links for 2008-11-18
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"Hey, I love drama too – on TV. In books. In a life well lived, it inevitably creeps in. Seeking it out via tearing down other feminists? Not on."
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"I think I’m even more insulted by African Americans’ rights being ticked off as 'done' than by women’s rights being marked off. But yeah – that takes a level of delusional that is one of the biggest hurdles faced by feminists. They aren’t even seen as having problems that need to be tackled."
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"A true mens movement would be interested in the needs of all men, not just the ones that exist with race and class privilege. The idea that an MRA movement is even needed is one of the most ridiculous suppositions I have ever come across. Men control ever social institution, and every path to real power; and yet we are to believe that they are disenfranchised as a group. The MRA should really get into the business of swamp salesmen because they certainly know how to pitch bullshit; it might save them all from drowning on their unacknowledged privilege."
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"I don’t think internet comments are at all representative of the zeitgeist of the nation (I finally used that word in this blog! I win!), but I think the public at large needs to realize that as a marginalized group, we are fighting back."
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"Now I suppose if a Google engineer, with her Stanford/MIT/Cal Tech PhD is reading this she’s chuckling at my simplistic attempt to explain the behavior of the Googlebot. That’s fine. I’m not a computer scientist. I’m a filmmaker and a businessman, and if my understanding Google and search and the internet is simplistic, or skewed by my own self-interest, or just dead wrong, it’s not something I’m ashamed of. If Google or anyone else wants to lay it all out for me, I’m a quick study."
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"Couples was primarily about sex, at least, rather than being a novel to which gasps and sighs and spurts had been added as a lucrative afterthought or as a sop to ubiquity. Yet almost no writer has done it very well, and most have done it atrociously. Even the best writers become undone when attempting to shoehorn in a bit of how’s-yer-father. Certainly, even with all these caveats , nobody has done it as well as Updike. And even the most lauded of respectable novels packed full of shagging lose their lustre very quickly. Who, today, could read DH Thomas’s The White Hotel without sniggering? And don’t you wish Sebastian Faulks, in Birdsong, had simply got on with the first world war and the fighting, rather than having his hero make a mess of that pretty French lady’s dress?"
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"People still presume that if you are married to someone the relationship is more serious than if you are not which is something that is incredibly disrespectful and irritates the hell out of me, i was at a birthday dinner for my partners father and somebody mentioned how i was family now since I got married, my partners brothers partner was also their, they have been together for at least fifteen years but are not married and I really wondered how that made her feel pretty much being told she wasn’t family. (especially since she spent a lot of those years helping bringing her partners son up, so what is she? the hired help? the nanny?) (this is wandering of into a rant about how the nuclear family suck) just because you don’t have a legal document it doesnt make you any less important to the people you love and who love you."
Nov 18 2008 07:30 am | Category: del.icio.us links
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