fun things

First, Munchkin at her summer job - just for yoiebear:


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And some Crazy Scot to break up your boredom (for everybody) - thanks to beldar and the_dark_snack for pointing this out. The little Harry Potter Leather Dude is disturbingly hot:

Underage RPers/cybering

There's a pretty englightening discussion on fandomsecrets about a macro secret involving underage people RPing/cybering with adults. Specifically, this thread (warning: slow loading, image heavy), which has its little share of wank, but is surprisingly conducive to good conversations about the rights of adults versus the needs of teenagers to explore their sexuality in a safe (i.e., NOT skin-to-skin) manner; whether an adult can be charged with a crime if it is learned the RP partner is underage; what can happen to underage people engaging in distribution of pornographic materials to other underage or even overage people online.

We didn't have the Internet back in the cave I grew up in - I'll be 37 later this year. In fact, I didn't even have Internet access until oh, about 11 years ago, and it was a 28.8 KB connection, LOL. I didn't have sex until I was 19 years old. But I read romance novels, sneaked looks into my dad's Hustler and Playboy collection, etc. stuff without a sex partner. My sister, so far as I know, was reading fanfic when she was about 14 or 15, but not getting into doing anything until she was a legal adult. (She'll have to speak for herself if she wishes, beyond that.)

My point is, what do you think of underage people cybering with overage people? Do you think it's OK so long as they don't give their real age and seem mature? Or do you think there should be some measure (such as ...?) requiring they give notice of their age first, to protect a possible conviction against an adult who isn't really a pedophile and doesn't want to have to register as a sex offender for the rest of their life?

So much feminist fail in one review

For anyone who thinks I'm not a feminist because I dislike eye-rolling extremes in interpretation that favor females - be aware my disdain applies to the opposite in such extremism. For instance ... the FUCK? (Dear lord, my eyes are rolling in the back of my head still.)

For the record, her description of the movie raised my eyebrows a few times, since there were ... um, some inaccuracies. This was linked to on my Trek community. Here's what I had to say about it:

Women are a civilizing force in making men accountable for their behavior throughout history. Feminism changed that.

You damn right it did. It isn't MY job to keep the Y chromosome on the straight and narrow. Imagine a poor little boy having to grow up to learn he's accountable for his own actions!

It was only in sexual liberation that women unleashed the Kirks from of their cages, transforming the male-female relationship into one of suspicion and cynicism.

Why, because the old days favored men doing whateverthehell they wanted with a free pass, and the new days require they exercise as much self-control and caution over their actions and bodies as women have had to over themselves for millennia? Poor, sad Victorian ideals gone. Cry moar.

In Kirk’s old days, men’s adventurous freedom-loving thirst was quenched with a love of women and new landscapes.

And women's adventurous freedom-loving thirst was satisfied when Ricky finally let Lucy sing in his show. Or when Daddy bought Mommy a brand-new dishwasher. HALLELUJAH!

(I really hope this review was meant to be satirical. Because if not ... um ...)