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Monday, 04 May 2009
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Goodbye Xanga, goodbye.
Since logging onto Xanga has given me nothing but grief, and I am moving on and away both publically and professionally from this blog, I am giving it up in favour of my new persona. You can find me at Bibliotech. You have to be a member to comment, but the blog will be open to all, and I will have it forwarded to my Facebook feed. It will be a blog for librarian nerdliness, feminism, theology and book and computer game chatter, so I do hope you will all take a look, bare though it is at the moment.
It's been a good run Xanga. I won;t be deleting this blog, so all the entries are available until time immemorial. Or the Rapture. Whichever.
Friday, 20 March 2009
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Wallet Lust (AKA Mom and Dad, don't look)
In addition to our trip to Disney, which was aided immensely by an excellent tax return, here are a few things I am saving up for:
Ear shinies:
Preferably Mars, but I do love the Andromeda and the Earths as well.
Satin Dichoic Eyelets
Silver on pink dichroic galaxies
And I'm torn between the next two items being the most beautiful things you could put in abnormally large holes:
Opal Eyelets
OR
Silver and Abalone Seraphim hanging earrings.
Also, though this looks nothing in shape, form or content in what I'm planning, something that is as gorgeous as this in colour and omgbeautifulart:
What are you spending tax money on?
Currently
Desire
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Monday, 02 March 2009
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Slut shaming, hooray!
Comment on an entry from the Datingish site, re: "Coming to terms with my Girlfriend's Past"
"As a man, I completely understand how you feel. In fact, I used to be just like you. What I have came to realize is that the present is worth more than what happened in the past. It will still bug me a little, naturally, but I am always able to reason it down. I think it is just part of growing up.To tell you the truth, she is a very "clean" girl already for her age. Very, very clean. Don't let the past bug you with the present, seriously. Although the number is probably slightly higher than "2" because females tend to decrease that number when it reaches the tongue... she is still very, very clean.
AND THIS IS FOR ALL THE FEMALES impatiently saying things like "GET OVER IT," seriously just... have some patience. It is slightly immature, but it is the NATURE of men and it is what EVERY man goes through. He feels this way naturally because of LOVE, nothing more. You tell me it doesn't bother your man? Of course it tingles something in the back of his head and heart, but he just doesn't let you know, dummy. He's mature now because he's gone through what this guy is going through. Probably fucked up once or twice because of this too.
Don't even get me started with the immaturity displayed by you women all the time. If you respect your future long-term husband at all, for god's sake stop opening your holes so wide. Saying things like "how many women have YOU been with?" is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Just because everyone else is doing it makes it okay? What kind of justification is that? The ones being defensive and saying things like "GET OVER IT" and "it's HER past, not yours" fucking bug the hell out of me. Men are supposed to be patient, while women can run their fucking mouths around? Hypocrites. Have some integrity and Grow Up."
I especially love the juxtaposition of "long-term" and "husband". It's right up there with "starter marriage." How about the juxtaposition of "respect" and "stop opening your holes so wide." I'm glad you've grown up with maturity and class, dude, to refer to women as gaping holes to be filled by manly men. That is definitely a sign of respect.
Mostly what chaps my hide about this is the use of the term clean. Ugh. About five years ago, pretty much every sexual health site cut out the use of the term clean (I know we were correcting it on Scarleteen AGES ago) because of the shaming involved with the term. Even contracting an STD doesn't make one 'unclean.' Bust out the fucking bells folks, because at least 50% of people out there have either oral or genital herpes (sometimes from something as innocuous as sharing sippy cups in first grade.) One didn't scored clean on an STI test, they scored 'clear.'
But now the term has graduated to mean a woman who has had a man-approved limit on previous sex partners. Hold on, Billy; that ain't on. Sorry to say, but short of sharing for health purposes (see STI discussion above), her past existed in a pre-you vacuum.
I just continue to be saddened and ashamed by the crap that is allowed to fly on Xanga. I rarely blog here anymore, and being assaulted with woman-shaming BS on a regular basis is just... hrryuynegh.
Monday, 26 January 2009
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Man Yells at Cloud
I blogged a pulse about this, BUT APPARENTLY THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH, because the Xanga loading screen continues to post the most anti-intellectual, anti-woman BS blogs on the planet. Today's gem is Feminists Ruined America, Because They Want to Be Better Than Men. I would link to it, but I'm too seethingly angry at women who like voting and equal pay, but don't want the hard work of putting themselves out there.
Then there's Slut-Shaming extraordinaire, when guys blog about not being able to find any virgins anymore.
Then there's "Damn, why won't the Blacks stop squawking about race, we elected a Black President (who spent too much money on the inauguration, but that's neither here nor there)."
Seriously Xanga, give it a rest. Give some strong women some face time. Give some positive politics some face time. Give some smart people some face time. I'm sick of you highlighting whiny privileged douchecanoes.
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
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Never compromise. Not even in the face of armageddon.
Warning: This blog contains spoilers to Watchmen (the graphic novel for certain, and the movie most likely.) Continue reading at your own peril. It also contains a lot of speculation about parts of history I most certainly know very little about. This should prove sufficient material for the Facebook cut; alas for Xangans, you're out of luck and will have to use your own willpower to stop reading now.
I was a little bit shocked I wanted to write this blog. Of all the Watchmen characters, Rorschach is not actually one of my favourites. The Comedian and Dan/Nite Owl and Laurie rank much higher with me. Hell, even Moloch is more endearing to me in many ways. When I think of the panels that stick out in my mind, there isn't one Rorschach panel in the bunch. But on the way in this morning, I was thinking about the inauguration of Obama, and how it's been a while since the US has had a someone worth writing an essay entitled "My Hero" for 5th grade composition.
Then I remembered the essay insert of Walter's included in with his examination. His hero was President Truman, for making a difficult choice and saving lives by dropping the bomb on Hiroshima (though in the Watchmen world, not on Nagasaki, it seems.) Even as the vigilante Rorschach, Truman seemed to be a compass by which Rory set his morality.
When confronted with the truth of what Ozymandias did in order to unite the world in peace, Rorschach refuses to go along with the plan that Laurie, Dan and Jon realize. "Never compromise," he says "Not even in the face of armageddon." He leaves the compound to tell the world the truth. And yet, isn't what Adrien did exactly the same thing that Truman did in Japan? He saw two world powers bearing down on each other, never stopping until mutual destruction was assured, and with one quick slash, cut the Gordian Knot in two.
Sure, it was batshit insane. Knowing what we do now about nuclear fallout and radiation sickness, so was dropping a nuke on a civilian city. But what exactly in Rorschach's mind differentiates the two, to the point where he won't compromise on Adrien's plan?
Any ideas?
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