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Re: Dangerous Minds | Chris Isaak’s rarely seen ‘Wicked Game’ video directed by David Lynch

Ankhorite — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:23:45 -0000

I saw the supermodel from the "official" version on a talk show and was never able to think of her as anything but a fingernail-chewing dunce afterwards, with zero erotic appeal. Some of it may have been language difficulties -- I think French is her native tongue -- but durrrrrr, she just seemed sixteen kinds of stupid. Ruined the video for me, but not the song. Thanks for posting this alternate.

Re: Dangerous Minds | Chris Isaak’s rarely seen ‘Wicked Game’ video directed by David Lynch

Ankhorite — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:21:04 -0000

Yes, thanks to Jason for the summary and to Marc for posting.

Re: Happy Birthday Prince!

Ankhorite — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:17:34 -0000

One of our geniuses.

Re: Attack at US base in Afghanistan worse than initially disclosed

Ankhorite — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 04:08:05 -0000

A family member who is a ten-year former Marine is now in FOB Salerno as a contractor. I am endlessly grateful whenever a writer deigns to include info about contractor casualties.

I agree with Matt in this comment thread -- there's a lot of under-reporting in U.S. mainstream news about the war.

Re: Why Is Monogamy Idealized When Most People Aren't Monogamous?

Ankhorite — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:51:45 -0000

Nfamous said: "In the end the state owns no one's genitals so you can do with them as you please."

Whoa there. In my state, the Virginia legislature claims ownership of all female genitalia, and the right to force even pregnant pre-teens to endure punitive, non-medically-relevant vaginal rapes with a plastic 8 to 10" wand if they dare to seek a legal abortion.. That's why we call our executive Governor Ultrasound.

In Michigan this week, the state legislature punished an elected representative, Lisa Brown, because she said she was tired of their prurient and tyrannical interest in her vagina and wanted them to respect her right to say no. She was punished by being officially condemned and silenced.

Ron Paul's "libertarian" views include nationalizing *every* fertile uterus in the country, denying *every* fertile woman the right to terminate a pregnancy. What is a woman forced to bear against her will? She's a slave. She's property. And in the cases I've cited, she's the property of the state.

Re: Why Is Monogamy Idealized When Most People Aren't Monogamous?

Ankhorite — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:41:26 -0000

Polyandry in the hardscrabble culture of Nepal is a form of birth control. Female infants are killed off, limiting the number of available uteri for reproduction. The surviving females are forced into polyandry, acting as maidservant, cook, sex worker, and breeding stock to a group of closely-related men.

Limiting the number of fertile uteri is the most reliable way of limiting (over)population. Expanding the number -- as in traditional polygynous Mormonism or Islam or any culture with royal concubines -- is the most reliable way of increasing the birth rate.

You can google it: because of his limitless sexual access to concubines and conquered women, Genghis Khan was recently proven to be part of the DNA of some astonishing number of Asians & Europeans -- something like a quarter, iirc.

Re: Why Is Monogamy Idealized When Most People Aren't Monogamous?

Ankhorite — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:34:52 -0000

While I was intrigued by your use of polyandry to describe the lives of (female) sex workers, I think I disagree with it.

Polyandry is about multiple husbands, as in Nepal, not about brief commercial sexual encounters. The lives of polyandrous women in cultures where that is traditional are much more burdened and restricted than the lives of First World sex workers.

This seems like a good place to address one of author Ley's concerns, about whom the aged and abandoned man in our culture might be hurting by marrying bigamously: he hurts both women, and all his kids.

Which widow will get his pension or Social Security? Which widow, and which batch of kids, will be in line to inherit? If he has private insurance, which wife is covered? There are benefits to marriage, both financial and non-financial, and the bigamist man is metaphorically, as well as literally, screwing both women.

Re: Why Is Monogamy Idealized When Most People Aren't Monogamous?

Ankhorite — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:25:40 -0000

Author David J. Ley's language impaired the clarity of his article: "Man certainly does not seem to be one of them. There is increasing evidence that many men are not biologically or psychologically disposed to sexual monogamy."

