Posts by Emma Hart
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Sounds like your uni students are having a fun time together, Emma, and they are not doing it because it's the only way to earn an income. Which takes me straight back to consent...
Was a (possibly ironic) reference to Raunch Culture, not sex workers. I think it's important to keep those as two separate (albeit possibly related) issues. It's the alarmism over Raunch Culture that I'm really, well, over.
And anjum, I'm not saying everything is hunky dory. Women are now expected to be aces at work, perfect mothers, and gorgeously attractive into their forties. I guess maybe it's reflective of my age that I'm more concerned about that than whether some woman's skirt is two inches shorter than some other woman thinks it should be.
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Society's pendulum swing - we're still trying to find that equilibrium between allowing people of all genders to express themselves as sexual beings, while extending gender equivalence to all the other areas that have previously discriminated.
I don't know if that makes any sense or not.
I think it makes a great deal of sense. It's really, really complicated because all women are different, all situations are different. 'Strippers' aren't some amorphous blob of identical people all doing the same thing for exactly the same reasons, whether that's being empowered, or being too stupid to realise they're being exploited, or whatever.
What I do find really distasteful is the suggestion that people who hold particular opinions on the subject have been 'brainwashed' and are too stupid to see how things really are.
I just got back from the supermarket, where a whole bunch of uni students were stocking up for the Undie 500. As every year, it was loud, raucous, crass, and hugely entertaining. There was a van there, camo-painted, with 'Husband Hunters' written on the side. Accompanying it were half a dozen young women in camo pants and singlets. I looked very carefully for signs of brainwashing, self-loathing, woman-hating, and irony, but they did just seem to be having a good time. Much like the guys in their underwear driving the Prom Night Dumpster.
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It was raining and I thought the harder it rains the wetter they’ll get.
Now, that's funny. As long as you consider it to be an intellectual breakthrough on Downer's part. "Hey! You know what I just realised?"...
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"we've all had a gutsful of regulation all over us" was precisely the point at which we started watched The Crowd Goes Wild.
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Sexual exploitation is still alive and well - obviously young women are more repressed than ever they were
This is an argument I really hate to get into, but come on, some perspective? More repressed than before they could vote and own property?
What bothers me about this argument is that it rapidly becomes women telling other women how women are supposed to dress and behave. That doesn't seem like the opposite of repression to me.
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"Auckland's local body politics are screwing up the city, but let's not just laugh at them - let's learn from it so Christchurch doesn't go the same way."
Now watch us elect Bob bloody Parker because people recognise his name. Once he's in, he can be Mayor in Perpetuity for as long as he feels like it - like the last three.
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D4J has just had his 4th ban with each one doubling in size - so this one is for two months.
Um, this could be part of your problem. That does seem awfully lenient for a fourth offense. We kick the little snots' arses out the door permanently after feck-up number three. Number two is a year ban - after that generally they just don't bother coming back, because they've found somewhere else to be jerks in the meantime. I'll lay money right now you'll have to use the four month ban.
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George Clooney men, George Clooney. By the same token Kim Hill doesn't look half bad with her crop of grey.
I didn't fancy George Clooney before he went grey. I love grey hair so much I love my own grey hair.
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Oddly, two days ago I had the worst haircut of my entire life (if you exclude 80s spiral perms I thought were great at the time). My regular woman wasn't there, and I didn't want to deal with the guy who cuts in the chair nearest the window who seems to think he's a taxi driver. ("Right, what are we doing today lemme tell you what's wrong with this fucking country") So I got the cute young girl.
The first thing a hairdresser asks me to do is take off my glasses. Then she'll cut my hair, and ask me how it looks. For some reason, "I don't know, I can't see it" always goes down badly, so I've just settled for 'great'. Saves time.
I have to assume she was using scissors to cut it. It looks like she used a tiny enraged pomeranian. Either as the cutting device, or the model.
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They reckon you can tell someone's approximate age by which Doctor they regard as the 'real' one.
Mine's Tom Baker - age-wise it should be John Pertwee, but Worzel Gummidge spoiled it for me. Plus his scarf was cool.It's Tom Baker for me as well - he had Leela (Leeeeeeeela) and K9 and jelly-babies (kudos for the reference at the end of the last series) and episodes written by Douglas Adams.