Interesting Links for 01-08-2012

[andrewducker]

• Android is getting ready for multiple users. Yaaaaaay!
  (tags: android )
• Internet domain registrations reveal 8 possible titles for Hobbit 3
  (tags: TheHobbit movies internet )
• Man being tried for having pictures of fisting. A legal activity. For fuck's sake.
  (tags: sex UK police law )
• Failing at Geek Feminism
  (tags: feminism geeks )
• The many

Comments

[bart_calendar]

Just wait until the Crown Prosecution Office discovers Max Hardcore.

[gonzo21]

Or until some bright spark figures out that unprotected sex in a porn film setting is in itself an act likely to result in serious injury due to the risk of STDs. The end result of this path they have embarked upon is the banning of all pornography.

[bookzombie]

On the Good Guy Lucifer list, nice to see that I'm not the only one who thinks the wrong guy won in that song!

[alitheapipkin]

I love the first brain meme, I'm glad I'm not the only person who does that!

I really must read the rest of Lucifer at some point, I really enjoyed what I have read but then I broke up with my comics supplier ;)

[andrewducker]

If you can find a way of getting them from Edinburgh to Dundee and back...

[alitheapipkin]

Thanks for the offer, I guess we may be able to press Erin & Morag into being comics couriers, or maybe one of your lot visiting them :)

[marrog]

I suspect getting us to courier Lucifer would result in a bit of a wait between Andy giving us those comics and you getting said comics... *Grin*

[a_pawson]

(b) an act which results, or is likely to result, in serious injury to a person’s anus, breasts or genitals”

This is rather scary. If they are trying to prosecute someone for having images of fisting then surely caning, spanking and all manner of BDSM activities must be considered far more serious, and viewing just about every porn site on the internet will be considered illegal. Where will it end?

Failing at Geek Feminism

[cartesiandaemon]

If a hypothetical critiquer lived through the early waves of feminism, I've a lot of sympathy if they're frustrated that people are doing something "wrong". If you're trying to make emancipation, or gender equality, or whatever happen in the first place, you need some vehemence to get noticed at all and some of that will probably make people uncomfortable.

But nowadays I feel that if someone is saying "hey, you're doing 'being a woman' all wrong, you should do it exactly the way I'm familiar with and any other way is just wrong" they're probably not helping as much as they'd like to.

Re: Failing at Geek Feminism

[andrewducker]

Absolutely.

There is a tension between "Not telling women (or anyone else) how they should be behaving." and "Acknowledging that cultural norms will pressure people to behave a certain way, so people's choices will be less free than they think."

But the answer to this, for me, is to educate people about the norms and pressures so that they can see them, and make a more educated choice, not forbid them from making a choice just because the culture says it's a good one.

Re: Failing at Geek Feminism

[alitheapipkin]

Exactly this.
I will defend any woman's right to choose to wear high heels and make up (for example) and still be considered a feminist, I just want them to have thought about *why* they are doing it. I get very annoyed by people who seem to think feminism is about restricting women's choices, albeit in the different way, when to me it is all about expanding them.