"Man" when "humanity" is what is meant is archaic, sexist, and confusing. It's particularly confusing given the use of "men" in the very next sentence. Does "men" mean "male humans" in that sentence? or does it once again refer to all humans regardless of gender?

In 2012, when an author uses "man" when he (nearly always he) means "humanity," it puts readers on alert that the author may have some deeply rooted problems of perspective.

Re: Abandoned, Aborted, or Left for Dead: These Are the Vanishing Girls of Pakistan

Ankhorite — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:01:21 -0000

Who will be the spouses? In China, where there is a shortage of marriageable women in the rural areas, women are kidnapped from neighboring nations and sold to bridegrooms.

I had thought a shortage of women would lead to an increase in their social value and status. I was wrong.

Re: Abandoned, Aborted, or Left for Dead: These Are the Vanishing Girls of Pakistan

Ankhorite — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:59:36 -0000

Why lie to prevent the sex-selection abortion?

Why force a female infant into the world, where she may be burned or starved to death?

Why force her into a family that hates her from the moment of her conception? What kind of life is she going to have?

Where does a doctor get the nerve to lie to the patient and ensure this kind of misery for a girl child?

Re: Rielle Hunter and the Techniques of Political Seduction

Ankhorite — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:51:53 -0000

I'd say Rick Santorum has more than a few screws loose, too. But to your list of psychopaths, I'd add Dick Cheney, who got drunk, shot a guy in the face, and used his Secret Service detail to keep the real cops away until he'd had three meals and a night's sleep.

Not to mention his perverse enthusiasm for torture and war crimes.

Re: Video of the Day: Daily Caller Reporter Interrupts Obama Press Conference

Ankhorite — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:48:18 -0000

Limbaugh also got caught smuggling drugs prescribed in another man's name over the border on his return from a sex tour. (He bragged about it being a sex tour; don't blame me.)

Limbaugh's got a long history of drug offenses as a middle-aged adult. Obama has a couple of lines in his own autobiography about having done "a little" cocaine when he was a young adult just out of college.

Not the same thing.

Re: Video of the Day: Daily Caller Reporter Interrupts Obama Press Conference

Ankhorite — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:45:14 -0000

George Bush was not "democratically elected by a majority of (our) fellow citizens."

Re: Video of the Day: Daily Caller Reporter Interrupts Obama Press Conference

Ankhorite — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:42:53 -0000

I saw Tucker Carlson at a NOW Convention in the 1990s. He was the only man in the tent, no one was paying any attention to him at all, and he looked *terrified.*

Seriously. He was frantic.

Re: Video of the Day: Daily Caller Reporter Interrupts Obama Press Conference

Ankhorite — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:34:32 -0000

Why refer to the heckler as a "reporter" ?

Reporters seek to objectively report, not put themselves into their stories.

This guy is just a provocateur with a press pass -- which he should lose, permanently and pronto.

Re: Rielle Hunter and the Techniques of Political Seduction

Ankhorite — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:24:47 -0000

It's not about the fact that he cheated on a terinally-ill woman. Look at McCain & Gingrich: each of them abandoned TWO wives due to illness or disability.

It's about the fact that Edwards denied his child. He said his daughter wasn't his. Even if she weren't going to grow up and read about that -- just having said it guarantees him a special place in the sewer of U.S. politics.

Re: Stop Writing About Girly Stuff, Girl Writers!

Ankhorite — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:45:41 -0000

"Sass" is one of my particular triggers for flurries of etymological rage. You can, by definition, only "sass" someone to whom you are inferior.

My southern friend Arbor assures me that, in her culture, "sassy" means "flirtatiously sexy." I say that means being flirtatiously sexy depends upon being the social inferior of the person with whom you are flirting. It depends upon your willingness to transgress the social status of your entire gender by taking some sexual agency towards someone who outranks you in such matters; that is to say, the whole of the *other* gender. She denies this.

Well, she grew up there and I didn't. But the dictionary definition is definitely about a person of lesser status being (cutely or obnoxiously) impertinent to someone who outranks them. In our lives, this generally means a woman talking to a man, or a minor talking to an adult, or.... or someone of a traditionally disfavored racial group getting "uppity," where "uppity" might get you killed but "sassy" just gets you discredited and denigrated a bit.

