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From an Out interview re: slash fanfiction.

In Nasa/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America, academic Constance Penley asks the obvious question: Why are women fans so alienated from their own bodies that they can write erotic fantasies only in relation to a non-female body? She surmises that perhaps men’s bodies are simply easier to fantasize with because they aren’t the legal, moral, religious battleground that women’s bodies are.

While I know organic sexual preferences are neither elective nor politically motivated, I couldn’t help but feel, as a heterosexual female, that there was something self-assassinating and a little bit politically disturbing about the M/M fiction I read.


I haven't read Penley's work before, and am not clear why this should be the direction the journalist takes this article.

But I have to ask... does anyone ask a straight man why he's so alienated from his body if he gets off on f/f porn? REALLY?


Once again, main-stream media makes fandom look stupid.

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Because it's been pretty wretched.

My day got completely fucked when the sample elevator for the gamma radiation source got stuck. One experiment completely ruined, three more down the drain if it's not fixed by Tuesday. Which, what repair company is going to mess with engine parts that are down inside a cesium source? NRGH.

So I rearranged things, and I spent an hour discussing experiments with my boss before he left (for a two-week trip to France), and I'm trying to figure out this stupid cell/colony sorting software that is NOT intuitively obvious and came with a manual written by someone who is a software engineer, not a scientific end-user (re: not user-friendly), getting more and more frustrated that each time I ran the same data file I got different answers.

I finally shut things down and headed out to the train platform, only to get stuck in the rain. Without an umbrella. Awesome.

You know, I still don't understand: storms like this happen in Houston all the time, but people STILL don't know how to drive in them. ?

WHY YES, IT'S AN EXCELLENT IDEA TO GO FROM 65 MPH TO 25 MPH WITH NO WARNING BECAUSE OF SOME RAIN. REALLY. AND TO DRIVE AT TWILIGHT IN MISTY RAIN WITHOUT HEADLIGHTS. VERY SAFE.

So I was in a FINE mood by the time I got home.

But. My copy of War was here when I arrived. ( And the internets gave me this. )

I am ordering a pizza so I don't have to cook, and I'm opening some wine or some cider. A lot of wine and/or cider.

Next week is going to be better, right? RIGHT.

Laurell K. Hamilton, author of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter books, has her own thoughts on the Twilight phenomenon. “Stephenie Meyer has come and she’s taken the genre that I sort of pioneered.[...]"

Um. Seriously? She pioneered? Because Le Fanu didn't create Carmilla, a seductive creature of the night, back in the mid-19th century? Obviously Stoker's Dracula was not an influence either. Or Coleridge's Geraldine, who was likely the basis for Carmilla.

And let's not acknowledge Stephen King's Salem's Lot or Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles.

Let's not point out that Hamilton's grasp of plot, grammar, syntax, and logic are utterly nonexistent.

Uh-huh. Obviously, she created the vampire/supernatural creature genre of literature. OBVSLY.

How can she see around her monstrously huge ego?

This story is touching, really it is. But you know? I find it EXTREMELY disturbing that Verizon can retrieve a "deleted" voicemail message from three years ago from their archive.

Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm just paranoid. But I don't want my voice mails and calls in an archive for years. I'd rather they were deleted when I pressed the # button and deleted them from my phone.

I especially don't want them in an archive for a carrier that might very well be the one with a Quantico circuit set up WITHOUT A SEARCH WARRANT to give the US government access to ALL of their customers' voice, text, and internet usage data.

That is a violation of privacy. It is a violation of the Constitution. Where's my right to not be unlawfully searched and seized?

I don't care how many Signing Statements the Shrub signs, I don't care if people think it's OK to give up privacy to catch "terrorists". How many have been caught, tried, and convicted, I ask?

It is WRONG, and I'm so tired of being made to feel like I'm being "unpatriotic" and "leftist liberal" and "Communist" (all things I've been called by friends and colleagues) when I object.

And if I hear "Well, if you're not doing anything wrong you shouldn't have anything to worry about or hide" ONE MORE TIME, I'll scream. That is not the point.

( Are we all children here, with no common sense? )

And OK, internet users behaving badly, listen up. Saying things in comments that you wouldn't say in real life? Not on. I'm not sure why people think it's OK to be rude behind a layer of anonymity, but apparently that sort of thought is widespread.

( Spoilers for SPN S3 gossip and S2 finale )