Вторая жизнь вещей — @дневники: асоциальная сеть

Именно этот страх гиноцида (геноцида женщин) связан со страхом женщин правого крыла перед гомосексуальностью, особенно гомосексуальными мужчинами. Дворкин пишет, что если соединить мужскую гомосексуальность с новыми репродуктивными технологиями, то это особенно страшно для женщин правого крыла, поскольку «это предполагает мир, в котором женщины вообще не нужны – мир, где женщины обречены на вымирание». Вместо того чтобы возненавидеть систему, которая ценит женщин только за репродукцию, некоторые женщины начинают ненавидеть гомосексуальность. Такие женщины видят в гомосексуальности пугающее предположение о том, что мужчины могут прекрасно обойтись и без женщин.

Этот же страх стоит за ненавистью к феминизму. Феминистки утверждают, что женщины не сводятся к своим половым функциям, и что «каждая человеческая жизнь, включая жизнь каждой женщины, должна определяться самим человеком, а вовсе не древними тоталитарными идеями насчет ее природы и функций». Эта идея «полностью аннулирует систему гендерной поляризации, в которой мужчины лучше и сильнее», но женщины правого крыла панически боятся этой идеи. Ведь если женщина не сводится к сексу и репродукции, то она становится пустым местом в глазах мужчин. И, к сожалению, для многих мужчин это верно. Пока что.

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четверг, 23 июня 2011

23:56

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суббота, 04 июня 2011

19:50

TES-книга: The Infernal City

Самая главная претензия - закончилось на самом интересном месте. Хотя в сентябре обещают продолжение.

Мой перманентный интерес к Чернотопью и аргонианам удовлетворялся долго и вдумчиво. Действие начинается в Лилмоте, одни из главных героев - друзья детства бретонка Аннаиг и аргониан Просто-Свет (awww...). Также погладили любителей Эльсвейра и хаджитов, побочных квестов и некоторых Принцев Дэйдра. А образ Адского города и его кухонь теперь навсегда в моём сердце)

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19:00

That's what I call "inspirational"

Они так молоды и талантливы, что им даже переночевать негде!
(с) из "Фиалки Монмартра"

Ещё в копилку поучительных историй, которые, надеюсь, помогут мне определиться: речь Аманды Палмер перед выпускниками одного из колледжей.

Пишет Selina Kyle:

03.06.2011 в 00:22

THE FRAUD POLICE

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so i am going to tell you today about something that my friends and i call 'the fraud police'. the fraud police are this imaginary, terrifying force of experts and real grown-ups who don't exist and who come knocking on your door at 3am when you least expect it, saying "fraud police. we've been watching you and we have evidence that you have no idea what you are doing. and you stand accused of the crime of completely making shit up as you go along. you do not actually deserve your job and we're taking everything away. and we're telling everybody. " and people working in the arts, especially, have to combat the inner fraud police on a daily basis. and even if you are a very happy, healthy, confident person, the fear of the fraud police is ever lurking. and it really doesn't matter who you are. i have friends who are teachers and writers and psychologists and scientists and pretty much every profession under the sun. and everybody, every so-called adult i know, has had this feeling about their job and themselves at some level. and i don't mean to put all of the non-graduates and grown-ups on the spot, but graduates please look around at the adults. and adults please raise your hand if you've ever had the feeling that the fraud police are going to come and expose you for not actually being able to do your job. the other ones are lying.

читать дальшеso the good news is it does get a little better and it gets easier, but it never really goes away. and do not think for a second that the people that you see out in the real world, working real jobs, all the professionals, do not make the mistake of thinking that they totally know what they are doing. and that they have things totally figured out.
because they don't.
and a lot of you are heading into fields where there's no rule book. no rule book has ever been written for your profession because it can't be written. and lawyers and doctors and astrophysicists actually have an easier time i think, in a certain sense, because they have specific tracks they can follow. they can get phd's. and once you've clocked your 10,000 hours, and passed all of the tests, you get magically let into a room where someone gives you a knife and you can start cutting people's brains open. because you're an expert.
but i believe even these guys fear the fraud police. and even a seasoned expert brain surgeon, wielding a scalpel about to cut somebody's head open, must have that moment. where she thinks, "i can't believe they're letting me do this. don't they know i'm a complete fool. i lost my keys this morning. i dropped my cell phone in a puddle, and it's broken. and i am here holding a sharp knife about to cut a human being's head open, and they might die. who is letting me do this? they're crazy."

