Posts by JoJo
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Re: Wellington restaurants - I recommend Floriditas, in Cuba Street. Fabulous food, reasonable prices, good staff. Can get a bit noisy, with polished wooden floors, but that's my only gripe.
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Be more constructive with your feedback, please. :)
From where we were sitting - just in front of where the Real Hot Bitches were standing - it was REALLY hard to hear Growler. We could hear you most of the time, Hadyn, so it wasn't the speaker system.
And can I just say how fantastic it is that, in response to a sports blog, the majority of comments are about a women's sport, not the flaming rugby! Wicked.
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Doesn't he have a comms manager? Or a PR advisor? Or anyone that will say 'Look, Michael, I know what you're trying to say here, but you just sound like a dick'.
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Anyone know anything about the Google Book Search Settlement Agreement? [Also, FAQs]
Specifically, the wisdom of opting out or not?
There's a heap of information (including different publishers' opinions) on Beatties Book Blog.
I've been talking to a few NZ publishers about it, and most seem to feel that opting in is the best option - out of two pretty stink options.
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Angus, I don't know if you realise this, but no one is saying that a guy walking up to a woman in a bar and initiating a conversation is harassment.
I'm saying that if the woman does not show interest, or declines to engage in the conversation in some way ("Sorry, I'm with my mates", for example), and the guy keeps trying to talk to her - well, that's harassment to me. Even if the guy is talking politely and isn't just grabbing her tits - it's still annoying and rude.
And it can feel threatening - I've left pubs because a guy will not leave us alone. And why should I have to leave, when my behaviour wasn't at fault. Oh yeah - the same reason I can't wear a low-cut top...
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<quote>by people who have no intention to harrass her.<quote>
Then why don't they leave her the fuck alone?
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I wish I 'd been on that ferry.
Me too.
We have probably all had experiences like this, where we are a target for harassment simply for having left the house. This isn't a "wrong place, wrong time" thing. It's anyplace, anytime, no matter what we are wearing or doing.
And then, watching the news last night, to illustrate the kind of guests David Letterman has on his programme, TV3 chose to show clips of Paris Hilton, Barack Obama, and Britney Spears. Britney was even wearing a bikini. Grrrrrrr.
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If the lady in the article were a prude and upset by male attention to her tits then she is probably going to believe she is harrassed. But she hasn't been harrassed, she is just a prude.
One time I was being such a prude in a bar that I had to punch a guy to make him let go of my arm. Do I need to report how low-cut my top was, to give him some defence for not having heard me say "Leave me alone" three times ?
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At one point one of the commentators said, "Chokljat all over George", and I quite lost my train of thought.
That was my favourite part of the game! I think even the commentators were giggling.
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being in the wrong place at the wrong time and representing an easy target.
It has seemed to me, though, that just the very fact of my having a vagina ("down there" as my doctor said last week) makes me in the wrong place at the wrong time. There have been a number of times when I've been walking somewhere at night, alone or with friends, and been approached by groups of men who didn't really care whether we wanted to meet them. We were targets. Easy or not.