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the irregular quote of the day

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Aaron
on October 19, 2007
in culture, music and sex
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From angry mum, Earthpal: -

Spice Girl apologists are coming out with the usual tosh such as them being healthy role models for young girls and great ambassadors of girl-empowerment, blah, blah . . . but Girl Power was nothing but a massive marketing ploy aimed at young girls to get them to spend their hard-earned pocket money (and their parents money) on all the cheesy merchandise and those bloody awful records. And they did nothing for female empowerment except to commercialise thousands and thousands of young girls and give them hollow expectations of what life is about.

I don’t know how much the tickets are going to cost. No doubt the figures will reflect their exploitative greed (and that of their manager). But do you know what? If their reunion was in aid of a respectable charity I don’t think I’d have a problem paying but when it’s just to feed their fading ego’s and their bank balances, they can bloody well whistle for it. They failed abysmally as soloists and their only motive in this reunion is gratuitous greed and a sad effort to reclaim some of their long-lost celebrity status.

For the record, I really fucking loathe Victoria “Posh-spice” Beckham. Never has someone so uniquely talentless, been so successful. I love the fact David screws around with any bit of skirt he can get alone in a room, as Posh appears to me to be the most obnoxious and precious cow on the planet (apologies if this post comes across as somewhat misogynistic, but I guess if I really cared I’d change it).

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us government abstinence advert

Published
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Aaron
on October 19, 2007
in media, politics, religion, sex and usa
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via Oliver’s Blog de Nuit

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sex education, nintendo stylee

Published
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Aaron
on October 17, 2007
in sex and video
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via: Ariel Waldman

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is it safe yet to carry a manbag?

Published
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Aaron
on October 4, 2007
in culture, journal and sex
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Have you ever stopped to realise how much stuff you’re carrying around with you these days?

There was a day when all a guy carried was a few keys, some money, and maybe, if he was feeling particularly lucky, a rubber. Woman, always the carrier of useless tat, would of course have a handbag full of makeup, tissues, gloves, an address book, sanitary towels, and maybe, if she was feeling particularly lucky, some paracetamol. There used to be a definite division of the sexes.

Today, as with most things, the divisions are blurred. And the question on many people’s lips: is it now okay to carry a manbag?

Mr. Zhisou asked this very question back in January of last year (was it so long ago?).

He received short shrift from me: under no circumstances should you consider a ‘man-bag’. This blurring of the sexes is just what we should be cautioning young men about; Prada, Gucci, et al will do anything to ensnare the gentleman in their seasonal merry-go-round of leather accessories.

But I wonder if this subject shouldn’t be re-evaluated? Maybe Mr. Z was right? Should we not reconsider the usefulness of a medium sized personal carry-all for us gents?

Yesterday afternoon I was out. As the work-day hadn’t finished I had my field-equipment with me. I was carrying: -

12” Laptop
Nokia cell phone
BlackBerry
business cards
keys
iPod
camera
pens
diary
notebooks
cables

Ok, so I had a laptop, cables, and notebooks (things I wouldn’t normally carry), which are carried in a small case anyway, but even without these I still haven’t got room for everything else about my person. I only have a few pockets - and I look a proper gimp with them bulging awkwardly as I amble down the street. So how can I carry around such ‘indispensable’ things such as my BlackBerry, iPod, business cards, keys and diary without resorting to some kind of man-bag? The truth is I can’t.

The problem is, I don’t feel brave enough to carry a manbag. No way. I’m always reticent to try new fashions, this is why I still wear cords.

No I have a single choice. Do I cut out some of the gadgets, or do I brave a potential sartorial faux pas and plump for manbag?

So what can I lose?

Nokia? Probably, I only carry it because I have the matching hands free kit in the car. The business cards are a must but they’re not so big anyway. The BlackBerry is a necessity, as is the iPod (I hate waiting in queues or walking somewhere without my iPod - it’s such dead-time). I suppose I could dump the Moleskine diary and use the facility on the BlackBerry, but I so hate computerised diaries - they’re so unintuitive and slow. I could lose the camera, but I just hate seeing something that demands capture, only to be without a camera. It’s no good - I need all this stuff!

