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KharBevNor:
I have this quote from Billy Connoly memorised that pretty much sums up my view on feminism and political correctness:

"They're called manholes because they are the holes that a man goes down to work in the Sewerage department of a city. And when women start expressing a burning desire to be up to their knees in shit, then we can start calling them personhole covers"

To elaborate, I certainly believe equality is a good idea, but if feminists want to stop living to the old wife/cook/mother stereotype, that posits that someone else will have to start living it, ie men. And lets face it,that isn't going to happen. Equality, if we can achieve it, would be a complex balanced affair due to the pressures of society. We'd probably need to get to Crowleys 'Age of the Child' first, where we'd all be bisexual communists and gender wouldn't matter. Hell, I'm not really knocking feminism/gender studies, I already mentioned that 'The Left Hand of Darkness', which is a VASTLY thought-provoking novel about gender issues and I suppose feminism, is one of my favourite ever books. What I do knock is the highly reactionary form of feminism, the anti-chauvanism mode. It's like opposing Christianity with theistic Satanism.

Damn, this is one of those posts where I forgot where I was going. I'm sure there's some points up there somewhere though.

captainawesome:

--- Quote from: elcapitan ---What? They made a movie of The Tesseract? When the hell?
--- End quote ---


Yeah, that's what I said.  It was on some movie channel at a hotel I was staying at, I don't remember which.  But it really is terrible, and made me want to find anyone involved with the film and rape them with the VHS version of the movie.

*aherm*

Another good Turtledove series is the Darkness series, which replays the entirety of World War II, but instead of airplanes and submarines, there are dragons and giant sea turtles, and, y'knoiw, magic.  It's extremely long, though, he's on something like the 6th or 7th book, and it's looking like he's going to take a couple more to wrap it up.  The series starts with Into the Darkness, but I don't remember any of the rest.

normz:
I like awful books ..... there I said it yep amongst my recently read (and you can blame my mother for ALL of these) are
- Stephen king
-Dan Brown
-Clive Cussler
-Barbara Taylor Bradford (ok that one makes me truly shudder)
-VC Andrews (oooh just as bad as the one above)
- John Grisham (yay for law stuent cliches)

but to sort of try and redeem myself (actually i know it wont happen) amongst my fave books/authors are
-Thomas Harris (yay for Hannibal)
- Jostein Gardner
- Shakespeare (yay an oldy but a goody)
- Tess of the D'urbervilles (read it in high school and it stuck for some reason)
- William Gibson (but of course)
- L Ron Hubbard (lol the man who wrote science fiction and then created a religion based oh whimsical thoughts YAY)
-I also like japanese type books like "Memoirs of a Geisha and Autumn Bridge'

So pretty much my bookshelf is the craziest mis-matched floor to cieling thing you have ever seen with Gibson next to Shakespeare and the Book of Budha's next to the holy bible and Law textbooks next to Thomas Harris, Machiavelli and Sun Tsu's The Art of War

and yes I read way to much and devour any book at the speed of light (possibly half the reason i read crappy books is so i at least have something to read)

heretic:
I HATED TESS OF THE D'UBERVILLES!!!
god i thought that book sucked. my friend and i spent most of the class discussion having "tess fights" which mainly consisted of throwing the book s at eachother

normz:
But but its a CLASSIC! It had such beautiful sweeping passages and it made me cry dammit! *hides in croner with her books* its ok my pretty he didnt really mean it

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