September 2009
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Is No Sex Still Sex Positive? | Bitch Magazine →
“I’m struck by the absence of discussion of abstinence from a sex positive feminist perspective. But isn’t it also important to reframe not having sex in sex positive terms? In [a] strange way, though, in all of these discussions you’ve started (at least on Bitch) about sex, it seems like you’ve revealed the most taboo option in the minds of many sex positive folks is...
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Lost youth: turning young girls into sex symbols →
“Lolita has become shorthand for a prematurely sexual girl – one who, by legal definition, is outlawed from sexual activity. The Lolitas of our time are defined as deliberate sexual provocateurs, luring adults into wickedness and transgressing moral and legal codes. But the original Lolita – the 12-year-old protagonist of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel – was rather different; a powerless...
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“The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.”
– Isak Dinesen (via urlgirl)
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Vera Lynn – White Cliffs of Dover →
“A lot of good people went to their deaths with this tune in their heads.”
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Heartbeat CSA - photos from the farm I volunteer...
More at: Heartbeat CSA farm - a set on Flickr (shameless self-promotion department)
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This is What a Feminist Looks Like (on tumblr) →
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From "Psych"
Shaun: She fits Warren's type: she's headstrong, hot in a female DA or detective on "Law & Order" sort of way.
Gus: Like Milena Govich.
Shaun: Like an Angie Harmon.
Gus: Like Mariska Hargitay.
Shaun: Exactly.
(I am very much in love with the latter two examples.)
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from "The Adventures Of Brisco County, Jr."
Dixie: I'm heading south, for Jalisco.
Brisco: No no no, you're going north, to Frisco.
Dixie: Forget it, Brisco.
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The Case Against Reading - Everything Unfinished -... →
Some paragraphs in Steven Johnson’s Everything Bad is Good for You imagine what the conventional wisdom about reading might be, had computer games been invented first.
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“The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.”
– G. K. Chesterton (thanks Matt)
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How 20 popular websites looked when they launched... →
I did this with my old web sites from back in the day (I started making them in ‘95, at the tender age of 14); terrifying and hilarious. Maybe someday I’ll share…