Bad Blood

Archive for November 2011

What are you looking for?

Posted by: badblood on: November 25, 2011

Every so often I post a Facebook update in a series I call “the Wisdom of Manhunt” (or Grindr).  They’re just quotes from people’s profiles on gay chat sites that made me LOL or WTF (and sometimes both in equal measure).  I love it when someone says something spiteful, e.g. ageist or racist, in such [...]

Easy to claim and hard to dispel: the cautionary rule lives on

Posted by: badblood on: November 23, 2011

In the 17th Century, the Lord Chief Justice Hale contributed two rather terrible myths about rape to the common law. The first was that marriage is a contract assigning sexual consent, so that a husband could not be prosecuted for raping his wife. The second was a comment on the supposed difficulty of proving the [...]

Make love, not history: the new meaning of Mardi Gras

Posted by: badblood on: November 19, 2011

So the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras has ‘rebranded’. Apparently being specific about what you’re celebrating is exclusive to the things you are not celebrating, and as everyone knows, being exclusive is bad. We should celebrate diversity and inclusion instead! And so we get this: So now we’re celebrating something so bland and asinine, [...]


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