now arts might seem slightly different. and fashion and sound and media and the music business are a slightly different planet. but not really. and do not make the mistake of thinking that your job does not deal in the realm of life and death. because it actually does. it's just not as direct.
making art is just as important to the whole world as performing brain surgery and building suspension bridges and saving people's lives in hospitals. and you probably need to talk to a lot of doctors and structural engineers who live to experience art before you will really believe me.

but it's true.

so i want to tell you that one of the best things you can do, when you're leaving here, is to just start working. and start making things up. and use each other, use you're friends, help your friends, design things for free, take photos for free, do sound for free, make costumes for free, use what you've got laying around. and when someone asks you if you can help them with something, and you have no clue if you actually can, but you think you can figure it out, say yes.

and then figure it out. and you might fuck up. and you probably will fuck up. but you will learn stuff. and you will actually learn one of the most valuable lessons in the business, which is how to apologize to your best friend that their show is a total mess because of you. my husband, neil gaiman, who's in the audience today, started as a journalist. and he loves telling the story of how he got his first jobs as a journalist when he was a young, starving writer with no work, by calling up magazines and lying to them about all the other magazines he had written for. and they didn't check. they just believed him. so they gave him jobs. but he proved he could write. and i used to, here in boston when i was a young musician, i used to call the middle east nightclub in cambridge, and tell them that i had fills of fancy bands coming from new york all figured out with this fantastic band they'd never heard, the dresden dolls, as a support band. and the middle east would say 'okay'. and then i would call all those famous bands in new york and say 'hey, i heard the middle east really wants you to do a show with the dresden dolls opening. and i would sort of lie my way into these situations. but once you get there and you prove that your band is actually good, and you get your foot in the door, magical things happen.

so do not be afraid to offer your help to total strangers. you have nothing to lose. and a lot of people out in the world need, and do not have, the tools that you guys are walking away with today. as a musician, i don't think there's a single one of you graduating today who couldn't probably help me in some way, for real. and i tend to work with the people who have the balls to come up to me and grab my attention. and show me that they know how to do something awesome.

which brings me to one of the last things i wanted to tell you about, which is a little bit nerdy. but the internet, which i use all the time on a daily basis, and i'm sure you do too, has changed everything by allowing artists to connect with each other, easily and all the time. so use the internet, pitch yourself, find opportunities, seek strange opportunities, and tell people about what you can do for them. you'd be surprised at who will listen. my website has an email address on it and a lot of artists are easily, directly contactable. so offer your help and your talent and your time and your energy. because there is an unwritten code out there right now, especially online, that we're all helping each other to build a beautiful, crazy, lawless new world. where there are no rules about how it gets built, we are making the rules up as we go along, and we are changing them every single day.

and eventually, i promise you, you will get to a point where the fraud police will come knocking. and you will open the door. and when they accuse you of being a fraud, you will honestly be able to say, "you're right. i still have no idea what i'm actually doing. i am making this shit up as i go along, but it is working out just fine. and also here in behind me is an incredible party with awesome people, a bumping sound system that we built ourselves out of salvaged parts, with a giant electronic glass bubble bath installation filled with escaped pandas and dancing girls that we found on craig's list, and you are not invited."
congratulations you guys.

have an amazing life.

xxx
AFP

После этой речи она запустила в твиттере флэшмоб - назывался он FuckPlanB, в котором люди рассказывали о том, как они бросили свой колледж/работу/что-то еще, которые у них были только потому, что так проще, и занялись тем, чем хотели бы заниматься всю жизнь.

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18:41

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18:36

"Оперетта - как котлета!" (с)

       Если бы "Фиалка Монмартра" в нашей Оперетте была чуть лучше, мне бы не понравилось. А так я просто перевела её в разряд трэша, который, как мы помним, я люблю.

     В этой постановке истории о жизни богемы 19 века были аллюзии: на речи Жириновского, стереотипы об американцах и уроженцах Кавказа, советсткие слоганы, журнал "Плейбой", - а также ужасающего кроя костюмы кордебалета, нелогичность сюжета, безобоснуйные появления персонажей (и установщиков декораций! даже без костюмов! во время выступления!) на сцене.

    Больше всего запомнились мне тамошние овечки, волк и конь (странно, что оперета не о зоопарке). А еще я шипперила Виолетту и уборщицу. И вообще, очень хорошо провела время))

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воскресенье, 22 мая 2011

14:51

Рональд Хаттон об истории неоязычества

Интервью можно прочитать здесь. (via The Wild Hunt)

Did you write The Triumph of the Moon to demolish the traditional history of Pagan witchcraft?

