Jayne: Yeah, that was some pretty risky sittin' you did there. Wash: That's right, of course, 'cause they wouldn't arrest me if we got boarded, I'm just the pilot. I can always say I was flying the ship by accident.
'Serenity'
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.
Tom Scola - Feb 02, 2010 11:21:50 am PST #8756 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Nora Deirdre - Feb 02, 2010 11:23:22 am PST #8757 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Shir, Tiger Beatdown had a terrific discussion of that Shirky essay... [link]
Shir - Feb 02, 2010 11:25:05 am PST #8758 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Thanks, Nora!
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Feb 02, 2010 12:01:00 pm PST #8759 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
{{{Aims}}}
Loving both the Clay Shirky piece and the response to it.
Connie Neil - Feb 02, 2010 12:03:04 pm PST #8760 of 30000
brillig
Loving both the Clay Shirky piece and the response to it.
I've been gaining insights from the discussion and blessing my mother for not ingraining her daughters too badly with the idea that we needed to hide our brains. If only she could have appreciated the self-confident women she raised.
erikaj - Feb 02, 2010 12:14:05 pm PST #8761 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Sady at Tigerbeatdown had a nice coda/addendum but I did not save the link. Anyone? Bueller?
Daisy Jane - Feb 02, 2010 12:19:31 pm PST #8762 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
The part about female relationships and being threatening if you don't particularly feel the need to have people like you is something I need to print out and nail above the mirror.
erikaj - Feb 02, 2010 12:22:34 pm PST #8763 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod. When I hate it the most is when I don't *even like* the other person, yet I don't want her/him to think I'm a jerk. Who cares? They're a jerk. Right?
Ginger - Feb 02, 2010 12:25:21 pm PST #8764 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
But, as a lady who continually downplays herself, has panic attacks when engaging in even the most mundane and obligatory forms of self-promotion, and enthusiastically shoots herself in the foot career-wise on a more or less constant basis, I… well, I can’t say he’s not on to something, basically.
Sadly, this is me. Coincidentally, I was having a conversation earlier today about the 2008 election, and my friend and I were agreeing that we always ignore talk about women politicos being "bitches" or "mean spirited," because we assume that means they were doing what men do to succeed in politics.
Daisy Jane - Feb 02, 2010 12:28:28 pm PST #8765 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I think it came up for me in friendships with women (Well, for the most part. I have had guys behave like this, but was pretty quick to identify it as abusive, or at the very least toxic.) who were "nice." Like the Complisult? Insulpliment? Whichever. Something was off, but I couldn't put my finger on what it was.
I still have trouble dealing with it because to the outside it looks like you are just being a bitch, but the alternative-being walked all over until you drive yourself insane-doesn't seem like the better option.