A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. - Bruce Lee Another monthly collection of (I hope) helpful answers to questions posed by curious readers. How do you expose a gay man pretending to be a woman on a chat site? Well, first of [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Backwards into the Future
Posted in Current Events, Perception, Tyranny, tagged Africa, brothels, cops, dirty, East Asia, hysteria, law, neofeminism, restaurants, stereotypes, Swedish model on March 30, 2011 | 10 Comments »
We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. – Marshall McLuhan Those readers who were adults in the 1980s will no doubt remember that South Africa was at that time an international pariah; her runaway economic growth of the 1960s had slowed to a crawl and her apartheid [...]
The Scarlet Letter
Posted in Current Events, Perception, Tyranny, tagged cops, dirty, Hollywood, hysteria, law, Madonna/whore, psychology, stereotypes, Swedish model on March 29, 2011 | 49 Comments »
There can be no outrage, methinks, against our common nature,–whatever be the delinquencies of the individual,–no outrage more flagrant than to forbid the culprit to hide his face for shame. - Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (Chapter 2) I sometimes wish I could be as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. The creator of Star Trek [...]
A Short Glossary of Prohibitionism
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Tyranny, tagged cops, dirty, drivers, hysteria, law, neofeminism, pimps, porn, psychology, rape, stereotypes, streetwalkers, Swedish model on March 28, 2011 | 44 Comments »
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? - Bertrand Russell Prohibitionists have their own terms for nearly everything involving prostitution and their quixotic war against it; some of these are merely jargon of the sort which can be found in any [...]
Cognitive Impairment
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, tagged anecdote, cops, dirty, hysteria, neofeminism, pimps, psychology, sisterhood, stage names, stereotypes on March 25, 2011 | 32 Comments »
Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible. - Mason Cooley There’s a strong temptation to accuse those who hold different beliefs from oneself of mental deficiency; one sees the behavior quite often, particularly among those who hold socially liberal positions. The adjective “stupid” or some variation on it is probably the most common ad hominem [...]
The Soft Weapon
Posted in Current Events, Perception, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged bad customers, Canada, cops, dirty, harm reduction, hysteria, law, Madonna/whore, pimps, sisterhood, stereotypes, streetwalkers, underage on March 24, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. - Jean Anouilh It’s really nice to know I’m not just one voice crying out in the wilderness; besides my sister bloggers (some of whose links appear in the right [...]
Recognizing Doubletalk
Posted in Current Events, Perception, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged cops, dirty, drugs, hysteria, law, porn, stereotypes, Texas on March 23, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it. - Karl Kraus On a number of occasions I’ve analyzed news stories and press releases about cops harassing and/or arresting prostitutes (the best examples being October 19th and November 12th), but today I’d like to do something different; I’m sure most of my regular readers [...]
March Miscellanea
Posted in Current Events, Perception, That Was the Week That Was, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged Africa, cops, dirty, disease, drivers, hysteria, Indian region, law, pimps, sisterhood, stage names, stereotypes on March 22, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. – John V. Linsday Another collection of short articles of interest to harlots and those who love us. Make Up Your Damned Mind! In my column of March 10th I pointed out the absurd contradictions inherent in the conflict of the [...]
