Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Megan Wegan,
Can I also just say how disappointed I am that there was an entire conversation about ’pearl necklaces” and no one made the obvious comment?
Even Lisa Simpson doesn't mix sportswear and pearls?
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to nzlemming,
2. Speaker should be enforcing standing orders. Curran challenged him to cite the relevant order and he couldn’t because it’s not in the SO. Hence, Smith made it up. As even Stuff noted, Jackie Blue did not get so treated last year.
And small point of fact, Smith cited a Speaker's Ruling (page 16, No. 7) from 2003. Perhaps you'd like to ask Jonathan Hunt, and the members of the multi-party Standing Orders Committee at the time, what they understand as "appropriate" (or "normal") business attire. As I said, it seems oddly vague; then again, I'm not sure more prescriptive dress code would go down any better.
But, yeah, I think you're picking the wrong fight here. Please bitch Smith for being inconsistent in his application of a ridonkulously vague and anachronistic dress standard. But you're just not right accusing the man of pulling it out of his arse.
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Megan Wegan,
Oh, bitch. It's waaaay too early in the morning to be reduced to tears by such awesomeness.
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to nzlemming,
. Didn’t say there was any connection between Slutwalk and the House. You made that one up completely.
Context, sweetie. For all the times I get accused of distraction-trolling around here, is it OK if I feel a wee bit uncomfortable with that being brought into a thread about an event that was inspired by a fraking POLICE OFFICER telling a room of young women that the best way to avoid rape was NOT TO DRESS “SLUTTY"?
And I could really get bitchy and say it’s a shame Curran’s stunt got her more media attention than any actual policy coming out of her portfolio, and she apparently has NOTHING to say about her party’s own essay in rape culture. ( TRIGGER WARNING FOR RAPE, SEXUAL ASSAULT AND EPIC COMMENTS D-BAGGERY )
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I for one simply dread the future in which you have renounced all bitchiness :-)
I plan to be fully occupied with Tony Ryall for the foreseeable future. “It picks the tie that doesn’t cause epileptic seizures. It puts the 36oz navy blue printed Foulard around It's neck, or else it gets the hose again. Yes It does, Precious.”
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Personally, I think we should cling to the right to think someone’s else’s dress – male or female – is tacky, tasteless or inappropriate, and perhaps even to say so to our companions.
And there's also a time to make sure that brain-mouth filter is in good working order. I may internally cringe every time I see a woman wearing hijab -- but I also need to STFU and respect the (presumed) agency and freedom of the women involved. It's very easy to be "tolerant" of people who look and think and behave the way you do; the real test of liberal values is being tolerant of those who don't.
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Sacha,
DELETED SO AS NOT TO OFFEND SACHA’S DELICATE SENSE OF RELEVANCE. AND, YES, I’M BEING PISSY UNTIL I CAN HAVE ANOTHER SLUG OF COUGH SYRUP.
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Sacha,
differently demure, perhaps? (with pictures)
That’s an entirely legitimate question. I’m still not sure anyone (least of all Claire Curran) would welcome me fronting up to the Chamber in my Dykes for Bush ’04 t-shirt. Then the again, we seem to have bullshit like this pop up with monotonous regularity. How hard would it be for the Speaker to sit down a reasonable cross-section of Parliamentary women and sort out something that's not so vague as to be damn near meaningless? (Someone might also like to to take Tony Ryall along to Kirks and pick out a half dozen ties that aren't "skull-fucked with a box of crayons" ugly. Really, bitch -- make an effort.)
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to nzlemming,
Lockwood Smith makes up more “rules” in the House than any other speaker has ever done, I believe.
Really? There actually are dress standards in the Chamber, and if you like please make a case that they’re anachronistic or inconsistently applied but let’s not pretend the incumbent Speaker just pulled them out of his arse.
And you know something, considering what triggered Slutwalk in the first place I really don’t feel very comfortable drawing any equation between a poxy football jersey being ruled out of order in the debating chamber and women being told they’re asking to be raped if they dress “slutty.” (Or, for that matter, football hooligans kicking the shit out of you because you're wearing the wrong kit.)
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Emma Hart,
At which point my brain melted.
Really? Because I read that and my whole frontal lobe went disco inferno. That wasn't so much missing the point as leaving the country to avoid it.
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