Posts by Danielle
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Russell Brown,
It’s a fairly common trope amongst that crowd, yes.
It's also a trope for them to be all 'but that's not SEXIST, just DESCRIPTIVE' when called on it. 'It's merely associating everything we consider bad in society with stuff we think women are/do. So that couldn't possibly be sexist!'
Oh wait.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Teh Standard has all the hallmarks of ‘we ARE struggling together!”.
And women are welcome as long as they're quiet, supportive, and supply the tea and scones.
That being said, Kiwiblog is several orders of magnitude worse.
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
same-sex wedding photos always make me cry
I started bawling at the photo at the *top of the page*. That's speedy even for me.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to DexterX,
pointless rumination
None taken.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to giovanni tiso,
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Russell Brown,
Also, crack.
Yeah, good point. I suppose even Keith Richards didn’t regularly take a combination of crack, heroin, ketamine, ecstasy and alcohol (aaaaaand now I have a QOTSA earworm, inevitably).
ETA:
rooted in her bipolar depression
Also a good point. I read somewhere recently that a lot of rehabs aren't really equipped to deal with people with mental illnesses who really *should* be on some medication. Just not the Class A illegal kind.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Rich Lock,
Exception that proves the rule, innit?
I dunno... there are a lot of heavy drug users in the music industry who come out of it reasonably intact. Look at Bowie or Elton or Fleetwood Mac or David Crosby. And those are just some of the ones we know about.
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if you don't want to change the habit, it will probably be your demise in the end
I honestly thought she would be like Keith Richards and go on forever. I spend a lot of time looking at him in wonderment, thinking 'how is that guy still alive?' But I suppose he remained pretty prolific even throughout the smack years, while Winehouse... wasn't. It makes a difference.
I'm saddened. I think she was wonderful. (I also have some thoughts percolating around in my mind about the strange rockist/sexist undertones of some of the online reactions to her death, but they aren't quite formed yet.)
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Well, you may have a glorious winter wonderland, but we have... grey sleet and hail! So there!
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
Because of Reasons
This is my favourite phrase on earth right now.
Yeah, the Pill can bite me. I maintain that it works by making you never want to have sex again. (Says the person who wrote her MA thesis on its significance. Heh.)