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    What's going on with you?

    in Bring the Noise

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    Thank you all. I have been away with the family for the weekend at Center Parcs and had a fantastic time. Lyra has just gone down so it's the first time I have been online for days. I feel like I should be feeling old now I'm 40 but at the moment I am just knackered from a busy few days. A special thanks to all those that participated in Amy's birthday surprise for me.

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    Star Trek

    in Bring the Noise

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    Well, it's an event. I guess that's progress. :shrug: Hey, maybe next week someone will get fired from the final issue of Desolation Jones.

     

    I discovered today that an

    included a scene that wasn't in the film, in which we see Winona Ryder without ageing makeup. I want to confess that although I've seen the movie twice, I didn't know she was wearing ageing makeup. Not even joking.

     

    Ha ha me neither. I'm going to have to remember to look at her more closely the next time I see it. Coincidentally it was on a couple of days ago but it was halfway through and Vulcan was already destroyed.

    What's going on with you?

    in Bring the Noise

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    You're all too kind.

     

    Pics or it didn't happen.

     

    The pics are freely available to you. You clearly don't spend enough idle time on the internet. :tongue:

     

    I spend way too much time on the internet but clearly in the wrong places. I am now browsing them on Facebook and not working on configuring backups of the virtual machines as I should be doing.

     

    Looks fantastic Jason. I am salivating over the photos of the street food.

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    Other genders are available

    in Bring the Noise

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    Regardless of whether the shirt was sexist or not I do find it odd that given it was likely that he would be interviewed on camera that day that he wasn't asked to dress more professionally.

     

    We dress casually at my office i.e. most people are in jeans and t-shirt but when meeting clients we dress more smartly or if clients are due to come into the office then an email is sent out reminding all staff to dress smartly.

    GamerGate

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    It's a clear example of the thinking 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend', the same reasoning saw them welcome Milo Yiannopoulos into the fold despite his derision for gamers and the gaming community.

     

    There are clearly people within the movement that don't approve of the misogyny of other members and the allying of the movement with people that are anti-gamer, but the idea of splitting off and forming a new movement that genuinely is concerned with ethics in journalism has been shouted down and cast in the light of giving into the 'enemy'.

    GamerGate

    in Bring the Noise

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    GamerGate is a monster the industry itself created by telling male gamers they’re the center of the universe and catering to their every whim.— Feminist Frequency (@femfreq) https://twitter.com/femfreq/status/533869811726442497

     

    Anita Sarkeesian can be such a troll sometimes. I think that the following would be more accurate, but it's not a divisive and likely to cause negative reaction as what she said.

     

    GamerGate is a monster born out of some male gamers thinking that they’re the center of the universe and that the industry should be catering exclusively to their every whim.

     

    Twitter is such a bad medium for these types of discussions as the 140 character limit means that accuracy and subtlety of language is sacrificed in the name of brevity.

    GamerGate

    in Bring the Noise

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    My mother couldn't have her name on a mortgage because she was married. Those ideas seem ridiculous to young women now.

     

    My mother-in-law wasn't given a middle name because her dad said that she wouldn't need to be signing cheques or anything important.

     

    Key issues in feminism in the past (women's right to work, control of their sexuality & reproductive rights, violence in relationships) are now taken much more seriously (poss not violence in relationships) so a 20 something female feminist now, with access to education, work, autonomy and used to her voice being heard, will have other priorities.

     

    Again my mother-in-law who used to run a couple of women's refuges and is now running classes on domestic violence would say that violence in relationships is now taken much more seriously institutionally i.e. the police, the court system etc. but that the big issue is getting to the hearts and minds of the victims, the perpetrators and fundamentally the rest of society. A lot of people can't even see that they're in an abusive relationship, just think it is normal or understanding that it isn't normal will still make excuses for their abuser.

     

    She loves the current storyline with Patrick and Maxine on Hollyoaks because it shows what many abusive relationship are actually like with very controlling behaviours but actually very little violence.

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