Here's some shit about which I've been purposely avoiding blogging because it makes me so fucking angry and/or sad, but which I now feel compelled to mention.
1) Sex is a complicated topic. I tend to fall into the "to each her own" camp, as I don't much care what it is you like to get off on (unless I'm fucking you), so long as you and anyone you're doing it with are consenting adults. But I just read this article and then I read this article, and now I'm just fucking depressed.
2) Astoundingly, an actual Northwest Passage is opening up due to rapid melting of Arctic ice. Get used to the idea of a whole new landscape, my friends.
3) Greenspan opines that the war in Iraq is really about oil. Bush pretends to be surprised.
4) The Jena 6. If you don't know about this story, educate yourself. You think this shit's the exception and not the rule? Pervasive racial bias is alive and well and please don't fool yourselves into thinking otherwise.
5) And that's not the only kind of bias still thriving. Josie from Season 2 of Top Chef was recently the victim of an anti-gay hate crime. Which is why it cheered me immeasurably to go to Sysm's blog this morning and find this story. I went to work early and printed out the article to hand out to my students. We could all use a little inspiration.
Sorry this is such a fucking bring-down. Tomorrow's my blogiversary. I promise I'll be all full of pluck by then.
Or something that rhymes with pluck, if I'm lucky.
9/17/07
monday evening coming down
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This was all very good reading.
Also: my blood-pressure shot up, I yelled at Michael for no good reason, and my heartburn is acting up.
Goddammit, I'm moving to Europe.
In other news, I was attached by a giant floating sex doll.
In better news - I got a job!
It's OK to be depressed sometimes. That's what makes you notice when things are going better.
I have always been a traditional person who enjoys vanilla heterosexual copulation. I have also always supported others who wanted to sample all 31 flavors. But if someone begins lacing wonderful, delicious ice cream with rat droppings and dangerous corrosive chemicals, it's not happy time at the ice cream parlor anymore.
Some things aren't "sex" at all, but signs of psychological distress. Sex should be fun, not dehumanizing. It should be re-humanizing.
How and why is this happening?
Don't forget to mention how badly No Reservations sucked last night. It might as well have been an infomercial for South Carolina.
Squee! Look at that header! Fantabulous!
Ya know, I have always appreciated porn and recently came across a forum similar to the one described by Shalom. Fuckin depressed the shit out of me anyway. Humiliation is not porn, humiliation is rape. The fucks who watch and get off on this stuff are sick.
Love the new header BTW. Fandabidosi!!!
I would like to add that, while I enjoy the vanilla sex, sometimes we put hot fudge, sprinkles or whipped cream on top. Sometimes all three.
you're going to be full of ducks? trucks? canucks?
Regarding the Nerve article? Hateful, that shit. And so far beyond self-loathing for anyone who would subject themselves to that that it makes me think they were raised in a cage. And they probably were.
Fritz - Sorry about that, honey.
Jamwall - Perv.
Scarlet - HOORAY!!!
Poobah - True enough. Thank you, sweetie.
Übie - That's really the question, isn't it? At what point did the shift occur where this particular brand of porn became the rule and not the exception. Again, I don't really give a shit what consenting adults are into, and I defy anyone to tell me what I can and can't do with my own body, but it is genuinely disturbing how pervasive this kind of misogynist garbage has become, and it freaks me the fuck out that kids are growing up seeing this shit and having it affect their sexual development.
Terasita - Yup. I mostly tuned it out, I'm afraid. Tony should be ashamed.
Scarlet - Squee! I'm glad you like it!
Hypersonic - It's complicated stuff. I mean, I'm into all kinds of kinky shit, and I don't have an issue with people getting off on being humiliated or by humiliating their partner, so long as both parties consent to it. The thing with the kind of porn described in that article is that the women aren't shown getting off. They're not shown enjoying the act of being submissive, which makes it look (to me) like abuse, and it disturbs the crap out of me that there is evidently such a large audience for that. Also, thanks for the props on the header. :)
Übie - I'm quite sure you're a tasty treat under all that whipped cream.
Kendra - I. Love. You.
Sysm - I tend to think that most of the women who subject themselves to that shit have a history of abuse. It's hard to fathom, otherwise. Again (and I know I'm repeating myself here, but I think it's an important point), I try very hard to not pass judgement on people for enjoying whatever it is they enjoy. It's just that it's hard for me to imagine that being gag fucked until you barf is especially enjoyable.
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