The Antisocial Socialist

This has to be one of the creepier photoshoots I've seen in the history of creepy photoshoots. (Warning: Nudity, implied rape, glorification of war, utter not-safe-for-workitude.) Jill at Feministe says ugh, but a lot of people commenting disagree, saying that only a few photos are questionable, and even that some are subversive because they show women intruding on a traditionally male space.

Maybe it's those pesky ideological blinders, but given the epidemic of rape against both women in the occupying army and Iraqi women and men, I don't see any way this shoot can be interpreted besides a glorification of sexual violence in wartime. There's also an added racial dynamic, the twisted white American male fantasy of the Big Black Cock.

I honestly don't get people who show up on a feminist blog to say, "well, just one of the photos might imply rape, so the shoot isn't that bad, really." I mean, I get them, but I hope I never encounter them in real life.

P.S. My other post about how Iraqis are getting raped—in this case, by neoliberalism as well as by neoconservatism, is here. I guess it's the oh-so-depressing blog theme of the day.

zingerella: So, library porn.
sabotabby: That's really hot.

sabotabby mutters some comment about shagging in Robarts.


Robarts Library, a.k.a. Fort Book.

zingerella looks faintly nauseated.

sabotabby: I just heard it was a good place to pick up. [Sullenly] I wouldn't know. They never let me on the good floors.
zingerella: It's more like the setting for a BDSM porn. It's got cages, shit lighting...
sabotabby: Oppressive concrete...
zingerella: Can't you just see some dominatrix stalking through the stacks, forcing chinless grad students to read Kant?
sabotabby: You realize if I just post the words "Kant" and "porn" in my LJ I'll get about a million comments, don't you?
zingerella: There's just something about sex in a building that looks like a giant turkey. [Pause.] And I don't even like porn.

[Pause.]

sabotabby: Well, neither do I!

frandroid suggested passing this Linwood Barclay article around because of its brilliance, and I am inclined to agree. Also, Linwood is a wicked name.

Personally, I disagree a bit: Libby should be tortured for his bad porn, because now I can't make the bear-sex joke about CanLit anymore.

If Cheney's for torture, why not use it on Scooter?
Nov. 7, 2005. 01:00 AM
LINWOOD BARCLAY

Here's an idea, and I can't believe I'm the first to come up with this modest proposal, but why doesn't the U.S. government just go ahead and torture Lewis "Scooter" Libby? And not just for that ridiculous name.

( Bamboo shoots would actually be quite fitting. )

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On a completely unrelated note, someone sent me this link. Hanukkah is coming soon, by the way.

( How to Good-bye Depression )

I know that many of you, like me, suffer from depression, so you'll understand why I need to read this.

Alberto Gonzales, who thought the scat, bestiality, and S&M porn that was Abu Ghraib was A-OK, seems to be up in arms about the same sort of thing when it's consensual. (Link is to constintina's LJ, which in turn has further links and commentary.)

I guess the US government doesn't like competition or something.

Also, I posted about this in more detail on free_palestine, but if you have $15 to spare, a blank space on your wall, and love in your heart, buy my poster, will ya? All proceeds go to Al-Awda Canada and feeding my ego.

I need more sleep. Didn't get any last night, which is rapidly becoming par for the course. Sigh.