The Sex Pyramid

Who needs a good laugh? Just think--someone else went to the CWA website for you so you don't have to be exposed to the rampant idiocy there.

The part that stuck out to me:
...At the top of the sex pyramid is the mechanics of the sexual act -- the "birds and bees" aspect. This actually should receive the least attention because it is the easiest part of sexual interaction to explain and understand, though, ironically, comprehensive sex education tends to focus on the biology of sexuality rather than the foundation on which sex is built.

At first I was like "What the F? Sex mechanics are easiest to explain?" Then I looked at the base (heh heh, base) of the pyramid and went "Yep. Compared to explaining 'VALUES,' telling kids how come it is the penis fits into the vagina? Cakewalk."

And, hmm, "comprehensive sex education" teaching how sex actually happens being painted as a bad thing by a fundie bitch? Yeah, didn't see that coming. It's not like health classes, where sex ed usually takes place, have any moral imperative to teach kids who are going to have sex just as much as their parents did, you hypocrit fucksticks how sex works in order to teach them when and where to use contraceptives to prevent disease transmission and/or pregnancy.

No sir, if you teach them that they can prevent disease by letting them know the mechanics of sex, they'll start having safer sex then they can't be smited with STDs and branded with scarlet letters like the whores they all are! If you teach them, they won't be ignorant, repressed, and deprived sacks of willless, gutless idiots and then who else wlll we foist off our completely batshit ideas on! They'll have TEH SEX0RS and like it and maybe wait to marry someone who they actually like as opposed to marrying because they're desperate to fuck. Then how will we breed future patriarchal assholes like the nice man who let this woman have her widdle website! Think of the children! Won't someone please think of the fundie children (all thirteen of them that exist because contraception is as foreign to them as, say, Canada's existance)!!!

Shit, dawg, that was a lot of cursing. It's always worse when I'm being snarky rather than when I'm mad :)

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I'm not sure how much of an impact it will have on China, but, hey, every little bit helps.

This is an incredibly important, even if it seems random, step to take. This isn't hippie bullcrap, this is plain old disgust for what's going on with the fishing industry. It's fucking animal cruelty. I don't believe that eating meat is murder, that killing animals for human consumption is murder.

This, though, this is murder. When you fish out the shark, cut its fins off while it is still alive and then toss it back into the ocean to die, you are murdering the animal. There is no call for that. It's a goddamned disgrace. It's disgusting. It's a needlessly awful way to kill by the thousands a slowly-reproducing animal (that, as has been discovered recently, isn't hiding secret numbers in the depths beyond the fishing trawler's nets), get rid of the bodies, and come back with only the pieces that are wanted. Fucking waste. Fucking crime.

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"Perchance to Dream" is the second episode on my second volume of the Batman: the animated series DVD collection (hmm, shouldn't they have found a way to package it so that that episode was a Two-Face one? Discuss). It's one of my favorites, or at least one of the most memorable for me, as, ever since, I've been able to identify BTAS fans without geeking out on fandom first by seeing if they know the trick that Bruce uses to realize his world isn't quite as it seems.

I still feel cheated by the episode a little, as I know I've read things in my dreams...

But really, Batman has to call up an obscure fact like the hemisphere of the brain responsible for dreaming does not include the ability to read to figure out that his parents being alive, his engagement to a de-clawed (heh, it works on two levels) Selena Kyle, and him not being Batman isn't a sign things aren't real?

How could he ignore this?

The godawful hat on Selena's head wasn't his biggest clue right there that this world was wonky? Sheesh. World's Greatest Detective, my ass.