BadMormon

Found out what’s wrong with me

Planer Fasciitis This is a pain in my foot, heel/arch area, right foot, that has been going on for a few months now. I ignored it at first, tried to get new shoes, looked for a way to stay off it (impossible – my entire life is running from one part of nyc to the next several times a day, if I’m makin money.)

Basically I, the nonest-athlete of my family, has an athletic injury. Over used, under cared for. Yeah that’s about right.

Images Say It All

(a)muse collective – raw art now.

Latest Art!

Penny Pollak’s “No Traveler” I’m stage managing this show, trying to publicize, and watch the rehearsals. It’s gonna be good.
Even before I started a Collective with Penny Pollak I was watching her host an open mic, somehow generous and open to every performer on her stage and then in another playwright’s work – “Broken Dog Legs.” She blew me away and is one of the many reasons that I agreed to be in a collective with her. You don’t turn down the amazing talent that is backed by hours of hard work. And now it’s her words, her vision. Come See it. Penny Pollak’s “No Traveler” – Directed by the amazing Samantha Jones.
get tickets here:

what I am doing too much of these days

Ratchet & Clank.

A Very Yoga Christmas! TONIGHT

Facebook | A Very Yoga Christmas!

It’s an (a)muse production, in association with HorseTrade Theater Group – 8pm till whenever we get done.  acts, bands, cupcakes and secret santa (bring a cheap gift – get a cheap gift)

This is was the family party should be like.  Come Celebrate the holidays.  And check the video for a sampling of the artists you’ll see.

Scarleteen speaks plainly about sex and gives real answers

Help Lift Sex Ed to a Higher Plane: Support Scarleteen! | Scarleteen.

Why I love Ursula K. Le Guin

Not only did she create a world where white is the minority and allows the darkness of the predominate skin type to be implied as the norm instead of mentioned constantly but this quote today thrilled me:

“What’s wrong with men?” Tenar inquired caughtiously.

As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, “I don’t know, my dearie. I’ve thought on it. Often I’ve thought on it. The best I can say it is like this. A man’s in his skin, see, like a nut in it’s shell.” She held up her long, bent, wet fingers as if holding a walnut. “It’s hard and strong, that shell, and it’s all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, manself. And that’s all. That’s all there is. It’s all him and nothing else, inside.” -
Tehanu, Ursula K. Le Guin

YAY! MAN DOES RIGHT THING!

“Guys, males, men: you are in an incredible position to prevent violence against women, especially sexual violence. Date-rape is more common than you probably think, and oftentimes women do not come forward regarding their experiences with it. Why?”
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“Rapists aren’t monsters in dark alleyways, true; they are the person walking across the street, that guy in Spanish class, the man you saw fist-pumping at a party last week. And these men aren’t born rapists, monsters within waiting to pounce out. No, they are created by the notion that it is okay to view women as nothing more than an achievement, a challenge, or an object to be used during a one-night stand. Rape is the logical conclusion of this mode of thinking. When a man begins to view sex simply as an arena in which to attain power – to get pats-on-the-back or a personal feeling of accomplishment – the proverbial seed has already sprouted. Rape is a showing of power, a grasping for control over somebody. When a man dehumanizes a woman in his own mind, he is already crossing the line.”

via An apology and response – Opinion.

Desktop Speakers that ROCK!

This is where I put the things I’ve researched cause I want them but don’t have any money so I need somewhere to find it again, rinse and repeat. Been needing decent speakers for the computer for a while and the friends were talking on facebook and bestest friend I trust said these so they’re on the list!

Of course if you’re looking for a way to appreciate all that I do for you… :D

M-AUDIO – Studiophile AV 30 – Compact Desktop Speaker System.

New Scholarly Thing on Sexual Coercion in Primates

Despicable, Yes, but Not Inexplicable » American Scientist .

“The science that allows us to understand sexual coercion by males is drawn directly from Darwin’s own work on sexual selection. There is, however, another layer here, because of course one cannot talk about the evolution of sexual aggression in male primates without pondering the social consequences of the same behavior in our own species. Are domestic violence and sexual assault simply human homologues of the same conduct seen in chimpanzees and baboons? Many social scientists bristle at this suggestion, with its invocation of biological determinism. This volume’s authors, many of them female researchers, do an excellent job of sensitively exploring the boundary between phenotype and environment that is the stuff of which human behavior is made.”
The small amount I’ve skimmed on the article about it has me drooling to read it.  I’m not scientist enough to judge the factual or inferred ramifications of this paper but I do think that the only way to stop rape and abuse is to understand the basis for it in our human nature.

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And as I kept reading I got this quote from further down –
“The most compelling contribution in this section is a paper by Melissa Emery Thompson, who argues persuasively that most rapes are not committed by lonely, socially maladjusted men, as Thornhill and Palmer imagined. Instead, rape is a crime most often carried out by men who are sexually experienced and connected to the victim in some way. This changing view of rape is no doubt a reflection of better reporting of crime statistics. That in turn is a result of society having begun to take a more expansive view of such criminal acts, which women of earlier generations might not have been willing to report due to fear of social stigmatization. It should not surprise us that acquaintance rapists far outnumber stranger rapists, nor that the modus operandi of sexual assaults differs in the two different contexts. Acquaintance rapists are not necessarily pathological in other social contexts; they rarely resort to the levels of physical force or violence that stranger rapists employ. All this, Thompson argues, should contribute to a view that acquaintance rape accords with evolutionary perspectives about the rationales for male dominance over and control of female sexuality. And as Thompson puts it, even if an evolutionary perspective does not help us understand how to prevent sexually coercive behavior, “it may give us a clearer picture of the enormity of the problem we are dealing with.”

Exactly