Posts by Joanna
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Dude, throwing yourself a website tenth anniversary party is so 2009.
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In very simple terms Megan’s observation of signs in Samoa that say “rape is wrong” feels like the right approach to me.
See, I think that's too simple an approach for New Zealand culture. People know rape is wrong, because that's the thing that happens to women in dark alleys and is done by strangers with knives or guns. No one I know would ever rape anyone.
Sex without consent, however, well that's a whole different thing...
Except that it's not.
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In particular “if she was really assaulted, why didn’t she do x / why did she do y?” was bandied about a lot.
You do what you need to do in order to get through at the time. That's all there is to it.
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Fuck the haters (who perhaps don't have a tummy they'd like to keep a little more secure), thunderpants for life. Except they're expensive and don't come in artichoke anymore. And they're not ruffled. Oh what I'd do for some ruffled panties in my size that didn't expect me to have an American booty.
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But no amount of tit (or long hanging peen, come to that) is going to mask the sound of ill-written exposition clunking over the points.
Yeah but I'm very busy and important, I like to multitask. I got story AND porn rolled into one, which saves me risking all kinds of viruses later...
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I thought that graphic sex acts were their own reason?
Word! I thoroughly enjoyed the sexposition in last night's episode. Totally made sense.
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My favourite version of 'Wuthering Heights' is me and all my friends wailing along and waving our arms like wacky inflatable car yard men. But this is a close second:
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Oh and Joanna, the point of a uniform is in its uniformity.
Which is exactly the OPPOSITE of what Roller Derby was when it started in Wellington. It used to be oh yeah, so you're not exactly sporty - maybe you're fat, maybe you've never played team sports before, maybe you're of a sexual orientation you've been discriminated against for before - well whatever, you're in derby now.
It seemed to me that individuality was an essential part of the piece - from the first skater's "Pageant" sash that fell off on the track and caused a hazard to Suffer Jet show-boating to a fall on her ass, because that's the way derby was played. There was no question that derby was a serious sport once you heard about their training schedules and everything. But seriously, if derby becomes all about THE TEAM TOGETHER AND NOTHING BUT THE TEAM you are going to lose the very crowd of weirdos, misfits and hipsters that the sport appealed to in the first place. Good luck filling the TSB area after they're gone.
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It's a shame that it seems Richter City is actively trying to discourage individualism with their new uniforms - everyone dressing exactly the same, so it's much harder to tell who's who. I say boo to that.
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Hard News: The Political Lie, in reply to Russell Brown,
Plucket, Edwards, Slack and Jesus would be an even better consultancy!