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Dunedin had a stunning clear sunny day today. Although it didn't top 10 degrees. ;-)
I was in Glenfalloch Gardens in Portobello. That’s the harbour in the distance.
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When a victim waives her right to name suppression so she can help other victims speak out. And her character is assassinated for doing so. This is rape culture.
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Hard News: A wretched editorial, in reply to AndrewD,
she went public to point out the lack of respect victims have. She was then re victimised for being too young, too pretty, too naive and too political. She proved her point. It was an ugly week.
The response to feminist speech shows why the speech is necessary.
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Great column Craig, thank you.
I think if people mean "plunder, steal, appropriate, disrespect", etc, etc, they should use those words. English is so rich in alternatives.
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The severe shaking on 22 Feb 2011 lasted 12 seconds, only.
[ source (pdf)]
“[the paper covers] 6 damaging earthquakes, on
4 September and 26 December 2010, February 22, June 6 and two on June 13, 2011. Most notable of these was the 4 September event, at Ms7.1 and MM7 (MM as observed in the Christchurch CBD) and most intense was the 22 February event at Ms6.3 and MM9‐10 within the CBD.”“While the duration of strong shaking of each earthquake was short (around 10 to 15 seconds) the cumulative duration of strong shaking was over 60 seconds.”
(page 3 of the pdf has a fascinating chart of ground acceleration in February vs September).
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Hard News: Hope and Wire, in reply to Steve Barnes,
It is not as simple as that though. To some soldiers war is glorious, to others it is hell and to all but a few it is not the fighting that dominates the experience.
I've obviously failed to explain what Jolisa and I were discussing. It's about this (earthquake) experience being so extreme and so complex, and how it's a shared experience which can't easily be conveyed to those who haven't lived it.
Of course individual experiences vary. But as Creon and Emma and others have said, there's a core of common experience which brought Chch together.
And I'm really not hating on Preston or any of those involved with Hope and Wire. I'm trying to tease out why Chch people have responded the way we have.
And big ups to The Eastern. They are AWESOME.
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Hard News: Hope and Wire, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
So should Gaylene Preston have ever made any films that didn’t draw from her direct experience – because with one wave of the hand you’ve wiped out her entire career as a director and producer. Including, by the way, the straight documentaries she made about the Napier Earthquake, the experiences of women (including her mother) during the Second World War and survivors of breast cancer.
No Craig, that's not at all what I mean. This is not a documentary.
And of course people can write about things they haven't experienced. But here we have NZ's second-largest city, full of people ready and willing to tell our own stories. Some of us have. And a big kia ora to Russell for giving us the space here to do that.
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Hard News: Hope and Wire, in reply to Rob Stowell,
If people could or should only write of the own experience we’d have no fiction at all.
I guess a key point here is that Hope and Wire isn't quite fiction. It's a fictionalised reconstruction. Would it be much without the stock footage?
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Jolisa was talking the other night of novels about soldiers in wartime. Can non-soldiers understand enough to write about the experience of fighting? Should they?
[I'm not sure of the answer, but I think it's a fair analogy]
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Hard News: Hope and Wire, in reply to Sacha,
we really do not know how to feel. it makes us awkward. sorry
And that's a perfectly valid feeling, too! No apology needed.
And it's not that people outside of Chch can't understand, it's just that you haven't lived it. Same with any big emotional experience. It's a different kind of knowing.
