Baby what-now?

Why?
Why do I keep finding and invariably reading about articles that reduce sexuality to a News spectacle AND on par with bisexual erasure.

Seriously, world, what the fuck?

In the, admittedly, populists article Baby dykes: the young girls who swap their sexuality, meaningful relationships and sexual diversity is reduced to, as mentioned, a News spectacle and bisexuality is no where to be found.

[...]
Along with Katy Perry, Peaches Geldof has now kissed a girl — and she liked it. With that one act she has joined part-time lesbianism, taking advantage of the younger generation's complete acceptance of malleable sexuality.

Emphasis by me.

See, the contradiction with in this opening paragraph is disturbing to me.
First of all... "part-time lesbianism"?
Sexual identity may be considered in our post-modern sensibility a bit more fluid, but the lives that people live within those identity are not.
To qualify a lesbian experience as "part-time" is to immediately diminish it - obviously the majority of the time she's straight and that's how it should be.

Also, bisexual people are not part time anything! Our identities are as stable as the staunchest homo or hetero or cis or trans or any other fluid-identity person in the world.
To be fluid, does not mean that one is not stable - is water inconsistent?
I think not.

In addition, the wording "malleable sexuality" is misleading. If something is malleable that means it is influenced and manipulated from by an external force - that is, our sexual experiences are not actually true since they were manipulated by others to seem... like anything.
Thus, if I kissed a girl and I liked it, in the realm of malleability, the whole idea of liking anything, of having a choice in what we do with our sexuality is canceled out.

Yeah, fuck that.

The whole article is rife with quotes like this and I wouldn't mind going through it and tearing it apart.

Maybe later, if there's any interest.

Just another entry about Iran

I had been trying to find good links and have something to actually say about Iran and the elections which were so blatantly falsified I don't know where to begin about that.

ontd_political has a live update on the situation to which I am linking:


I can only say, keep yourself informed, read what you can and just know that change in possible.

On a more pessimistic note, I don't think this is going to be Iran's big change. So many have already died and what with the Revolutionary Guards brining in troops from other counties - in one of Andrew Sullivan's updates at The Daily Dish, he reports that Mousavi supporters heard their attackers speak Arabic and not Farsi.

Meanwhile, as the killing, fighting and violence goes on, the Ayatollah himself is calling for National Unity. I'm interested to see if his blatant religious rhetoric will actually fool the people who are pissed off at him and his posse.

The Israeli Person-On-The-Street doesn't particularly care about all this, because both the conservative and the progressive governments would have continued with their nuclear plans and very doubtful, that even if the Reformist Mousavi would have won that he would have decided that Israel was worth talking to.
As far as Israel is concerned, if you're not with us, you're against us.
I wish we'd get it into our minds that we are, in fact, teeny-tiny and pretty much not worth thinking about by bigger, richer nations in any kind of beneficial way.
Even the EU is postponing upgrading ties with Israel.

Whatever shit the world is in, it is certainly interesting.
Can understand why that's a curse, huh.