Getting Their Education Off to a Good Start

To help get their extracurricular education off to a good start, I posted this flyer (cut in two obviously) on all the big kiosks on the Penn campus for the benefit of the new arrivals. I made it from a screenshot of the movie's home page.

1 Nazi + 10 People = ?

When one Nazi is in a room with ten people, what do you have?

You have one Nazi and ten people who understand Robert Jay Lifton's concept of milieu control well enough not to do the Nazi cult's work for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milieu_control

Who's Helping the Alt-Right?

In the battles over Internet censorship, who's actually helping the alt-right? It might be a good idea to see what the alt-right themselves think. It's pretty plain from this screenshot:

Thanks to PSA Sitch for the video I took that from, where he analyzes the matter in some depth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHaN1DS0KWU

Quote of the Month

 Unmutilated, unrepressed sex in itself does not do any harm to anyone. This not only should be stated without qualification but also should imbue the logic of legislation and its application.

  -- Theodor W. Adorno, “Sexual taboos and the law today” (1963)

"Why Does It Have to Be Versus," Asks the Pot of the Kettle

A slightly edited comment by Tube Torpedo on the video “8 December 2016: Cassie Jaye interviewed by Emma Barnett (BBC Radio 5 Live)” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4csMxQJxGIQ

I quite accidentally stumbled upon a petition where all the major feminist organizations in my country had signed a goal to PREVENT any public funding to a study whose purpose was to study male victims of domestic violence. "Because over 90% victims are women and we have no need to use our common resources to fund something so trivial it's better to use every penny we have towards those 'real' victims" and not spend it on those trivialities. That was pretty much the narrative and reasoning behind the petition. And I was wait a minute. Even if there might be less victims in total it's not like they’re less important and the other goal was partly to map out the problem anyway because there had been several studies about female victims but not so much about male ones. Thought in my mind was what on earth has this to do with women's rights and feminism if some individual study happens to get funding or not?   It's a pretty petty and weird thing to have a petition against especially when behind it was major women's organizations and several women's organization/wings that are part of local political parties. How come this study is so special there are most likely plenty of more trivial studies anyway. It's not like the information could not still be useful especially from the victims’ standpoint, be those victims men or women, what does that have to do with anything. And it's not like we have to just handle one issue at the time until it's "solved" because most of the bigger issues are most likely unsolvable in their entirety anyway. Yeah, let’s not use any resources on abuse and assaults before all the murders have been solved.

And after that event I started to pay more attention to the reality in gender politics and it was quite different what I previously thought it was. And it was more in line with what somebody like Erin Pizzey has told when I many years later happened to stumble upon her. It's not that there is a need to make this a versus question, but what seems to be happening is that feminist organizations are actively opposing things like shared parenting or like this film about men’s rights. Or like in that petition I happened to walk into. Or opposing the more equal legislation and supporting structures that can see women as perpetrators too in cases of domestic violence or what is interpreted as a rape. Or when some men’s group wants to have a lecture about some issues and there are feminist protesters pulling fire alarms and shouting and organizing demonstrations so that those events could not even take place. Yup. Why does it have to be versus. In this case maybe ask those feminists about that...

Today I added to my song repertoire by memorizing one of my longstanding favorites, Matthew Sweet's "Sick of Myself."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNfocDNZWY8

In the past week and a half I've composed two new kinky song parodies, for a total of four. I'll perform them over the next couple months' Erotic Literary Salons. (The previous two I did at the March salon, the first one at which I read.)