You see? I definitely need some sort of manbag - there is no other solution.

This commercialised world has finally destroyed my last drop of manliness. Anyone care for a white wine spritzer?

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dizzy gets into a tizzy

Published
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Aaron
on September 13, 2007
in sex
. 3 Comments

This has to be the post of the day.

I’ve just searched the Quality of Life report and there is not a single mention of vibrators and dildos. Now you may wonder why on earth there ought to be, after all you might think, what does a woman’s (or a man, must be inclusive) ability to achieve an orgasm through the use of a sex aid have to do with the environment for a start. But surely sexual pleasure is a quality of life issue no? [more... ]

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iain dale on the sen. larry craig scandal

Published
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Aaron
on September 4, 2007
in politics, scandal, sex and usa
. 1 Comment

US Senator Larry Craig has resigned over his arrest for soliciting a plain-clothed policeman for sex. The policeman, it appears, made signals suggesting he was up for such an encounter, and when Craig responded, he was arrested.

Iain Dale criticises the lack of support Craig, who was surely a victim of entrapment, received from his own party: -

The irony is that the Republican Party is supposedly the domain of the Christian Right. It has so far displayed very little Christian compassion towards a man whose only crime (assuming hypocrisy is not a crime yet) was to tap the shoe of a man who was wanting his shoe to be tapped. However distasteful many people may find this sort of gay cruising, no one can ever answer the question as to why heterosexual males (or indeed females for that matter) are not routinely entrapped and then arrested for soliciting anoynmous sex in nightclubs.

Dale is completely right. While Craig may be a hypocrite (in fact, clearly, he is), he’s been left high and dry by his so-called friends and the party he has served. The Christian Right’s coup of the Republican Party is complete. The Libertarians who supported the GOP under Reagan, must surely now find another home if they haven’t already.

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facebook: the reinvention of elizabethan courtship

Published
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Aaron
on August 30, 2007
in culture, sex and tech
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Another silly season musing: Ros Taylor has written a rather laboured Op-Ed for Comment is Free. She argues, slightly convincingly, that the closed nature of facebook’s UI, provides a set of social rules that hark back to those of Elizabethan Courtship.

In truth, Facebook has conventions every bit as rigid as those of the Elizabethan court or the 18th century salon. The site offers friends a limited range of social interactions - gift-giving, joining groups, writing on friends’ walls - and enforces them strictly. The social codes are as non-negotiable as anything in Austen. Offenders are threatened with exclusion. A range of conversational topics such as photo albums, bookshelves and Scrabble are imported from the real world for mutual entertainment. And then there is poking.

[...]

Facebook friendship is a little like the medieval convention of courtly love, and has about as much in common with the outside world. The strict codes and flirtatious little transgressions are partly a reaction to the anonymous heckling that blogging made possible. But mostly Facebook does what sophisticated, privileged societies do: they codify the ways in which humans can play out their friendships. Don’t knock it. We’ve been doing it for thousands of years.

I must admit that many professionals, who usually steer clear of the increasingly vicious blogosphere, do feel at ease on facebook. And one of the main attractions of facebook, over say the mindless MySpace, is that users can maintain a great deal of control over who can view their profile and interact with them. But I also feel that Taylor is inching herself across a very thin analogy here. Haven’t journos got anything better to write about?

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dude, she’s jailbait

Published
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Aaron
on August 25, 2007
in sex
. 2 Comments

Take the quiz. Is she gonna get your collar felt?

I got 7/16. Hence why I always go for the older woman.

