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gwydion* "Iraq returns to civil war? Al Qaeda group claims Abu Ghraib prison attack:" http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/23/19637408-iraq-returns-to-civil-war-al-qaeda-group-claims-abu-ghraib-prison-attack?lite
* Fighting continues in Egypt.
* "The Wealth of Nations: The U.S. is No. 1 in Inequality :" http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/07/20/the-wealth-of-nations-the-u-s-is-no-1-in-inequality/
* "'Crack baby' study ends with unexpected but clear result:" http://articles.philly.com/2013-07-22/news/40709969_1_hallam-hurt-so-called-crack-babies-funded-study
Poverty is worse for babies than crack.
* I think I may be too young to understand the Anthony Weiner sex scandal. I find the lying stupid and irritating and I honestly don't understand why he insists on doing it. However, I fundamentally don't understand why dirty talk between consenting adults with the knowledge of his wife is wrong. It seems to be a private issue between the two of them and the women he was sexting with. There is no sexual hypocrisy here. He wasn't trying to ban other people from having sex or strip other people's civil rights on the basis of his own sexual fidelity. He wasn't doing something criminal. He wasn't sexually harassing employees like that disgusting waste of skin in San Diego.
Seriously, I don't get why what he did was as bad as, let along worse than what Gov. McDonnell has been doing (wild financial corruption), or what the Appalachian trail guy did (taxpayer funded adultery).
I don't get it. I don't know anyone who hasn't done consequential online dirty talk. Am I missing something?
* You know how I said that marriage rights are generally portable from one state to another even if the marriage is not legal under that states law? Remember how I said that a same sex couple would likely sue for rights in a bigot state based on a marriage solemnized in another state? A couple in Ohio just sued and won. Progress!
* The Republican War on Voting continues:
* Al Franken on the Affordable care Act:
* How Racist is Bill O'Reilly?:
* "Neanderthals Talked -- Like Us :" http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/neanderthals-talked-like-us-130711.htm
* "Climate Change Will Wipe-Out Rare Iberian lynx within 50 Years, Researchers Say:" http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/3088/20130722/climate-change-will-wipe-out-rare-iberian-lynx-within-50.htm
* "Mind the gap! Commuters in Japan push 30,000kg train carriage off trapped woman :" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/mind-the-gap-commuters-in-japan-push-30000kg-train-carriage-off-trapped-woman-8727952.html
* "Satanic Temple Sees Westboro Baptist's Funeral Protests, Raises Them Gay Wedding On Top Of Fred Phelps' Mom's Grave:" http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/06/09/candidate-for-roanoke-county-board-of-supervisors-religious-freedom-only-applies-to-christians/
* "Candidate for Roanoke County Board of Supervisors: Religious Freedom Only Applies to Christians:" http://thegist.com/news/1202/satanic-temple-sees-westboro-baptist-s-funeral-protests-raises-them-gay-wedding-on-top-of-fred-phelps-mom-s-grave
* "Texas’ new law bans biblical abortions:" http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2013/07/22/texas-new-law-bans-biblical-abortions/
* I think my allergies have hit critical mass. I am allergic to outside, a couple months of all windows open and fans blowing in allergens appears to be too much for my system even with all the meds, manual drainage, etc.. I am having a hard time focusing to read. The sinus pain and headache is intolerable, and I'm working up to an ear infection. I've been coughing up goo for days and the breathing situation is getting worse daily. I haven't been dreaming about hospitals and oxygen tanks, nor am I suffocating in my sleep yet, but at this rate.... I went to bed early but between the heat, my sinuses, and Hector having a particularly dramatic case of the vomits, all I got was a short nap. Tomorrow I have an appointment and getting things ready for guests Thursday. I'm likely going to be a serious mess. Gah!
* Musinex tastes what it sounds like. Eeew!
* I thought I hadn't seen "Word is Out," but as soon as I saw the faces of the people in it, I knew I had. I can't give you anything like an objective review because of the circumstances under the cut.
