Posts by Russell Brown
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And then there's the slightly odd phenomenon of slashfic (gay male pr0n lit), the vast majority of which is written by women.
Forgot about that. And there's even Harry Potter slash! Eeew!
I can testify from my personal acquaintance that there are women who really like reading, writing and looking at gay male pr0n.
Because it's transgressive without being threatening?
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Written erotica was deemed more female-friendly not because of inherent preferences for visual porn for men and written porn for women, but because it was much easier for women to find written material where you’re not going to encounter some huge misogynist turn-off. In other words, that women don’t look at porn is a supply, not a demand issue.
Interesting point, although I think porn, like everything else, has been democratised somewhat by social media. There are probably heaps of by-women-for-women erotica blogs.
In the interests of research, I turned off cookies and found this one, by a porn-for-women publisher (not exactly worksafe, but contains a surprising amount of good reading!)
The indie-porn/amateur thing, a la Indie Nudes, has problably made things safer for women, if they want to see pictures of men and women having consensual sex, but, clearly, I don't know what women might want to look at. Probably not recontextualised gay porn, though.
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That was no good enough according to wikipedia the copy right holder has to give persmission for everyone to use it not just wikipedia!
Thankfully there are some nice people over at the PM's office who did just that, hence unlike John Howard. We get to have an offcial photo of our PM on Wiki.
Thanks -- that's interesting. Of course, there's no copyright on government proceedings and publications: presumably official photos don't count.
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I think they're trying to SwiftBoat Key - Labour are airing all these pathetic non-scandals now so that in the election year they can make references to the 'allegations surrounding John Keys past' and his 'problems with the serious fraud office'. I think they'll keep targeting his business career which is obviously one of his strong points - classic Rovian tactics.
I think you flatter them. Testing the credibility of your opponents is standard politics; National has done plenty of it. It's just not usually as lame as what Labour's doing now. They had a sound point on Key's switcheroo on Iraq -- but that's been buried by the feeble non-scandals. I'll only believe it's a cunning plan if they turn out to have something really bad on Key in the back pocket.
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I noticed that Herald article about the Clark entry on Wikipedia and I wondered how that was news. It would be news if the political figures didn't have Wikipedia entries locked off.
Yeah, come to think of it "John Key's wiki isn't being vandalised hardly at all" is much more of a story than "John Key's wiki has been vandalised." It's actually quite interesting ...
But to know that there's an Echo and the Bunnymen fan in the ministry of Justice is definitely a
Sideswipe item.There are similar odd little insights in the Wiki Scanner records for Treasury and the Reserve Bank and various big corporations. It would be a shame if it was put to an end. So long as it's not taking too much work time, people sharing knowledge is a good thing.
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Co-pendants unite!
That's an excellent neologism.
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I/O: I guess so, although they didn't break up and it appears she didn't know what was going on. I feel uncomfortable labouring the point any further, but what I said back then was that while I didn't regard cheating as a disqualification for office, I did see deception of a loved one as a reflection on character.
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Personally, I find that a damn sight more offensive that a weak story that looks like it was shoved into a hole on a slow news day.
I don't, at all. Politics is a rough business, which is not to say I approve of such conduct, including, of course, the whispering campaigns about Helen Clark's marriage. Labour's catcalling in the house lately has been dreadful.
But baiting a political opponent is quite different from singling out a private individual to try and score political points out of their sexuality. That's really reprehensible.
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Blardy good point about Mallard, Craig!
Er, not so much. Mallard's marriage broke up several months ago, apparently under the strain that tests so many MPs' marriages. Not to suggest I approve of Mallard's conduct in 2005 -- or at various times since -- but I'm not aware that he was conducting a clandestine affair whilst preaching the virtues of matrimony and toting his wife around for media opportunities.
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Having said that, and getting the titilating tranny angle out of the way, I think there's quite leigitmate questions about how the MSD is spending public money on staff recruitment, training and professional development.
And they are what, exactly? Public and private organisations bring in people for staff development and training all the damn time.
Collins, by her own account, has picked this single case to try and use politically. If she is really interested in general staff training issues rather than than good old gay-bashing, it doesn't really show.
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