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rialian). N.C. Homeless Shelter Evicts Pregnant Woman, Three Sons: "The director of a homeless shelter says he was right to evict a 21-year-old pregnant woman and her three children after the woman violated one of the shelter's rules by allowing her children's uncle to visit in her room.
"We have to have order," said the Rev. Oliver S. Robinson, director of the Tabernacle of Faith Church Outreach Center...
Garland, eight months pregnant, began crying as she strapped her children into their car seats after loading the trunk of her car with belongings. She then left with Xavier, 1, Javonte, 3, and T'Keel, 5, still in their bedclothes....
"These people need tough love," Robinson said. "I don't feel comfortable with it. God don't get no pleasure punishing us. But he does it. Jesus would have done the same thing."
Once upon a time, I had a fleeting relationship with a person named Joyce. When it became clear to me that rather than being interested in human emancipation, she was more concerned with imposing her moral code on others, I called off the affair. Her reaction was to launch a public campaign against my defence of sexual expression and my suppport for the legal rights and working conditions of those in the sex/erotica industry. Recently I've discovered that an article written at the time (mostly about how I defend such morally objectionable ideas as human beings controlling their own body and workers having legal protection) has made it's way into Spinefix Press' Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography. My reputation improves even further!
On a sort of related note (because sensuality and style are related), designing James Nicholsons' website is proving a little more difficult that previously expected. Not due to the size or style of the website in questions, but because I'm working with a rather scattered collection of raw material, unscanned without proper documentation or temporal order. Of course, this shouldn't be surprising when dealing with a person who was the Australian Apprentice of the Year, an WA Government Sponsor for the Arts etc. More good news is that I'm conducting IT training for both James and friends and for Borderlands in the next two months.
Almost forgot. Sage Advice, the journal of SAGE-AU came out last week with two articles by yours truly; the interview with Richard Stallman and the article on webdesign standards.
Did the xmas thing withseverina_242 and her family which was a pretty mundane affair, rather than being a day of horror which I'd been led to believe. severina_242 gave me "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" and caseopaya gave a flash looking filofax. I'll accept both as early birthday presents, 'kay? On a related note, a nice crate of wine is heading my way courtesy of money spent by my credit card over the past year or so.
The death toll keeps climbing from the tsunami. Early reports were around the 10,000 fatality mark, now we're looking at 80,000 or more. Next steps in the disaster will undoubtably be disease through lack of fresh water and then... then the mosquitos will breed, bringing dengue and malaria. I'm more than half tempted to ring up an aid agency and volunteer my Herculean energies, my sheer bloody mindedness and my modicum of technical skills.
Isn't that US election over? Then why is Kerry preparing grounds to unconcede?.
Boom-crash. That's how the real estate cycle goes when you treat land as a commodity. "The shake-out is going to be sudden and harsh." No shit, sherlock.
Amusing brainbreaker of the week goes toreddragdiva.
LARPing leads to furrydom!; "I don't know how people made interesting characters before templates and prestige classes"
rialian). N.C. Homeless Shelter Evicts Pregnant Woman, Three Sons: "The director of a homeless shelter says he was right to evict a 21-year-old pregnant woman and her three children after the woman violated one of the shelter's rules by allowing her children's uncle to visit in her room."We have to have order," said the Rev. Oliver S. Robinson, director of the Tabernacle of Faith Church Outreach Center...
Garland, eight months pregnant, began crying as she strapped her children into their car seats after loading the trunk of her car with belongings. She then left with Xavier, 1, Javonte, 3, and T'Keel, 5, still in their bedclothes....
"These people need tough love," Robinson said. "I don't feel comfortable with it. God don't get no pleasure punishing us. But he does it. Jesus would have done the same thing."
