This argument in lots of comments over the claim the Clintons and their henchers aren't REALLY racists, they're just ACTING racist in order to win the votes of "real" racists seems like the essence of Distinction Sans Difference to me. It's a bit of a triggering claim, actually; it reminds me of people I knew in college, guys mostly, who would be ( Read more... )

--A tall, complex building with many levels reaching into the sky, floors connected by staircases and ramps and elevators, not all the floors the same length or distance from each other, full of atriums and extended wings and split-levels and mezzanines, not quite an Escher design but feeling like it sometimes if you look up or down - and none of ( Read more... )

Firstly, let's get something clear:

Victim-criticizing !-- Victim-blaming.

This is important, because the conflation is being used by the Blessed Nicemakers to shut down discussions of societal problems and how the colonized mind collaborates in its own oppression, and it's not just faux-charity being used to camouflage stop making me ( Read more... )

In which everything which was implicit in the preceding story is made explicit, mostly in words of one syllable (and those of four letters)First, before our main feature, an old fashioned "short ( Read more... )

In the last entry, we saw how Ellison managed to cram in just about every single nasty stereotype of women from antiquity into under five pages, along with enough self-flattery to choke even Lee Siegel (well, that may be an exaggeration.) Seriously, we've got that 1) women are vain, 2) shallow, 3) materialistic, 4) fickle, 5) bullying, 6) gullible ( Read more... )

How Adrian Brody molested Halle Berry at the 2003 Oscars and got away with it, from Men Can Stop Rape; I don't watch TV and didn't even hear about this, so unimportant a scandal was it compared to, say, Bjork's costume faux pas, until someone mentioned it in the ongoing multi-blog Ellison-vs-Willis discussion. So I googled it, and WTF? But just ( Read more... )

that what Harlan Ellison did was a sex-as-power domination ploy motivated by longstanding resentment of Connie Willis both as a Pack Rival and an Uppity Wench, (doubt remaining by main force, despite all the reports of Willis' anger and strained relationship of long duration) then this should finally disperse it, coming straight from the horse's ( Read more... )

First, open up the new, keyed jpegs - Male and Female Evolver poses, so you can refer back and forth to the illustrations and the text. ( Ready? )

Neva Chonin says in few words what some of us have struggled to articulate in many:

In last week's column, I suggested that, in today's cult of the leer, "girls have actually grown tamer rather than wilder. Sure, they flash their breasts more readily, just like monkeys perform tricks for peanuts at the San Francisco Zoo. But neither act symbolizes ( Read more... )