Being Amber Rhea

links for 2008-11-01

• BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | E-mail error ends up on road sign
  Ha! "The notice went up and all seemed well – until Welsh speakers pointed out the embarrassing error."
  (tags: funny language signs news)
• Atlanta’s pagan roots « pecanne log ::: ladyblogging atlanta
  Heh. "Well, where do you think Druid Hills got its name, hmmm? This forested neighborhood was once, as early as 200 B.C. by some Atlanta History Center estimations, the pagan kingdom of Keyll Gyn Yiarrey Druaightagh. Even after the British settled the land as a penal colony, these cloaked polytheist mistletoe-worshippers remained powerful in this area, building strange formations out of the native granite and sacrificing debtors who wandered into their sacred grove to their ancestor gods."
  (tags: funny heh atlanta halloween)
• Good Girls, Bad Girls – You Know We Have Our Share « Natalia Antonova
  "There are Women We Listen To, and there are Women Who Don’t Really Matter. Guess which one I am?

  Now, to clarify something right away – I’m not doing this to put Nine Deuce or any of her readers on the spot. I don’t really know them, they don’t really know me, and I only really ended up over there because of a link on another blog.

  When people don’t automatically engage you, it doesn’t have to mean anything.

  I am only using that specific example, because it has helped me crystallize an idea I’ve had bouncing around my head for a while: the idea of feminist 'victim' hierarchies."

  (tags: feminism women hypocrisy sex porn sexuality blogs)
• My response to Farley on Freakonomics- Should prostitution be Decriminalized? « Bound, Not Gagged
  "The idea that sex workers should be mandatorily tested is as logical as the idea that all sexually active adults should be mandatorily tested. Sex workers know that their bodies are their businesses, and they see their health care professionals much more often than your average woman. They are also responsible for much of the safer sex education of the general public- either because they teach their clients how to be safer during sex, or because they teach each other. Not to mention the simple fact that when a man and a woman have unprotected sex, the woman is far likelier to contract an infection from the man due to her genital physiology. Men have a tiny hole through which infections can be transmitted via a mucous membrane, while a woman’s entire vagina is a mucous membrane susceptible to infection. As such, if anyone is to be forced to be tested, shouldn’t it be the men? Do you see that happening any time soon?"
  (tags: important refrence propk law sexworkersrights prostitution)

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