My visual and kinesthetic memory suggests it must have been a rebroadcast in the early '80's. I am getting a weird parallax emotional response watching it: with the intense emotional memory of my early teen self (I must have been 11-12 from the location of the livingroom furniture and my period emotional responses) and my adult response to the film all happening at the same time in my brain. There were a lot of things in the documentary that went over my head one way or another back then because I simply lacked references and perspective. My adult response is so much fuller since all the stories mean something to me. Back then, I connected to certain of the participants and not others. I remember really liking the Latina couple as people. I remember being fascinated that one of the guys had gone to my school. I remember bits and pieces of other narratives, but the thing that still screams across the decades is Rick and Whitey talking about psychiatric abuse. There circumstances and the details were different, of course. What was done to them was in the context of 1950's reparative therapy. I had never had shock treatment nor did I spend my teens in a State hospital, but on the other hand, I was 8 when the abuse started and they were a teenager and a grown man. Very different versions of the same poison. Still, when Whitey talked about her anger and hate... that was my anger and hate. When I first saw her speak works that might have been mine, the abuse was still going on. Watching them talk about their damage, it was the first time I saw people, who if I met them, could understand my story if I told it to them. To this day, it's hard to get people to understand what it was like in any fundamental way. Outside of the autistic community and QUILTBAG folks of certain age, you simply don't run into people who ever experienced anything like it. It's not a narrative most people have ever encountered or thought about. It's not something people make art about the way they do about other kinds of abuse. It's not something you see news reports about and you have to really look if you want first hand accounts of what systematic psychiatric abuse is like. Not only is there shame around it, but people don't want to hear about it. They don't get what's so bad about it. It doesn't leave the sort of obvious scars physical and sexual abuse leave. There is no community and we are conditioned against getting help by the abuse itself. Even if you could make an in person support group it would be hard to get people to come. How can I express what it was like to see a grown up person vioce my feelings, to see two grown up people on television talking about it in front of the whole country when I was so thoroughly and routinely silenced.
That is the power of this documentary, I think. For it's original audience in 1977 and for a very long time afterwards, this was the only place a lot of QUILTBAG folks could see ordinary people like themselves talking about their lives. While it's not quite as diverse as a modern audience would like (ex: only one gender variant person), they tried really hard. For a lot of people, this were the first time they had ever seen lesbian and gay people of colour on TV, for example. For a lot of people, this was the first time they saw someone even vaguely like themselves on TV. For a lot of straight people, this was an early step toward moving LGB folk from a demonized other to the person next door. The clothes are dated, and this is pre-AIDS, obviously, but I think it's important to hear those voices. A lot of the men didn't survive the Plague, as the bonus 30 years after documentary so poignantly stalks about. It is very much a time capsule, that moment of liberation, the role of feminism in the liberation movement, and the very different experiences and mind set of the pre-Stonewall folks. It is a little bit of magic that I can sit and watch all these different people talk about their lives and experiences from the patch of sun between Stonewall and the Plague.
I am grateful they included re-interviews and memorials, because my modern self wanted very much to know how things turned out for them, for better and worse. Hell, I am grateful the whole thing exists really.
* Greenwick found, "PBS Station Promotes Spot-On Fake Reality Shows to Illustrate Sad State of TV:" http://laughingsquid.com/pbs-station-promotes-spot-on-fake-reality-shows-to-illustrate-sad-state-of-tv/
* My Scented Home Products Circular Swap is looking for people to sign up: http://www.bpal.org/topic/81082-summer-scented-home-products-circular-swap/
* The Clutch:
* Fighting continues in Egypt.
* "The Wealth of Nations: The U.S. is No. 1 in Inequality :" http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/07/20/the-wealth-of-nations-the-u-s-is-no-1-in-inequality/
* "'Crack baby' study ends with unexpected but clear result:" http://articles.philly.com/2013-07-22/news/40709969_1_hallam-hurt-so-called-crack-babies-funded-study
Poverty is worse for babies than crack.
* I think I may be too young to understand the Anthony Weiner sex scandal. I find the lying stupid and irritating and I honestly don't understand why he insists on doing it. However, I fundamentally don't understand why dirty talk between consenting adults with the knowledge of his wife is wrong. It seems to be a private issue between the two of them and the women he was sexting with. There is no sexual hypocrisy here. He wasn't trying to ban other people from having sex or strip other people's civil rights on the basis of his own sexual fidelity. He wasn't doing something criminal. He wasn't sexually harassing employees like that disgusting waste of skin in San Diego.
Seriously, I don't get why what he did was as bad as, let along worse than what Gov. McDonnell has been doing (wild financial corruption), or what the Appalachian trail guy did (taxpayer funded adultery).
I don't get it. I don't know anyone who hasn't done consequential online dirty talk. Am I missing something?
* You know how I said that marriage rights are generally portable from one state to another even if the marriage is not legal under that states law? Remember how I said that a same sex couple would likely sue for rights in a bigot state based on a marriage solemnized in another state? A couple in Ohio just sued and won. Progress!
