Posts by Danielle
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Speaker: How's that three strikes thing…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Guys, just give up the telly, Go to rehab or something. I got rid of mine in 2007 and I so haven’t missed all the time I wasted looking at little moving people.
I feel like there should be an internet law about television discussions. The longer they go on, the greater the likelihood of someone popping in to say "I gave up my TV 87 years ago and I've never missed it for a day! Particularly as I gave it up before it was even invented, because I knew it would rot my brain the second I even HEARD of the possibility of its existence! You poor peasants, in thrall to its horrid glow!" Or, you know, something which implies that.
To which I respond: I fucking love TV and I'm not giving it up. Cheers for the suggestion though.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to BenWilson,
I don’t think Hugh Hefner is shameful, but that doesn’t mean I’m not jealous of him.
Me too! I've always wanted to be a boat captain.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Megan Wegan,
My favourite line in that article, of many, is "WHAT IF MY CAR BREAKS DOWN AT NIGHT AND I DON'T HAVE A REFLECTIVE ENOUGH VAGINA?" She is my hero right now.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Aidan,
my aunt told me she went to see The Beatles in Wellington (50s?). She screamed and she didn't really know why, at the time, or 40 years later.
My mother, an actual fan of the music (at least until 'they went all strange and dreary', in her words, after 1965) saw them in Dunedin on the '64 tour. She said they came on and everyone in her section left their seats and rushed screaming to the stage, leaving her bemused in their wake. Of course, she was 18 at the time, so just a bit too old for high histrionics.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Jolisa,
opposing options of sweet gentle girly-boy, and stone-butch man-boy
Girl group songs. 'Symphonies for the kids', 'the little girls understand': so many of those songs are about a hot, 'bad', masculine guy and she just can't help herself. The hyper-masculinity is there, but the girls are telling *each other* about it.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Emma Hart,
a male singer marketed to teenager *girls* as aggressively masculine
Going back a fair way: Mick Jagger. Although you're right, hyper-masculinity is usually marketed to teen boys (even if some teen girls might also be into it on the DL).
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Emma Hart,
Well, there's that Grand Unifying Theory of Teen Idoldom, wherein the floppy-haired brunette moppetry is seen as an unthreateningly androgynous way for young girls to stepping-stone to more unambiguously traditional 'masculine' forms of sexual attraction. I'm not sure if that would still be needed in New Sex-Positive Utopia. But it might be. And really, isn't it sort of rebellious of them, in a way, to go for moppetry ahead of 'manliness'?
(Sorry, I continue the derail, but I've actually thought about this subject a fair amount.)
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Emma Hart,
in Sinatra's case the hotness
Not that he wasn't hot, in a 'I will eat fried eggs off a hooker's ass' kind of way, but in implying the non-hotness of the Beatles, well... you impugn my religion at your peril. Heh.
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You're kinda saying there should have been no Frank Sinatra or Beatles. :)
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
There are apocryphal gospels by both Marys, aren't there? I can't imagine why they weren't included. OH WAIT.
