Erin's link is NSF anybody! Who looks at Sloth from Goonies and is inspired to make a sex toy!?!?
You'd never make it. I'd rip your spine out before you got half a step. Those little legs wouldn't be much good without one of those.
Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[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.
smonster - Jul 15, 2010 7:51:52 pm PDT #25695 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Atropa - Jul 15, 2010 8:18:04 pm PDT #25696 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'd rather just get paid to yell at dudes about their grammar. It's like editing, but pays better!
Teppy, I think you need, NEED, to become a pro Domme specializing in grammar. The world cries out for such a thing.
Vortex - Jul 15, 2010 8:49:20 pm PDT #25697 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I just want to point out that tomorrow is Friday (for those who clicked on Erin(?)s link)
Daisy Jane - Jul 15, 2010 9:27:56 pm PDT #25698 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I'm a little uncomfortable discussing prostitution so blithely. It is a social ill. Not because of the sex, but because it's selling people. The vast majority are not high priced call girls. We're talking about women being bought by a man who wants to own them.
-signed Humorless Feminist
Vortex - Jul 15, 2010 9:32:35 pm PDT #25699 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
omnis_audis - Jul 15, 2010 11:02:50 pm PDT #25700 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Fandango doesn't have the ArcLight theaters. Major Fail!
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jul 16, 2010 12:03:49 am PDT #25701 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I missed most of the porn discussion, but... OK, maybe I'll get shot down for this, but I am not a fan of porn. I am a fan of consenting activities between two (or three, or four, or ten!) consenting adults. I'm bisexual, and an admirer of BDSM (from varying distances - that has depended on who I've with!). I'm *very* big on inclusion in the feminist movement (very much including men and trans women) - inclusion being my role in the feminist org I volunteer for. I like reading erotic literature, and I think hentai is awesome (not my thing personally, but a fab concept). AND I am fairly anti-porn. Not as much as many members of my org, but I am. I have plenty of time for people's opinions who are pro porn, or who are sex workers, but I've heard too many personal stories and statistics that show what the sex industry can do to women (Kat Banyard's 'The Equality Illusion' is *full* of them, and I was recently at a conference with two women who have appalling PTSD from their years as prostitutes, and their stories really shook me up and led me to look further into the effects of the sex industry). And I do believe that much porn objectifies women. Call me conservative or a prude if you want. But I'm entitled to my opinion. All I wanted to say was - don't lump anti-porn feminists in with anti-trans, anti-gay, anti-bisexual or anti-sex types. I am very pro sex indeed (mmm, sex). I am still against the porn industry.
By the way, the org I work for is called UK Feminista and is truly awesome. As a footnote.
*hides*
WindSparrow - Jul 16, 2010 1:21:21 am PDT #25702 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
My boss actually said this morning, and I quote, "I'm going to break you. I'm going to break you like a horse."
Where's WindSparrow? We need some good poetic justic.
I am not good with numbers.
What a shame, because my first thought was that it would be fun to drop Hil's ex-advisor into your job - and of course if you were mathy enough you could simply have Professor Ass-Chappeau's job.
That was just one of her many She Said What? statements.
Not that you need any advice, but have you considered taking careful notes of those little moments? You know, in case you ever need to prove that the environment was toxic and over-and-above stressful for, say, a lawyer and/or unemployment office?
Seska, no reason for you to hide, that I can see.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jul 16, 2010 2:02:24 am PDT #25703 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Not that you need any advice, but have you considered taking careful notes of those little moments?
This. If not for lawyers, then at least for the human resources department.
Strix - Jul 16, 2010 4:16:44 am PDT #25704 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
DJ, I was pretty zonked when I was writing most of my prostitution posts, and I guess they're not as clear as I intended them to be.
IMO, prostitution, in theory, is ok. My theory presupposes it as a career, classed as any other career, with rights and protections. I see nothing inherently wrong with bartering a skill, be it proofreading or sexual skills, for money.
This obviously is not the case with the vast majority of 21st c. prostitutes. Society would have to go through a huge sea change regarding men, women, equality, morality and power for it to go from theory to reality. I don't think prostitution nowadays is a safe, true choice for the vast majority of sex workers.
I'm just saying there's nothing inherently immoral in prostitution, IMO. I would never think "This person is an swful person because they are/were a prostitute." I think there will always be prostitution in human society. I would like to see it handled much differently than it is now.