Posts by Russell Brown
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Ahem, pedant?
"Pendant" is a running joke spawned by one of my own trivial typing errors.
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Michael. Shut up and don't dig yourself in any further. You are not making sense.
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Craig surveys a week of fake boobs, both literal and metaphorical.
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That said what do you think of Wagner and his representaion of Aryan ideology? :)
It's very popular in heavy metal?
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Truce?
Hardly needs saying. Of course.
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Oh. I also meant to say 'word' to Russell about how things have changed attitudes-wise. You were thinking of Blerta, and I always think of some of those early 70s American films like Five Easy Pieces. Some of the women in those movies are so... weird. They're not really even characters, just erratic, incomprehensible bundles of neuroses. We, as the audience, are definitely not meant to identify with them or find their positions defensible.
Look at how women fared in beat culture. Joyce Johnson did not idly call her memoir Minor Characters.
And then you fast forward to Kathy Acker, and you think, well something changed.
But the other thing I was thinking about is what genres of music are more likely to be sexist. And I realised the heavy metal, once a reliable source of cock-centred drivel, has become so serious. It's all dark incantation now.
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Tarred n feathered :)
Roundly rebutted sounds nicer.
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Makes me feel a bit more erudite by association, I must say!
Too modest, Jackie. You're erudite as it is.
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Imagine if you will, that RB's wife was once a stripper (she's not, that I know of -- it's just an example). And here we all are discussing how strippers are exploited, they mostly end up on drugs, possibly falling into prostitution. Do we expect her to log on and 'defend' what she did in an earlier life?
I can confirm the negatori on that one. But interestingly, Kevin Rudd's sister in law -- outed as a former stripper in a lame part two of the cynical attempt to smear him -- is now completing her Masters in psychology.
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'm not really interested in answering for the 'crimes' of 1970s feminism, since that movement gave me the freedom to own property, have my own career, and have control over my own body. Those feminists also gave me the right not to be raped or beaten by my own husband.
Absolutely. And I think that a great many other things have shifted as part of the same process.
One thing that has changed is that the men don't get to have all the fun any more. When you look back at our supposed counterculture heroes, you tend to see women in the background trotting around cooking and looking after the babies. I saw a documentary about the Merry Pranksters and their bus trip, and it was extraordinary the extent to which the bold adventurers in consciousness were sexist pricks who expected sex on tap.
Even the Blerta story basically washes up as the women dutifully doing the dishes. And, much as I love Rex Fairburn et al, they also had their fun while the women tended. I'd like to think that to their counterparts today, that all looks pretty lame.
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