Agreed. Seems like Alex just discovered a useful thread of thought that Uncle Fred found and rode for many years. To say, "nothing matters", is just the beginning of that wild ride to living vitally in the eternal return.
That's a silly statement. Nearly every woman I know carries it in the back pocket of her jeans/pants. Some will also carry it in their purse when her clothes don't have usable pockets.
This is entirely dependent on where you live, and where iPhone sales are concentrated. Look at the charts in [1] below. iPhone sales in China + Japan + the world > US + Europe. Women in Asia more frequently wear skirts to work, and tend to carry purses/shoulderbags more than, say, a casually-dressed American woman might. So it's not silly for >50% of iPhone sales (and also >50% of our species, see [2] below) to be heavily impacted by the market in countries where women "dressing down" is less tolerated or prevalent.
Note: I'm a dude who also prefers smaller phones. I have a used iPhone 5S but my primary phones are a slightly larger Android phone and a very large rugged Chinese phone (giant battery, dual SIM, good RAM, this is my travel phone).
No, it's silly to assume that your experiences are the only experiences that exist.
Nearly every woman I know carries it in the back pocket of her jeans/pants
Most of the women I know only wear jeans on weekends. And some, not even then. I don't own a pair of jeans at all. My wife has one that she breaks out for Halloween or gardening.
Some will also carry it in their purse when her clothes don't have usable pockets.
Some women can't carry a purse with them all day to stick a phone in. For example, shopgirls in high-end boutiques, who can't hold a purse while doing their jobs, and also wear clothing that more often than not does not have pockets.
At one time Burberry made a cross-body purse that was just a strap and a tasteful phone case. It was very popular among the class of women for whom jeans aren't a fashion go-to.
> No, it's silly to assume that your experiences are the only experiences that exist.
It's impolite to mansplain. Tracyshaun was course-correcting the following generalization:
> Women have been putting them in purses instead of pants pockets for a long time. Pockets usually aren't even an option for womens' clothing.
It's doubly impolite to put words in someone's mouth, such as stating that someone is assuming their own experiences are the only ones that matter ("your experiences are the only experiences that exist" -- not something Tracyshaun said or even implied). When read appropriately, Tracyshaun's comment reads as disputing a generalization with Tracyshaun's own personal experiences and those of friends.
We can make HN an even better place to comment by correcting such generalizations the way Tracyshaun did and not mansplaining people for re-baselining our expectations.
The author of this article seems to be a slave to her emotions and hasn't yet realize she can choose the emotional responses to the events in her life. Endometriosis is an awful awful awful thing to experience, but she seems to be confusing her own emotional choice about that condition and the inane platitudes those around her try to give to her. "Be positive" isn't toxic... it's just annoying when you think you don't have a choice about how to feel.
It's gonzo journalism [1] which was awesome in its time... 40+ years ago. I agree that it doesn't work most of the time within the context of reading sh*t on the web. However, using some kind of pocket/readlater app w/ wifi turned off on a lazy Saturday morning, it has its merits.
Weeeell. Gonzo journalism was introduced by a guy who claims to have taken epinephrine produced by someone's adrenal glands, just to get high. Sitting on a cafe with your laptop and admiring the morning dew is not quite on the same league of having an interesting experience to write about.
In photography it is practically a steadfast rule that to take interesting photos you need to be in interesting places. Written journalism seems to have the same restriction.
And I would posit that laying on your back with open attention to the night sky in a place free from light pollution is orders of magnitude more moving than any long-exposure photograph. It’s not just the visuals, but the grander sense of being witness to the majesty of where we actually are on this planet.
