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Obsidian Wings: Distributed Denial of Blogging Service Part I

How did this happen? Sidorenko blandly says that Being one of the oldest blogging platforms, LiveJournal had natural advantages over other platforms, but the truth is more complicated and IMHO more interesting.

epershand: Things I love about my life

I live in a time, and I live a privileged enough life, that my friendships and loves aren't constrained by geography. I can be in love (and in lust. and in limerence. and in friendship.) with people in multiple states, and even multiple *countries* without that breaking me. Most of my closest relationships are conducted almost entirely over the internet and the telephone, and I don't even *notice* that fact until someone else reminds me.

thegorgon: An Admittedly Early Halloween Story

Every time I remember this it makes me smile, even though I feel kind of bad about it. For one thing, it was hilarious. But I also smile because of how easily their terror turned to sympathy. Because those frightened little girls reached out to touch something reaching out for them, and cried when I told them he wasn't allowed out. Sometimes that's really all it takes, to learn compassion: knowing that the monster is somebody's little brother. Then that glass display becomes a prison we would break if we could.

How fucked is the T?

the_shoshanna: signal boost: Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam are at it again

Now they're posting in a blog on Psychology Today's website: Why Feminism Is the Anti-Viagra: The neural circuitry of dominance and submission. Wherein we learn that us gals are just wired for submission. Like rats. "Our mammalian brains come wired with very ancient sexual preferences, quite prominent in the most popular forms of male and female erotica preferred by Homo sapiens. Men are aroused by being dominant and by submissive women, women are aroused by being submissive and by dominant men. In the bedroom, inequality beats equality." And again, their source for this statement is the craptastic pseudo-survey they did on the Net a while ago. The one disclaimed by Boston University, who told them to stop misrepresenting themselves as associated with the school? That one.

Also written up at Feministe and Yes Means Yes.