Placeholder post: Superbad and rape

2007 October 18 at 1:57 AM (2007, placeholder)

rape promotion, victim methods for coping with rape (continuing to go out with rapist afterward), current notions of rape in context of 2006 south carolina consent withdrawal case & 2007 pennsylvania ‘gangbang sex forced at gunpoint = theft of services != rape’ case – who can get raped, focus on victim behavior (treated guilty until proven innocent) versus rapist behavior (treated innocent until proven guilty)

men entitled to beautiful girls

girls as sex objects

girls as other

girls as destroyers of boys’ friendship (presumably more important than male-female sexual relationships)

male buddy movie genre, lack of same for female — movies with strong female primary characters aside from Mean Girls?

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Placeholder post: Nobel Peace Prize

2007 October 18 at 1:53 AM (2007, placeholder)

IPCC, Al Gore, climate change, being green, U.S. politics

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/opinion/17friedman.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/opinion/13herbert.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/opinion/14friedman.html

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE3DF1330F930A35753C1A9619C8B63&n=Top/Opinion/Editorials%20and%20Op-Ed/Op-Ed/Columnists/Thomas%20L%20Friedman

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE5D71131F935A1575AC0A9619C8B63&n=Top/Opinion/Editorials%20and%20Op-Ed/Op-Ed/Columnists/Thomas%20L%20Friedman

NYT needs to come up with a simpler way to permalink their articles.

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