* The Republican War on Voting continues:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* Al Franken on the Affordable care Act:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* How Racist is Bill O'Reilly?:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* "Neanderthals Talked -- Like Us :" http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/neanderthals-talked-like-us-130711.htm
* "Climate Change Will Wipe-Out Rare Iberian lynx within 50 Years, Researchers Say:" http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/3088/20130722/climate-change-will-wipe-out-rare-iberian-lynx-within-50.htm
* "Mind the gap! Commuters in Japan push 30,000kg train carriage off trapped woman :" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/mind-the-gap-commuters-in-japan-push-30000kg-train-carriage-off-trapped-woman-8727952.html
* "Satanic Temple Sees Westboro Baptist's Funeral Protests, Raises Them Gay Wedding On Top Of Fred Phelps' Mom's Grave:" http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/06/09/candidate-for-roanoke-county-board-of-supervisors-religious-freedom-only-applies-to-christians/
* "Candidate for Roanoke County Board of Supervisors: Religious Freedom Only Applies to Christians:" http://thegist.com/news/1202/satanic-temple-sees-westboro-baptist-s-funeral-protests-raises-them-gay-wedding-on-top-of-fred-phelps-mom-s-grave
* "Texas’ new law bans biblical abortions:" http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2013/07/22/texas-new-law-bans-biblical-abortions/
* I think my allergies have hit critical mass. I am allergic to outside, a couple months of all windows open and fans blowing in allergens appears to be too much for my system even with all the meds, manual drainage, etc.. I am having a hard time focusing to read. The sinus pain and headache is intolerable, and I'm working up to an ear infection. I've been coughing up goo for days and the breathing situation is getting worse daily. I haven't been dreaming about hospitals and oxygen tanks, nor am I suffocating in my sleep yet, but at this rate.... I went to bed early but between the heat, my sinuses, and Hector having a particularly dramatic case of the vomits, all I got was a short nap. Tomorrow I have an appointment and getting things ready for guests Thursday. I'm likely going to be a serious mess. Gah!
* Musinex tastes what it sounds like. Eeew!
* I thought I hadn't seen "Word is Out," but as soon as I saw the faces of the people in it, I knew I had. I can't give you anything like an objective review because of the circumstances under the cut.
My visual and kinesthetic memory suggests it must have been a rebroadcast in the early '80's. I am getting a weird parallax emotional response watching it: with the intense emotional memory of my early teen self (I must have been 11-12 from the location of the livingroom furniture and my period emotional responses) and my adult response to the film all happening at the same time in my brain. There were a lot of things in the documentary that went over my head one way or another back then because I simply lacked references and perspective. My adult response is so much fuller since all the stories mean something to me. Back then, I connected to certain of the participants and not others. I remember really liking the Latina couple as people. I remember being fascinated that one of the guys had gone to my school. I remember bits and pieces of other narratives, but the thing that still screams across the decades is Rick and Whitey talking about psychiatric abuse. There circumstances and the details were different, of course. What was done to them was in the context of 1950's reparative therapy. I had never had shock treatment nor did I spend my teens in a State hospital, but on the other hand, I was 8 when the abuse started and they were a teenager and a grown man. Very different versions of the same poison. Still, when Whitey talked about her anger and hate... that was my anger and hate. When I first saw her speak works that might have been mine, the abuse was still going on. Watching them talk about their damage, it was the first time I saw people, who if I met them, could understand my story if I told it to them. To this day, it's hard to get people to understand what it was like in any fundamental way. Outside of the autistic community and QUILTBAG folks of certain age, you simply don't run into people who ever experienced anything like it. It's not a narrative most people have ever encountered or thought about. It's not something people make art about the way they do about other kinds of abuse. It's not something you see news reports about and you have to really look if you want first hand accounts of what systematic psychiatric abuse is like. Not only is there shame around it, but people don't want to hear about it. They don't get what's so bad about it. It doesn't leave the sort of obvious scars physical and sexual abuse leave. There is no community and we are conditioned against getting help by the abuse itself. Even if you could make an in person support group it would be hard to get people to come. How can I express what it was like to see a grown up person vioce my feelings, to see two grown up people on television talking about it in front of the whole country when I was so thoroughly and routinely silenced.
That is the power of this documentary, I think. For it's original audience in 1977 and for a very long time afterwards, this was the only place a lot of QUILTBAG folks could see ordinary people like themselves talking about their lives. While it's not quite as diverse as a modern audience would like (ex: only one gender variant person), they tried really hard. For a lot of people, this were the first time they had ever seen lesbian and gay people of colour on TV, for example. For a lot of people, this was the first time they saw someone even vaguely like themselves on TV. For a lot of straight people, this was an early step toward moving LGB folk from a demonized other to the person next door. The clothes are dated, and this is pre-AIDS, obviously, but I think it's important to hear those voices. A lot of the men didn't survive the Plague, as the bonus 30 years after documentary so poignantly stalks about. It is very much a time capsule, that moment of liberation, the role of feminism in the liberation movement, and the very different experiences and mind set of the pre-Stonewall folks. It is a little bit of magic that I can sit and watch all these different people talk about their lives and experiences from the patch of sun between Stonewall and the Plague.
I am grateful they included re-interviews and memorials, because my modern self wanted very much to know how things turned out for them, for better and worse. Hell, I am grateful the whole thing exists really.
* Greenwick found, "PBS Station Promotes Spot-On Fake Reality Shows to Illustrate Sad State of TV:" http://laughingsquid.com/pbs-station-promotes-spot-on-fake-reality-shows-to-illustrate-sad-state-of-tv/
* My Scented Home Products Circular Swap is looking for people to sign up: http://www.bpal.org/topic/81082-summer-scented-home-products-circular-swap/
* The Clutch:
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