Wow, some people are oblivious..

From a recent email to a list I'm on..

The whole race issue wasn't my main concern, but the fact that the drug dealing has been concealed to us. More so, I never knew that there was a big drug market in Ithaca.

I thought that was almost anachronistic, it's so prevalent..

Well now..

This is one of the more unique ones.

In nakedparts's journal, people can post pix of themselves nekkid. Some are artistic, some are tasteful, some are just scary. But it's interesting, that's for sure.

(And might not want to check that one from work or a public lab. Y'know.)

Discuss!

I hope she doesn't mind me posting this here, but somehow I doubt she will.. I'm not sure what I think about the following, but I'd be interested to hear what you all think. (You can leave feedback to her, too--there's a link at the end of the first post.)

From Steph's actual journal:

Recent post 1 (April 10):

A Rant for you: I'm contemplating the interesting taboo of being able to lay your inner emotional life out for the whole world to see, but not your sexual or physical life. I can rant and rave about how happy I am, how sad and depressed and worried I am, I can lay bare my deepest emotional secrets and fears on my website, but I can't talk in detail about wanting to have sex without the world being taken aback. The sexual act and talk about it (and I don't just mean, "I wanna have sex," I mean, "I want to do this and this and have these things done to me...") always seem to fall into the category of "too much information." Why is that? It seems backwards; or if not backwards, then at least inconsistant. Granted, the sexual and physical are very intimate and personal -- but so are vulnerable thoughts! Why do we allow the mind public hearing, and not the body? What is it about the body that is so untouchable in our society? If anyone's got any thoughts, I would like to hear them.

Recent post 2 (April 13):

Many of you have written to me or talked to me about my questions regarding the public airing of sex and sexual discourse. Wow. I want to hear from even more of you. I'll expand to include the rest of my theory: people are not only nervous about the body as a sexual presence (although I think they're still the most squeemish about it) but about any manifestation of an "abnormal" body. The following are questions about the body in the world: why do we restrict and protest physical torture more than mental or emotional torture? Same with abuse? Why are our prison systems so centered around restricting the body, but not the mind? What's the deal with people and the issue of personal space? Why is physical labor automatically deemed "unskilled," even when that's clearly not the case, and why is most mental labor deemed "skilled," even when that clearly isn't the case either? Why is book education valued more highly than practical or creative education (which frequently utilises physical skills)? Why is a man gifted in intelligence more respected and more whole than one gifted in strength or grace? Why are people made so nervous by self-mutilation, surgery, implantation and piercings, etc., but not as equally by depression or mental illness (even though non-ritual self-mutilation is often the result of said mental illness)? And etc. These are the things I wonder about.

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On the plus side:

+ It's 70 degrees out, and I'm wearing shorts and sandals :)

+ I got an oil filter end-cap wrench, rear-diff gear oil, and a huge can of WD-40 for under $10! (It was a 13oz can on sale for $2.49, vs. the 6 or 8oz can for $2.99!)

+ I actually took the rest of Shauna's birthday present to the post office downtown to mail it!

+ My windshield wiper pump spontaneously started working again!

On the minus side:

- It's getting cloudy and windy :P

- My truck is probably leaking lots of random fluids :P

- I'm not entirely sure where the case of oil and oil filter that I already have are.

- The downtown post office closes at 1300 on Saturday! Grr.