links for 2008-08-06 [delicious.com]
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"It seems to me that those people who attack feminism are the ones who don’t have a proper understanding of it. I have yet to have an intelligent conversation with someone who despises feminism and has a good grasp of what it entails."
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"The way addiction is discussed in these conversations seems cursory at best and decidedly lacking in compassion/understanding. There’s this vibe that people who have never dealt with drug addiction can just use the words and we’ll all understand the pathos that this entails. The desperation. The despair. The last gasp. I mean, we’ve all seen Leaving Las Vegas, Drugstore Cowboy, Walk the Line, whatever."
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"In my experience, people who’ll bear any kind of language at all when it affirms their worldview will jump straight up to object to language people who challenge their worldview are using."
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"It would be simpler if this case was just about the issue of Jefferson’s bisexuality. But it isn’t."
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"But bottom line, there’s no reason why this level of focus and ambition (without being an asshole) cannot extend to other job environments. From what I saw of and learned from my Magic Carpet colleagues, I have no doubt that if this were the case, we would be deadly at all levels of employment."
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"That these professional anti-porn activists, who make good livings off their writing, speaking and teaching activities toward the suppression of freedom of expression would choose to go underground with their despicable propaganda is hardly surprising. They have a lot to lose by risking the kinds of criminal sanctions pornographers must contemplate every day on the job. That, unlike lawful pornographers, Stop Porn Culture! can't comply with the the requirements of 2257 because they've stolen the copyrighted material they employ, has clearly put their own freedom in jeopardy, as opposed to merely jeopardizing the freedoms of consenting adults as they would prefer to do. That, it would seem, has given them some pause."
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"Gracie is not a persona; but once a sex worker, even if not always a sex worker, you'll either always have a double-life issue or end up simply denying your past. I can't, won't, do the latter; but often I have to compartmentalize my own life into 'sex worker' and 'non sex worker'."
Aug 06 2008 10:00 am | Category: del.icio.us links
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