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Finishing up clearing out email now that I'm home:

Canon and Sheep Shit: Why We Fight.
I hate the Doctor Who canon like Dawkins hates God.

Like him, I'm convinced the target of my animus doesn't exist, but that doesn't stop me spending half my life writing about how dreadful it is. (from marnanel)

Road Kill: It's Fresh, It's Organic, It's Free -- Honestly, perfectly sensible. I'd have to get over some of my cultural food limitations, and it'd be important to know how fresh the animal was, and what communicable diseases could be an issue, but I would have to get over the "ick factor" for one of my other favorite protein production ideas too -- developing an american taste for bugs and grubs. I like lobster, and they're basically giant sea bugs. I bet I'd dig roasted insects of various sorts, too. (and in response to someone's comment about cannibalism in the original post: If I die, and you're starving, eat me with my blessings. Please save and tan the tats; my friends have plans for them.)

Will Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap Continue to Defy Selling Out to Corporate Culture? -- I hope so!!

Teen pregnancy and disease rates rose sharply during Bush years, agency finds

Mainstream Media Reinforces Unexamined Arguments Against Public Funding for Abortion

Open Thread: When Art and Ideals Collide -- an issue I struggle with a lot.

Yes. This. Dawkins, get off of my team!

On the importance of midwives

I mean, there is a lot of (IMHO) woman hating in the following group of words. The topic, porn, the statement: “Do I want to look at some plastic-surgery enhanced woman who doesn’t even look human being porked”, the subject, how women who perform in porn (or are in the sex industry at large) suffer from Stockholm Syndrome.

Now see, that just chaps my ass in all the wrong ways. I mean, a huge thing that you see coming from anti porn feminists is that they hate the porn because it dehumanizes and degrades the women in it. But see, I am not sure how someone saying those very women do not even look like human beings is anything but dehumanizing and degrading? -- Amen.

Zombiechocolate has important stuff to say about that state of the economy in Ohio, and what that's meaning to people on a day-to-day basis. I'm so incredibly lucky to be in one of the safest job positions I possibly could be. My housemates and friends are being hit right and left. I'm still being hit directly by the public service cuts, especially RTA. A big factor in our move location was not only "is this on a bus line?" but "is this on a bus line we can be sure won't be cut?"

The Complex Sexualities of Young Women -- I haven't finished this one yet, adding partially for my own reference.

10 Things You Need to Know to Live on the Streets

Why I'm not watching Dance Your Ass Off

A really good piece on finding a gyn provider after sexual abuse

Gay and straight: parallel poly worlds

Tuning into Crisis Pregnancy Websites

Obama says not funding abortions is "tradition"

Condom ads from the UK

Whew. All done. Bed now.

Comments

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most often find the art issue a problem in movies and older books. I have a lot of trouble enjoying old movies because I can't stop noticing the gender and race politics to the exclusion of actually just enjoying the plot, for example.

I tend to excuse work from the early 1960s and earlier unless it is impressively horrid, because I largely assume that the US and Western Europe were deeply scary and exceptionally bigoted places prior to the social changes of the 1960s.

I see a lot of overlap between the lesbian/bi/straight poly worlds, with gay open relationships generally being conceptualized very differently. And I don't think that's just because of my own relationship dynamics (my most long-standing poly relationship being with K and T, who are living within a pretty poly and poly-friendly lesbian subculture). I also see it in who posts to the LJ poly communities. I can recall a lot of posts by poly lesbians, but almost none by poly-identified gay men.

That makes sense to me - at least in the poly communities that I hang out in (the Portland and DC area otherkin communities, where poly is essentially the norm, and at least 40% of people are bi), there are slightly more women than men and there's a mild undercurrent that even men in the community are sexually threatening unless proven otherwise, so it makes sense that such a place would be more welcoming of lesbians than gay men. However, it's equally true that I know only two lesbians in these communities, neither of them have any major connections to their local lesbian community. Of course, I also know no gay men in either community, so there's clearly some bias.