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February 15, 2012
I finally pinpointed what exactly irritates me about The Help
I'm used to the magical Negro trope, so that's not it. It was a sympathetic movie too.
What's wrong with The Help is illustrated in this post over at Dear Author where Jaili wrote that she thought Cajuns were part black, and liked the stories because they were written as if the Cajun characters were real people, not minority tags and stereotypes.
It was almost all about sex where mixed race characters were concerned. Authors did used this to their Cajun characters as well. Such as...
February 14, 2012
How Evil Loves
I know this topic isn't very hearts and flowers for Valentine's Day, but it goes with my Work In Progress.
Ayn Rand's writings expose her psyche as Nazi-level evil. It's interesting how she defines love. She despised the tenets of Christianity. She rejected anything that didn't smack of self-fulfilling superiority over others and the Do What Thou Wilt philosophy Crowley and other prominent Satanists espoused.
You asked me to explain the meaning of my sentence in The Fountainhead: "To say...
Moving Servers
FYI, I'm changing hosts and transferring domain names, so this site might go down and be down for a few days.
February 12, 2012
What if women approached sex and romance like men do?
I remember posting a video positing the question if women as horny as men in the former rendition of my site. My favorite part was a gender role reversal in a strip club. It was so funny. Here's another one–what if gender roles were reversed in bars? I like the part with the fat guy.
Here's a redux of Opposite World, what if women were as horny as men? I still chortled at the strip club part.
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