Posts by Emma Hart
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Deborah,
I don't think that's entirely fair, Deborah, when Max has said:
And celebrating all that is good about chocolate won’t stop us from working to improve or eliminate bad chocolate, or acknowledging that for some people, chocolate will never interest them or will be at most a mildly pleasant occasional experience.
That some people can make judgements about chocolate on the basis of a few samples and then later discover that there are different chocolates that entirely change your view on the matter is a simple fact. I know because it happened to me. And we've talked in that post of Tallulah's about how long some perfectly sexual people have gone without orgasm because of the nature or quality of their chocolate.
Dumping the metaphor for a moment, I don't think openly acknowledging the experiences and rights of asexuals and people with low sex drive should stop us from also acknowledging that for some people the sexual experience can be improved. And for people whose main sexual drive is not straight-vanilla, that's incredibly important.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to recordari,
Wham!bulance is now my word of the year.
Seriously, picture it. The siren is "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go".
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to recordari,
Your typo is literally killing me. That is all.
Literally?! You want we should call you a Wham!bulance?
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Islander,
To say I LOVE chili chocolate is something of an understatement...
Yay, we have something in common! I'm a total sucker for Schoc's chili and lime chocolate.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
God. It'd be so tempting. I don't know how anyone resists, really.
"ninety-eight, ninety-nine, glockenspeil..."
I'm sure if I had the motivation I could break the association but it really doesn't limit my food very much at all.
See, now I have to sternly remind myself to resist the temptation to take Bart in hand and try to help him recover the joys of chocolate, maybe introduce him to a few that smell and taste strongly of ginger or chili or curry (not kidding)... And I am reminding myself that it's okay to not like chocolate, for any reason, and we can always find other things to eat.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to BenWilson,
I bet there was real experience backing that one.
I cheated. That one's PJ O'Rourke. Doesn't nullify your point, though.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to BenWilson,
Yes, I can see an ancient Bhatnagar passing judgment on loud drumming disturbing the elderly, following by a youthful exodus from his clan.
"Practice proper crop rotation! Don't let disabled people in the temple! Bunnies are the Devil's work! Don't stick your genitals into anything you're not absolutely sure they'll come back out of!"
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
That is a thing of beauty and wonder.
I will be eternally grateful to Max for that.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to George Darroch,
If we (the non-religious) understand the function of religions as primarily a form of social organisation, then the proscriptions on who you mash your genitals with make a lot more sense.
This. I like to think of Leviticus as basically a set of council by-laws.
but, basically, chocolate. Mmm, chocolate.
*dies* Have we linked to the chocolate manifesto here before?
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to James Butler,
falls below my 3dB line, as it were
James, I really do want to thank you for this, it's going to be a Thing now.