Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Blogsister Cassy calls out six megastars of slut culture. You know, where it makes you a lot more free if you pass around your verginer like a plate of hors d’oeuvres, or something.
Some of the comments are…really something.
This reeks OF typical right-wing fear-mongering dribble. I’d much rather support these “sluts” for their bravery and DOWNRIGHT HONESTY THAT IS COMPLETELY BASED ON FACTS, not to mention for their own humanness in their life’s path. I know of many teens who frequent the Scarleteen website because they are fed up with the lies their abstinence teachers are teaching them in the schools. True, there’s a bit of sex-obsessiveness re: these girls, but I’d much rather hang around with them than with the gun-toting boring anti-freedom you and your ilk will stop at nothing to get to the unreal world that you want it to be, that will never, ever be. The less obsessed we are about sex, whether we do it all the time or you don’t do it at all, the better off WE WILL ALL BE AND WE WILL SURVIVE AS A SPECIES.
FEMINISM = FREEDOM FOR ALL HUMAN BEINGS TO LIVE THEIR LIVES AS THEY DAMN WELL PLEASE AND AWAY FROM THE INFLUENCE OF YOU COWARDLY PEOPLE SHOVING YOUR ANTI-HUMANITY DRIBBLE ONTO US. MY BODY IS MY PRIVACY, NOT THE OBJECT OF YOUR PERVERSIVE GAZES AND IT IS NOT THE SOCIALISM LIES YOU MAKE THEM OUT TO BE. TRUTH, IT IS NOT. GO READ THE FEMINIST BIBLE THAT IS BITCH: FEMINIST RESPONSE TO POP CULTURE. YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY LEARN SOMETHING FROM THAT.
RESISTANCE TO RIGHT WING FACISM = TRUTH TO POWER!!!
With three bangs on the end.
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“FEMINISM = FREEDOM FOR ALL HUMAN BEINGS TO LIVE THEIR LIVES AS THEY DAMN WELL PLEASE ”
Uh no. Tell them you want to carry a gun and they’ll tell you no. Tell them you want to choose which school your child goes to and they’ll tell you no. Tell them you want to be free to associate or not with whom you choose and they’ll tell you no. Tell them you want to use words they don’t like and think thoughts they don’t like and they’ll tell you no. Tell them you want to choose to join a union or not and they’ll tell you no.
- Duffy | 10/27/2010 @ 07:13Sigh.
To the author of that comment…
“Right Wing” fascism is an oxymoron, moron.
I also can see that you haven’t bought into the reified paradigmatic hermeneutic cisgender phallocentric neo-colonial praxis, as you have either not learned to or are intentionally avoiding a passing nod to the proper use of punctuation.
And, of course, Duffy nailed her. Rhetorically I mean, in the “took aim, fired, and hit the target on the red dot” meaning, of course. 😉
- philmon | 10/27/2010 @ 07:52I lost my last vestige of respect for academic feminism the minute the first missile fell on Afghanistan back in 2001. Before that, the Taliban regime was the example of The Patriarchy run amok, and “our” — that is, white middle-class America’s — failure to do anything about it just proved that we were stuck in the hegemonic neo-colonial blah blah blah, spending 24/7 figuring out new ways to keep the gals barefoot and pregnant.
And then the war started. Say what you will about our nine-year adventure in the Hindu Kush, Afghani women are immeasurably better off these days. Which left our academic feminists in a real pickle — cheer the real, obvious, tangible improvement in the condition of women in one of the world’s most benighted places; or preen and posture against mean ol’ fascist Dubya at Code Pink rallies.
Faced with a choice between their fundamental intellectual integrity and an opportunity to score cheap debate points, to a woman they went with Bush-bashing.
What a clown show. And they wonder why certain troglodyte males insist that chicks are no good with reason and accountability….
- Severian | 10/27/2010 @ 09:39I’ll admit to being an old fuddy duddy by using an example from Friends. Phoebe’s twin sister Ursula was dating Joey and Phoebe was somewhat upset. Rachel proclaimed, “They’re not serious. They haven’t even slept together yet!”
Apparently the only acceptable definition of being in a serious relationship these days is whether or not one of you is inserting bodily parts into those of the other. Count me as somewhat… skeptical of that argument.
I’ll offer one little personal anecdote. An old girlfriend of mine had bought into the drivel those, um, empowered women are selling. She had had more sexual partners in her then 21 years than I’ll wager most TWO people have had. What did she get in return? No STDs, thankfully, but a nice two week stay in the hospital. As it turns out, since she’d learned that her only value was tied to how frequently she got laid, she finally broke down a bit and required some counseling. Afterward, she remained celebate for 3+ years and is now married to a great guy; not me, although we did go to each others’ weddings.
She’s not one for regret, so if you asked her now, she would never say “I wish that that hadn’t happened.” Instead, she’s trying to instill different values into her daughter because she wants better for her child.
- Physics Geek | 10/27/2010 @ 10:01