Up Front: Romeo Smells of Roses
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You know that master edit button that fixes links?
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Okay, that's odd. Thanks Heather, I'll get onto that.
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Right. The previously-invisible spaces before all my URLs are gone.
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I'm calling my relationship 'opposite marriage' from now on. Miss California opened my eyes.
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the Grande Empress of South Beach
I think this is someone I'd like to meet.
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I think this is someone I'd like to meet.
Heh, I was reading through stuff on the most recent Feminist Sex Carnival and I ran across this comment:
But in reality, you’re wielding a flamethrower loaded up with slutshameum and you’re torching a pretty wide swath.
and I couldn't help thinking, that sounds so cool . I mean, bad and everything, but that's such a great name.
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Naming and labelling seems harmless on the surface... until it crosses the line into dehumanisation. And then used to justify state-sanctioned brutality or even genocide.
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In my profession I come across a lot of birth certificates from different countries and epochs, and they're always interesting for their taxonomies. American ones - which vary greatly from state to state and decade to decade, would be worth some sort of historical/sociological study all by themselves. My favourite bit is they preface the whole thing with whether the child's mother was married or not. And then of course the first thing after each parent's name is "color". And then there are the ones that have a space for the occupation of the father, but not the mother.
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I mean, bad and everything, but that's such a great name.
And a notable absence from the Periodic Table.
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Instead of labelling, you could stitch yourself?
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And because it may come up at some point: You know Stats NZ have a discussion paper on what all those people who don't want to be called "Pakeha" or "NZ European" can tick in the census.
I loved the bit in the Dom Post that said they had removed the previously used "Pakeha" because some people didn't like it, but were searching for a term that captured the meaning of (basically) a white person whose family has living in New Zealand for a long time.
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And then there are the ones that have a space for the occupation of the father, but not the mother.
I was just noticing this, while going through family tree stuff for my daughter. My father's Australian 1935 birth certificate doesn't have a space for mother's occupation, but my Nanna's 1915 New Zealand marriage certificate has a space for bride's occupation.
Our civil union certificate just has Spouse 1 and Spouse 2.
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Instead of labelling, you could stitch yourself?
I just finished stitching this, Jimmy.
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Our civil union certificate just has Spouse 1 and Spouse 2.
In Italian sposo means husband and sposa means bride, so when we got the certificate I said hey! I thought we were trying *not* to get married!
I vote for a Seussly atlernative, Thing 1 and Thing 2, on account of fewer potentially discriminatory assumptions. (Although, literally objectifying I guess).
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Plus, enumerating. Who gets to be #1?
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BTW, Emma, that "people" substitution trick is brilliant. I'm going to use it in the classroom first chance I get.
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BTW, Emma, that "people" substitution trick is brilliant.
You obviously don't hang around socialists enough.
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I loved the bit in the Dom Post that said they had removed the previously used "Pakeha" because some people didn't like it, but were searching for a term that captured the meaning of (basically) a white person whose family has living in New Zealand for a long time.
Man that annoys me. This is useful information that we collect for, among other things, our country's health system. The fact that it's a Maori word doesn't actually change what it means!
I think we should add "honky" and see who ticks that.
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You obviously don't hang around socialists enough.
I'm having mid-1990s Socialist-Workers-invading-my-until-then-sensible-protest-meetings flashbacks.
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This sounds familiar... was the post prompted in any way by the discussion you, I, and Mrs Skin were having on a previous thread?
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Wow, your cats sharpen their claws on wind?
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My father's Australian 1935 birth certificate doesn't have a space for mother's occupation, but my Nanna's 1915 New Zealand marriage certificate has a space for bride's occupation.
This is all perfectly logical....
Women are allowed to have jobs until they get married and have babies, right?
Mind you, its a wonder they bother letting you write in an occupation when you could just have tick-boxes. Teacher, nurse, shop-staff and clerical were the only options, huh?
:D
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That game is never going to end, and the prizes suck.
So that toaster-oven thing was only for lesbians? Damn.
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Actually, you know who gets to be as politically incorrect as all get-out?
Old dykes.
I was talking to my favourite Grey Lynn lesbian and discovered we'd both been at the Lucinda Williams show.
"Yeah, we had a great view of the stage," she said. "Good enough to see her cameltoe."
Yowza!
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This sounds familiar... was the post prompted in any way by the discussion you, I, and Mrs Skin were having on a previous thread?
Yes. And the Eskimo debate, and the latest Carnival, and Giovanni's latest post - it's been a convergence storm over the last couple of weeks.
So that toaster-oven thing was only for lesbians? Damn.
Dude, you're not even allowed to know about that.
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