Monday Morning Miscellanea

[vovat]

1. While writing this post, I thought about how common it is for people who accept one belief system without thinking will often be the harshest critics of others. Look at Jack Chick talking about Islam, for instance. And for an example with more modern relevance, take the people who are always going on about how you can't trust the "liberal media," yet have no problem with anything Bill O'Reilly says, even when he contradicts himself. In a way, they're right. You shouldn't implicitly trust the mainstream media, or the government, or the Bible, or the Quran. But that doesn't mean you should just find alternatives that you DO totally believe. The thing is, I'm in favor of skeptical attitudes, but I think some of your Fox News viewers and the like don't really HAVE skeptical attitudes. Rather, they're so keen on false dichotomies that they feel that one news network or holy book is entirely right, and another entirely wrong. That doesn't mean I think you should consider every opinion equally valid, which often seems to be what the mainstream media want to do. No, Sarah Palin's death panel fantasies don't deserve equal time with ACTUAL coverage of the health care debate, any more than Creationism deserves to be taught in science classes.

2. The "bromance" concept is pretty popular in the film industry these days, isn't it? I guess it's just not something that appeals to me, because I've never really had guy friends. I've had friends who were guys, but not friends I did Guy Things with. Honestly, guys' guys kind of make me uncomfortable.

3. Are celebrity crushes more of a girl thing than a guy thing? I think the stereotypical view might be that girls can have fairly intense crushes on famous people, while guys just want to have sex with them, but I don't think that always actually holds up. Still, from the not at all scientific sample I've seen, it looks to be more men who say, in essence, "I don't like whatever it is that she does, but I'd still bang her!" For me, it's kind of difficult to separate the two. That can also work the other way, though, and I often find myself attracted to people whose work I do admire, physically as well as mentally. It's sometimes at least partially sexual, but not always. I mean, I think I have a certain level of attraction to Andy Partridge, but being a straight male, I wouldn't want to shag him. I don't know. Sometimes it's difficult to know where to draw the line, especially when you only know someone through a public persona.

4. I don't think I agree that pizza and sex are both at least pretty good even when they're not THAT good. For instance, I don't like pizza with onions on it. And while I haven't tried it, I imagine I wouldn't like sex with onions, either.

5. Happy birthday to themall, and happy belated birthday to revme!

Comments

[auronsgirl.livejournal.com]

I have a certain level of attraction to Andy Partridge

YOU LEAVE MY ANDY PARTRIDGE ALONE! HE'S MY 20-SOME-ODD-YEAR CRUSH!

*cough*

Yeah, he's got 21 years on me, and even if we did ever meet, we may or may not get on. We're both bloody-minded and stubborn. I got nothin'.

[revme.livejournal.com]

2. I know -- it seems that Guys' Guys tend to be all fratboy and annoying and basically all "BEER AND TITTIES AND SPOOOOOOORTS!!!!" and man, I only care about ONE of those things, and even that one, I don't feel the need to talk about 24/7.

3. I have hell of crushes like that. Dang ol' Bailey Quarters on WKRP. I would love to give her a million hugs and tell her it's all right.

4. Well, I guess it depends if you normally cry after sex! (ba-dump-dump)

5. Thanks!

[vovat.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

sex with onions

[suegypt.livejournal.com]

Sex with an onion, or even several, even vidalia sweet onions, just doesn't seem like it'd be very much fun. Sure, you wouldn't have to apologize if you had bad breath, but I bet they would make you cry eventually

[1womp.livejournal.com]

1) I was once told by my childhood pastor that God wants us to be skeptical. He, so the theory goes, created us with natural doubt, the power of reasoning, and incurable inquisitiveness, so that we might "come to Him" rather than just be blind, mindless followers (which would have easily been within His power to set up from the start, right?). How that message changed into W's "You're either with us or you're against us," and was then applied to soley the the conservative world (worst. planet. ever.) I have no idea. Doubt is now blasphemy. Reason is now foolish. Being inquisitive is now heresy. Go figure.

2) I don't get the bromance thing either, and I had many wonderful guy friends...but, then again, they all were (as I later discovered) gay, so maybe the term can not be applied when actual romance may have technically been possible (although not as far as I was concerned).

3) You don't have celebrity crushes? What about Neko Case? As for me, I tend to fall into crush-love with women who no longer exist. I have a major crush on Audrey Hepburn, and would still leave my wife for her if she came back to life.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

1. The Bible and the religions that use it as their holy book sometimes goes back and forth on whether doubt is a good thing. But the "faith triumphs over reason" idea seems more appropriate for cults.

3. I have celebrity crushes, but I don't think any of them have been to the "I would leave my wife if this person wanted me" degree. Then again, things could change if I were actually IN such a situation. I do have a thing for Neko, but I think pretty much all her fans do. {g}