Brit. honor
37 Brooks’ country
music partner
38 In base eight
41 Fries sprinkling
45 Costs for
sponsors
47 Guffaws or
giggles
49 Iraq’s __ City
51 Code of conduct
52 SeaWorld orca
53 Entice
55 Horse-and-
buggy-driving
sect
56 Mother’s
nickname
57 Lip-curling look
58 Frat party robe
59 Very shortly, to
Shakespeare
61 Mid-21st century
date
65 Cornea’s place
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“
Black and Third World
people are expected to
educate
white
people
as to our humanity. Women
are expected to educate men.
Lesbians
and
gay
men
are
expected
to
educate
the
heterosexual world.
The
oppressors
maintain
their
position and evade
responsibility
for
their own actions.
There is a constant
drain
of
energy
which
might
be
better
used
in
redefining ourselves
and devising realistic scenarios
for altering the present and
constructing the future.”
—
Audre
Lorde,
“Sister
Outsider: Essays and Speeches”
***
If there is anything that the
past few weeks have given me,
it is renewed respect for my
professors. Maybe it’s because
I’m taking humanities courses
— English, history and drama —
but every professor I have has
talked about the impossibility of
separating our identities from
our existence in classrooms,
and
course
material
from
current
contextualization.
Every
professor
has
acknowledged the past few
weeks and the current climate
range from disheartening to
dangerous for different people.
Many have offered information
about University of Michigan
resources (which some feel are
inadequate) as well as their
own personal support.
In one of my English classes,
my professor talked about the
evolution of our understanding
of “truth” as a concept. Truth
used to be seen as objective;
we now know that truth is
relative. But she argued that
truth is more than relative —
it is positional, meaning that
sometimes
the
only
thing
separating
two
people
on
opposite sides of an issue is the
fact that they are on opposite
sides.
Hearing that flipped a switch
in my brain. Over the past
two weeks, my Facebook and
Twitter feeds — not to mention
classroom discussions — have
been nothing but reactions
to the election. Most people
who
supported
Democratic
presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton, even if only because
she was better than the other
options, seem to fall into two
groups. One group advocates
empathy, saying that dismissing
all Trump supporters is not
going to help solve anything.
The other group maintains
that they owe supporters of
President-elect Donald Trump
as much respect as they feel
those supporters gave them
in giving their votes to a
misogynistic, xenophobic man
with a dangerously homophobic
vice president.
Some
defend
Trump
supporters by saying that not
all of them are racist and sexist.
A common rejoinder to this is
that even if they aren’t racist or
sexist, they are still supporting
misogynistic
and
xenophobic rhetoric
and actions. I think
this is where the
idea that truth is
positional comes into
play. Racism, sexism,
homophobia — all of
these are societally
ingrained in us. But
not everyone has the
toolkit that allows
us to recognize the
internalization
of
these
constructions.
This
toolkit comes from several
factors: living in a place with
a
diverse
and
integrated
population, a good education
from educators of a variety
of backgrounds, exposure to
different perspectives through
a variety of mediums and a
support system that will listen
to you and help you educate
yourself.
Thinking about this toolkit
is especially relevant for this
next week. I’ve seen a lot of my
peers — especially the people
who maintain that the rhetoric
surrounding
extending
empathy to Trump supporters
is unfair and misdirected — on
Facebook and Twitter talking
about how they don’t want to
spend time with conservative
family members over the next
few days during the break. This
is where truth being positional
is important. The discussion
surrounding empathy is an
important one, but it shouldn’t
be the first. The question that
all white allies, or male allies,
or straight allies (hegemonic
bonus if you’re all three) etc.
need to ask themselves first
is what separates them from
their
conservative
family
members? What separates a
straight white male ally from a
Trump supporter in that same
demographic?
