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sandynotlisa, tasty foods, and The Prestige, all of which were fun.hermine sent me two mails. Oh dear.dharmavati, for halfamoon, has posted a picspam for a small selection of her favorite non-English speaking female characters |
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kangeiko, thanks again for the above: awesome Christmas presents are awesome (and better spaced-out)!Scattered across the centre of San Francisco are almost seventy semi-secret spaces, privately owned but open to the public. Subject to the fine print of a little-known pact between City and Commerce, these so-called POPOS (Privately Owned Public Open Spaces) allow alluring vistas of San Francisco and access to its intimate interiors,and this one particularly interesting,
astridv posted this:toastandtea? Chapeau!geekycolleague's birthday party has been mailing me every night since Monday. He started by sending me an unsolicited mail asking, "So, what do you think about Dr. Who?" which made me reply, "WHO ARE YOU?" in all-caps because I'm polite and patient like that and, as mentioned before, I do get several strange emails from even strangers per week, what with my real name clearly being the equivalent of 'Mary Smith' and also people being even more clearly unable to spell email addresses properly, but since we then got into an animated exchange about said show, it's been amusing, and not only because he's a huge Doctor/Rose shipper.* Only, how do I tell him that - while his impeccable grammar and orthography make me swoon - there won't be general swoonage going on at any point? He's is in Zurich, and I'm, well, not. sabra_n in this entry of hers:"Remember a little while back when Forbes had that article about why you shouldn't marry a career woman? Or any of the other countless times you've heard the trope about educated, economically self-sufficient women being totally unlovable? Yeeeeah, about that...
-"[I]n states where fewer wives have paid jobs, divorce rates tend to be higher, according to a 2009 report from the Center for American Progress."
-"Today, the statistics show that typically, the more economic independence and education a woman gains, the more likely she is to stay married."
-"Lynn Prince Cooke, a sociology professor at the University of Kent in England, has found that American couples who share employment and housework responsibilities are less likely to divorce compared with couples where the man is the sole breadwinner."
Somewhere, Betty Friedan is having herself a really good laugh right about now."
help_haiti is still on-going. I've participated very happily:luthien! Was surprised that so few others tossed their hats in that particular ring, and does this sound dirty to you too? Looking forward to what she comes up with: SGA, John/Rodney, and the rest is going to be an undoubtedly great surprise. apple_pi was so cool as to offer everyone who bid at least USD 50 on her a story - so I did that, and got her, and am v. cheerful about it. yahtzee63 successfully bid on a story of at least 2,500 words from me, and I'm already tossing around a few ideas - if anyone also feels like tossing, for example via Google Wave? I will post details in a filter. ;) deepad, I'm now aware of the fact that LiveJournal ads may contain malware infecting your computer - this is one of the sites reporting it, and this post in the lj community 'News' showcases the extent of some cases.| #1 |  | #2 |  | #3 |  | #4 |  | #5 |  |
sandynotlisa Wednesday, and since Spooks finished very suddenly after its 8th episode of the season (WTF?!), he'n I will be watching Nu!Trek aka The Reboot aka Star Trek XI. :P| #1 |  | #2 |  | #3 |  | #4 |  | #5 |  |
rez_lo, you'll want to read this post by sqbr, if you haven't already: "Slash was sold to me, and is often presented in meta, as this wonderful way for women to express their sexuality through m/m erotica which challenges heteronormativity and reclaims popular media through a gift culture. Which is all true. The problem is that all those things are separate, and not inherently tied up with erotic m/m slash. By lumping them all together and centering erotic m/m slash as their archetypal form you (a)Make m/m slash sound like more than it usually is and (b) erase the awesome things happening in fanfic and remix culture outside erotic m/m slash by and for women." havocthecat also adds something worth more than two cents to bookshop's post: "I'm not saying you shouldn't be writing your boyslash, I'm not saying your boyslash is evil or bad or wrong, or that your favorite m/m pairing is evil or bad or wrong. I'm not saying that you, personally, are contributing to the erasure of women from the media or that you have gobs of unexamined internalized misogyny. I am not specifically talking about you. I am discussing general fannish trends." marina:Ask me anything!
"If there is anything you are curious to know about me because you are new around here/are old around here but feel like you should already have known it/have never gotten around to asking despite the fact that you know multitudinous other details of my life like what I eat for breakfast every morning, today is a day to ask it. (It does not have to be RL stuff necessarily! Fannish questions are fun too.)"
And option number 2:
"If you're new to this journal and/or you're not new to this journal and you want to tell me something about yourself you think I don't already know I'd love that! Let's get to know each other better. Good or bad, fannish or RL, tell me about something that's been going on in your life. Lurkers, IRL bffs, it's all cool."
"Yet of all the directors who have used versions of the White Messiah formula over the years, no one has done so with as much exuberance as James Cameron in 'Avatar.' 'Avatar' is a racial fantasy par excellence."Cue a lengthy discussion with
sandynotlisa that had him cede the main points...but not, I think, re-consider matters. Contrast that to Anne, whose email back to me when I sent her the link was more along the lines of, Okay, Whoa, That I Hadn't Quite Realised; Thanks For Making Me Think. This is not to imply I'm Awesome And Aware of All Racist & Colonialist Crap, of course. A Wise & Sage Leader of Men - or, it seems, more of Women - I'm not.mackiemesser's comment regarding the "Conservative nut job" author of the piece. |
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