Absolutely not: I wrote Triumph to fill a vacuum created by the collapse, within Britain, of that traditional history: which is why I do not devote any space in the book to a sustained attack on that history itself. The concept of early modern witchcraft as a surviving pagan religion, which had been scholarly orthodoxy in the mid-twentieth century, began to disappear among professional historians around 1970, along with many other nineteenth-century beliefs. At the same time, many Pagan witches who had worked with founding figures of traditions, such as Gerald Gardner, Alex Sanders and Robert Cochrane, had always expressed doubts regarding the truth of what those founders had claimed about the history of those traditions. <...>

Then The Triumph of the Moon was not some sort of attack from the outside but a contribution to a debate which had already begun inside Pagan witchcraft itself?

That is broadly true, but in Britain the debate was really over by the time that I wrote the book, at least among the Pagan leadership. I wrote the book to suggest a real history for Pagan witchcraft which could be substantiated from the sources, and to rescue it from the accusation that it was an invented modern religion produced by a few cranks on the fringe of society. I showed that it represented instead a distillation of cultural developments which were actually central and very important to modern Britain. Its goddess and god, for example, were the two ancient pagan deity forms most honoured and needed by British writers for about one and a half centuries before the appearance of Wicca. This process, by which certain divine forms suddenly become vivid and important to the human mind at particular points in history, is what is usually termed revelation. Rather than remain regarded as a rather suspect cult on the cultural margins, Wicca could, I argued, be recognised as a worthy religion, of some importance, not least because it was the only one which England has ever given to the world; and one of which it could be proud.

+ 2 цитатыIf modern Pagan witches do not represent a continuation of a religion that survived the Witch Hunts and can be traced back to the pre-Christian era, then what is our lineage?

Most notably in a chapter in a collection entitled Paganism Today, published in 1996, I have taken direct issue with the view generally held by academics that there were no links between ancient and modern paganism at all. In reply I identified no less than four cultural streams which connected the two: ritual magic, cunning craft, folk rites, and (above all) the persistent love affair of Christian culture with the art and literature of the ancient world. All these streams of images and ideas were, certainly, maintained between the early medieval and modern periods by people who were at least nominally Christian, but none the less they were preserved. The great development of the modern age was for them to be filtered back out of general Christian culture and recombined with an active allegiance to pagan deities to produce a revived and viable set of Pagan religions. This essay in Paganism Today was my manifesto for Triumph of the Moon and intended to be read in conjunction with it, which in Britain it certainly often was. Abroad, however, the essay tended to be unknown and the book read outside of its vital context.

So, how do you reply to those who believe that you argue that there is no direct and consistent connection between ancient and modern Paganism?

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My second reply is that it is ridiculous to declare that no religion has validity unless it can claim unbroken descent from the remote past. Most of the major faiths of the world have undergone periods of reform in which members have jettisoned the norms of those faiths during the recent past to renew them by reference to much older practices. To take the example which has produced the most influential effects in the Western world, Protestant Christianity was founded on the claim that the faith of Christ had been corrupted by medieval Catholicism and that it was necessary to return to its earlier texts for the inspiration to purify and renew it, vaulting over the many centuries between. Pagans today are likewise perfectly entitled both to filter out the elements of paganism preserved in medieval and early modern Christian culture and to return directly to those preserved in the texts and art of the ancient world, to rebuild a paganism suited to the needs of the present. Indeed, the appearance of postmodernism as a major school of philosophy powerfully reinforces this justification, highlighting the way in which the present always appropriates and transplants aspects of the past in order to serve its requirements, and celebrating that process.

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14:19

So true)

via sex is not the enemy

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суббота, 21 мая 2011

22:43

Пятый сезон SPN

спойлеры, фансервис и Кроули

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21:53

Корона фейского царства

Надо записать для истории. Сегодня ~~как было предсказано в древних пророчествах~~ Лив сплела нам венки из одуванчиков. Мы гуляли с ними по Арбату и окрестностям. И обратная дорога с желтым венком на голове оказалась гораздо приятнее, чем без него из дома: ко мне обратились всего один раз и с комплиментом (а не три раза с похабными комментариями). Надела платье, называется.

Ещё, добрую часть пути домой я смотрела на свое отражение в дверях вагона и думала, что я поразительно прекрасна. ~~Это подтверждает версию, согласно которой конец света сегодня.~~

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среда, 18 мая 2011

20:48

Fandoms for FckH8

via Св.

Фэндомные антигомофобные футболки:

Футболка some hunters marry their brothers меня тоже, как сказала Св., "проблематизирует" своим нахождением в этом ряду.

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