Posts by Emma Hart
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I really hate the use of "witch" as term of abuse. It derives from wicca which means "wise". I have known practicing wiccans and they are all very nice people, and nothing like the vile nature supposed by your use of "witch".
I'll grit my teeth and hand-raise to this. I'm a practicing Wiccan.
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How about we just knock off the shitty name-calling, sexist or no? 'Witch' is hardly a detailed policy analysis, is it?
I'm tired of the pandering from both sides - Hilary knocking back the shots was right down there with Obama going bowling. Remember the episode of the West Wing that deals with whether or not the Hispanic Dem candidate should do the huntin' shootin' photo op? It just seems to be required in US politics. Pandering is expected, genuineness is not.
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As for dark eateries have you tried the Bicycle Thief in Christchurch? They should give you a white cane on entry.
Indeed. And Winniebago's and the Honeypot are nearly as bad. They're all low light, board floors and hard surfaces so sound bounces round like crazy. Is this just a Chch thing?
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Emma, isn't one of those Christchurch ones ground zero for the outbreak?
Indeed. Now you know where we tip the cows.
And holy crap, $28 for a chicken salad? Go to Hays, the food is good.
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There is a Texas Lone Star in Wellington. And it sucks.
There are two Lone Stars in Chch, and they suck too. The one at Church Corner replaced a Cobb and Co, which was... well, it was cheaper, catered to the kids, and wasn't full of people who'd spent an hour at the bar before going in to eat.
And what is it with making eateries both dark and loud? I'm probably going old-fogey-y, but I do like to be able to hear my dinner companions.
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Plz Mistuh Cullenz, can I haz mah Southerner back.
(also, if you could see fit to work out why in the new millennium we can't get a passenger train that can go faster than either the old Vulcan railcar or a steam JA-hauled passenger train)
Heat. Took the Southerner from Chch to Invercargill once. Because of heat expanding the tracks, we had something like a 30k speed limit. Longest trip of my life. Still, when it was running that train was my choice of transport home for the holidays. So much nicer than the bus.
My family did the Transalpine last year, it was choice.
My opposite-sex partner and I have a civil union. We had the choice. I should still have had the choice if my partner happened to be a woman.
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Star Trek Mk 1 was waaaaay sexist: they gave Uhura the spacecraft equivalent of a receptionist's job
They sorta tried. There was an episode where the script originally called for Uhura to be left in charge of the bridge while the away team got, I dunno, kidnapped or something. Paramount went apeshit and demanded it be rewritten.
Still, Turnabout Intruder? Where the woman swaps bodies with Kirk because she wants to be a captain and women can't be captains becaue they cry and their mascara runs and the wind blows up their skirts? Hugely sexist. Shatner, portraying being possessed by a woman, sort of minces around on the verge of tears a lot. Guilty pleasures.
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It breaks my heart everytime a man calls me "dude". It seems like he's saying that he thinks of me as a man, and my femaleness is being ignored, which is horrible.
Whereas I like it. To me it's friendly and inclusive and warm. How do you feel about 'guy', as in 'are you guys coming over on Sunday?'? Because I use that all the time in a non-gender-specific way. Usually because, when I'm talking to a group of friends, it will include both genders.
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Well, there's an argument that genre fiction is where you get those uncomfortable question under the radar in way 'mainstream' culture can't is precisely because it's marginalised as 'unrealistic' or 'lowbrow'.
Heh, where were you when I was trying to convince the English Dept that I could do my thesis on the development of Science-Fiction in Victorian England contrasted with France and the US in the same period? ("Science-Fiction. You mean... fiction abut science?")
While I'd never claim Isaac Asimov as a proto-feminist, back in the 40's Susan Calvin -- a rather formidable and misanthropic 'robopsychologist' who was more interested in her work than scoring a husband -- wasn't exactly your kitset space-bimbo.
I loved her so much when I was a teenager. Of course, now I want a kitset space-bimbo.
I find the thought of seeing Uhura in regulation mini-skirt and kinky boots again depressing enough.
So conflicted. Mini skirt and go-go boots = nomnomnomnom. Woman in position of authority constantly having to yank skirt over arse = do not want.
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What we always knew about Kirk & Spock.
I hadn't seen that particular one before. It was both funny and deeply disturbing.
Dear David,
I apologise sincerely for what I've done to your thread.