Posts by Danielle
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yup. the hysteria surrounding this seems to be masking what is normal behaviour.
Jesus. You know, I find it deeply fucking annoying to be patronisingly informed around the interwebs that – gasp! – people sometimes initiate sex when one partner is asleep or half-asleep. The undertone of all this discussion being that of course we *hysterical feminists* wouldn’t understand that because we’re so *frigid*, or whatever. If someone hasn’t woken up to acquiesce to your advances, and you have no previous agreement on this matter (no long-term relationship, no earlier discussion), it’s actually NOT AT ALL COOL to continue fucking them.
(I stress again that I have no opinion on the guilt or innocence of Assange and, additionally, I bet he *is* being more thoroughly hounded than any other potential sex offender because of Wikileaks. But the way this particular issue is being discussed is peeving me hugely.)
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In context, I think this was merely mocking the claim that Assange’s sexual escapades make him fascinating, rather than a judgment of obvious guilt.
THANK YOU, Ben. That rather obnoxious cherry-picking does your argument no favours, Danyl.
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There’s nothing that spells “fascinating” like refusing to use a condom.
I think the most dreeeeeamy thing about him is the way he allegedly fucked a woman while she was sleeping. <swoon>
I would like to give massive props to this commenter at Tigerbeatdown, who says it all most cogently:
"I am SO SICK today of people who can’t see that
1) Wikileaks is important and does good work
2) Julian Assange may be a rapist
and
3) The pursuit by the authorities for the rape charges may be motivated as much by Wikileaks as by a desire to see justice done
are not in any way contradictory positions and could all be simultaneously true."
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Steve Parks,
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who started thinking 'do you believe in love? Well, I've got something to say about it, and it goes something like this...'
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I wish 'classic' stations weren't so depressing and repetitive. There's such a goldmine of incredible things they *could* be playing. They somehow manage to cut down their playlist to about 50 older songs, and they make everything sound rinky-dinky and nostalgic when it could be weird or awesome. Meh.
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I loooooooooooove YA. I don't think I've ever really moved on emotionally from reading The Changeover on the first night it was assigned for English in third form...
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Hard News: What about that Welfare…, in reply to Keir Leslie,
I should note that dress sense stuff isn’t really about money, it’s about taste, which is way way more pernicious.
Yes. Some of the best*-dressed people I know often clothe themselves in things from op-shops. But that stuff often isn't seen as 'professional'.
*where 'best' means 'interesting, fun, unique, cute'
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Hard News: What about that Welfare…, in reply to Petra,
I am obviously an evil pinko, but I wonder why it's deemed necessary for us to wear a particular *type* of boring shitty clothing to be 'professional'.
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Whether intended or not, that was quite an effective put down, because, as the saying goes ‘I did not know that!’
Oh sheez. That was totally unintended. I feel like a bit of a twatcock now.
What?! But but but… I had no idea.
That'll learn ya, Mr Contrarian-I'm-Not-On-Twitter-Pants.
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Where others might have thought ‘Say no go’ by De La Soul.
Which, I only realised *this year*, samples 'I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)'! (Because I am quite slow on the uptake sometimes. I don't even want to tell you how old I was when I finally understood that the line I never got in 'She Loves You' was 'pride can hurt you too'.)