Friday, October 10, 2008 | 8:30 am
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"So if 'sex sells' anything, then why can't these seasoned media companies make a sale? If it's not a question of morality, then it's a business question. Take a look at the top Fortune 500 companies, and you'll see some shrinkage. How arousing is banking? Does insurance make you squirm in all the right ways?"
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"I hope that some southern bloggers find this post and shout-out their blog addresses and their neighbors', too, so that I can add to my own list of fantastic southern voices. My favorite contemporary southern blogging writers are diverse, innovative, hilarious, deep and wise. Each of us interprets the experience of living in today's South in our own way–and at the same time we are transforming the southern legacy of letters with our own voices, humor, perspectives, righteous rants and brilliant ideas. Southern women are hot, in every way. I'll look forward an event in the future when BlogHers will travel to see us and soak up some of the heat our laptops generate. Then, the only blues we'll be singing is that our time together flew by too fast."
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Ha!
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"Dear God…. If the workers are at risk from these men, how is driving the lot of them out into the street going to help matters? Or is everyone just going to see the error of their ways and repent? I take it that's the idea? I mean, can you really see all concerned going, 'Ah sod it, we've been rumbled. To the Job Centre!'"
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"I am thrilled to see these workers organizing. I am excited about their political action committee and the possibility of a union. I am completely in support of their efforts to clarify the law so that BDSM, whether for pay or for free, is clearly legal. But I am dismayed by what seems to be part of the overall strategy: making the law clearer by stipulating some kinds of consensual adult sexual expression as clearly illegal is a very bad idea. It is the kind of strategy that works well in the short term but in the long term it is likely to have dangerous unintended consequences."
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"So stop with the idea that you need a book. Most people who think they need a book deal probably need to answer the question: What will I be doing two years after that book? Do you really need the book to get where you want to go? Probably not." Hmm. I think there are still times/topics where a book is appropriate. But anyone who writes a book thinking they'll get rich is stupid.
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"Most men, I believe, really don't get, either intellectually or viscerally, the degree to which the awareness of sexual assault permeates women's lives."
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"In a coincidence that’s meaningful to no one but me, I decided to start writing under my real name (and fantasizing about developing a broader readership) right around the same day I first heard about Kathy Sierra. Since then, I’ve been following the endless discussions about cyberbullying, anonymity, blog civility, to what degree this is the natural consequence of the internet’s fundamental character, and to what degree it’s the natural consequence of a misogynistic culture (online or off)."
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"I initially felt that no one had the right to question me, when I so clearly worked for justice. I wanted a cookie and I wanted to be given a free pass for all of my labour. It was my indignation and my desire that others appreciate me, that made me realize that I was not owning privilege. Since seeing the error of my ways, I have begun to try and unpack some of the ideas I have about what constitutes ability. I am still messing up, however I am committed to making a change. So keep calling me out when I fuck up, I cannot grow unless others show me the error of my ways. Seeing the privilege finger pointed at you may hurt, but a life of ignorance and disconnect hurts in ways that you cannot even imagine. "
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