Friday things I don't agree with
1. Usually I lurve Twisty, and I was ready to support the whole anti-fellatio thing (Which started here, but went here and here and ended up here), mostly because I thought I caught the scent of heavy scarcasm. I guess not.
No, it's not anti-feminist, it's just hypocritical, and crosses into the unfortunate feminist arena of "saving women who don't really want to be saved" (read: housemoms). Frankly, cry me a fucking river. Twisty accomplishes the amazing feat of passing judgement on other peoples' sexual preferences while simultaneously trying to sound like a feminist martyr. Oooh, I'm so sorry we silenced you in your fight against evil sex practices in which you yourself never actually engage. I'm certain that I'm not the only one drowning in irony right now. Now it's time to empty the 'ol browser cache.
2.Why don't you save all the pity you have for poor blow-jobbing straight ladies of the world and give it instead to the girls of Colorado, who now have the 'right' to enter into common-law marriage at the age of 12. Does anyone else see this as a boon to polygamists? Maybe, maybe not. I'm currently reading Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven , a book about the past and present of Mormonism, and perhaps I'm just seeing polygamists behind every bush. Can anyone really come up with a good reason for why children should be able to marry? I think we can be reasonably sure that they're not marrying other children.
3. Rude Pundit continues to have a total boner for A.C..
4. Stephen Hawking says that long-term human survival is only possible if we move to other planets. Technically, I only partially disagree with this. It is true that we will eventually have to find a new habitable planet once we've trashed this one, and I agree with Steve-O when he says we're going to have to go a long way to find something that fits our rather specific needs. However, (and I certainly didn't come up with this idea, but I can't remember where I read it) I'm a little afraid that the right-wingers are going to read this as an argument against conservation. Why does conservation matter when we'll just blow this popsicle stand when it gets completely scungy. The problem with this line of reasoning is that we don't have techmology (as Ali G would say) for large-scale interstellar migration, and we're going to need an planetary exit strategy long before we do. What will we do in the interim? That in itself should be an argument for conservation. Right? Right? Somehow, I think it is not to be.
5. Finally, people keep mistaking me for an undergrad, and I really don't agree with that. In the past, I just thought that it was because this is a big university town, and people just assume that everyone under 30 is associated with the school. That is, until yesterday, when I was getting my morning tea at the Union cafeteria. It's finals week, and all the students were slogging off to exams. I was stirring in my daily dose of sugar substitute when a girl leans over and says conspiratorially, "8 am final, huh? Yeah, me too." Nuh- what hey? I didn't even know what to say. I was just, like "yeah, exam. Good luck." I feel like I should be dashing off e-mails to my professor :
sorry i didn't send in my car payment this month, but u know I had a lot of personal problems and stress and i spent the money on raisin bran and new socks. can u give me, like another semester to pay will be enuf.
Thanx!
Yeah, I think I have this whole undergraduate thing beat. Happy Friday, everyone!
I’d forgotten that when it comes to sex, it is the duty of the radical feminist to shut the fuck up. Sex, which, along with religion, is the new religion, is sacrosanct territory. It is anti-feminist to point out the ideological problems with certain patriarchal sexbot traditions because so many women enjoy patriarchal sexbot traditions.
No, it's not anti-feminist, it's just hypocritical, and crosses into the unfortunate feminist arena of "saving women who don't really want to be saved" (read: housemoms). Frankly, cry me a fucking river. Twisty accomplishes the amazing feat of passing judgement on other peoples' sexual preferences while simultaneously trying to sound like a feminist martyr. Oooh, I'm so sorry we silenced you in your fight against evil sex practices in which you yourself never actually engage. I'm certain that I'm not the only one drowning in irony right now. Now it's time to empty the 'ol browser cache.
2.Why don't you save all the pity you have for poor blow-jobbing straight ladies of the world and give it instead to the girls of Colorado, who now have the 'right' to enter into common-law marriage at the age of 12. Does anyone else see this as a boon to polygamists? Maybe, maybe not. I'm currently reading Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven , a book about the past and present of Mormonism, and perhaps I'm just seeing polygamists behind every bush. Can anyone really come up with a good reason for why children should be able to marry? I think we can be reasonably sure that they're not marrying other children.
3. Rude Pundit continues to have a total boner for A.C..
4. Stephen Hawking says that long-term human survival is only possible if we move to other planets. Technically, I only partially disagree with this. It is true that we will eventually have to find a new habitable planet once we've trashed this one, and I agree with Steve-O when he says we're going to have to go a long way to find something that fits our rather specific needs. However, (and I certainly didn't come up with this idea, but I can't remember where I read it) I'm a little afraid that the right-wingers are going to read this as an argument against conservation. Why does conservation matter when we'll just blow this popsicle stand when it gets completely scungy. The problem with this line of reasoning is that we don't have techmology (as Ali G would say) for large-scale interstellar migration, and we're going to need an planetary exit strategy long before we do. What will we do in the interim? That in itself should be an argument for conservation. Right? Right? Somehow, I think it is not to be.
5. Finally, people keep mistaking me for an undergrad, and I really don't agree with that. In the past, I just thought that it was because this is a big university town, and people just assume that everyone under 30 is associated with the school. That is, until yesterday, when I was getting my morning tea at the Union cafeteria. It's finals week, and all the students were slogging off to exams. I was stirring in my daily dose of sugar substitute when a girl leans over and says conspiratorially, "8 am final, huh? Yeah, me too." Nuh- what hey? I didn't even know what to say. I was just, like "yeah, exam. Good luck." I feel like I should be dashing off e-mails to my professor :
sorry i didn't send in my car payment this month, but u know I had a lot of personal problems and stress and i spent the money on raisin bran and new socks. can u give me, like another semester to pay will be enuf.
Thanx!
Yeah, I think I have this whole undergraduate thing beat. Happy Friday, everyone!
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