I hate April Fools.

I'm sure that it has a social function in strengthening and reinstating institutions, namely that of truth-telling, by allowing people to lie and trick others to their heart's content for one day only. It's big old switcheroo that through the act of reversal establishes social boundaries. Like the Carnival or Saturnalia or the ( Read more... )

From rivendellrose : The meme rules:

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick four of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!


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They aired the Lord of the Rings trilogy on television over the Easter holidays. It wasn't the first time I'd seen the films, even though it took me a long time to get around to it the first time. And I never could get through the books. I got to the end of the Fellowship of the Ring once, and I got to the end of the first few pages of the Hobbit ( Read more... )

It's Equality Day today in Finland, and it serves as a reminder that different forms of oppression; racism, sexism, homophobia, classicism, ageism; they often serve to legitimize each other. It's taking on all systems that feed on the denigration of a person's human worth that we affect change in any one of them.

It's not okay to take your anger ( Read more... )

SUP is censoring most popular LJ interests. Because sex is bad, bad, bad.

Surprised? I know I'm not.

Stolen from rivendellrose :

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on yaoi, favorite type of ( Read more... )

LolJournal

The VP of PD of Livejournal trolling the journal of the founder. That's how we roll.

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I'd already started writing an entry for Women's Day about casual misogyny, and how it forms the foundation for the more heinous and blatant forms that still cripple even the most egalitarian societies on this here rock. But it got too depressing.

Women can't. Women always. Women have. Women need to. Women should. Fucking women. Women.

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Lots of spoiler-wank out there, today. But I'm loving the spoilers themselves:

Season Eight Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, 
The X-Files movie, pt. deux, 
Series Four Doctor Who

Did I mention spoilers? Nigh squee-worthy spoilers!