Posts by JoJo
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Oh, my, Ian punned on my comment. I am honoured, sir.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Russell Brown,
Is it just a coincidence that if you take the middle 7 letters out of "warmly thank" you spell ... a terribly appropriate word?
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so long as the usual standards of common courtesy and basic respect are maintained.
And therein lies the problem, Chris. Brian Tamaki does not abide by the usual standards of common courtesy and basic respect. His followers might (although the ones I've encountered at marches haven't). He seems to treat people in two ways: one group, who can give him something (power, respect, money); and group two comprises people he will trod on to get power, money, respect from group one.
For the record, I actually don't think BT believes the hateful things he says - it's just a marketing tactic. And it works.
[edited to show Chris's comment that I'm replying to]
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Hard News: Bishop Brian: It's worse than…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I found Destiny's marches not just creepy, but downright threatening. We marched 'near' them (as opposed to against them, which we were advised not to do) - in our full rainbow glory, being as queer as queer can be. And none of us felt safe enough to walk home alone afterwards. In broad daylight. In Wellington. Now, I've lived here a long time, and I claim this as my bloody city, day or night. But that crowd were riled up, and I felt physically unsafe for the first time in decades.
So yeah, I have an issue with MPs attending their services. Brian Tamaki incites violence against people like me. By attending the service, and not speaking against Destiny and BT, the MPs are validating his message. Like someone said upthread - would they attend a National Front rally, if they had 10,000 followers?
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Richard Wain,
Re: Richard's question about O'Connor...
To me it's offensive because he's reducing a group of people to one feature of their lives. The gays in O'Connors mind all seem to want the same thing (or have the same "agenda", if you will) - and that's not the same thing that the majority of Labour supporters want. It's like because they're gay, he doesn't think they care about the issues that his Labour supporters care about - employment, housing costs, childcare, a fair minimum wage, social freedoms, the 'family'.
So he's dehumanising people (i.e. me) by saying that our political beliefs and goals are less valid than his because we happen to have sex with people who have the same sexy bits. Yeah, that's pretty offensive.
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Speaker: TPPA: It's Extreme, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
For an accessible (I think) introduction to the TPPA, there's also No Ordinary Deal: Unmasking the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement, by Jane Kelsey (ed).
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Someone has set up a facebook page for people wanting to offer a room to Cantabrians affected by the quake. It's called 'Accommodation for Earthquake Stricken Cantabrians'. I don't know how much use it is, given that much of Chch is without power, but it's a bloody nice thought.
Found out that my best friend and her husband (who has been working on buildings damaged in September) are both okay. So crying tears of relief now.
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to ,
I don't think 'logic' or 'consistency' mean what you think they mean.
If you'd like to engage in a rational discussion, then yes, we will debate this with you. But while you are spouting unsubstantiated bollocks, it's just not worth it.
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Emma Hart,
Thanks for the link, Emma. I suggested the survey to some friends... I like to think we may have been responsible for overloading their server with logic and reasoning.
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Sigh. I took up cricket last year - haven't played in about 20 years so got a little excited and trotted down to the local sports shop. A good one too - run by people who love to watch and play sport. They had this great glossy brochure - made specifically for their store - with all the cricket gear in it. Every page had three or four people modelling the clothes/gear. It ran to about 38 pages.
And there wasn't one fucking woman in the entire brochure.
Not one.
My partner had to stop me from... being extremely rude and spitty.
So, yeah, Hadyn, you're right, women shouldn't bother playing sport. Because their ability, interest and participation isn't recognised anywhere. I don't expect to see women's sport reflected on the tv (unless of course they're stripping for a calendar), but what about in a shop that's trying to sell me stuff... FFS.
/End of rant. Tune in next week, etc, etc.