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We took some great pictures, and hopefully she'll upload hers soon; I meanwhile, brought the wrong cord for getting stuff off my camera, so I may be able to solve this in the UK, but it may wait until I get home.
We've also been eating great, SUPER EXPENSIVE Swiss food. But we're just sucking it up and enjoying ourselves. Meanwhile, I start to plan Thanksgiving menu in Cardiff.
Life is good.
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Date: 2010-11-15 12:59 pm (UTC)Wow. My bank is doing something good? That's incredible. Thank you! :)
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Date: 2010-11-15 03:52 pm (UTC)The fairest thing to do is not to grant all these financial and legal benefits to same-sex partners... instead, I think they should just be taken away from heterosexual married partners. That way everyone is on the same footing! And that way anyone can define marriage any way they want, and use more flexible contracts for specific financial and legal and medical and childcare issues. And no special rights for heterosexuals.
Not likely to happen any time soon though. Maybe one day after marriage rights get spread around more equitably and then we start seriously thinking about how to make the whole system more rational instead of basing the debate on a kind of straight-nuclear-family-or-death morality.
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Date: 2010-11-15 09:08 pm (UTC)Interesting and very disturbing. While from an immediate perspective it's good to see things that will make the lives of at least some fundy women less noxious, from my PoV, it's ultimately all about one quote from the article - "The only way to defeat secular feminism was to assimilate it. " In many ways, seeing this sort of thing troubles me simply because if the evangelical movement remained more rigid it would die off faster, and from my PoV that's an unqualified good. One of several things I greatly envy about the UK and the scandinavian nations is that religiosity is far lower than in the US and continuing to decline. I'd dearly love to see that trend here.
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Date: 2010-11-16 12:15 am (UTC)I can't do math, but I know we have some 250 sq ft condos and rentals here in SF. And IIRC our parking runs about that as well. I worry that many of hte designs being touted for super-small spaces arfe not accessible, however, like the "tiny spiral staircase" mentioned in the Tokyo flat; yeah, his mother's gonna love that when her bones start to ache. Many of the folks who need housing most are disabled or elderly, and those small-space solutions are invariably aimed at twentysomethings instead.
I like to compare breast cancer vs testicular cancer campaigns to see what's up with various gender and social issues. Swap the flavor of cancer and see what happens! Are testicles sexy? Would someone wear a ribbon for them? Is the fact that a man feels unmanned without his testes any relation to the boobs thing? (I know ovaries are a better match in many ways, but as an external-ish visible needs-groping-for-lumps thing, they match pretty well.)
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Date: 2010-11-17 02:37 am (UTC)Oh yea, and amen to this...Hell, I think medical types only started making a big deal out of it when they found that *gasp* men get breast cancer too. Heaven forbid!
*grump*
Yay on the model! And the other good news! I'm sharing those elseworlds, I have a friend I need to cheer up. :)