"I was JUST KIDDING! Geez, can't you TAKE A JOKE???"
"No. And I also don't like pathetic little ploys to get out of taking responsibility for one's own words."
Mal: Ready? Zoe: Always.
'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Anne W. - Dec 17, 2008 11:00:41 am PST #4833 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Aims - Dec 17, 2008 11:03:50 am PST #4834 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
My favorite justification is, "Well, I make fun of everybody, no matter their race, ethnicity, heritage, whatever. People are people and I make fun of them all."
rolls eyes forver.
Trudy Booth - Dec 17, 2008 11:04:20 am PST #4835 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
EMPRESS!!!!!
t tacklehugs
Emily - Dec 17, 2008 11:05:59 am PST #4836 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
http://mmcisaac.faculty.asu.edu/emc598ge/Unpacking.html
Here's the Peggy McIntosh article about white privilege. It wasn't until I'd read that* that I felt on firmer ground responding to the inevitable "Well, jokes about white people don't bother ME" argument. As for the whole "people within the group telling the joke" thing, that's another battle in the same war.
I've had to try to explain this to teenage boys a LOT. At least grown women are likely to be able to consider the idea of privilege, whereas to these boys the very words "white privilege" are like a dog whistle -- they can see that something's happening but are totally unable to hear a sound.
(*Read and, actually, did a little activity where we got to stand in a line according to our degree of privilege, which I've gotten to do TWICE now -- NOT an ideal teaching tool, in case you're wondering. But writing a paper on some other form of privilege was kind of interesting. I wrote one on female privilege, and another on ability privilege.)
Okay, now I'm just babbling to keep from leaving.
Emily - Dec 17, 2008 11:06:39 am PST #4837 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
"No. And I also don't like pathetic little ploys to get out of taking responsibility for one's own words."
PERFECT. Now, if only I can retrieve that next time I need it.
Glamcookie - Dec 17, 2008 11:08:43 am PST #4838 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Urgh. I've got the Jensen Ackles real bad.
meara - Dec 17, 2008 11:09:54 am PST #4839 of 10000
YAY. Thank you for links.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 17, 2008 11:14:12 am PST #4840 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Urgh. I've got the Jensen Ackles real bad.
Is the treatment a cream or a suppository?
Glamcookie - Dec 17, 2008 11:14:50 am PST #4841 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Is the treatment a cream or a suppository?
Midol.
brenda m - Dec 17, 2008 11:19:29 am PST #4842 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Urgh. I've got the Jensen Ackles real bad.
So you also had a momentary flash of Sparky running off to celebrate the holidays with Dean Winchester? No, just me?