Once upon a time, I had a fleeting relationship with a person named Joyce. When it became clear to me that rather than being interested in human emancipation, she was more concerned with imposing her moral code on others, I called off the affair. Her reaction was to launch a public campaign against my defence of sexual expression and my suppport for the legal rights and working conditions of those in the sex/erotica industry. Recently I've discovered that an article written at the time (mostly about how I defend such morally objectionable ideas as human beings controlling their own body and workers having legal protection) has made it's way into Spinefix Press' Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography. My reputation improves even further!
On a sort of related note (because sensuality and style are related), designing James Nicholsons' website is proving a little more difficult that previously expected. Not due to the size or style of the website in questions, but because I'm working with a rather scattered collection of raw material, unscanned without proper documentation or temporal order. Of course, this shouldn't be surprising when dealing with a person who was the Australian Apprentice of the Year, an WA Government Sponsor for the Arts etc. More good news is that I'm conducting IT training for both James and friends and for Borderlands in the next two months.
Almost forgot. Sage Advice, the journal of SAGE-AU came out last week with two articles by yours truly; the interview with Richard Stallman and the article on webdesign standards.
Did the xmas thing with
severina_242 and her family which was a pretty mundane affair, rather than being a day of horror which I'd been led to believe. severina_242 gave me "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" and caseopaya gave a flash looking filofax. I'll accept both as early birthday presents, 'kay? On a related note, a nice crate of wine is heading my way courtesy of money spent by my credit card over the past year or so.The death toll keeps climbing from the tsunami. Early reports were around the 10,000 fatality mark, now we're looking at 80,000 or more. Next steps in the disaster will undoubtably be disease through lack of fresh water and then... then the mosquitos will breed, bringing dengue and malaria. I'm more than half tempted to ring up an aid agency and volunteer my Herculean energies, my sheer bloody mindedness and my modicum of technical skills.
Isn't that US election over? Then why is Kerry preparing grounds to unconcede?.
Boom-crash. That's how the real estate cycle goes when you treat land as a commodity. "The shake-out is going to be sudden and harsh." No shit, sherlock.
Amusing brainbreaker of the week goes to
reddragdiva. LARPing leads to furrydom!; "I don't know how people made interesting characters before templates and prestige classes"
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Date: 2004-12-30 08:22 am (UTC)Amen to that, sister. I have read and participated in enough debates suggesting that political and economic rights are the important issue and not the imposition some sort of cryptic cultural-moral code.
Excusing my old fashioned ideas, but I seem to recall that feminism is about ensuring political equality, furthering the standing of women in the economy, and even individual autonomy (especially wrt reproductive choice).
People who oppose prostitution in that context are not opposing the trade as such, but the form under which it occurs - namely, slavery.
Indeed. Nevertheless, the authors of said text will demand that the circumstances of literal slavery are also requisite however in other sexual acts - and specifically heterosexual acts*. They also don't have much time for transvestites or transexuals either. Oh, and women who do sex work voluntarily are "gender traitors".
I think it's very important your point that where sex work is not legal human trafficking is rife. Theoretically I imagine that said authors would be at a complete loss to explain why - because they don't understand political economy.
I actually expected you to make the comments that you have. You strike me as a pretty practical-minded person whose direct experience with the most dispossessed in this world would put your ideas in opposition to the interpretations of so-called "radical" feminism.
"...heterosexuality functions more effectively than oppressive systems
such as apartheid or capitalism" (Shiela Jeffreys, Anticlimax)
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Date: 2004-12-30 05:06 pm (UTC)Anyway she has an uphill battle to turn most of us into lesbians!!! Better to live in the real world methinks.
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Date: 2004-12-31 02:26 am (UTC)Yeah, they co-authored the book together. They all live in two storey run-down terrace house in the southern end of Northcote.
After all, there can only be one true vanguard!
Anyway she has an uphill battle to turn most of us into lesbians!
Yeah, I've often wondered what's the point to fight what is obviously a impossible battle. Surely politics is about practical solutions to problems, not granstanding..
Maybe I'm wrong! After all, they sure attract a lot of attention.. And so did Pauline Hanson!