this post in support of gentrifying "cleaning up" Market street (by allowing louder signage!) actually has "Great White Way of San Francisco" (emphasis mine) on their faux-nostalgic photograph.
Paging doctor Freud, your white-privilege is showing.
Wait, what? They want to revitalize those two blocks of Market by putting up bigger signs? What?
I love the photo that he chose for that part of the street. The last I checked, the two big adult theaters are also in that two-block stretch (1077 Market St., between 6th & 7th; "See the beauty; Touch the magic"). I'm trying to figure out how their having bigger signs will help "revitalize" the tenderloin.
Also hey jacksauce Broadway works the way it does because it's a long, dense street that looks like that, not a rinky two blocks.
I don't know but I imagine there is quite enough magic-touching going on in those theaters; they need very little additional outside encouragement.
My psychotherapist's office is right in that area too -- just a few blocks up from "see the beauty". I'd rather people not pee on the sidewalk, too, but I'm with you: how will bigger signs help?
Also... not to get into too much here but just because I'm looking at all that very closely right now, i don't think "your white privilege is showing" is actually an insult. It's always showing no matter what we do, we can't help it. What's wrong IMO is when we can't acknowledge it. I know you know all this, but words also matter so I wanted to point out that that way of putting things didn't work for me.
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Date: 2009-09-23 08:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 08:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 08:56 pm (UTC)I love the photo that he chose for that part of the street. The last I checked, the two big adult theaters are also in that two-block stretch (1077 Market St., between 6th & 7th; "See the beauty; Touch the magic"). I'm trying to figure out how their having bigger signs will help "revitalize" the tenderloin.
Also hey jacksauce Broadway works the way it does because it's a long, dense street that looks like that, not a rinky two blocks.
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Date: 2009-09-23 09:06 pm (UTC)My psychotherapist's office is right in that area too -- just a few blocks up from "see the beauty". I'd rather people not pee on the sidewalk, too, but I'm with you: how will bigger signs help?
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Date: 2009-09-23 10:57 pm (UTC)WTF?
Also... not to get into too much here but just because I'm looking at all that very closely right now, i don't think "your white privilege is showing" is actually an insult.
It's always showing no matter what we do, we can't help it.
What's wrong IMO is when we can't acknowledge it.
I know you know all this, but words also matter so I wanted to point out that that way of putting things didn't work for me.
Love you.
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Date: 2009-09-23 10:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 11:11 pm (UTC)Though not as elegant I guess.
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Date: 2009-09-24 04:54 pm (UTC)