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Ambidancetrous: The Blog - “We don’t want to make people uncomfortable.” (aka, “What about teh menz?!”)
"Ultimately, some of the worry that some straight guys will be uncomfortable dancing with other men (or being led by a woman) may be justified." Het guys: you lost the oppression Olympics, so your comfort and consent about who touches you is less important than our plan to build a utopia through dance. PROBLEMATIC. Well, OK, that bit rubbed me up the wrong way. But seriously, I think an "ambidancetrous" dance scene would be less "problematic" if the expectations (and how they differ from pretty much every other scene) were made clear up front. What I expect would happen then is that if you insisted every lesson was ambidancetrous, you’d never get enough people to make a viable community. Maybe it’d work as an option within an established scene, though.
(tags: lindy consent gender feminism lindyhop dance) http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2013/march/1361848247/karen-hitchcock/fat-city A doctor writes about the difficulties of dealing with obesity: dealing with a social problem, and applying epidemiology to individuals. Via Metafilter.
(tags: food fat obesity medicine health) On the stupidity of asking, “but where’s the evidence we need evidence for things?” "it’s a mistake to think that if someone thinks maybe you should have some evidence for a particular thing you believe, they are therefore committed to a sweeping philosophical doctrine about needing evidence for absolutely everything."
(tags: evidence philosophy epistemology) Online Child Porn - What the Papers Aren’t Telling You. Could Google really block it? (Hint: no)
(tags: google porn filtering internet) Ukip Activist Marty Caine Provokes Fury by Branding Drummer Lee Rigby’s Family ‘Idiots’ - IBTimes UK Looks like the old "the EDL are the provisional wing of UKIP" joke is actually true.
(tags: edl lee-rigby islam racism ukip) Originally posted at Name and Nature. You can comment there. There are currently
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(tags: lindy consent gender feminism lindyhop dance) http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2013/march/1361848247/karen-hitchcock/fat-city A doctor writes about the difficulties of dealing with obesity: dealing with a social problem, and applying epidemiology to individuals. Via Metafilter.
(tags: food fat obesity medicine health) On the stupidity of asking, “but where’s the evidence we need evidence for things?” "it’s a mistake to think that if someone thinks maybe you should have some evidence for a particular thing you believe, they are therefore committed to a sweeping philosophical doctrine about needing evidence for absolutely everything."
(tags: evidence philosophy epistemology) Online Child Porn - What the Papers Aren’t Telling You. Could Google really block it? (Hint: no)
(tags: google porn filtering internet) Ukip Activist Marty Caine Provokes Fury by Branding Drummer Lee Rigby’s Family ‘Idiots’ - IBTimes UK Looks like the old "the EDL are the provisional wing of UKIP" joke is actually true.
(tags: edl lee-rigby islam racism ukip) Originally posted at Name and Nature. You can comment there. There are currently
comments.