I think that knowledge of
the toolkit is one of the main
separations. The kind of Trump
supporters that most people are
talking about — although the
whole narrative that Trump’s
main demographic was the
rural white working class is a
myth, he was overwhelmingly
voted into office by people
with higher incomes, but that’s
another column entirely — don’t
have access to several tools in
the kit I’m talking about. One
of my history professors said
that what struck her more
than anything else about this
election was the rural/urban
divide, and that’s telling. Living
in an urban area will almost
always force you into contact
with more different kinds of
people and ideas. There has
been abundant discourse on
the resentment of the white
working
class
for
feeling
ignored by wealthy coastal
liberals; some argue that coastal
intellectual elites need to have
more empathy for them. After
all, there’s no rhetoric around
“allyhood” when we talk about
the lower or working class.
There has also been discourse
that argues white working class
people in rural areas aren’t as
exposed to different people and
perspectives in the way those
who live in urban areas are.
Both things are true.
It is not my place as a white
person to tell people of color
to have empathy for Trump
supporters.
At the same time, it is not
my place as a white person to
refuse to talk to conservative
white people who might have
voted for Trump.
This is true for the same
reason that it shouldn’t always
have to be women raising their
hands in history classes, when
people are discussing whether
or not Trump’s policies will
be “that bad” for women, to
explain
that
regardless
of
whether his policies will match
his rhetoric, his rhetoric itself
— both public and private —
reflects a fundamental lack
of respect for women. It’s
the same way that members
of the LGBTQIA community
shouldn’t have to take a deep
breath and explain why Mike
Pence’s moral and monetary
support of conversion therapy
for
gay
teens
represents
emotional torture and a suicide
risk for teens. Muslim women
shouldn’t have to be the only
ones talking about why this can
make every day feel unsafe.
The whole point of being an
ally is leveraging the privilege
you have in one identity (male,
straight, white) to help amplify
the voices and the concerns
of marginalized communities
you don’t belong to. It is not
to co-opt the pain of a group
of people, which it sometimes
devolves into when I hear
white allies saying they don’t
want to talk about issues with
conservative family members.
It is not to give yourself a
voice in an arena in which you
otherwise wouldn’t have one.
It is not to receive a stamp of
approval from the community
you are trying to support. It is
to use your voice when it’s safer
for you to do so than it would
be for people who inhabit the
identities with which you are
standing in solidarity.
One of my English professors
told us a few days after the
election that it might sound
cheesy, but we all have to take
care of each other out there. I
think that this — keeping in
mind what it really means to be
an ally, and trying to spread the
tools in that toolkit as far and
wide as we can — is the one of
the only ways we’re going to be
able to do it.
Kaufman is looking for the
next cause to get involved
in. To give her suggestions,
email sophkauf@umich.edu
What comes next?
In the wake of the presidential election, questions arise about comfort
GENDER & MEDIA COLUMN
SOPHIA
KAUFMAN
ALBUM REVIEW
It has been five years since
Tyler,
the
Creator
famously
threatened to “stab Bruno Mars
in his god damn esophagus,”
catapulting
himself
toward
celebrity
status
and labeling the
starry-eyed singer
as an enemy of
the
internet’s
subcultural
angst. Mars was
an
ideal
target
for Tyler’s anti-
establishment
rhetoric back then:
a clean-cut songwriter and music
industry insider who walked into
the spotlight with a catchy hook
and a string of radio hits. He sang
tongue-in-cheek love songs to
win mothers’ hearts everywhere
— eventually claiming enough of
them to headline the Super Bowl
— but his lyrics felt more like parts
of a grand, romantic shtick than
genuine
emotional
offerings.
Bruno Mars was another one of
those pop acts that “hip” people
loved to hate. Talented? Yes.
Successful? Absolutely. But it
seemed impossible for him to be
cool.
