MRA History Lesson: Women have been getting a free-ride off the backs of men SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME

Re: languages. There are languages that are better and worse to sing in, which is how I judge. French, Latin, Hebrew= Good. Spanish= Okay. German and English= Not so good.

Although Yiddish is the best of all languages; everything sounds like an insult.

To all who have criticized my “that just doesn’t happen with non-kinky sexuality” statement, you are absolutely right. I phrased that all wrong. I was trying to make a point about kink (and societal biases against it), and ended up also making a point about non-kink sexuality (and society’s treatment of it) that a) I didn’t even intend to make and that b) is quite clearly incorrect.

Gotta be more careful with how I phrase stuff. My apologies.

Mdubz: You feel my pain. At least my 72% dark chocolate is kosher for Passover.

And if you think everything in Yiddish sounds like an insult, you should hear some Yiddish insults – there some truly inspired ones. (And if you have, then by all means please share! I always love learning new ones.)

@Marie: It is a lot of work. For us so far, it’s a lot of diapers and a lot of soiled clothes and a lot of bottles and a lot of waking up in the middle of the night.

But at least they still stay where we put ’em.

Falconer, they look so sweet! Is it a recent picture?

@tomBcat

I actually think I’m getting semi ‘fluent’ in spanish (fluent as in able to listen/ talk regularly, not fluent as in sounding like I speak it very well) but I’ve been learning it on and off for seven years. I want to learn another language, either Japanese or Arabic (ideally both) but it took so long for me to get decent at spanish I feel overwhelmed. Other than that though, the only things I can say that aren’t in english are in greek. I can say my name, and that I speak spanish and english 😉 I’m wondering how you keep the beginnings of 30 different languages separate in your mind…definitely not my forte.

I can ramble a lot about languages *blushes* they just interest me, but are so hard.

I don’t think there’s a technical difference between ze and zie, from what I’ve heard (which is mostly what people said here, so I’m not terribly reliable.) I think it’s just the spelling and maybe pronunciation.

“Maybe a public organ-orifice is an alcove in a train station where a pipe organ is installed so that buskers can entertain the public with organ music.”

This is an elegant explanation for an inelegant phrase. You win.

Wait, so Buttman wants to jail BDSM porn producers, but feminists are the anti-porn prudes?

@Freemage – ah, I wasn’t thinking of the courts or police, I thought you meant within relationships, that’s what had me confused. Thanks for explaining.

I have no idea how kink is seen here in Oz, whether there’s much of a scene or anything. I don’t socialise with anyone who’d know about it, and it certainly doesn’t find its way into the newspapers. I would like to think there wasn’t the extremely conservative, probably religious-based negativity about it that chunks of the US seem to have, but I suspect that basic Australian narrow-mindedness would make up for that.

Re the whole terminology thing – yes, it’s the implication of “we’re better” and what sounds like a sweeping dismissal of anything not-kinky-enough that bugs me. I’m not even wild about the term kink, if it comes to that, though it’s obviously not for me to choose other people’s terms. Kink is starting to sound less like self-definition than self-othering, if that makes any sense. It sounds like it’s saying there is something wrong or out of line about having different tastes in sex. I have a nasty feeling I’m speaking from a position of privilege (or passing privilege) here, and if that’s the case, I apologise for it. I do not feel at all mainstream heterosexual-vanilla-standard-whatever-that-is – in my relationship situation, I’m not – but neither am I in a position that’s going to have any repercussions (well, unless I had a brainfart and ended up working for some sort of church organisation … 😛 )

Marie – I never think you’re rambling, y’know. You always have something interesting or pointed or funny to say. So if that’s rambling, then ramble on!

TomBcat – “@kitteh It hasn’t won yet! And it better not try and fight me, I am a fucking godlike egyptian grave cat! #megalomania”

LOL! Epic battle, Blockquote Monster vs Fucking Godlike Egyptian Grave Cat! See it in Cinemascope!

Also internet hugs for being told to shut up or not feeling free to speak. Wrong, all wrong! And ditto to what everyone else said on that subject.

Falconer, your babies are beautiful in any light.

TomBcat, I have tried so hard to teach myself to read Amharic (or Ge’ez) but I’ve been defeated by the complicated alphabet. I remember once we had this little Ethiopian pamphlet that we convinced ourselves was something really valuable, and finally found a graduate student from Ethiopia to translate the title for us. Turned out it was a typewriter manual. 0_0

@tomBcat

Well, your english sounds fine to me 🙂 Sadly, even if you were speaking latin, french or italian here, I would not be able to tell how it sounded, since I think italian is the only one I’d have a chance of understanding.

…I feel like I’m fangirling over the concept of learning languages right now XD

@kittehs

Marie – I never think you’re rambling, y’know. You always have something interesting or pointed or funny to say. So if that’s rambling, then ramble on!

*blushes* Thanks 😀 I will keep up the rambling then 😉

Tiny baby hands are so cute.