Interesting Links for 02-05-2012

[andrewducker]

• MPs announce that Rupert Murdoch is not a fit person to run News Corp
  (tags: media news RupertMurdoch uk )
• The EU's Common Agricultural Policy is slowly being reformed.
  (tags: agriculture europe law money )
• Unrealistic expectations of relationships are a scourge on society.
  (tags: relationships family society uk )
• How Marvel took The

Comments

[bart_calendar]

What really sucks is that lots of rapists in the BDSM community have no idea at all that they are rapists. There isn't a lot of education out there about what is OK at a scene or a munch and some guys mistake being a dom and having a sub available means that they can do anything. Sometimes you meet newbies who have never even heard the term 'safe word."

If the people running scenes were more active in educating the people - particularly newbie dom men - who are invited it would probably cut down on a lot of sexual assault.

[nancylebov]

It would help some, but there's a point where education has to be translated into taking claims that consent was ignored seriously.

[bart_calendar]

I totally agree.

But that's a much more difficult proposition.

Education within the community, particularly for newbies, would cut down on nonconsent issues very quickly. Once you had that issue dealth with you then you could work on the the long term issues of weeding out bad doms and empowering subs

[a_pawson]

It's similar to that TV Episodes site, but I've been using MyEpisodes.com for the past few years and find it very useful.

[andrewducker]

The thing I particularly like about this one is that it produces an ICS feed that I then import into Google Calendar, so when I check my calendar each day it tells me what's ready to watch.

[naath]

I'm not sure why a US-based TV-listings site is interesting... (lots of UK folks have linked it, US people linking it makes more sense).

I'm sick of supposedly serious journalists claiming that marriage is superior to non-married cohabiting. Really fucking sick. I think they have the correlation the wrong way around on the break-up stats; but I also really don't fucking care - if your relationship sucks you should end it, and doing so shouldn't be something that draws social ostracisation.

[andrewducker]

The majority of the TV I watch is made in the USA. About the only UK TV I've watched recently is Dr Who, and the site has that.

[naath]

Sure, I watch US TV too... but I don't find knowing when it's going to be on in the US very useful.

[andrewducker]

Aaah. I do, as it tells me when it will be available for downloading (Game Of Thrones airs at 9PM in the US, which is 2am in the UK, which means it's available to download by the time I wake up).

[cartesiandaemon]

"Unrealistic expectations of relationships are a scourge on society."

Yeah. I wonder what would happen if we had fewer stories about "our eyes met across a crowded room" and more about "and then we put in a lot of effort to understand what made each other happy, and as a reward, it worked really well"... :)

[naath]

See, that's a really nice message. But the way it was written made me too angry to get to that part... stupid story.

[cartesiandaemon]

Oh no, I think the story was entirely "Baron so-and-so says MARRIAGE GOOD!" The idea that realistic expectations may be more useful that legally forcing everyone into unsuitable marriages I interpreted to be Andrew's gloss :)

[andrewducker]

Well, in the actual words he uses, he references relationships along with marriages the majority of the time.

[cartesiandaemon]

"How Marvel took The Avengers from a throwaway reference in Iron Man to a record-breaking movie"

Oh, that's awesome, I hadn't realised it had been such an ad hoc opportunity, but I'm really impressed that they did manage to assemble a bunch of films that work individually, but aren't wasted if they don't manage to culminate in one super-film.