Up Front: Newsflash: Women Have Eyes
195 Responses
First ←Older Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 8 Newer→ Last
-
No, that's cool, I actually find Pinker's idea of "finding the best person who would settle for me" quite romantic myself.
-
If gays really were biologically different then it would be wrong to discriminate
I have always felt that is a very dangerous proposition to agree to. It is giving in to the fallacy that only what is "natural" is permissible.
Fundamentally it's an issue of civil rights. We cherish and protect freedom of conscience in all sorts of areas of life. Bluntly, why should where I put my penis be any different? Whether biology compels me or the whim takes me is irrelevant.
-
hard-wired
This is on a shortlist of Words I Hate Seeing in Any Internet Forum.
(Sorry Bart. I know you're not being one of those 'it is naaaaatural for me to spray my seeeeeeed far and wide, while you, timid loyal lady, stay at home nurturing my many behbehs!!!' dudes. But they all use 'hard-wired'. A lot.)
-
Okay, now see, that's hardly fair when in one's head Ares looks like this.
Man, bet you're upset that you missed the version of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' that my English class went to in 6th or 7th form. The bit where Kevin Smith, as Stanley, appeared on stage sans shirt recieved an ear-deafening greeting from the mostly teenaged-female audience.
Ouch, my ears.
Good actor, but. Killer abs too.
-
Man, bet you're upset that you missed the version of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' that my English class went to in 6th or 7th form.
Au contraire, dude, I was at that. My English teacher was a) an old friend of Kevin's from our local theatre group, and b) gay, so oddly enough our class made the trip up.
-
My apologies for even the merest suggestion that Megan is anything other than ravishing.
<blush>
I go away for four hours, and look what bloody happens. -
Oh, she's back...
< swoons >
-
Great timing...it probably looked a little more sinister, like I was lurking in teh shaddows, just waiting for you.
But not so. Just serendipitous timing.
-
Sorry Danielle.
I certainly wouldn't want to imply that biological imperatives are an excuse to do what is culturally or morally wrong and uncivilised.
There is pretty good evidence for some kind of biological drive to do some pretty horrible things. The mark of civilised folks is that they can do what is right even if it doesn't fit with what was good for us a million years ago.
-
Au contraire, dude, I was at that. My English teacher was a) an old friend of Kevin's from our local theatre group, and b) gay, so oddly enough our class made the trip up.
Shit, small world. You weren't in the group of girls that passed notes to the tall, long-haired guy suggesting he go goth? That was a bit creepy. I suspect I was too young for your attention, however.
-
I have always felt that is a very dangerous proposition to agree to. It is giving in to the fallacy that only what is "natural" is permissible.
I agree, as I bet does Danielle.
The point was the argument being tossed around was that it should be illegal because it was an "unnatural" choice, which it very clearly was not.
That we can decide to use our intelligence to do what is right even in cases where our biology might push us to do what is wrong is to me a pretty serious marker of civilisation.
-
Does that make peiople who are non-breeders by choice the epitome of civilisation?
(Heard it pronounced as 'epi-tome' by a newsreader this week - cracked up.)
-
Stewart: I have to admit that up until very recently, that's how I said it too. Such are the perils of knowing words from reading only.
(I also, as a child, believed that there was a verb "to misle", meaning "fool or deceive", which I inferred from what I thought was an obvious reading of "misled").
-
"Small world," Simon? You're not kidding!
Finding comments from Jack who I used to flat with while people pranked called the Minister of Police, on a blog post about the magazine published by a woman who I once played in a band with, it all points to the same honest truth - Wellington, indeed New Zealand, really is a very small place.
None of that suprises me about anything involving Suraya, though. Suraya's one of those people who, for one reason or another, are social hubs - one could play 'six degrees' with Suraya Singh as well as with Kevin Bacon.
And I wish her all the best with the magazine. Quiting one's job to launch not just a magazine, but a niche magazine, would scare the bejeebers out of me. But Suraya's done it, which is just... well, it's awesome.
