Posts by Jolisa
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So proud that I wrote that whole thing without using the words "won't someone think of the children."
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(do there really have to be light sabers?)
I have two instant volunteers for the honour guard, if so.
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Am just thinking of a friend in San Francisco who has gotten engaged to her (FTM) bidie-in. This will be not just a gay wedding but a thoroughly queer one. I'm not sure exactly how many penises there will be on the day (it would be impolite to pry) but there will certainly be an acceptably normative amount of facial hair on the partner in the penguin suit, and my gal will be gorgeous in a dress.
A conservative type would notice nothing whatsoever amiss at the altar. Ha.
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The word I like best was gifted to me by a twinkly Scottish professor: "bidie-in". He, like me, was highly sceptical of the intrusion of the state into matters of the heart.
Shortly thereafter, I went ahead and contracted a marriage of inconvenience with my bidie-in. In the circles we moved in at the time, it was by far the kinkiest thing we could have done, so we mostly kept it on the down-low.
Except there was the one night I let slip to a classmate, as we were having dinner in one of the handful of restaurants in our tiny college town. He pushed his chair back from the table and bellowed "You're MARRIED?!"
Silence fell, heads turned, ears pricked up, cutlery hovered above plates; we continued amiably devouring the pad thai and talking literary theory...
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There are people who are unhappy because they are not legally allowed to marry, and I don't think "oh come on, marriage sucks anyway" is an adequate response to that.
That's true, and then there's Devin and Glenn...
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There's some full and frank feedback (from both ends of the spectrum of awesome) on Ben's blog, in response to his brief note of thanks.
This whole thing is making me think that Malcolm Gladwell is completely wrong about twitter/facebook and social activism. The lunch counter sit-ins worked precisely because they grew out of social networks; if the participants had had electronic media to augment their communications, they'd have used them without a second thought.
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Goff says it was "Paul Henry being Paul Henry"; but TVNZ said it was Paul Henry being me, and you, and everyone we know.
They're wrong that he just says what "everyone" is thinking, unless by "everyone" they mean the minority racist underbelly of NZ.
But they're right in the sense that he is the early morning televisual "face" of New Zealand's state broadcaster.
Which is precisely why he should be handed his arse on a plate for breakfast, along with the address of the nearest dole office.
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Yep. To be even more accurate, a switch-and-bait "apology."
And note how he invokes his alleged heritage not to demonstrate empathy or anything, but just to be a dick.
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Ben's not the flouncy type
Gemma and I did our best, really we did. But he's crap at flouncing. Totally flounce-deaf. Two left flouncey feet. Couldn't flounce if his life depended on it. Oh, the shame.
(On the other hand, he is brilliant, kind, analytical, pragmatic, insatiably curious, and dedicated -- dogged, almost to a fault. Also, majestically sweary, funny, and principled as all get-out.)