Adventures in Europe, Chapter 34: Too Many Monkeys!

[tacit]

The day after our nocturnal traipse around London's gristly but sadly amber-free sites-of-historic-horror-cum-tourist-attractions and equally livestock-free Tower Bridge, your humble scribe awoke and, after tea and eggs (marred only by the horrifying sight of seinneann_ceoil's flatmate digging into black pudding with gusto) travelled to the House of Joy, the

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[dicea]

I have enjoyed following this series of essays and photo logs very much. Thank you for creating and sharing them.

[hypnagogie]

seinneann_ceoil bought me a print of his "There Is Always Hope" piece, on account of 'cause it totally makes me cry.

Me, too. <3

[blazingrowan]

FAIL

To paraphrase something I read a while ago - Dawkins has said he feels a sense of visceral disgust upon seeing a woman in a burqa, much like the feeling I get when I see a white Oxonian man telling women that what they wear disgusts him.

How many people who wear the burqa have you spoken to? Do you think it's entirely about being stoned to death otherwise? This is rubbish, and I'm disappointed in you.

I am not defending the burqa or the systems involved. I know breathtakingly little about it, as do you. Any opinion either of us form should be based on the expert knowledge of women personally involved. Anything else is irrelevant.

Call yourself a feminist ally? The first thing allies do is *listen.*

[blazingrowan]

Meta: I don't hate you. I'm telling you off because I like and trust you. If this is something you'd like to have a discussion about, I'm willing to. (Know that I absolutely, utterly hate arguing, though. I only do so where it's important and I trust the people involved lots. It would also be entirely a meta argument :D as I say, it's not for either of us to comment on the burqa. Fyi, I won't be on LJ much til Monday: I'm not ignoring any responses you make.)

[tacit]

I don't have a sense of visceral disgust at the burqa, or for that matter any article of clothing with perhaps the exception of plaid golf pants

[bikil]

My favorite coffee mug that we have is for the London Underground. It, of course, says "Mind the gap" on one side and "London Underground" on the other. It makes me giggle whilst drinking my coffee in the morning (side note: I just realized that the mug may well be pissed @ me for putting coffee in it instead of tea, hmmm, or it may be VERY glad and tired of tea, so I guess one never knows).

I am also sad that we may never see Herbert again. I found the comic hilarious, sad, and angry-making @ the same time (which I think was the intent). Ah vell, such is life.

I've also really enjoyed your Adventures in Europe, thank you for all the wonderful sharing!

[shevabree]

Did you let the speaker know that he used your map? Because I just love how the internet make the world smaller. I used your map in a brief presentation I gave in an english class last semester ^.^

[tacit]

I did let her know! Didn't have much of a chance to talk to her afterward, though.

In an English class? Now I'm curious!

[shevabree]

It was part of our final. The final paper we wrote had to take on a social issue. I covered sex education. Then we had to give a presentation on the paper. So I focused on sex education in the cyber age. I talked about how parents needed to be aware of what was online. I used a friends child who got busted looking at porn after he'd done a search for Sonic the Hedgehog. I talked about this guy I met at DragonCon who seemed nice enough but like a month later was busted for texting explicit messsages to a 12 year old and trying to lure her into sex. Some of the resources I pointed out was an online slang dictionary and I pointed out your map.

I think my presentation got the most giggles *smirk*

[tacit]

Heh. That's actually kinda cool.

Well, about the materials, anyway. Not so much about the texting a 12-year-old or about Sonic the Hedgehog leading to porn. (That kid must be better with Google than I am; the raciest thing I can find when I do a search for Sonic the Hedgehog is a Web site called screwattack.com, which contrary to its rather titillating title is actually just a video game blogging site).