Oh, and back to an older comment - I also don't find the word 'Filament' very erotic - I really did like one of the earlier names 'Spitfire' but I understand that was problematical. But, then, I'm not a heterosexual female.
'Moist' on the other hand, is pretty frisky.
-
You weren't in the group of girls that passed notes to the tall, long-haired guy suggesting he go goth?
Nah, we'd have been the group of girls that reeked of cigarette smoke.
-
Does that make people who are non-breeders by choice the epitome of civilisation?
Given you can trace almost all the environmental problems with the planet to "too many people" it's not far wrong.
It's also the subject of some good and some not-so-good science fiction exploring the social implications of changes in culture around breeders vs non-breeders or restricted-breeders.
-
Xeno,
Which Greek god, though? Aephestus was supposedly very ugly indeed (although, great buns according to the old Italian 50 Lire coin).
Oh dear. He looks like he's about to do something with that hammer that Warren Ellis would link to.
-
Oh dear. He looks like he's about to do something with that hammer that Warren Ellis would link to.
Something like this?
-
(I also, as a child, believed that there was a verb "to misle", meaning "fool or deceive", which I inferred from what I thought was an obvious reading of "misled").
Mine was "unched" tears, instead of the unshed ones I girlfully held back.
-
As I child, I mentally pronounced 'awry' as 'aw-ree'. That's what you get for reading ancient children's tomes about British boarding schools.
-
I read "caution" on the back of milk trucks and thought it was a brand of milk pronounced CAT-ee-on
-
I looked at Yosemite National Park in the travel guide and stupidly mentioned out loud to my daughter that we could go to yozzy - might. I still get mocked harshly for that one.
-
Finding comments from Jack who I used to flat with while people pranked called the Minister of Police, on a blog post about the magazine published by a woman who I once played in a band with, it all points to the same honest truth - Wellington, indeed New Zealand, really is a very small place.
Hi Scott!
I'd say that it's the world that's a smaller place than you'd think. As mentioned, I actually ran into Suraya in the UK because she turned up at the same parties I did, where I was there because it was a workmate's partner's flat, and she was there because said partner had had an ex-flatmate who'd since moved to Wellington and so a separate ex-flatmate knew my mate's partner, and that guy knew Suraya from some odd connection involving latex (I never got to the bottom of that - to be fair, I was quite drunk at the time). Serious double-take when we opened the door to see her, though, having last seen her at a party in the Aro Valley (I'm beginning to see a connection).
But this sort of thing used to happen a surprising amount, even overseas: I'd be at a ball in Cambridge, and run into a bloke I'd known in 7th form at Wellington College, that sort of thing. Like I say, it's a smaller world than you'd expect.
My 'hilarious mispronunciation' story relates to the time I was getting a round in at a pub. I made a fairly basic mis-assumption around the etymology of the name of the beer, and ended up ordering a pint of "bom-bar-dee-eh", on the assumption that it was the French pronunciation rather than the actual pronunciation (Bombardier). I was drinking with my workmates at the time: that's how you get nicknames, folks.
-
Finally, a magazine I can check how ogle worthy I'm looking. The standard Women's magazines help me what sort of street poses might best highlight my sexiness. They help answer questions like: Do I wear my shirts top two buttons undone, tucked in at the front, and be wearing a belt buckle highlighting the bulge? things like that.
A magazine of women fantasies about men with body shapes similar my own, is intriguing. Or to see a mans photo in an erotic women's magazine, that resembles my own body, would make me feel sexy. I like to be ogled, discreetly.
Ah, Steven, clearly you're an arthouse stud monkey.
Isn't it nice that the media has a convenient label for every pigeonhole these days?
-
I must confess, after my 'epitome' remark, that I got roundly laughed down in 4th Form (I think) for mis-pronouncing archangel as 'arch-angel' rather than 'arc-angel' when reading aloud in class. (Saint Joan or something similar.)
Never been much on religious matters but I doubt it was affected by that.
Post your response…
This topic is closed.