Midweek materials
Jun. 8th, 2006 12:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptOn the subject of a federal marriage amendment: For now, toasted. However, the vote was too close for comfort - 49 aye to 48 nay. The Republicans, however, seem to believe that the Congress is not representing the will of the American people when it votes in such a manner. I hope they're right, and that there are a lot more people in the country who want to see any amendment of this sort whipped, scourged, tarred, feathered, run out of town on a rail, then drawn, quartered, shot, and shot again in case it survives. Of course, the tale of the state legislatures says otherwise, but despair causes significant problems in one's energy.
Another corporation not to shop at (if you still shop at any these days): Macy's, and if you want, all the stores owned by the parent company, Federated Department Stores. What's their problem? They removed two gentlemen mannequins from a displaypromoting the Boston gay pride festival because a conservative group complained. They may have also covered up the websites of the groups on the display. The lack of logic astounds, but not so much as to cover up the lack of brains displayed. Obviously, Macy's agreed to house the display, so why are they suddenly pulling the mannequins because they look like the events that are being promoted? Not to mention that they've revealed where they stand on this particular issue. I won't be surprised if the whole thing disappears in a few days. I also won't be surprised if there are a lot of angry people demanding the return of the pair to their rightful platform. There's also likely to be the sound of several accounts closing and business being taken elsewhere. If Federated Department Stores wants customers back, they're going to have to court them, homosexual or no.
Speaking of sexuality, here's an additional, short opinion about Purity Balls, the wastes of time that put a girl up in front of her peers and her father and make her swear never to have any of that icky sex until she's married, and him to swear that he'll make sure she doesn't have any of that icky sex until she's married (likely enforcement with guns and baseball bats and such). The title is Christian Virgins Are Overrated, and it puts forward the idea that sexually liberated women make people harder to control, for one thing, and makes it much harder for the government to get angry and/or repressed men to fight wars and/or obey authority. If the girls are liberated, then the guys will tell the government to fuck off when it comes to recruitment for the latest oil campaign. As well as not having their anger at not getting laid/not being able to get laid transformed into hatred for "others" like liberals, Muslims, or whomever we're at war with. It's a pretty good line of thought. Don't know how much I think it's a true line of thought, but it's probably truer than I think. The last sentence stands out, for multiple interpretations, too: "The middle east would be a much different place if the Arab women could trade their burqas for tank-tops and short shorts." That it would, friend, that it would.
From different places: Actors dinking around, which can produce some very interesting results, and the body is less you than you think, which says that human cells are in symbiosis with a lot of other organisms. A lot.
Among college students, iPod more popular than beer. Wow. Disposable income for the win, I suppose.
Earlier start tomorrow, with a bit of a staff day, since we have visiting librarians from Germany. Should be nice to see things from a different perspective, if we get to talk to them. I should probably ask![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
torakiyoshi how to say hello, and if they ask if I speak German, how to say, "No, but my English isn't half-bad." (And whether that would be taken as a joke.)
I appreciate all the replies I've had so far to last night's post. It's nice having a thoughtful, insightful bunch of people who will mercilessly poke holes in my arguments that I use to put myself down.
Another corporation not to shop at (if you still shop at any these days): Macy's, and if you want, all the stores owned by the parent company, Federated Department Stores. What's their problem? They removed two gentlemen mannequins from a displaypromoting the Boston gay pride festival because a conservative group complained. They may have also covered up the websites of the groups on the display. The lack of logic astounds, but not so much as to cover up the lack of brains displayed. Obviously, Macy's agreed to house the display, so why are they suddenly pulling the mannequins because they look like the events that are being promoted? Not to mention that they've revealed where they stand on this particular issue. I won't be surprised if the whole thing disappears in a few days. I also won't be surprised if there are a lot of angry people demanding the return of the pair to their rightful platform. There's also likely to be the sound of several accounts closing and business being taken elsewhere. If Federated Department Stores wants customers back, they're going to have to court them, homosexual or no.
