Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Up Front: Everyone is Wrong. And Right. Whatever., in reply to Danielle,
(To quote Lindy, linked up there, "I'm sick of being told that I'm navigating my own abuse wrong.")
Yup, I can totally grok that. I guess the sticking point for me with #twittersilence is that it really helps to me mindful of the kind of privilege involved in choosing to be silent. For a lot of people (and not just women) that's just another bullshit day in suck city and there's no choice involved.
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Elsewhere, The Guardian's Deborah Orr has a spectacularly clueless, patronizing column (h/t Emma) that seems to have escaped from the Daily Mail.
Louise Mensch, the former conservative MP, bless her heart, has voiced her worry that the possible banning of rape simulation footage will ruin the fun of half of all women, who commonly enjoy rape fantasies. This is indeed a worry. I wouldn't know where to begin, conjuring up a rape fantasy from my sadly inadequate imagination, if I hadn't seen a useful film to inspire me beforehand. We wouldn't want the human imagination to be left to run riot, when technology can provide off-the-peg non-consensual sex. (Anyway, it seems that prose will be excluded from these as-yet-imaginary filters, so women will still be able to pick up some useful tips on fictional rape. Hurrah.)
So much wrong packed into one little paragraph, and there's worse...
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A mandatory family-friendly filter would almost certainly take out the websites of two of his biggest backers in the media.
Which I don't actually give a breast-implant full of whatevs about, to be honest, but here's the question that comes up every damn time some politician goes on a Luddite moral panic. Would a "mandatory family-friendly filter" also take out the websites of folks providing free, frank and not-designed-as-wank-helper sexual health advice to teenagers? Or GLBTI folks? Or anyone with non-vanilla sexualities that are still based around other consenting adults? "Porn" is a rather loaded term -- and it funny how often the people who know it when they see it are (surprise!) straight white middle-aged cis-men who are more interested in polling and focus groups reports than anyone's actual well-being.
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Hard News: A different kind of country, in reply to Richard Aston,
but they are totally focused on the 30% of people who want the same agenda and thats enough to get them into power.
AKA At least trying to do exactly what you told people you were going to do? The absurdity about Labour's attempt at bedding in the "secret agenda" meme (and National's in 1999) is that it was about as secret as a flasher's knob.
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Muse: NZIFF 2013: Lights, Camera,…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Not going to argue with that, but it's a lovely little theatre and as far as the Festival is concerned in the Auckland CBD it's a good middle ground as far as size goes between The small-but-now-perfectly-formed-under-new-management Academy and the cuddly leviathan that is the Civic. (Putting on my Auckland Film Society hat, I've also got to the say the SkyCity Theatre management were fine to deal with. In a bizarro reversal of the new normal, we had two films in our programme this year only available on... well, 35mm film. Our usual venue, The Academy, is now all-digital. It's their management who need a double shot of "WTF is going on?")
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A sacrifice is being made to Tech Support as we speak...
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Instead of frothing in the comments, I went and spit-flecked a whole more-or-less coherent post of my own.
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As I said on Twitter, it's painfully ironic that this came to light the same day the Auckland leg of the New Zealand International Film Festival kicks off -- and the next seventeen days will see dozens of screenings at... the Sky City Theatre.
Perhaps it would be the perfect time for the NZIFF to remind Sky City they - and their patrons - put a non-trivial amount of money into the company's bottom line every year, and an acceptable quid pro quo is that the Government does not get any kind of "veto" over programming.
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Hard News: Who else forgot to get married?, in reply to B Jones,
Yup, that was crystal clear but boy that's two words and a hyphen that make me twitch. :)
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Hard News: Who else forgot to get married?, in reply to B Jones,
no full-blooded Maori left
And that’s one noxious racist bullshit trope I don’t need to hear from anyone – Maori or Pakeha, left, right or whatever – ever again. Sorry for the derail.
I seem to remember characters in Jane Austen books who were sort of openly adopted into a rich but childless sponsor’s family, and took on the sponsor’s surname in recognition of that relationship.
And not just in books. That was what happened to Austen's third brother, Edward who caught the attention of Thomas Knight, a wealthy but childless cousin. (And who, incidentally, provided Rev. George Austen with his living at Steventon, which wasn't miserly but not quite generous enough to comfortably raise six sons and two daughters.)
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