Stuff.

[kiya]

I wrote a chapter and a half this weekend, but nothing since. Still, that's progress of a mighty sort, since I don't think I'd written anything significant in a dog's age.

Have a swollen lymph node behind my left ear, though the swelling went down dramatically when I treated the cracked skin that was exposing my lymphatic system to the elements. Keeping an eye on it, or rather an occasional fingertip.

Up far later than my crankiness should have permitted.

Orlando emailed me again. I remain disinclined to reply. I suppose I can't expect him to remember that I haven't responded to him since it became clear how much of a despicable sexist he was since he also can't remember that I'm one of those people he hates, you know, the kinky ones.

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[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

Orlando strikes me as otherwise smart; I can't figure out why he can't apply even the most basic thinking processes to communicating with women, but it's a consistent pattern, that's for sure.

[kiya]

I'm not entirely sure that he sees women as real in certain critical ways -- he has expressed enough objectifying sentiments about women in general, and poly women and/or women who are comfortable discussing sexuality in specific that I think there's a serious disconnect there. I suspect that of being a chunk of it.

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's pretty clear that he thinks women are somehow not real people or something. But re-initiating contact with someone he already should know he's not interested in, that smells of something else, compulsion maybe.

[kiya]

My theory runs more or less that since he can't deal with the women of ap as anything other than objects, he doesn't sort out which ones hate his guts except, perhaps, for those who have been extremely explicit about it, sufficient to become specific objects rather than 'one of those pieces of pussy'.

[jenett]

I love your summary on Orlando. Because, yeah, well, true.

[labrys6.livejournal.com]

Gee, I realize I know less about this Orlando guy than others who have been reading your posts longer, but damn! How insecure does a guy gotta be to be threatened enough to 'hate' a "kinky one"...I mean, sounds like fun to me! But hey, maybe I am just another degenerate in whatever book he subscribes to?

[kiya]

If I can remember the summary of his arguments, it's that he finds people who do s/m specifically to be clearly defective human beings, and bondage and d/s is racist, and thus all those kinky people are broken and evil.

[labrys6.livejournal.com]

What a waste of space such a closed mind is! I tend to think of s/m and bondage as a sort of way of FIXING things that such people find themselves dealing with---to me it is yet one more remarkable way the human creature copes and continues. Something to celebrate, not something to reject and condemn.

[kiya]

I'd note that a lot of BDSM folks would be ... irked by the notion that their kink was about fixing anything, rather than about what they enjoy. It's certainly not true in my case.

But, of course, the fact that I don't acknowledge my pernicious defectiveness in this way is further proof that I am deeply degenerate and evil beast that fine, upstanding shitstains like Orlando should have nothing to do with.

(The familiarity of my readership with this fellow is mostly due to the fact that he pollutes a newsgroup a bunch of my flist reads, not my own commentary.)

[labrys6.livejournal.com]

I certainly apologize for implying that all people into BDSM are "fixing" something; it has been my misfortune to know only a small number of such folks, and they acknowledged that at least part of their interest was generated by a desire to "fix" something. (Sometimes they were not sure WHAT...but nonetheless...fixing). When someone rants on as this Orlando seems to do, I find myself wondering what it is in himself that he is busy DIS-acknowledging. Yes, I am polluted by Shakespeare (the lady doth protest too much), why do you ask? In a similar vein, I wonder why in hell Anne Coulter just HAS to call everyone a fag or a dyke? But, dear soul, WHY did you have to use a phrase that now has my mind striving to envision such an oxymoron as an "upstanding shitstain"? Damn, first Tapati has me trying to envision the taking BACK OF blowjobs...and now this? If my mind goes into a flat spin, I want you to know I blame the two of you!

[kiya]

*laugh* We aims to boggle?

It was really one of those semi-ironically intended things -- the creature in question goes on about how he is the one being reasonable and civil, it's the women he treats like whores' fault, they were out there talking about sex and not being monogamous.

[labrys6.livejournal.com]

Mission accomplished! My mind is boggled....I have always envisioned shitstains as more or less recumbent (cause I knock them on their asses whenever possible?)...so "upright"?? Doesn' compute. And oh yes, us whores.
Well, I like whores much better than shitstains, thank you.

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

Ah! This perhaps explains his recent outburst on the group.

[kiya]

*goes and peers*

My, someone put on his cranky pants this morning, didn't he.