The Blood is The Life 19-05-2012

• Sexual correctness gone mad | Martin Robbins | Science | guardian.co.uk
  "mainstream media outlets are engaged in an extraordinary effort to define and enforce incredibly narrow standards for sexual behaviour, preferences and beauty, to the detriment of both women and men." - Marin Robbins develops his feminism.
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• BBC News - Twitter backs browser privacy project
  +1 for twitter over faceache
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• Heresy Corner: Get out of jail free?
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• How inclusive are the teams are your workplace?
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• On Female Characters: This Isn’t Highlander. There Can Be More Than One.
  "There can be more than one awesome female character at a time. Not all of them are to everyone’s taste, and denigrating one does not make another seem more awesome. But it does fall into the sexist tropes of thinking of all women as being in competition, and that one representation of women is enough."
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• Ridley Scott's Blade Runner Sequel Will Star A Woman | The Mary Sue
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• Sexism In Games Bingo Card
  Applies to comics and action movies too, IMHO
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• Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality
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Disturbing Trains of Thought #68: Watching Young Lib Dems Grow Up

So I was leafing through my internet reading list and there appeared a post from the blog of someone who I still kind of think of as a child, even though she'd probably find that incredibly insulting. Lets call her a teenager. Name redacted to protect the guilty. And there are pictures on there of a very naked man - someone famous that this person has a crush on, screencapped from a film in which he appears full-frontal naked. And my brain goes, in quick succession

• "I wonder if her mother knows she's posting pictures like that?"


• "OMG I can't believe I just thought that"


• "I AM OLD"


• A stream of reminiscences about the sort of thing I was up to at her age, which make pictures of naked men look VERY mild


• "... Mind you she has very good taste in naked men..."


• "..."


• "... It's a shame I can't pin that to pinterest."


• "..."


• "... One day, SHE'S going to know how disturbing this train of thought was."

It's very weird when you catch yourself turning into your mother, especially when you've spent large parts of your life swearing you won't turn into your mother.