Random facts about today
1. I had 89 items in my desktop trashcan.
2. I was 12 minutes late to office hours this morning.
3. I got home at 9:39 tonight.
4. I have lost 2 of my favorite earrings in the past two weeks — not from the same set, of course. (Not about today, but who’s counting?)
5. My 220 exam should have opened at 9:00 tonight as per adaptive release. It didn’t.
6. I gave a thumbs down to 3 textbooks for our textbook adoption committee.
7. Wendy’s did not give me a straw, ketchup, or a tomato even though I paid them $6.53 for my meal.
Here is the curious thing: Add all these numbers up and divide by 12. That proves my life is pi.
Pornification
Recently on WMST-L, the Women’s Studies discussion list, someone posted a call for papers about porn culture. The call was clearly anti-porn and the posting provoked a brief but rapid pro-/anti-porn debate before the moderator shut it down for being inappropriate to the mission of the list. Those old issues from the feminist sex wars still prickle at us feminists and I’m predictably on the fence about porn. I content myself to remember the title of the book, Pleasure and Danger, because porn is both those things, a crucial point about sex that we should always remember.
But one thing that does bother me is the pornification of consumer culture. I mean this in a different (more…)
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