Posts by Emma Hart
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I have this theory, born out by experience, that women like their porn in words, not pictures. The site where I work as an admin has an 'erotica' section. It's entirely dominated by female writers, many of whom exclusively write male homosexual characters. There's a fair preponderance of BDSM content, and the women seem quite happy to occasionally depict women who DO like rough sex. Given they exist.
What I'm seeing, and finding empowering, is women taking pwnership of teh pr0n.
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You're a bad, bad man, David. Obviously you weren't spanked enough as a child. Perhaps a word with Jennifer could get you some remedial work...
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Well, I can't speak for Wellington (though it might be fun to try) but if every Auckland blogger on my rounds was going 'Oooooooo, a cruise ship! I saw a cruise ship! This is exactly what I was doing in graphic detail exactly when the cruise ship arrived!', I'd be taking the piss out of that too.
My favourite earthquake story is set in Wellington and involves my best friend, a famous opera singer, and room under the table for just one...
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Cheers, Juha, that made my day. I'm going to be sniggering inappropriately for hours.
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You mean like the lupins?
Wait, that was Dennis Moore.
Man, anyone would think I had an article deadline looming...
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Chatting with parents there seems to be a desire to return to some good ol' fashioned moral teachings though.
Trying to put aside my huge problems with the concept that religion has some kind of exclusive license on 'moral', if that's what they want, why don't THEY do it? Y'know, at home, in church, etc. I wouldn't trust anyone else to be in charge of my children's moral education. But then, I wouldn't have put MacMillan in the team, so what do I know?
That said, I have no problem with voluntary, opt-IN religious groups that operate for-real outside school time.
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Take your point, Stephen, you're absolutely right. One of the thing that cheeses me off about my children's school's idea of diversity is that it has an unusually high Muslim population for Christchurch. After surviving the Tampa, making 'fitting in' dependent on your kids singing 'Mary's Boy Child' followed by 'O le Pepe' is just rude.
Just asking what was going to be taught when our school decided that the topic for the term was going to be Easter got us such a pasting we backed off, and we have good English.
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I've heard some horror stories along those lines, with school authorities really not thinking about what's going on on their property.
I wonder sometimes if there's a secular parent left who doesn't have a horror story about trying to get their kids a state secular education. And it's not just the kids that shut for 'religious education' while packing the non-conformists off to scrape gum off desks that are the problem. It's the in-class stuff, like the Chch school I could name that had an "Easter quiz", entirely Bible-based, in class, and gave chocolate to the kids who got the answers right.
I'd love to see the kind of actual religious education anjum is talking about, but not LIKE culture in social studies, AS culture in social studies.
And if we don't have a state religion, can we get rid of the Parliamentary Prayer?
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What do you think can be done to prevent the energy/emissions issue from being used as a political football (as has happened over the past few decades)? Does anyone think a referendum on the subject might have merit in terms of sending a clear message (and giving a clear mandate) to whichever future government is in power?
Framing a clear referendum question on this, which contained only one question, definite detail, and could be answered with a simple yes or no would be, well, 'interesting'.
My impression of twenty years bogging round the edges of politics has been that if you can get legislation passed, and it's not unbelievably contentious (foreshore, seabed), precious few succeeding governments can really be bothered getting rid of it. It's getting them to stump up in the first place that's the problem. A couple of years ago, the Blair govt produced a White Paper which from memory said that if they covered all the unused roof space in England with solar panels, they'd be net producers of energy. So... why aren't we requiring new houses to have solar hot water? Surely we could get concrete changes to the building regulations passed? And if you reduce end use of energy per household, you also slow down the increase in strain on the transmission infrastructure.
But, y'know, I have an Arts degree, and I've spent too much time playing this game lately.
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Apparently, the theory is this. They just changed the rule so that, if the batting team needs one run to win, but the batsman hits a four, if the batters RUN a single before the ball reaches the boundary, the game is over the instant they complete that single, so the four doesn't count. If the batsmen stayed in their creases and didn't run, the whole four would be counted.
However, I would have thought that meant the batsman didn't get the runs either.