EMPRESS!!!!!
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Saffron: I'll die. Mal: Well, as a courtesy, you might start getting busy on that, 'cause all this chatter ain't doin' me any kindness.
'Trash'
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.
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
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?
erikaj - Dec 17, 2008 11:21:40 am PST #4843 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah.(Go Fay! Remind me to stay on your good side, girlfriend.) Re: Patterson. Yeah, imo, it's okay to make fun of him. It's not okay to make him a shambling fool. He's the most powerful crip in America...have some respect.(Although, I have to admit I'm fascinated with him because of all the TMI, not really his role-modeliness. We're chock-a-block with Credits to Our People, but CTOP that used to be cheating cokeheads?) Dude, that's a story, and I'm not ashamed to enjoy it.
brenda m - Dec 17, 2008 11:24:52 am PST #4844 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
Yeah, that sketch made me pretty uncomfortable, since it didn't seem to be drawing on anything I'm aware of about his character or reputation so much as the pure fact of his blindness.
The Blagojevich one, OTOH, I could watch a million times.
(Oh! In our secret santa at work today my gift was wrapped in Grinch paper with little green Blagojevich heads pasted on over the grinch's face. Hee.)