Posts by Emma Hart
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See for example various sanctions applied to athletes for legal, but dumb, booze-fuelled antics.
How many under the threshhold for being drunk and disorderly?
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, it clearly does. I'm just trying to work out where the line is or should be.
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if I try to access a website containing the book's text or discussion of the same then, Houston, we have a problem?
Who the hell knows? It may be that the DIA is applying a very reasonable SLAPS test to the material to avoid doing so, but really the only way to find out would be to do what people have been doing with the ACMA list in Australia: find a site you know contains the type of material you're concerned about having banned, lay a complaint and try to get it banned.
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I intend to keep adding information to this thread as it comes to light. This, for instance, is kind of interesting. Stephen Joyce, from back in March:
"We have been following the internet filtering debate in Australia but have no plans to introduce something similar here," says Communications and IT minister Steven Joyce.
"The technology for internet filtering causes delays for all internet users. And unfortunately those who are determined to get around any filter will find a way to do so. Our view is that educating kids and parents about being safe on the internet is the best way of tackling the problem."
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Obviously this made me a bit spitty. There's no law against running a brothel, it's a regulated industry and he has some quite tight law to comply with. He appears to be being judged on a moral failing, one quite separate from his sport. It's the bigger picture that interests me, I guess. To what extent should sporting bodies be punishing athletes for doing things which are perfectly legal but 'disreputable'?
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I like gobsmacked. From now, though, I think I'm going to start using 'flabberfounded', or 'dumbgasted'.
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And now I'm here, I have to say this:
But he'd forgotten that I was a fashion advisor to David Lee Roth.
Did very weird things to my brain. It made pictures. Pictures I'm not sure I can live with.
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Done. Though I was impressed by how many seemingly-unrelated keywords our spammer managed to smoosh in there.
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Ah well there it is then Emma. I'd have thought of myself as being fairly reasonable in my views, not at all judgmental and I offered a comment only surrounding the value of telling someone "fuck you". In doing so, I seem to have attracted your ire.
Michael, I have absolutely no idea what in my comment could have set you off. I haven't 'taken issue' with you, I disagree with you. My experience disagrees with you. Your suggestion of moral equivalency I don't find very reasonable, or very valid - particularly not this week.
By responding to you I actually AM engaging with you. You say you're 'not in a position to disagree with anyone', but then you criticise me for not agreeing with you.
Frankly, you know, I'd just like to be allowed a moment to enjoy this. To feel good and supported, and be provided with something of an antidote to this. I don't think that's unreasonable.
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But also, I think it has value in the "we're not going to take your abuse any more" message....
It's not just to help gays feel better, it helps bolster the resolve of "the middle ground" who are neither gay, nor anti-gay, but maybe need a little nudging into rejecting or standing against the anti-gay.
Indeed, most of the people who've picked this up off me, reposted it, told me how much they love it and how GOOD it makes them feel are straight.
What you seem to be saying, Michael, is that the marginalised people must ALWAYS be calm and reasonable. That they're never allowed to talk about how angry they are in case they 'damage their cause by being angry'. (Am I quoting Derailing for Dummies now? Yes I am.)
This is not all there is. But y'know, everything Fletcher said, and if it makes a few activists feel not quite so isolated, and more energised, then actually yes it has achieved something.
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That's right, Michael, things were going swimmingly, and then the silly marginalised people screwed it up by being all angry. However will we get the calm understanding banjo-ramming homophobes to constructively engage with us now?