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Gonna have to take the fifth on this one.
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"I predict that eventually I will buy a cowl and a utility belt and start getting my ass kicked on a nightly basis."
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As far as I know, carrying a baton in CA is flat-out illegal. I can't really advise farther than that. Just keep that shit hidden from the pigs and if you get pulled over or something don't consent to a search.
The #1 most important thing about any sort of hand-held weapon is that IT HAS TO HAVE A WRIST STRAP ON IT. Attach that thing to your person or a savage beating by your own weapon is a hop skip and a yank away.
I know jack shit about personal defense, frankly. If someone really really wanted me hurt or dead they could do it! I have been told that most attackers are not going to keep coming after you once you've fractured their eyesocket or wrist or collapsed their windpipe, and the act of Being Armed will do something to your body language that will broadcast "not a victim" to a certain extent, and that confident swagger goes a long way to shutting down predators, who are a cowardly and superstitious lot.
Really everyone (including me) should make a study of hand-to-hand self defense. Oh, and also smash the patriarchy. Really that last thing would be the best way "to prevent rape". -
asked by Caseman984
The sad dumb truth is that anyone who claims to "not see color/gender/sexual orientation" is probably a well-meaning but incredibly ignorant person who has chosen to throw their hands up about issues of oppression instead of actually inconvenience themselves by addressing them. And to those people I say: thanks for the nice intentions, sport, but it doesn't work that way. Then I pat 'em on their lil' cheekies and go "d'awwwwwwww".
The other sad truth is that it's impossible to grow up how we grow up and be "blind" to sex/gender/color/etc. Even if your parents and teachers are the most progressive, wonderful people in the world, you'll eventually see a sitcom or a book or an internet forum and you'll be presented and possibly saddled with all sorts of dumb ideas. The alternative is being raised in a terrarium, which doesn't sound so bad until you realize that when you fart, there's nowhere for it to go.
You're going to get a lot farther looking in the mirror and going, "Yep, I make assumptions about people based on their superficial characteristics. This is a human trait and everyone does it. I do this because I learned to do it through rigorous cultural conditioning. Now that I have owned up to this, I can start to examine my own privilege and challenge my unjust reactions to skin color, gender, sexual orientation..."
"Hello, my name is Bob and I'm a misogynist."
Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery!
...not that anyone can ever really be "cured" of this stuff. Best we can do is try not to be such oppressive motherfucking assholes all the time, and reach out to our friends and family to do the same. My style is yelling at people's dads on Facebook. -
I'm going to have to demur on this one because I'm in the process of writing an article about it.
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All of my secrets have to do with the sexual perversions of famous people and you won't hear about any of them until those people are all dead and I publish my final, triumphant autobiography: Taming of the Twink - the Eliza Gauger Story
It will include a family tree, color plates, and several appendices.
But if you were talking about the usual stuff like "do you pick your nose" and "do you pee in the shower" the answer is of course "no, you people make me sick". -
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I did an abstract recently, although it was semi-representational. It was a seascape. I guess to be real general about it, my opinion is that most abstract art stinks and is boring, but occasionally I'll see one I like. Which of course is exactly what I think about all other art, so....
I'll say one thing for abstracts: they are a FUCK of a lot easier to paint than representational pictures. Gog damn. -
One time I was walking back to the atelier from lunch and passed by the lovely Brainwash Cafe. Two young women were sitting outside at a table, being spoken to by a young man. I admit to having a goony White Knight complex, especially when it comes to street harassment, so I pricked up my ears to listen as I passed by, to see if they were having any trouble.
He got angrier and angrier, and it became apparent that he was demanding money from them (of which they had none, being art students like myself), calling them names, trying to intimidate them, and refusing to leave after they had asked him politely to go. I stopped walking and addressed him calmly, pointing out that they had asked him to leave them alone and he needed to do so. He refused, and at that point I lost my cool because it was yet another dude imposing his priorities on women out of some sense of entitlement to their time and attention.
I got in his face, and when that didn't work, I gave the guy a solid bro-shove right in the shoulders and told him to back off. I looked up and three of my fellow students from the atelier had stepped up behind me and were about ready to step in. One of the young women at the table gently restrained me, and a patron of the cafe stepped up to discourage my opponent. Commence much stupid puffing of chests and blustering on both sides. I was about to really get in over my head when a cop showed up and pulled the dude away.
It was a dumb thing to do but goddamn, I can't honestly say I wouldn't do it again. I predict that eventually I will buy a cowl and a utility belt and start getting my ass kicked on a nightly basis. -
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asked by yetidetective
The majority of sexist behavior is not rooted in some essential wickedness, although that would make sexism much easier to address. There are very few people who are sexist by explicit and informed intent; the majority of oppressive behavior comes from sexism, racism, and oppression simply being normalized. Which is why people flip their fucking shit when you ask them to examine their own privilege, because what you're doing is shaking the very foundations of their reality. The nature of privilege is that you don't notice it until someone takes it away from you. Men (the vast majority of white men in the united states, that is) have the privilege of walking down the street without being hunted for sport. That's where victim-blaming comes in: when it's Normal for you to get drunk and pass out at a frat party without getting raped, it takes a mighty effort of will to understand that the person who DID get raped didn't do anything to cause or deserve their attack. After all--what you do is Normal, therefore they must have deviated somehow.
The horrible truth is that oppression is what's normal. Getting the privileged to recognize and address this is extremely difficult because it doesn't fit into the Just World Hypothesis which we've all been taught throughout grade school and which many, many people never have to think about or adjust. In a Just World, you would have to do something bad in order to have something bad happen to you. It's logical, it's just very shallow logic.
That's why addressing sexism, racism and homophobia (and transphobia and so on) is so incredibly hard, particularly when you're talking to the ubiquitous White Heterosexual Cisgendered Man. -
I carry a collapsible steel baton and a vicious attitude. Covering yourself won't make a difference; sexual harassment is about reinforcing the pecking order more than it is about sexual attraction.
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No. It seems like a literal hell on earth, where people go to broil in fleshpits of sin. I also am intensely irritated by the hippie-dippy flowerchild Berkeley honky archetype so the idea of paying huge amounts of money for tickets to their Mecca makes me shudder with horror. On the other hand I love the other types of people BM attracts, including circus folks and my good friends the post-goths, but still.
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I would love to design and direct animation projects but I myself do not have the patience for animating.
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Jhonen Vasquez' greatest skill is in tapping into subconscious modern archetypes, which is why I can say without irony that I am literally Devi irl.
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asked by jesskahFACE
Everyone draws when they're a kid. Some people just don't ever stop. I thought I was going to be a veterinarian, but in high school I started seeing some success with my artwork so I decided to pursue it. Everything that happened afterwards cemented my decision further.
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Depends on if we're talking about the nosferatu-type sewer monster or the glittery twink variety.
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