Posted on June 4, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
The personals can be a fun thing to read sometimes. And sometimes I doubt the veracity of their content. I found this one just now:
BLACK MAIL IN HIS EARLY LATE 30s well educated, living in New York is looking for possible relationship with a white lady. If interested, write to [email redacted]
Black mail? [...]
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Posted on May 26, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
Is not the big thing among bigots. See, I wrote this post about who’s angry, about Guy White and his complete ignorance on the study he referred to, his ignorane on evo psych, on biology, on sociology etc etc. He did not even allow a pingback to his post. Instead he posted a comment containing [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
I recently got back on to a forum with parts of a crowd I used to hang with a couple of years ago. The crowd as such is nice and fun, but in the debate section views are widely varied (which is cool) but often expressed with several degrees of offensive bullshit. This especially goes [...]
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Posted on February 16, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
I’ve seen it mentioned several times now. That D&D, ren-faires, medieval festivals, and role-playing are somehow similar to BDSM. I saw it first here. I didn’t think much of it. It seemed a snide remark without much substance an so I ignored it. Until it was clarified in chapter two:
I realize that role-playing gets some [...]
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Posted on February 10, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
Those few who frequent my blog might notice that I’ve split up my blogroll. Until now it’s included blogs written by sex-positive feminists, by radfems, by people for and people against porn/prostitution, by ex-sex workers who hated the work, and by sex workers who like and even love their jobs. In other words: My blogroll [...]
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Posted on July 26, 2008 by Jemima Aslana
This story is fairly old by now, but when it was still fresh I had me some thoughts.
News stories are always a matter of perspective – obviously. On those thankfully few occasions there have been ‘honour crimes’ on Danish territory, people have been outraged, and the news media and the politicians have been all over [...]
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Posted on July 25, 2008 by Jemima Aslana
This post at The Feminist Underground and subsequently this post from Unapologetically Female had me curious.
So I decided to check out my own blog’s rating. Just for kicks.
Unlike the other two, I have no recent posts including the word abortion (but now I do). I got rated NC-17 because of these words:
rape (11x)
fuck (2x)
ass (1x)
Interesting.
My [...]
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Posted on June 2, 2008 by Jemima Aslana
Yes, that’s the headline of a short notice from the weekly police report from my town. I don’t need to read the rest of the story to know that it wasn’t intercourse, it was rape. Reason? Simple. When people are asleep they cannot consent to anything, therefore a thing such as intercourse cannot happen. Intercourse [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by Jemima Aslana
Saturday April 12th the local newspaper wrote about a boy who attacked a girl. I am very happy about the paper’s writing in this case because for once it does not say “Girl attacked and beaten up” completely leaving the attacker out of the equation as is seen so often. No, they did actually write [...]
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Posted on March 16, 2008 by Jemima Aslana
“Women can’t be anything other than hot, mothers or real men.”
That’s the headline of this article from the Danish newspaper Information. It appeared on International Women’s Day (IWD) as one among many articles in the day’s newspapers. I have a few more from that day on the schedule for being translated and taken apart.
As usual [...]
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