Exactly what are white US Americans complaining about again?
Okay, I'm starting a series of accidental erotica posts - send in your candidates, a few sentences or so that, removed from its original context, sound much dirtier than they were intended.
The post inspiring this series was not entirely accidental - it was rewritten by me to emphasize the sexual assumptions to a comic degree, though it originally came from something a friend read that might qualify.
Was Pat Parker every bit the poet (and sex machine) she's been reputed to have been?
Yes. Yes she was.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/15/credit-due/
Celebrating Loving v Virginia a couple days late, why not read a bit about the journey Mildred & Richard took on their way to establishing racial marriage equality in the US?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/14/loving-day/
I love the Purr generator, thank you! Do you know who created it? Was that you?
This morning's #tea:
Nepali Oolong. And you thought that oolong was a coastal tea? For shame.
Is Bo of the original TV "Dukes of Hazard" the most oppressed man in America? Probably not. But he sure thinks the system is rigged against conservative white men. Why, to hear him tell it, when he had to spend 5 hours in jail recently, they didn't even give him privileged treatment! Seriously!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/13/dukes-of-hazard-persecution/
Today's afternoon #tea? Raw pu-erh from Yunnan.
Rudy Giuliani (with apologies to international readers who are tired of US Drama):
"If you’re involved in a sort of slimy business, (that) says something about you — says something about how far you’ll go to make money"
Um. Yeah.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/07/giuliani-on-respect-and-credibility/
Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons:
A short bit on how the beauty of the art we create can tell us when we are getting things right, with an intro discussing Leonard Cohen (who wrote the lyric above) and a conclusion introducing Ruby Etc. to those unfamiliar with one of the best comics ever to address depression and anxiety in an ongoing way.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/06/guided-by-the-beauty/
Well, Aaron Persky's recall election may be decided by the time you read this,
but it's worth understanding why he's being thrown off the bench (hopefully)
and why his argument that his opponents are calling for judicial decisions be made according to media coverage is not merely a straw man,
but hides the fact that he unethically called for Brock Turner's sentence to be reduced because of media coverage in the first place.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/04/aaron-persky-the-real-victim/
Cyberpunk was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.
Why don't victims report rapes? Well, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg PD's refusal to take a report from a woman who was roofied but not raped probably provides some insight:
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/02/why-dont-victims-report-rape-11-8/
Today's afternoon #tea:
http://thejasminepearl.com/golden-nugget-ripe-puerh-brick/
Red as *Sequoia sempervirens*, smooth as cream.
The right-wing has been no-platforming at Stanford, and in clearly unethical ways. Niall Fergusson, prominent republican known for saying some really crappy things, has now been forced to resign from a campus organization that invited and promoted speakers because of his behavior.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/01/right-wing-no-platforming/
Do not have sex with a man as you would have sex with a woman.
Also, do not have sex with a man as you would have sex with someone of any other gender. Or any other man, really.
Your sex partners are individuals, people: don’t generalize from gender to anything about your sexual relationships and how they are or should be, especially not consent.
Want a place to start reading Pervert Justice? One of my best pieces is on the One Drop Rule from the perspective of slaves and free Black residents of the US instead of the perspective of slave owners and segregationists.
If you want to understand why white pride is fundamentally different from Black pride, you can try on this perspective:
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2017/04/13/the-one-drop-rule/
Switzerland's private money managers are giving money to people who kill their spouses because Swiss law doesn't require central reporting of domestic violence killings. An RTS article cites pension funds, but the problem exists with insurance companies and some banks as well.
Capitalism vs. Socialism is an old fight, but curiously Al Jazeera doesn't see it as particularly relevant to Venezuela's ongoing troubles, at least on the national level. Instead, they believe that certain aspects of Venezuelan culture combine badly with an economy founded on a single, internationally-traded commodity (oil).
I try to draw a bit of insight from their lengthy analysis in my most recent post:
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/05/31/venezuela-just-fucked/