Shits miscellany

[hirez]

There are semi-regular features here and in the Saturday Guardian Lit-Bit about books one can read again and again. The one that I always seem to forget, which is probably why I keep re-reading the thing, is 'The third policeman' by Flann O'Brien. I have no particular good excuse for forgetting it, other than the fact that it's a bit of an outlier

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[reddragdiva]

There's a reason my outlet is fake news.

Mind you, I am now following the US election. God help me.

[jendama]

[hirez]

Exactly so.

[kissmeforlonger]

Well, teenage girls DO often like pink spangly sparkly things. And so do some of us who are older.

I don't think a panic button is a bad idea in itself, and if it were an option I would seriously consider it because it sounds like it might actually be useful, the practicalities of furtling around in one's handbag at moments of panic aside. Why say that it's another reason to blame the woman for being raped as if that's a reason not to do it? Crying rape doesn't get people to come and help you so why bother, but on the other hand, if you don't, how can you prove you were really being raped?

Playing along with such doublethink isn't a solution to the problem. Some people will always believe the woman is in the wrong.

[hirez]

Hm. If the panic button turned the phone into a recording device that was spooling the data off to a store run by the mobile operator (as well?), I think I'd be inclined to call it a good thing.

It's just that tech fixes to social problems make me uncomfortable. They never seem to work out the way they were expected to.

I'm probably getting the words in the wrong order. Apologies.