Posts by Danielle
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
Oh Martin, those were the best five minutes of my life!* Everything about that was *magnificent*!
*I just reread that sentence and: stop it.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
No! No, I do not have the Swedish version!
(Dear Bart: please do not make me stabby by putting "feminists" in scare quotes and telling us we have to concentrate on what you consider to be more important, because I was feeling very happy about the prospect of a Swedish version of that song. KTHXBAI.)
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to recordari,
For Gio. Italian Version.
That's actually for *me*, because I collect other-language versions of well-known pop songs! (My favourite being: "oh mickey ¿cómo estás? ¿cómo estás? me gustas más hey mickey!")
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Luke, I am your father: I never go into meatspace bookshops (or music shops) any more unless I’m killing time. (Also, I just bought some children’s books by New Zealand authors, and it was actually cheaper to get them from overseas, even with shipping. That ain’t right.)
ETA On the other hand, the last time I *was* killing time I randomly found a pictorial biography of Van Halen in a Rotorua bookshop, and it's probably given me more pleasure than any book I've owned in years. It may be the funniest book ever created - but I would never have bought it without flipping through the physical pages and being mesmerised by Diamond Dave.
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You’ve also implied that I am not an activist. That my feminism is waffly crap, and I don’t ‘do anything’.
My feminism actually *is* waffly crap. What's more, I buy girly shit all the time and I can't even drive a forklift. I have no idea why Sally thinks I'm more 'worthy' than you or Emma, Megan.
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It’s quite depressing knowing my desire provokes discussion that equivocates it to the worst of humanity.
There's always that derailing asshole guy in these discussions, and then it inevitably turns into one of those rhetorical logic-offs... when it's actually *your life* we're talking about. Sorry. :/
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inaction (words are action, of course) kind of implies consent with the way things are and that kind of disqualifies you from being able to claim to your friends – when it suits you – that you are a feminist
I usually do my friends the courtesy of believing them when they say they're feminists, rather than beadily keeping a tally of their appropriately feminist actions.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to giovanni tiso,
It wasn't *severe*, dude. I just like to have my pointless Gen-X pop-cultural footnotes correctly spelled.
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I think (with the proviso that I can and will be wrong at times) that the label no longer works properly
I don't want to be an asshole here Bart, but... isn't it a bit presumptuous to say that a group you're not a part of isn't defining itself appropriately?
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I'm just saying, if someone posts a Meredith Brooks YouTube video at any point during this thread I'll know we are all beyond hope. ;)