Posts by mark taslov
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Up Front: I Never Been ta Borstal, in reply to Russell Brown,
Let me be clear: everything says that the vast majority of the abuse runs the other way.
While this may be true, “everything” here is the 24% of domestic violence incidents that are reported to the police. It’s one intersection of many, and I’d rather be viewing reality through the more nuanced window of intersectional feminism over this two tone second wave feminism – in order to more accurately identify the drivers. This fixation with a gender binary model obscures features such as ethnicity, poverty, inequality, sexuality, power. What we’re almost guaranteed not to hear about or discuss – for example – is how the lifetime prevalence for Maori males experiencing IPV has surpassed that of European females, let alone that Maori females are twice as likely as European females to experience IPV.
That just doesn’t fit an easy Caucasian narrative..
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to BenWilson,
Thanks for this Ben, I’ve been staggered by the number of threads Godwinned recently, it’s honestly felt like watching an induction ceremony at a Neo-Truthers Convention.
You’d hope people genuinely serious about the rise of fascism might be a little more focused on things such as Josef Mengele style non-consented sex-change surgery on infants in order to preserve the gender purity of the master races.
Or any other pertinent comparison, anything at all, occurring in our own damn country.
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Speaker: 2017: My mother and her hundred…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
This is lovely Hilary, a fitting tribute and record, such a dexterous use of language with a keen wit to boot.
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Trump used Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’
Hiding in plain sight as it were. It’s not entirely surprising that the families might have taken umbrage at the establishment defiling the omertà, preferring to install their own button man: the Don.
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Fen Tex,
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The first mixtapes I heard were made by dad. Things got real for me at Christmas ‘88 when I received a double deck Hitachi. Being a kid at that time there was absolutely no doubt what the second deck was for, no one I knew referred it as a piracy, we were just sharing the sounds – at high speed no less – while tech companies like Sony made a pretty penny in the process. Ready access to this technology meant it was better to buy music no one owned – for the collective.
I love tape, even when it broke down and you needed a Popsicle stick to spool it back in, or when it was super mangled and you’d need to unscrew the cassette itself or when it snapped from overuse and you’d need to splice it back together using sellotape – so tactile. The compression and artifacts are still never quite matched by emulator plugins.
One thing that I like to imagine formed a lot of opinions in that era was when, upon the release of GnR’s Use Your Illusion albums, Duff McKagen was quoted as telling kids – who couldn’t afford to fork out that much money – to simply dub our friends’.
I searched for this quote last year but all reference to that incident seems to have vanished from the net in keeping with McKagan’s new stance on piracy.
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Thanks for that Simon, good info!
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Farmer Green,
We must come from a very similar place * it’s strange how fluid things are compared to how black and white they’re so often portrayed and readily consumed despite our perception of three dimensions.
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Farmer Green,
But my question is whether it is still possible to get away with that, or is it the case that Joe Sixpack now believes nobody?
Human’s are so mind-numbingly conformist that it doesn’t matter much what Joe believes, that’s Joe’s thing. As long as the freemartins don’t start busting out their Woody Guthrie LPs, everyone’s schedules are full.
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"In 1968, Bowie wrote the lyrics “Even a Fool Learns to Love”, set to the music of a 1967 French song “Comme d’habitude”, composed by Claude François and Jacques Revaux. Bowie’s version was never released, but Paul Anka bought the rights to the original French version and rewrote it into “My Way”, the song made famous by Frank Sinatra in a 1969 recording on his album of the same name. The success of the Anka version prompted Bowie to write “Life on Mars?"