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[caligryphy]

It's nice to know I can still be good and morally outraged.

It's like working a muscle group you'd only been giving a light stretch. Stings a bit, but it's great to know you've still got it.

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[caligryphy]

Maybe I've got a disconnect thing going on (especially where certain political issues are concerned). I've got up to 'mildly amped' once or twice in the last couple of years, but not good and angry--that great, righteous anger that comes so rarely.

[caligryphy]

I don't really want to get wanky, so I'll keep things frustratingly vague. (Sorry--I love all y'all, and don't feel up to arguing again.) It had to do with religion and sexuality and gender. It was a very long and very detailed--suspiciously detailed--diatribe that I pretty much found hateful on every level except... No, no--it was pretty much hateful on every level. (And it was the kind of speech designed to try and impress the other poets in the room--gag me.)

To blow one's stack--not a phrase I often use, but appropriate for my reaction. I hadn't had that sort of response in a long time. Shocked the heck out of me.

[caligryphy]

Sorry, I was half-asleep, here. We were at a 'gathering' at a friend's house. Lots of folks from the writing program (even those of us who were only Minors) attended. Friend of mine (maybe not anymore) was shooting off something awful at the mouth.

[cordelia_v]

Usually I am very wary about drawing conclusions about a writers' personality from her stories. But having read all your hp fics . . . no, I never doubted for a second that you'd be capable of moral outrage.

Your characters generally do have an internal moral compass of sorts. And I don't think you could convey that, if you didn't possess one, yourself.

Still, it's an emotion to indulge in only occasionally, in my case. It's exhausting, on a regular basis, I find.

[caligryphy]

It's a screwed-up compass--you couldn't find your way out of a jungle with it, but sometimes I think I've become so 'meh' about life that it might not be there anymore, you know? It's good to know it is. (Even if, in hindsight, I probably didn't convince anyone of anything and just made myself look like a jerk.)

It's a thing to indulge in only occasionally in just about every case (some people get back in line for extra helpings, I think). Besides, I could be doing more constructive things (like reading Mountie slash).

[aubergineautumn]

It's not so bad...maybe you made someone think. People change their viewpoint gradually & not always in entirety. For example, I thoroughly support a positive gay community...but don't support gay men who are married (as opposed to the Christian Right, who are all for gay men suppressing their sexuality & giving some poor woman not only a complex about herself, but a half hearted rendition of the marriage act itself)...I support women's liberation...but am thoroughly outraged at women who make a spectacle of themselves by breast feeding in public...so, it takes all kinds...sometimes, it's good to know where you stand...especially in today's political arena, which is like a great big magnet sitting on America's moral compass...frankly, I am surprised that anyone cares about anything after Bush's tenure...it has wrung me out to the point where I don't think the little people can change anything, even by voting...they will just miscount their way to the result they desire. How jaded is it to look at the polls that indicate rising concern

breastfeeding

[tetsubinatu]

Perhaps you could reconsider the whole breastfeeding thing?
1) babies have to eat
2) breastfeeding is the healthiest way for them to eat, when possible
3) where do you want them to eat? Toilets (ewwww!)
4) babies take a LONG time to eat, and they eat freqently. Mums are going to get bored out of their gourds if they can't go anywhere without spending hours locked in purdah in toilets, curtained cubicles etc. This may sound trivial to you, but if so you have never had to spend hours locked in toilets, cubicles etc alone with a hungry baby - or worse still, with a bored toddler AND a hungry baby.
5) breasts should not be fetishised out of their actual function which IS feeding. The whole sex thing is a SECONDARY sexual characteristic. Just get over it.

[foofee25]

Well, um, this is utterly unrelated but... The Fourth Year icons. Whee!