Fortunately,
Bruno
Mars’
latest album, 24K Magic, which
released on Friday, Nov. 18th, is
unrecognizable in almost every
way from his hearty, Radio-
Disney-aimed debut, “Doo Wops
& Hooligans.” On “Doo Wops,”
he used soulful affirmations like,
“You’re amazing just the way
you are” and “I think I want to
marry you” to frame his pop
persona as caring, considerate
and, above all else, approvable,
but 24K Magic is more fit to
score a cocaine bender than
an innocent first date. Bruno
bursts out into shouts over thick,
feverish strumming and hard-
hitting
percussion,
strutting
across groovy synthesizers for
sport and boasting like a true
Atlantic City gangster to further
construct his 1980s-nightclub
persona.
At just nine tracks long,
24K Magic almost never stops
bouncing, its excited vibrations
seeping
through
headphones
and blaring out of speakers as a
personal
assault
on
all
those
standing
still.
On the first song,
which is also the
title-track, Bruno
declares,”Pop!
Pop!
It’s
showtime!” as if
to warn old fans
that
something
different is underway. Then,
on “Chunky,” he walks across
one of the thickest, funkiest
bass lines in recent memory,
announcing on the hook: “If you
ain’t here to party, take your ass
back home. “Perm” is defined
by frantic strumming, blaring
brass
and
James-Brown-like
energy,
while
“Finesse,”
a
second-half standout, is a coolly
executed experiment within the
‘90s boy-band soundscape.
Perhaps Bruno’s transition
from
swooning
lovebird
to
hyper-masculine
fun
fiend
was
somewhat
predictable:
his
second
album,
2013’s
Unorthodox Jukebox, indulged
in a diverse set of styles while
last
year’s
enormous
hit
“Uptown Funk” — produced
by Mark Ronson — teased his
tapping into boogey-down eras.
Still, aggressive demands like,
“If I ring don’t let it ring too
long,” which appears on the
purring, slow song, “Calling All
My Lovelies,” seem strikingly
out of character for a man
who once promised to “catch
a grenade” for his loved one.
This attitude change is a good
thing though, as it adds a layer
of
spice
without
intruding
on Bruno Mars’s seemingly
trademarked soft side. “That’s
White I Like” achieves perfect
synergy with his two tones, but
album-closer “Too Good To Say
Goodbye” lets the lovebird take
the microphone.
It’s
impossible
not
to
compare 24K Magic to Michael
Jackson’s
classically
groovy
album Off The Wall, especially
when considering that MJ’s
longtime musical director, Greg
Phillinganes, delivered a synth
solo for the new album’s most
intimate offering, “Versace on
the Floor.” Bruno Mars was
so obviously inspired by Off
The Wall’s exuberance and
structure, its clean, brief length
and unswerving focus on quick-
footed fun, its ability to squeeze
bubblegum teen-pleasers like
“Girlfriend” and “It’s the Falling
in Love” into an otherwise disc-
jockey-ready track-list. There’s
influence from every swag-
having, heterosexual pop star
in history stamped somewhere
on 24K Magic, but Bruno Mars
seems most intent on chasing
Jackson’s
legacy,
probably
because it is one of the few lanes
diverse enough to host all of his
shapes. It will be fun to watch
what he evolves into next.
In the meantime, though, 24K
Magic is sure to shock the world
with its rhythmic precision
and timeless sounds. Bruno
Mars has created a project that
should prove capable of moving
parents,
twenty-somethings
and teenagers alike, one of
those ultra rare pop records
that is painfully fun to listen to,
one that is both masculine and
caring, indulgent and emotional,
but not too much of either.
Remember “Get Lucky” Or
“SexyBack?” There is no greater
phenomenon than pop music
being good — not carefully-
constructed or well-marketed,
but actually fun, creative and
exciting. Bruno Mars is trying
to usher us into a new golden era
of pop. I’m sure as hell rooting
for him to pull it off.
‘24K Magic’ mixes classic
grooves with modernity
SALVATORE DIGIOIA
Daily Arts Writer
Bruno Mars may be the next Michael Jackson on sexier album
A-
“24K Magic”
Bruno Mars
Atlantic Records
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