October 2009
251 posts
“If an 800 page manuscript landed on thirty desks and it was the next Ulysses,...”
– Commenter Amelia Gray on this post. (Via Bookslut.) (via pilgrimsoul) (via libraryland)
“It is good to rub and polish your mind against that of others.”
– Michel de Montaigne (via iamthecrime) (via booklover)
September 2009
286 posts
“It’s funny. If your average guy were to rape a 13-year-old girl and then flee...”
– Jeff Fecke (via katoleary) (via ihatethismess)
words wholly related
ragbag:
precocious & apricot
both derive from the latin word, præcox (early-ripe). a precocious child is said to be more mature than other children. an apricot is a fruit that ripens before other fruits.
worthy of note: is the path that the apricot took in getting to english through the circuitous waypoints of portugese (albricoque), arabic (al-burqūq) and greek (πραικόκιον).
even more...
septembrist:
Troubled Waters- Cat Power
I’m...
Transgender Sex Workers →
ihatethismess:
Prostitutes have a difficult occupation. They face social stigma, violence and abuse. Some of this abuse and violence comes from the police, as well as the johns (customers). Transgendered women constitute a significant minority population within the general population of prostitutes, especially street workers. They are often subject to even more violence and abuse from the johns...
Victims Vs. Sluts: Hofstra’s False Rape and the... →
ihatethismess:
Lying about rape does not make you a “whore.” It makes you a liar. And yet, critics have continually chosen to employ terms which shame the accuser not for lying, but for having sex in the first place. Some of the name-calling is a product of misguided outrage at a woman who committed a serious offense. The remainder is pure misogynistic release. They found an opportunity to...
Politics Explained
ihatethismess:
FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and put them in a barn with everyone...
Zoom!
I just sent off my dissertation prospectus draft, planned something for the night of my birthday, agreed to host a friend-of-a-friend’s cat, and insulted someone because I was too strident. These things, without the internet, would have taken me a whole day. It took about an hour and a half. Which is to say: I’m going to unplug from the internet. This is way too fast for the likes of...
Tilda Swinton signed a petition supporting Roman...
nomoreheroes:
you people…so what They All signed?! as i recall the story, that girl he ‘raped’ or whatever,had an arrangement with him not to sue,and probably got nice little house in suburbs and big college trust fond or however you americanz call it…if she cares not any more, why do you???
wingsandfins:My day is officially ruined.
Edit: the list of famous people who signed the petition.
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Tilda Swinton signed a petition supporting Roman...
My day is officially ruined. Edit: the list of famous people who signed the petition.
Kate Harding's trenchant analysis of the Roman... →
nerdshares:
(Link via abbyjean)
The defensiveness and rationalization around Polanski is all too familiar to me. “But— but he’s so charming! I know him! He’s not a bad man like that.” It reminds me — oddly — of responses to accusations of racism. Many of the defenders of Polanski are saying “well, he may have seduced her, but—”...
Internet addiction: New-age diagnosis or symptom... →
psychotherapy:
A great little read about the battle within the field over the validity of such issues as “internet addiction”. Even better, the voice of the opposition is none other than Vaughn Bell, who runs a fabulous site (Mind Hacks) that I often get stuff from for this site! He certainly sounds like the voice of reason here…
Vaughan Bell, a visiting research fellow with the Department of...
10726.) Honestly, if it comes down to choosing him...
xenializ:
(via blogsecret)
“It is notorious that some Years ago, there was exhibited to public Inspection, a...”
– From the addendum to M. Vacherie’s An Account of a Hermaphrodite, 1750. Note the way that “it” refers to first the person, then the genitalia; the genitalia then subsume the individual, coming to metonymically represent them. “It” is the genitals.
“When it was born, it was so strongly marked with the Types or Characters of both...”
– From M. Vacherie’s An Account of the Famous Hermaphrodite, or Parisian Boy-Girl, Named Michael-Anne Drouart, published 1750.
Introducing the 18th-century hermaphrodite.
It may be expected by some faithless Persons, that I should produce an HERMAPHRODITE to publick View, as an incontestible Justification of there being Humane Creatures of this kind; but as I have no Authority to take up the Petticoats of any Female without her Consent, I hope to be excus’d from making such demonstrable Proofs; and if I had such a Power, the Sight might endanger the Welfare...
Victor Finkelstein, "Attitudes and Disabled...
Phase 1
Firstly, since the beginning of the modern era, although people with physical impairments have always been present as “cripples”, they were not segregated from society for special treatments and services which we recognise today. At the lower end of the economic ladder “cripples”, low-paid workers, the out-of-work and the mentally ill formed a broad oppressed layer of society in which...
“Whether or not you write well, write bravely.”
– Bill Stout (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via ilovereadingandwriting) (via booklover) [It’s so hard to do this when you’re a grad student. Writing bravely in the face of one’s committee chair is easier said than done. It’s a good reminder, though.]
Little Boots: New In Town. I’m gonna take...