Really, really busy here. The spates of downtime I get never seem to last long. And dammit, while a lot of the busy-ness is good, it sure does cut into my blogging time.
Last night was a milestone for me. I wore heels for an extended period of time, and didn’t fall on my ass. There were a few moments where I teetered slightly - but thanks to my excellent equilibrium, no tragedy occured. So, I hereby declare A Strip Through Time class #2 - with heels and fishnets - a success. In addition to doing the floor routine we learned last week, we learned chair dancing and lap dancing. My leg muscles are sore today, but it was awesome. The GDBF thinks I’m a natural.
Seen on a church sign in Decatur last night: “Starbucks and the gospel served here.”
Don’t forget, the 21st Carnival of Feminists will be here next Wednesday. Get your submissions in!
Well, back to work for now… no time to write a long post about any of the topics floating around in my head. So, here’s some linky goodness for you:
- Ilyka Damen has an absolutely hilarious post about mommy bloggers. I was literally LOLing, dangerously close to ROFLing.
- Oceana has always been at war with Eastasia. Hey, MSM, thanks for getting right on top of this one.
- Hooray! Amanda is speaking my language again.
- New episode of Mostly ITP, featuring readings and folklore from 1970s Augusta. Scans of the magazines in question to follow soon.
- Today is the last day of CSS Insider and The Javascript Weblog. Boooo.
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Amber, if you wanna include either of these two recent posts:
http://fetchmemyaxe.blogspot.com/2006/08/sex-positive-feminism-eternal-saga.html
or this
http://fetchmemyaxe.blogspot.com/2006/08/so-now-that-ive-calmed-down-bit-okay.html
’scool.
…and I kinda like this one, meself, although others have already objected. what can I tell you.
http://www.ninepearls.com/article/34/kind-of-numb
…and this is a post from quite a ways back, so if anyone’s already covered it, or this website (Sex and the Ummah from Muslim WakeUp!) then, don’t wanna be redundant; still, I think this comes from a perspective that isn’t often covered in the femblogosphere:
http://www.muslimwakeup.com/main/archives/2004/08/madonna_and_the.php
…and I know you were looking for maybe one from Lady Aster; I kinda like this one even though it’s not strictly speaking about feminism per se, it really is, and it really matters:
http://www.escortblogs.net/ladyaster.htm
“I finally understood why the left demands the ’sensitivity’ it does and why such things are crucially important. I realised that for a black man to sit through discussions on how his race is biologically disposed to stupidity, or agressiveness, or hypersexuality, is precisely the same torture as what I went through. I started understanding why the thousand subtle hints that girls aren’t any good at math or have to remain thin no matter what cause such devastating problems for womens’ self-esteem. I started realising that discussions of ‘the homosexual agenda’ were not just presentations of stupid and false ideas but the use of verbal weapons to hurt and dehumanise LGBT human beings. I had previously thought the main issue was between those open to reason and those not so open. What I realised is that reason and argument are just as capable as anything of being knives wielded by the privileged and the prejudiced. And when making my way in the world, it was simply a matter that some people knew what it was like and got it, and that others- well, just don’t.
Some people will turn their heads innumerable times pretending they just don’t see. Some people will just sit there giving arguments why I’m not ‘really’ a man. Some people will give clever arguments why homosexual sex isn’t ‘really’ sex. And fucking deep down they know what they are doing as evil. A Sartre pointed out in Anti-Semite and Jew, prejudice requires inauthenticity and ontological self-deception. Similarly, those who preach the intellectual inferiority of blacks or who say women are childrearers by nature are not philosophers to be argued with but toxins to be contained. To argue with them is to ignore the actual oppression they are inflicting on women or minorities in mistaken fealty to philosophical reason. As a transgender woman I cannot exist while treating my equality or inferiority as debatable…”
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I figured you probably already had one from RenEv lined up; i could nominate any one of a number of ;em.
Thanks Belle!! And I was already planning on using one (or both, depending how much room I have) of your posts that you included!
No wonder I’ve been feeling kinda poorly lately. With school starting back yesterday, I believe I experienced that “toxic level of yuppieness” as described on the “I hate mommy blogs” post. If there’s anything worse than mommy blogs, it’s the actual uber-yuppie moms themselves, in the flesh, or in their Lilly Pulitzer capris I should say. And yes, more than one Buckhead Fuckhead mom was actually out in public dressed like a flattened pink flamingo. That was compounded by the gross moms who dress like toddlers and talk in your face at the top of their dull lungs just like ‘em too. I’ve since taken to my bed…