Speaking of sexuality, here's an additional, short opinion about Purity Balls, the wastes of time that put a girl up in front of her peers and her father and make her swear never to have any of that icky sex until she's married, and him to swear that he'll make sure she doesn't have any of that icky sex until she's married (likely enforcement with guns and baseball bats and such). The title is Christian Virgins Are Overrated, and it puts forward the idea that sexually liberated women make people harder to control, for one thing, and makes it much harder for the government to get angry and/or repressed men to fight wars and/or obey authority. If the girls are liberated, then the guys will tell the government to fuck off when it comes to recruitment for the latest oil campaign. As well as not having their anger at not getting laid/not being able to get laid transformed into hatred for "others" like liberals, Muslims, or whomever we're at war with. It's a pretty good line of thought. Don't know how much I think it's a true line of thought, but it's probably truer than I think. The last sentence stands out, for multiple interpretations, too: "The middle east would be a much different place if the Arab women could trade their burqas for tank-tops and short shorts." That it would, friend, that it would.
From different places: Actors dinking around, which can produce some very interesting results, and the body is less you than you think, which says that human cells are in symbiosis with a lot of other organisms. A lot.
Among college students, iPod more popular than beer. Wow. Disposable income for the win, I suppose.
Earlier start tomorrow, with a bit of a staff day, since we have visiting librarians from Germany. Should be nice to see things from a different perspective, if we get to talk to them. I should probably ask
torakiyoshi how to say hello, and if they ask if I speak German, how to say, "No, but my English isn't half-bad." (And whether that would be taken as a joke.)I appreciate all the replies I've had so far to last night's post. It's nice having a thoughtful, insightful bunch of people who will mercilessly poke holes in my arguments that I use to put myself down.
Re: And Now, the actual comment..
Date: 2006-06-09 01:29 am (UTC)Boys don't need to be pure, because boys will be boys, of course, and it's studly and manly of them to be aggresively sexual and to conquer any girl who he has his eyes on. Girls, of course, must resist those temptations or be branded a whore for indulging herself.
Re: And Now, the actual comment..
Date: 2006-06-09 01:30 am (UTC)*nods* Macy's is one of the preferred store of the gay folk. (Ugh. never go shopping with a gay man. so tedious)
Re: And Now, the actual comment..
Date: 2006-06-09 03:31 am (UTC)Re: And Now, the actual comment..
Date: 2006-06-09 03:34 am (UTC)this doesn't mean I wo'nt cook for a man or anything like that, but DAMNIT, I better damn well be your equal.
Re: And Now, the actual comment..
Date: 2006-06-09 11:24 am (UTC)Re: And Now, the actual comment..
Date: 2006-06-09 11:31 am (UTC)I've had afew people on the phone ask me how my husband felt about me asking those types of questions (the sex ones), and I'm usually able to laugh it off when i tell them I'm not married..one woman told me she was sorry I wasn't married...that kind of bothered me.
But it's amazing how much of society feels as though women ought to take care of the kids and husband. It's the little comments that people say to you, and you almost wish they were a part of the data you were collecting so you could analyze it.
Being a feminist is rough.
Re: And Now, the actual comment..
Date: 2006-06-09 10:19 pm (UTC)Like people who don't realize "God bless" could be vehemently offensive to someone.
Re: And Now, the actual comment..
Date: 2006-06-09 10:24 pm (UTC)but really. If it came right down to it, I'd love to stay at home all day and take care of the house and cook for my family, etc. but that's just not the way it's going to work out unless I somehow marry a rich man, and if I do that, i'd probly havea housekeeper to do that stuff.
it's like the time one of my co-workers was on the phone and said "so you're just a homemaker?" and the woman lashed back about how she was not just a homemaker and really started lecturing her aboutit.
Re: And Now, the actual comment..
Date: 2006-06-09 10:40 pm (UTC)Re: And Now, the actual comment..
Date: 2006-06-09 10:41 pm (UTC)