Quote of the Day – June 28 2015
“Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.”
Søren Kierkegaard
The online sexual double standard snaring young women
From the article:
“Feminism has been defined by its struggle for progressive freedoms. But any cage is also a potential protection. So as debate rages – this week around women’s right to the nude selfie, whether public twerking (waggling your semi-naked bottom at an audience) is a feminist act or its primate opposite, and why young […]
Quote of the Day – June 27 2015
“What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”
David Levithan, Love Is the Higher Law
Something to think about given today’s events in Tunisia, France and Kuwait.
‘La Toilette’: 500 Years of Watching Women Undress in Art
For centuries women experienced the ordinary act of washing in less than complete solitude. Women of a certain class were rarely alone, even when attending to the most intimate parts of their bodies. Their lives were, in a sense, communal property, especially those of wealthier women who until the mid-19th century […]
Quote of the Day – June 26 2015
“Be the first to see what you see as you see it.”
Robert Bresson
What I’m reading… ‘Net Smart – How to Thrive Online’
Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking basket […]
Quote of the Day – June 25 2015
“Sex is a different medium, refracting time and sense, a biological hyperspace as remote from conscious existence as dreams, or as water is from air”
Ian McEwan From his novel Saturday
The SADD effect…
It’s claimed men are masturbating 50 to 500% more than they would normally without Internet porn. So if a guy normally masturbated once a day, he might now be doing it two or three times a day. If he masturbated three times a week, he might now be getting graphic with his graphics 15 times […]
Quote of the Day – June 24 2015
“The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.”
Dean Spade
Were fortune cookies the original tweets?
Super accurate fortune cookies?
From an article about Ray Richmond : “Fortune cookies were overdue for a makeover. The fortunes in fortune cookies, he said, “hadn’t been updated in 200 years or so and always had this kind of somber, serious tone.” He added, “They were all things like ‘Happiness will find you,’ or ‘From knowledge […]