Posts by Riddley Walker
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nice theatre Che
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Excellent post thanks Deborah and 81st.
As a hairless pink guinea pig of indeterminate gender, I too often feel marginalized in the blogosphere and hence my reluctance to comment much on this thread.
But I find it difficult to understand the miserliness of spirit that can’t handle something being dedicated, if not devoted, to women. Women are discriminated by still, even in the most ‘civil’ of environments, and in many other environments they are more vulnerable than men. Of course bad things happen to men, and of course that is wrong too. That isn’t denied by acknowledging women can be systematically mistreated. And by focusing on how to improve women’s participation in the public sphere we will not be forgetting all the many others disenfranchised by race or wealth or health or species whatever – I’m sure those issues will keep for future action. I myself will soon be campaigning for world guinea pig literacy, an area much overlooked by even the most liberal States.
I don’t have many ideas on the topic but I expect good things to do would be to actively encourage women to blog and to try and create or maintain an environment in which they feel it’s worthwhile [while carefully remembering that other groups of society are also disadvantaged and may suffer like, or in other ways, than women]. Both sexes of the species seem to benefit from cross-gender participation in social discourse. At least that was Mill’s argument and I can’t think of many examples to the contrary. After all, it’s not like women are a numerical minority so why should their collective voice be? I guess that requires more willingness from women, and a more active intolerance of arseholeness from men. And perhaps those still learning to be men should also think about how misogyny really just makes them look weak and sad.
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But their track record on a) competence and b) getting all participants to not blab and finger-point has been pretty dismal
i think that very much depends on the fields of operation in question.
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good topic TMM and nice to see you posting again.
i read your and Span's stuff often and will starting reading Maia.
I agree that 1) there needs to be more women writing here and elsewhere and 2) women often get a harder time of it. i would like to see that change.i also tend to go along with the others who say they read and comment here because the tone is vastly civil compared to some. i look at kiwibog once in a while and i can understand why women and other sane people are put off. just commenting on there would give me the shits.
i've also received death threats over the years and they totally suck in so many ways, regardless of gender (that very neato genie says i'm a girl). you are right to never respond to them publicly, but always report them, even if its only to help build a pattern against the person doing it. nobody should put up with that shit.
anyway, please keep posting - you do great work.
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but really conspiracy theories aside, science and existing fact on the matter to the fore, there are many aspects of 9/11 that don't add up.
it's not surprising that many aspects of such a momentous event are not released to the public (i expect there was lots about Pearl Harbour that was suppressed for a long time if not for ever), which will in itself make for inconsistencies and irregularities.
but going on its track record the current administration also seems capable of fairly extreme and alarming disregard for conventional ethics. -
le Tigre's 'My Metrocard' sums up Giulliani in qute catchily.
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still head and shoulders above any other right-wing NZ politics site
i've been wonderiing about this.
would PAers agree kiwiblog is the best quality rightwing pol blog site? -
eeeek
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their little faces kind've crunch up with effort
yes exactly, it's amazing how sometimes with kids you can almost see the effort of the cogs whirring around.
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m....?
you haven't ascended have you?