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The irregular quote of the day

Published
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Aaron
on May 27, 2007
in culture, humour and sex
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Some very funny - if slightly risky - satire from The Onion: -

Have we as a society really come to the point where it is a crime for a man in a ski mask and black coveralls to place a simple ladder against the side of a building and climb his way to a vantage point from which the glorious beauty of the nude vagina can be gazed upon with the rapt wonderment it deserves? Where the mere act of placing hidden cameras in a dorm lavatory is to be looked down upon in hypocritical shame? Where even something so innocent as the posting of live streaming feeds on the Internet—so that all men, regardless of race, creed, or color, may share in the beauty of these vaginas—is somehow considered “wrong”?

Content Policy

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Men like looking at pictures of women

Published
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Aaron
on May 13, 2007
in sex
. 4 Comments

Well duh!

Those frisky continentals

Published
by
Aaron
on May 2, 2007
in culture, europe and sex
. Closed

Oh to be a Dane.

Feminism revisited

Published
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Aaron
on February 26, 2007
in culture, film, media, politics, sex and tv
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Don’t you get the feeling that slowly but surely, even among PC-obsessed lefties, that feminism is - and please do forgive the turn of phrase - losing its mojo?

I know there are still the militant feminists who prowl the pages of The Guardian’s Society supplement, and almost yearly a survey drags up the equality of pay question, or some helpful git publishes a report telling us what we already know: that women are not adequately represented in our boardrooms. But other than these mild chastisements, feminism is almost non-existent in the popular intellectual discourse.

Maybe you women need to start burning bras again or running under the Queen’s horses?

Look at British political life. Yes we have several women cabinet ministers (almost all of whom, have been framed by the media – rightly or wrongly – as scatter-brained dizzies completely out of their depth), but where are the women challenging for the party leaderships? Harriet Harman and Hazel Blears are up the deputy leadership, but neither is considered a contender to topple Brown’s almost unstoppable march. This is surprising when you consider the sub-standard champions the Blairites are holding up as challengers.

We have similar issues on television. Anna Ford was a great newsreader, yet she retired last year for fear of being “shovelled off into News 24 to the sort of graveyard shift.” Maybe this was a case of ageism rather than sexism, but one only has to look at the average ages of the male and female newsreaders to spot a trend.

I know this is not a subject to be tackled by a blog written by white, middle-class male (especially when he’s already done so before), but when a movement such as feminism stands still, it’s more likely to slip back than consolidate its position.

Having said all this; this is an excellent essay on the subject of slacker-films, which tackles among other things, their portrayal of women. Brilliantly written by one Marisa Meltzer. Go girl!*

*No, the irony of closing a post debating feminism with “Go Girl!” is not lost on this blogger

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The irregular quote of the day

Published
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Aaron
on February 12, 2007
in culture, politics, sex and uk
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Anastasia de Waal makes the left-wing case for marriage (CiF): -

The popularity of marriage amongst those holding left-wing views does seem to confirm that it is not that supporting marriage is incompatible with liberalism, but that marriage is not attainable to all. When liberals discuss the merits of their own marriages - and many left-wing politicians and feminists are happily married and remarried - they are always quick to follow it up with the caveat ‘but it’s not for everyone’. Indeed it’s not, and that is the problem with marriage today.

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Quick one before I go…

Published
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Aaron
on February 9, 2007
in politics, scandal, sex, sports and usa
. 4 Comments

If you want to stay in America* Canada, make sure you don’t forget to bone some Yanks.

Shouldn’t be a problem.

________

*Thanks to Raincoaster, who ran with the story, for the correction. My bad.

Also, have you seen this? Suck that Aussies.

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A This Life for the Westminster crowd?

Published
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Aaron
on January 31, 2007
in culture, politics, scandal, sex and tv
. 1 Comment

I’m sure it’s entirely exaggerated and trashy, but Party Animals, the new BBC2 political drama should be worth a watch.

Tonight BBC2 9pm.

I can’t imagine it’ll be as cutting or as good as Armando Iannucci’s The Thick of It, but at least it promises more shagging.

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