And let's do "spunky." Oh, don't tell me I'm spunky or have lots of spunk. Being compared to male ejaculate AS A COMPLIMENT? Sheesh, why not call me "ballsy," too? So I feel justified in poking out your OTHER eye?

"Feisty," likewise. Used for the elderly & the short, a comparison to a little yappy dog who wants to be tough but is laughably unable to execute its threats. "Oh, no, it's a way to admire toughness & courage!" No. It's a patronizing way of saying your toughness and courage mean nothing in comparison to your actual power in the world. AGGGHHHH.

Okay, trigger pulled, rant over, thanks for your patience.

Re: Stop Writing About Girly Stuff, Girl Writers!

Ankhorite — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:30:54 -0000

Peach?

Heaven help me, my preferred body spray is... anything that smells like baby powder.

Cuz *I* like it, not cuz I think people will like it on me. But maybe I should worry about that...hmm.

Re: Stop Writing About Girly Stuff, Girl Writers!

Ankhorite — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:29:04 -0000

I painfully recall my Family Law class with a professor I adored -- still do, in fact -- but there were fifty students, and The One Guy. The feminist prof -- yes, she is, she is! -- who had nothing but sons at home -- treated The One Guy (who was a lout) with exactly the reverence and tenderness you describe.

AIIIIIIIEEEEEE.

Re: A Crappy System: Why Separating Men’s And Women’s Bathrooms Is Illogical

Ankhorite — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:47:24 -0000

Not cool with unisex. Don't want male peepers peering in around the doors. Do Not Want. No, no, no. The little plastic sign may not SEEM like much protection, but it is to the extent that if you have such a sign, and there's a man in the room anyway, you know right off he's up to no good. And you can scream, and run, BEFORE you have your pants around your ankles while seated distant from the door.

What I *would* like is for someone to get architects to stop putting the accessible stalls at the very END of the line of stalls. Yeah, right -- make the people least able to move go the farthest distance possible.

Make that stall the first stall! Traffic patterns show most people skip the first stall anyhow, so why not put that space to actual use, and be a bit more humane to the mobility impaired folks at the same time?

Re: I'm An Adipositivity Model, Just Like The One Whose Photo Was Stolen By Tosh.0

Ankhorite — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:25:45 -0000

The link in Paragraph Five to "Janie's... beautiful photo" takes you to a blank page.

Hope it didn't get blanked because she had to fear being Toshed. :(

Re: PAGEANT DRAMA: Miss USA Welcomes Transgender Contestants, Miss Pennsylvania Freaks Out

Ankhorite — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:06:04 -0000

Jenna T may have some cis-biological advantage so far as slim hips and thighs go -- but as you say, she probably had to go further to address other issues to attain the "perfect" and "female" form.

I see it as a wash, in terms of fairness for this competition.

Re: PAGEANT DRAMA: Miss USA Welcomes Transgender Contestants, Miss Pennsylvania Freaks Out

Ankhorite — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:00:41 -0000

Miss PA's "perception of fairness has no real ethical, rational, or legal basis" with which you and I agree, Madam X.

Unfortunately, there are plenty of rationales, legal analyses, and ethical systems which back her up -- because each and every one of those systems, whether ours or hers, is based on opinion.

I think the systems to which Miss PA adheres are corrupt. She doubtless would pass the same judgment on mine.

I think that's what PollyComeHome was getting at. It's not that Ms. PA doesn't have morals; it's that the morals she has fail OUR moral tests. :(

Re: PAGEANT DRAMA: Miss USA Welcomes Transgender Contestants, Miss Pennsylvania Freaks Out

Ankhorite — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:54:45 -0000

Olga, please look up "Godwin's Law" on Wikipedia.

Re: PAGEANT DRAMA: Miss USA Welcomes Transgender Contestants, Miss Pennsylvania Freaks Out

Ankhorite — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:51:56 -0000

Dang. I would have watched, and I generally don't bother since the golden age of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."