links for 2009-02-18
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"The worst part is that you can apparently put down a woman publicly, without consequence, even a woman as accomplished as Helen Thomas, without really having an argument against her.
But hey, they sent her flowers afterward so it’s all good."
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"This is really very simple. Sexual orientation and gender identity are two different things. Sexual orientation refers to who you are sexually attracted to. Gender identity refers to how you identify and/or present on the spectrum of man-woman (if at all). We all have a sexual orientation, and we all have a gender identity. But we don’t all need protection against discrimination on the basis of either; those who need protections on the basis of one don’t necessarily need protections on the basis of both; and for those who do need protections on the basis of both, one is just not good enough."
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"Few are under the false impression that the web is a big, anonymous playground. But there’s a serious difference between having your hosted content crawled by Google (if you choose to allow that) and having a service claim ownership of everything you’ve done and shared, even after you’ve left said service.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has since responded to the privacy concerns. Well, sort of. He seems to boil down the TOS legalize to 'just trust us'. Surely, Facebook can do better than that.
As social networks are born almost daily, we are still navigating privacy concerns. It’s during this time that users need to be clear about how they expect web spaces to treat their information."
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"Implicit in that is the suggestion that men are horny amoral sex fiends and women – into whom God forgot to inject a sex drive – just want to have a nice peaceful stable family, in which process, they forget to put out, driving oppressed under-appreciated husbands into the arms of harlots. Gah. I know this is what our culture would like us to believe, just to subjugate women a little bit more, but it’s belied by the statistics of marital infidelity. It’s also belied by my personal experience.
Second, who cares why men cheat? Everybody knows why everybody cheats – because the model of patriarchal marriage sucks, because pair-bonding is not what humans are all about and because we’re trying to force people into behaviors that make them miserable. But it’s still the wrong question to ask – why men cheat – because it implies someone other than the men (read: women, wives to be exact) need to do something to fix this cheating epidemic after understanding men’s inexplicable behavior…"
Here’s another rendering that didn’t get eated:
http://www.crispen.org/Kelly/kelly2.gif
Sorry for the randomness. I’m feeling random today.
“Everybody knows why everybody cheats – because the model of patriarchal marriage sucks, because pair-bonding is not what humans are all about and because we’re trying to force people into behaviors that make them miserable.”
Oh, man. I can’t stand analyses like this. It’s not that this person is necessarily making bad points in general, but these assumptions …
Okay, sure: the model of marriage sucks FOR YOU. YOU find it patriarchal. Pair-bonding is not what YOU are all about, and society is trying to force YOU into behaviors that make YOU miserable.
I don’t know how to say this politely. I am just so sick and tired of “sex-positive” universalizing.
Hey, careful there Clarisse. *I* did not make that statement. Apostate did. I quoted that part of her post when I saved the link because I found it to be an interesting portion.