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Today is the final, final, final day to bid at graduate_maria. Bidding closes at 11:59pm. These are the items that need more love, but several other auctions remain open as well.

Dragon*Con schedule: I has it.

Lease renewal came. All is essentially well, but there's one stupid thing I have to call them about. It's only going up by like $30, which means we're still below where we were when they dropped the rent last year.

Ice-skating fail. Johnny Weir is the subject. And this time Lysacek is the asshole.

eredien rebuts, quite amusingly, appalling opinion piece in The CSM on Prop 8. Basically the opinion piece asserts that women lack value and safety without a marriage institution whose sole purpose is to legitimize their existence, provide them with freedom and protect them from rape. Yeah, I'm confused too.

Department of passive aggression, item #1: I'm so fucking sorry my celiac disease doesn't occur as frequently as hoarding in the population and you're sick of hearing about issues related to gluten. I'm such an inconvenience, I know!

Department of passive aggression, item #2: OMG, do you hear yourself?

Hey, my warranty on my MacBook Pro expires in about 10 days. Should I get AppleCare?

Also, one-day single-stick workshop through my old salle with a master I like: should I or is it just all messy, even if only in my head?

Last night on Buffy and Angel:

Over on Angel: Willow and Fred have got it going on! And Wesley's all "hrmmm, Willow's hot, but how dare she flirt with Fred? Maybe we could have a threesome" and Willow's all "Hey, Wesley, keeping girl in the closet? HOT! but I'm totally dating someone even if I'm totally going to flirt with Fred EVEN MORE." Angel, thankfully, has his soul back, and Connor is still an idiot. Where'd Cordy get her evil dress from? Because that shit? Is absurd.

OH my fucking god Nathan Fillion. At first I was like "I'm not buying him as a preacher" and then I was all "I am totally buying him as an evil preacher" and then I kept laughing because all I could think of was a story from Dragon*Con involving a lot of booze and various celebrities being post-verbal because of it. OH MY GOD, NATHAN FILLION, WHAT THE FUCK?

Comments

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

re the CSM piece:
"That’s why it has never occurred before to lawmakers (or any human society of which I am aware) to offer marriage to pairs of lovers that happen not to include a woman, or that involve only women and not a man."

Research: ur doin it rong. There are many societies that have been documented that allowed same-sex marriages.

The photo of 2 dogs in wedding costumes next to the piece makes it extra special.

[idunn.livejournal.com]

Schulman's piece pissed me off. Like, really, heterosexual marriage is needed to protect women from rape, even though many people (and laws) believe that a husband can do whatever to his wife but it's not rape? *voms*

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

And like rapists check for wedding rings first. And like anyone in countries with gay marriage actually tries to "turn women into slaves or concubines" if they're married lesbians. idek.

[marcmagus]

Well, that's exactly how it works! Women are "protected" from rape by giving the man most likely to rape them tacit permission to do whatever he wants. :(

[idunn.livejournal.com]

Seriously. Or we could offer legal protection for women regardless of their marital status, but I'm just being silly.

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

Or we could make our focus *changing men's behavior and rearing* rather than calling rape "an uncontrollable force" and a normal part of male heterosexuality like Shulman.

Nahhh, that'd never work, would it?

[idunn.livejournal.com]

Shenanigans, I say!

[malle-babbe.livejournal.com]

But what about widows?

Oh wait, conservatives apparently don't believe that widows exist.