Posts by Emma Hart
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bi-election
THIS we should totally do.
I don't think the Greens can have it both ways; seek a deal in one instance and resent the suggestion in another.
Those may, in fact, be two different kinds of people who happen to support the same party, not one group changing their opinion when it suits them. I do say 'may' here.
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The other is how it links to work by Noam Chomsky and John Pilger (I can't remember what bit to attribute to who) about how control of the media leads to control of the words used to describe people
I remember years back seeing an interview with a retiring BBC Middle East correspondent, saying basically that everyone at the Beeb knew 'caught in the crossfire' meant 'shot by the IDF'.
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Any transgression of percieved sexual norms is still treated hasrhly here
Yeah, I wonder sometimes if we haven't just expanded the 'norm' - so we have people who are accepting of gays and lesbians but a bit dubious about whether bis are for real, disconcerted by trans people, and who simply never think about asexuals - often if someone demonstrates low sex drive, they're assumed to be gay/lesbian. Then there are the jokes and disbelief around any mention of disabled sexuality...
And there've been a couple of times I've had to explain to very lovely liberal people that trans is NOT a sexual orientation.
But y'know, I'd hate to get to a point where we were all so scared of accidentally offending someone by wording something wrong that we just ended up never talking about these issues.
Names have power indeedy, and learning that you are not a solus weird mutant, but part of (about) 1.5% of humanity is wholly empowering.
I felt this way on 'discovering' bisexuality - that there were in fact lots of people like me, and I wasn't a confused lesbian or a straight attention seeker. Then there's the associated garbage and expectations that come with the label. Most of the time, though, I don't think of my sexuality by its label, but just part of who I am. I really identified with another statement made by that last blogger I link to up there:
generally when people try to have conversations with me about what precisely I identify as, I mostly just want to throw up all over them instead of giving a list of identities I claim. I am an awesomely unique snowflake and I cannot be contained by words!
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This sounds familiar... was the post prompted in any way by the discussion you, I, and Mrs Skin were having on a previous thread?
Yes. And the Eskimo debate, and the latest Carnival, and Giovanni's latest post - it's been a convergence storm over the last couple of weeks.
So that toaster-oven thing was only for lesbians? Damn.
Dude, you're not even allowed to know about that.
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Instead of labelling, you could stitch yourself?
I just finished stitching this, Jimmy.
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And then there are the ones that have a space for the occupation of the father, but not the mother.
I was just noticing this, while going through family tree stuff for my daughter. My father's Australian 1935 birth certificate doesn't have a space for mother's occupation, but my Nanna's 1915 New Zealand marriage certificate has a space for bride's occupation.
Our civil union certificate just has Spouse 1 and Spouse 2.
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I think this is someone I'd like to meet.
Heh, I was reading through stuff on the most recent Feminist Sex Carnival and I ran across this comment:
But in reality, you’re wielding a flamethrower loaded up with slutshameum and you’re torching a pretty wide swath.
and I couldn't help thinking, that sounds so cool . I mean, bad and everything, but that's such a great name.
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Right. The previously-invisible spaces before all my URLs are gone.
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Okay, that's odd. Thanks Heather, I'll get onto that.
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Our public health experts are now drinking whiskey and smoking cigars?
Going by the guy I know who works for the MOH? Yes they are.