Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself. - Sign displayed in an office of “The Village”, from the classic TV series The Prisoner As I stated in my column of September 18th, I sometimes get replies to my “Black Men” post of a year earlier that demonstrate a total refusal to accept [...]
Archive for September, 2011
September Q & A
Posted in Perception, Miscellaneous, Q & A, tagged neofeminism, anecdote, ethics, dirty, bad customers, psychology, restaurants on September 30, 2011 | 19 Comments »
Dominating the News
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Perception, tagged BDSM, drugs, ethics, law, New York, stage names, United Kingdom on September 28, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather Whiplash girlchild in the dark Comes in bells, your servant, don’t forsake him Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart. - Lou Reed, “Venus in Furs” Synchronicity is a strange thing. Months will pass without news on a particular topic, then all of a sudden there’s an avalanche of [...]
Surplus Women
Posted in Perception, Tyranny, The Dark Side, Current Events, tagged streetwalkers, stereotypes, cops, neofeminism, dirty, Madonna/whore, bad customers, psychology, drivers, rape, harm reduction on September 27, 2011 | 84 Comments »
What I did is not such a great harm, with all these surplus women nowadays. - Rudolf Pleil (“The Death Maker”) Though idealists prefer to deny it, Man is a predatory animal in whom the killer instinct is as natural as the sexual impulse. An infant, given the power to do so, would destroy anyone [...]
Nasty Words
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, tagged anecdote, censorship, dirty, psychology on September 25, 2011 | 37 Comments »
Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome. - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (V, ii) One year ago today I published “Pet Peeves”, a column which described five sex-related things that really, really irritate me: 1) Men yanking the pillow out from under [...]
Banned Books Week
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged anecdote, censorship, dirty, drugs, hysteria on September 24, 2011 | 64 Comments »
Censorship is the strongest drive in human nature; sex is a weak second. - Phil Kerby Every year, the last week of September is Banned Books Week, a celebration of intellectual freedom sponsored by the American Library Association. Since I haven’t actually worked as a librarian since 1995 I have a tendency to forget about [...]
Mabon 2011
Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, tagged anecdote, holidays on September 23, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Try to remember the kind of September When life was slow and oh, so mellow. Try to remember the kind of September When grass was green and grain was yellow. Try to remember the kind of September When you were a tender and callow fellow. Try to remember, and if you remember, Then follow. - [...]
Fictional Interlude: Dance of the Seasons
Posted in Fiction, History, Philosophy, tagged Africa, archeofeminism, ethics, Madonna/whore, psychology on September 22, 2011 | 13 Comments »
As I said in my column on the Ouled Nail, the tribe’s origins are lost to history, but we can be certain their dancers were already entertaining travelers by the time the Arabs appeared in the 7th century CE. And since the antecedents of the Berbers were painting on the rocks at Tassili some 2000 years [...]
The Other Foot
Posted in Current Events, Perception, Tyranny, tagged Canada, censorship, dirty, ethics, harm reduction, neofeminism, sisterhood on September 21, 2011 | 85 Comments »
The right to be respected is won by respecting others. - Vasily Sukhomlynsky I never fail to be amazed by the cluelessness of some people. In this increasingly pluralistic world, increasing numbers understand that it is reprehensible for any group to spread lies about a minority, to dehumanize its members, to represent them as imbeciles [...]
