links for 2008-06-14
del.icio.us is so weird. Sometimes the auto-post feature just randomly stops working for me. And then it’ll start working again, just as randomly, a few days later. (It obviously hasn’t done that yet, on this particular occurence.)
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“‘Retard’ is never okay, anymore than ‘fucking faggot,’ ‘dumb Pollack,’ the k-Word, the n-word or any other hate speech words are okay. Why folks still refuse to accept this remains beyond me.”
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Need to come back and write about this later.
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“I think the thing to do in furtherance of ‘feminist sex’ is to equip and empower women to speak on their sexuality, as defined by them, and get them to say what they want, don’t want, and help them do it, if they choose, their way- whatever way they want.”
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“But somehow, I doubt that the silence on the religion issue is because everyone concurs. I think sex is just easier to get upset about. I write about sex. This is not a new thing. If you’re checking my blog, it’s pretty much at your own risk…”
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“But even those who despise me find it hard to look away or to bite their tongue or to not personally intervene and yell ‘NO YOU ARE WRONG’ Think about that for a second, and tell me: which one of us is captive?”
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“I was pretty shocked to hear such an uninformed and markedly biased view about female sexuality come from NPR. But even though the world has significantly, demonstrably changed I guess no place of thinking is exempt from carrying forth dated values about women and sex.”
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“On Monday night at the Webby Awards, New York Times staff accepted their prize with the words, ‘Eliot Spitzer we thank you.’ Covering hooker drama went well for the paper last March, and the obsession still moves them.”
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Ha!!
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“I hear every day how nobody wants to look ‘unprofessional’ and ruin their career over an offending photo or rumor. I am starting to forget how to understand that.”
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“And on the dichotomy theme, much of this goes back to the men as animals/women as gatekeepers one…which fucks with us all. Yet I still think women, by in large, suffer more for being sexual at all than men do.”
Thanks, Amber :)
You rule!