The Nerd Boxer
Men Can Stop Rape’s new College Bystander Intervention campaign.
Actual good anti rape campaign posters! They don’t shame victims, they ask people to examine their own actions and inactions and protect their friends. And not in a gross excuse for chivalry either, just as people keeping people safe.
I like this.
Yep I agree. I also like how it’s not tying a man taking action around rape to some imaginary alpha male/hypermasculine sort of thing. Like a real man would do such and such.
Hey look! It’s an anti-rape campaign based on being a decent human being! In all seriousness, this is marvelous. I bolded the above for emphasis.
Love, love, love.
We need to should talk less about how women need to drink less and be more careful and focus more on how to prevent rape culture.
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Classic Paul Keating
- Caller: Good morning.
- John Laws: Okay, the Prime Minister is here.
- Caller: Yes, good morning. Just a very broad question, Mr Keating, is: why does your government see the Aboriginal people as a much more equal people than the average white Australian?
- Paul Keating: We don't. We see them as equal.
- Caller: Well, you might say that, but all the indications are that you don't.
- Paul Keating: But what's implied in your question is that you don't; you think that non-Aboriginal Australians, there ought to be discrimination in their favour against blacks.
- Caller: Not... whatsoever. I... I don't say that at all. But my... myself and every person I talk to - and I'm not racist - but every person I talk to...
- Paul Keating: But that's what they all say, don't they? They put these questions - they always say, "I'm not racist, but, you know, I don't believe that Aboriginal Australians ought to have a basis in equality with non-Aboriginal Australians. Well, of course, that's part of the problem.
- Caller: Aren't they more equal than us at the moment, with the preferences they get?
- Paul Keating: More equal? They were... I mean, it's not for me to be giving you a history lesson - they were largely dispossessed of the land they held.
- Caller: There's a question over that. I think a lot of people will tell you that. You're telling us one thing...
- Paul Keating: Well, if you're sitting on the title of any block of land in NSW, you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.
- Caller: You know that for sure, do you?
- Paul Keating: Of course we know it for sure!
- Caller: Yeah, [inaudible].
- Paul Keating: You're challenging the High Court decision, are you? You're saying the High Court got this all wrong.
- Caller: No, I'm not saying that at all! I wouldn't know who was on the High Court.
- Paul Keating: Well, why don't you sign off, if you don't know anything about it and you're not interested. Good bye!
- Caller: Yeah, well, that's your ...
- Paul Keating: No, I mean, you can't challenge these things and then say, "I don't know about them".
- John Laws: Oh well, he's gone.
(Source: petitpoulailler)
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Ritual is important because it allows us to see the value of our emotions, drives, urges, and so forth. As one approaches an intermediate-advanced stage in martial arts, where one can adequately fight and the practice is less mysterious, one is assaulted with internal doubts about practice and the time spent doing it, etc. At this point, the ritual aspect of practice is necessary to see what those doubts are worth, and to develop real dedication/perseverance. Ritual is different from blind faith, routine, etc.
Well, I don’t know… It’s hard to know what you’re talking about specifically when you talk about ritual because I don’t think it is the same as what the Dr House quote is talking about (I think he’s talking about religion and you’re talking about martial arts). Let’s dig a little though… From your handle and about page you practice taijiquan, so perhaps you can clarify what it is about taiji practice that you consider to be ritualistic?
Because ritualistic practice could be (or could become) mindless practice which is kind of pointless and that is especially true of taiji. Taking zhan zhuang practice as an example I would say you can do it mindfully (good) or mindlessly (pointless at best). If you make a ritual of starting and ending your practice with zhan zhuang does that encourage you to be mindful or mindless?
Looking at ‘ritual’ in a religious sense rather than a martial arts or training perspective then ritual can be an pretty effective way to abdicate thinking, encourage conformity and to actually replace what should be mindful with mindlessness. I don’t see this as good…
… and, yes, as all that sounds quite preachy let me say that although I prefer to be mindful than to be mindless I’m not exactly meeting my own standards here. :)
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Boots asked: Yo, how racist is this fucking Australian cartoon and the Rupert Murdoch paper that ran it?
You know, every single day I get a bunch of racist assholes who write in with some kind of argument about how there’s no racism anymore and that I need to lighten up. So big ups to Rupert Murdoch for publishing this fucking insanely racist cartoon that stops just shy of openly lamenting that Australia wasn’t 100% successful in genociding their native population.
PS: I wish there was some way you and your horrible son might actually go to jail.
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Fitocracy
Seems like it could be fun. I only joined yesterday. Here’s an invite link if anyone wants to try it:
Bagua and Xingyi Quan demo by my grand teacher - Luo De Xiu
I always like to see Ed getting thrown around by Luo… like he (Ed) throws me around. I feel oddly revenged.
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Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care about how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but you will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
Marcus Aurelius
