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Tom Skerritt or Dave Matthews
What book have you read the most?: Tao te Ching
Meridian or Film Forum
Jesus or Santa (sexually)?
What song do you want played at your funeral?: "Morning Has Broken," by Cat Stevens

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May 10 jade commented on SL Letter of the Day: Walk The Talk.

Yeah, @22, I love your posts.

Dec 1, 2012 jade commented on Good Advice From Violentacrez, the Man Outted As Reddit's More Infamous Troll: "Be nice.".

Jesus Christ, #100. Thank you.

Nov 4, 2012 jade commented on Sexy Advice Column Costume.

Sexism was widespread too, and we don't label all the men in that period who might not have been 100% behind the women's movement as women hating.

The Feminine Mystique was written in 1963. The majority if civil rights legislation (including Title VII) came about in the mid-60s and NOW was formed in 1966. It's because of these huge moves forward that those 70s housewives, when they woke up, had the power to speak up. Like I said earlier, we (and the LW) stand on their shoulders. Those 70s housewives did too.

That being said, this conversation has led me to do some reading, and I'm disappointed in how many feminists whom I admire got behind Dworkin's anti-porn movement. It's kind of shocking what the 60s women's rights movement turned into in the 80s. I wish we could label that in some way, so when some clueless letter writer in a clever Halloween costume takes a shot at "second wave feminism," kneejerks like me would know what she's talking about.

Nov 4, 2012 jade commented on Sexy Advice Column Costume.

@10. I agree that Dworkin was, in a lot of ways, a horrid woman. I don't agree with anything that she had to say about porn or feminism or men. But being a feminist who was a leader in the anti-pornography movement is not the same as being a part of the second wave feminist movement. That had already happened by the time she came into the picture. Her time was the very late 70s-80s, after most of the battle had already been fought and won. Second wave feminism had its heyday in the 60s and early-to-mid-70s.

Second wave feminism was about equality, just like first wave feminism. Comparing its mission and what it accomplished to what a crazy, fucked-up radical like Dworkin had to say about porn isn't fair to what those women and men did for us in the 60s. Yes, Dworkin considered herself a feminist. But she was fringe.

Nov 4, 2012 jade commented on Sexy Advice Column Costume.

Jesus Christ. Her nasty comment about those feminists on whose shoulders she stands is almost as loathsome as her writing "skills."

Aug 27, 2012 jade commented on Newly Married Straight Couple Invites Gay Couples to Have First Dance at Wedding Reception to Protest Marriage Inequality.

The song choice is perfect. It should be the theme song for the marriage equality fight.

Aug 27, 2012 jade commented on New & Rabidly Anti-Gay Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco Arrested for DUI.

But no minors were raped so, you know, no biggie.

But ... when's that ever been a "biggie" in the Catholic Church?

Aug 25, 2012 jade commented on An Open Letter to Zoe at AfterElton.

What gets to me is that Zoe will never understand that she embarrassed herself with this letter. No one told her that placing judgement and drawing conclusions on a play that she's neither seen nor read about is intellectually bankrupt. AfterEllen published this, knowing this.

Zoe will go through life, smugly thinking she's championed the downtrodden and put that privileged Dan Savage in his place. She'll never know she's made a fool of herself.