Tuesday, April 8, 2008 | 7:47 pm
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“It turns out that the participants are a pretty eclectic group who will be coming from near and far to meet up, share ideas, educate each other and have a little fun.” Dacia’s write-up about Sex 2.0 on Hot Movies For Her.
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“The human body is a beautiful thing - unless, apparently, you’re seventeen and painting a nude self portrait, in which case it’s dirty, wrong, and bad.”
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Debbie Rasmussen’s wrap-up of WAM.
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The Brazilian government has begun producing condoms using rubber from trees in the Amazon.
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“It is something that has deep roots in Western culture, and quite a few non-Western cultures as well, and continues to manifest itself in religious systems, political ideologies, and in other dominant institutions like law and medicine.” Totally agree.
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“Do not just start following every fuckable podcaster and sending ‘@’ replies to every cute blogger. I never add back the guys who only follow iJustine and a few dozen other comely women.” Heh.
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“So, the fact that Mechele Linehan was once a stripper must have some bearing on the story, right? I mean, why else would news sources (and it’s not just CNN, believe me) be featuring that detail so prominently?”
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It’s interesting that the second choice for first place in the story “Virginia Teen Censored For Nude Self Portrait” was of a nude, pregnant torso and that was also rejected by the newspaper as inappropriate for a student art contest. It’s as though the Virgin and the Mother were both rejected as acceptable female forms to present as art.
I wonder what was the first place piece?
Also, I found this article on the website for the Virginian-Pilot newspaper. The article is about a teacher, just starting out her first year, who is found to have been involved in an escort service. She is no longer associated with the escort service’s operations.
“The best thing I can do right now is call and resign my job,” she said.
The best thing, according to how she interprets the possible and actual reactions to this discovery. So, even when someone goes through with that moralistic narrative of changing their life, doing the moral thing, leaving behind the sinful ways, and becoming a respectable member of society–so the narrative goes–that person still is neither redeemable nor free of that past. If the platitudes don’t even work the way they are supposed to, it is no wonder people leave them behind.
(followed the trackback from my site! thanks!)
the Starbucks siren was “updated” b/c she was seen as “too risque” for people when the company began to boom. the original siren is coming back, they believe it is OK to be risque, and you can find her on merchandise, and all hot cups in the stores again.
personally, i am a huge fan of the original siren (FTR, i knew what “those things around her head” were, even b/f i worked there. ;)
i am going to have to poke around here a little more!
Oops, sorry Charles, for some reason your comment got stuck in the spam filter.
Exactly. Once you’ve done it, you’re marked for life.
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