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Hmmm. My tolerance for being a vehicle for the kind of crap lil' p is serving is stretched really thin.
Aid denial, climate change denial, holocaust denial can only be a matter of time.
There is another site where they probably appreciate that type of thing more..
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No no! Do not engage Sam F!
Suits me. I think I might have reached the limits of my curiosity on this...
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RB, define, for the loving moment, tolerance
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the discussion is now obviously, officially religious in nature
and the tolerati must contemplate their bowl of toenails anew -
Mind your brains don't fall out your open mind, little p. Selective skepticism is worse than none at all, I think.
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Also, and I mean this lovingly, you might get a kick out of the collected works of Mr Dentith.
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the general pop is those not yet endowed with the blessings of being counted among the identity groups, those who, iow, must bear the guilt of the unmarked toward the marked, and if you don't think these already constitute a religion, then there's a chaff-dsipenser lurking in every last spoonful of your cornflakes..
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selective skepticism? please elaborate?
u mean my skepticism is meant to be OTHERWISE?
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do i have to refer the class to first things essayings on why the grammar of proselytization is superior to that of toleration"? Or is every last one of us desjockeys here present today wholly satisfied that they know e v e r y t h i n g they need to KNOW about the history and progressive formulation of HIV/AIDS science & culture?
i can't think of a more basic & apposite question right now
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Mind your brains don't fall out your open mind, little p. Selective skepticism is worse than none at all, I think.
read: make sure your desire for respectability doesn't fall out of your panoptically-charged response-ability to all who truly hover within the space opened up by the possibility of a free discussion
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A large prospective study followed a group of 715 homosexual men in the Vancouver, Canada area; approximately half were HIV-seropositive or became so during the follow-up period, and the remainder were HIV-seronegative.
And the HIV-Lymphadenopathy study that preceeded that. HIV-AIDS is one well documented retrovirus. It's hard to isolate because it works works (on a cellular level) in the opposite direction from ordinary viruses. Imagine a photographic negative, rather than a photograph itself; it's like a ghost-image of a virus, if that makes sense.
I knew literally everyone involved in that study. I was working for AIDS Vancouver waaay back then - not as a researcher - I was the non-threatening public relations face of AIDS Vancouver and behind the scenes rat-of-all-work in the office.
It was a steep and alarming learing curve for my (then) new NZ husband who wound up spending his free time helping me on literally dozens of different projects. We even spent our days off at the hospice, volunteering.
I remember well how dumbstruck he was when he found when we had planned a march to publicise the need for government funding for what passed in those days as pharmaceutical treatment for HIV-AIDS.
We timed our march - which included very sick guys in wheelchairs - to coincide with Grey Cup Weekend - the big grid-iron football game, when the city would be full of drunk jocks.
We also had a guy dressed up as a condom-covered penis, our mascot King Condom. "They'll attack us Paul said, horrified at the prospect of marching through a drunk, homophobic and testosterone fillled crowed with our crew of the sick, the gay and the sympathetic. "Well, yes dear" I told him, that's exactly the point ."
Which of course, was exactly what we were hoping. They did, and none of us were hurt much beyond getting pelted with eggs and tomatoes (stung a bit). But we made the national news and the AIDS patients got a public surge of sympathy which did indeed speed up the funding. We called it our Joans of Arc march, partly because several of our volunteers were called Joan. We had a lesbian motorcycle gang called Motorcycle Dykes From Hell run interference for us, though they were really meant to incite rather than deflect hostility. We had a big Gay Cup Party afterwards.
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You're free to construct what ever meaning for that text you like, dear p.
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i am muchly tempted to say now: so if yer swell gay dudes ain't equally fuelled by testosterone also, just what are they fulled by? stigmasterone? or what? this is victimary rhetoric at its worst, surely...
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YHBT. HTH. HAND.
IKWYM.
Such newbs.
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D4J is not, unfortunately, Cameron Slater (such a wonderful name....ever seen the New Scientist back page columns about nominative determinism?). D4J is a fellow named Peter, who lives in Rolleston.
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Wonder if upside down b is interested in copyright? That would be.. poetic.
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well i just aint quite hep to all this in-house talk, obviously!
but i was - even still am - distressed that RB checked in with nary a boowakashah or a by-yr-leave and referred to my attempts to front up with my enormous curiosity & doubts about the almost definitively treacherous historical layer-cake of what has come to be the hiv/aids industry, as 'crap'..
would that he had a moment to back up that wee deposit!
second only in distressfulness is the 'rich in observations' person, who most manifestly seems NOT, bypassing as s/he does in a trice all of my cautionary overtures and anticipating that i be but some gross and unwieldy MINDSET..
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hey, p, over here.
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dyan campbell, many thanks indeed for all the epigenetic links. As soon as I am home (next week) I will read, & digest.
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D4J is a fellow named Peter, who lives in Rolleston.
The Town of the Future, dontcha know.
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