caligryphy ([info]caligryphy) wrote,
@ 2006-01-31 03:19:00
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It's nice to know I can still be good and morally outraged.

It's like working a muscle group you'd only been giving a light stretch. Stings a bit, but it's great to know you've still got it.

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[info]schemingreader
2006-01-31 12:31 am UTC (link)
Have you been having outrage fatigue from the constant barrage of moral outrages in the news for the last six years?

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[info]caligryphy
2006-01-31 12:40 am UTC (link)
Maybe I've got a disconnect thing going on (especially where certain political issues are concerned). I've got up to 'mildly amped' once or twice in the last couple of years, but not good and angry--that great, righteous anger that comes so rarely.

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[info]skuf
2006-01-31 12:46 am UTC (link)
What prompted it, then?

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[info]caligryphy
2006-01-31 01:35 am UTC (link)
I don't really want to get wanky, so I'll keep things frustratingly vague. (Sorry--I love all y'all, and don't feel up to arguing again.) It had to do with religion and sexuality and gender. It was a very long and very detailed--suspiciously detailed--diatribe that I pretty much found hateful on every level except... No, no--it was pretty much hateful on every level. (And it was the kind of speech designed to try and impress the other poets in the room--gag me.)

To blow one's stack--not a phrase I often use, but appropriate for my reaction. I hadn't had that sort of response in a long time. Shocked the heck out of me.

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[info]caligryphy
2006-01-31 01:41 am UTC (link)
Sorry, I was half-asleep, here. We were at a 'gathering' at a friend's house. Lots of folks from the writing program (even those of us who were only Minors) attended. Friend of mine (maybe not anymore) was shooting off something awful at the mouth.

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[info]skuf
2006-01-31 02:44 am UTC (link)
Well, thanks for the vague explanation - it does sound like something one could get rather upset about!

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[info]cordelia_v
2006-01-31 07:13 am UTC (link)
Usually I am very wary about drawing conclusions about a writers' personality from her stories. But having read all your hp fics . . . no, I never doubted for a second that you'd be capable of moral outrage.

Your characters generally do have an internal moral compass of sorts. And I don't think you could convey that, if you didn't possess one, yourself.

Still, it's an emotion to indulge in only occasionally, in my case. It's exhausting, on a regular basis, I find.

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[info]caligryphy
2006-01-31 07:49 am UTC (link)
It's a screwed-up compass--you couldn't find your way out of a jungle with it, but sometimes I think I've become so 'meh' about life that it might not be there anymore, you know? It's good to know it is. (Even if, in hindsight, I probably didn't convince anyone of anything and just made myself look like a jerk.)

It's a thing to indulge in only occasionally in just about every case (some people get back in line for extra helpings, I think). Besides, I could be doing more constructive things (like reading Mountie slash).

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[info]aubergineautumn
2006-01-31 02:13 pm UTC (link)
It's not so bad...maybe you made someone think. People change their viewpoint gradually & not always in entirety. For example, I thoroughly support a positive gay community...but don't support gay men who are married (as opposed to the Christian Right, who are all for gay men suppressing their sexuality & giving some poor woman not only a complex about herself, but a half hearted rendition of the marriage act itself)...I support women's liberation...but am thoroughly outraged at women who make a spectacle of themselves by breast feeding in public...so, it takes all kinds...sometimes, it's good to know where you stand...especially in today's political arena, which is like a great big magnet sitting on America's moral compass...frankly, I am surprised that anyone cares about anything after Bush's tenure...it has wrung me out to the point where I don't think the little people can change anything, even by voting...they will just miscount their way to the result they desire. How jaded is it to look at the polls that indicate rising concern about Bush & think....nice spin, Republicans...acknowledge the vague feelings of ambiguity in your party, but essentially, change nothing. I think we will have another Republican president after Bush...and I don't think it will be good for the nation. There is talk about scouring the universities of liberalness (and really, in a nation where the majority are conservatives, where else are you going to open your mind to new ideas), overturning Roe vs Wade (I don't think abortion is ever a positive experience...but I also don't think something whose heart isn't beating is sentient, either)...tightening national security (this coddling...of course there will be another incident...no nation can avoid it...why should we lose our freedom over it) ...paranoia about immigration & minorities (Great. Tear down the Statue of Liberty, while you're at it)...who's going to be left standing? Upper class white men? I fear the righteous right like the second coming of the Inquisition...they are zealous, in the majority, and...they don't really approve of the ideals of the forefounders... liberty... freedom to bear arms... separation of church & state. I use to think America was great because it had no history (and therefore, no baggage), but our dependence on oil & puritanical insistence about morality/religion seem to be the inherited issues that will eventually sinks us. It's horrific when South Korea, Japan, & China start to look like bastions of freedom, innovation, & liberalness in comparison to America. I see us starting some silly war over oil & religion (wait, we already have) instead of investing billions in research for solar alternatives. I swear, some days it seems we will end in someone nuking someone else before it is all said & done with. Well...I've got relatives who died in both sides of the Civil War, and ancestors who were here before the white man ever stepped foot on these shores...America will always be home... but...I honestly think historians will look back and pinpoint the Bush era as When It All Started To Go Bad for America. *grins* I'm sure I would have been a great addition to your dinner party.

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[info]tetsubinatu
2006-08-05 05:46 am UTC (link)
Perhaps you could reconsider the whole breastfeeding thing?
1) babies have to eat
2) breastfeeding is the healthiest way for them to eat, when possible
3) where do you want them to eat? Toilets (ewwww!)
4) babies take a LONG time to eat, and they eat freqently. Mums are going to get bored out of their gourds if they can't go anywhere without spending hours locked in purdah in toilets, curtained cubicles etc. This may sound trivial to you, but if so you have never had to spend hours locked in toilets, cubicles etc alone with a hungry baby - or worse still, with a bored toddler AND a hungry baby.
5) breasts should not be fetishised out of their actual function which IS feeding. The whole sex thing is a SECONDARY sexual characteristic. Just get over it.

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[info]foofee25
2006-02-01 02:48 am UTC (link)
Well, um, this is utterly unrelated but...The Fourth Year icons. Whee!

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[info]imkalena
2006-02-04 08:38 pm UTC (link)
Help me out here, will you? Where's your fic archived?

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[info]solarisday
2006-02-07 12:27 am UTC (link)
Hello. This is an announcement to let you know that you've been nominated for Best Conventional Pairing in a Slash Category at Harry Potter Academy Awards. Top nominations will be announced on Feb. 18. Winners will be announced on Mar. 5 - Oscar Day.

Best Regards,
[info]hposcars

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