Saturday's Activities Include: martial arts, track, 110 Grille, Kimball Farm

I took T. to martial arts. We dropped up some groceries at B.'s while we were there; she'd forgotten them in our fridge. Then we went to track. We stopped at Boyston Public Library to use the facilities and they kindly issued us library cards so I checked out the DK book about Sociology. It is interesting, altho (bet you know where this is going) I have some Issues with the book. Anything to do with women / patriarchy / feminism / etc. is sort of an afterthought and a lot of the language used to describe the ideas that are included display, at a minimum, editorial distancing from the ideas (putting words in quotes, for example, or using language different from language used for men talking about non-gender-specified ideas -- so instead of said/described, claimed/believed/felt. Similar things occur in the race sections, which are even fewer).

Handling of poverty and class issues is, as is always the case in sociology, just weird. I always feel like sociologists are trying to diss people with more money and power, while simultaneously trying to pretend that meaningful class structures/ladders don't really exist, except in groups other than the one the author identifies with. And then there's all the is-it-really-a-need garbage that I keep thinking people will eventually recognize is not worth getting into any more, but there's always someone willing to jump right into it anyway.