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Joyce Jackson is turning tricks for world peace ([info]rejoyce) wrote,
@ 2010-06-28 12:14:00

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Entry tags:earth boys are easy, first against the wall, take me away

002// Winston Churchill had to be good for something
Sometimes I despair of both this school and our future. Actual despair. It'd be nice to think that gross disregard for individual worth and blatant lack of consideration would be shunned and therefore disappear from the gene pool, but since this type of stupidity appears to have achieved gender equality, it will no doubt breed. If anything were going to drive me to drink, this would be it, but in the morning, I will be sober, and people will still be spiritually ugly.

And I can't say that the Department of Magical Games and Sports filled me with hope either. They were clearly all on their best behaviour (the staff, obviously not the students) but there were still some of those appallingly objectifying Harpies posters in some of the cubicles. You know, the ones where they're in bikinis. Wow, that really makes me confident that whoever worked there would really take my points under serious consideration, if only he could spare time from his strenuous workload of imagining me naked.

Countdown to graduation so underway. Anywhere but here, baby.



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[info]palderton
2010-06-28 03:58 am UTC (link)
Honestly right? It's been a stressful day.

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[info]rejoyce
2010-06-28 04:13 am UTC (link)
I am breaking open my emergency packet of blood-orange dark chocolate even as I write this.

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[info]palderton
2010-06-28 04:37 am UTC (link)
You know it's gotten bad then.

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[info]rejoyce
2010-06-28 04:41 am UTC (link)
I know! It better not get any worse between now and Hogsmeade or I'll be well munted.

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(no subject) - [info]palderton, 2010-06-28 04:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rejoyce, 2010-06-28 05:00 am UTC

[info]ijboot
2010-06-28 04:19 am UTC (link)
Uhm...you know, if we were to breed, our children would not be cursed with these disabilities. So. If you'd like to live the rest of your life being worshipped and bearing children...gimme a call?

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[info]rejoyce
2010-06-28 04:43 am UTC (link)
I have slightly higher plans for my life than that.

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[info]ijboot
2010-06-28 05:44 pm UTC (link)
Well I mean obviously, but I meant that if you wanted to live your life in addition to bearing socially conscious children and being worshipped. Not only bearing children. Obviously.

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[info]macabrely
2010-06-28 04:49 am UTC (link)
Pity that gender equality hasn't yet managed to reach the more important aspects of daily life.

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[info]rejoyce
2010-06-28 04:58 am UTC (link)
Baby steps?

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[info]macabrely
2010-06-28 05:08 am UTC (link)
More like "pop out some babies and then we'll consider viewing you as a worthy asset to society".

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[info]rejoyce
2010-06-28 05:17 am UTC (link)
Or worse, "only once I have married and whelped am I worthy of the name woman!" UGH.

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(no subject) - [info]macabrely, 2010-06-28 05:31 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rejoyce, 2010-06-28 05:47 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]macabrely, 2010-06-28 05:54 am UTC

[info]jazzing
2010-06-28 04:59 am UTC (link)
Gender equality? Do you mean in that due to decreasing numbers, the pureblood elite have allowed women to actually have voices? You really shouldn't stress about that; it isn't as if they'll be called upon to be breeding cows once they are properly married. I never did understand that aspect of their society. Were I to marry, I should want my wife to be an equal companion and choices made equally between the two of us.

It's like a match when you first lit it and it flares up, but then it settles. Or a cake in the oven, when it rises during baking, then settles upon cooling. That analogy is perhaps more apt. They just nip at heels, then go complacently into the night.

There's a Hunky Healers calendar out too; do you feel those women who display those have a lack of respect for any man that comes across their path?

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[info]rejoyce
2010-06-28 05:07 am UTC (link)
Actually, I mostly just mean that this week has seen a roughly equal number of idiotic, thoughtless, bigoted guys and girls. The truly depressing part is the likelihood that perfectly sensible people will wind up breeding with the idiots. Anyway, I'm sure you're a vision of feminine empowerment.

Depends on where you display it. I can - and do! - appreciate the many fine attributes of the male form, but when I start displaying such images in a professional environment, I am contaminating any interactions in that space with the purely-physical connotations of those images. It's both intimidating and demeaning.

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[info]jazzing
2010-06-28 05:14 am UTC (link)
I cannot tell if that last part - my being a vision of feminine empowerment - is sarcastic or not. It's hard to tell, in written text. I think you're wrong about the idiots part - I think the only person who might marry bigots are other bigots.

Ah, I understand your point now, and it is a fair one. Rest assured, I don't have Bikini Bikers hanging up anywhere, like some people, *coughcoughiancoughcouh* do.

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(no subject) - [info]ijboot, 2010-06-28 05:21 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]jazzing, 2010-06-28 05:24 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ijboot, 2010-06-28 05:34 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]jazzing, 2010-06-28 05:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ijboot, 2010-06-28 05:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]jazzing, 2010-06-28 05:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rejoyce, 2010-06-28 05:56 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ijboot, 2010-06-28 05:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rejoyce, 2010-06-28 05:22 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]jazzing, 2010-06-28 05:28 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rejoyce, 2010-06-28 06:02 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]jazzing, 2010-06-28 06:14 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rejoyce, 2010-06-28 06:17 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]jazzing, 2010-06-28 06:21 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rejoyce, 2010-06-28 06:25 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]jazzing, 2010-06-28 06:32 am UTC

[info]capuletwho
2010-06-28 11:46 am UTC (link)
What are your plans for after graduation, Joyce?

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[info]oucey
2010-06-28 02:01 pm UTC (link)
That was going to be my question.

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[info]capuletwho
2010-06-28 02:23 pm UTC (link)
I'm a thief!

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(no subject) - [info]oucey, 2010-06-28 02:34 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]capuletwho, 2010-06-28 02:36 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]oucey, 2010-06-28 02:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]capuletwho, 2010-06-28 02:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]oucey, 2010-06-28 02:58 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]capuletwho, 2010-06-28 06:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]oucey, 2010-06-28 07:20 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]capuletwho, 2010-06-29 12:21 am UTC

[info]rejoyce
2010-06-28 10:54 pm UTC (link)
At the moment, I'm thinking South America, though some days south-east Asia wins. Not really plans, yet. More a vision of potentialities that keep me sane.

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[info]capuletwho
2010-06-29 12:21 am UTC (link)
Vision?

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(no subject) - [info]rejoyce, 2010-06-29 05:06 am UTC

[info]prickly
2010-06-29 04:35 am UTC (link)
Oi, I have male Quidditch calendars. Objectification is fun. I don't know what I'd do without those.

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[info]rejoyce
2010-06-29 05:08 am UTC (link)
Well, look, I think we know the delight I take in a good bit of man-candy, but there's a place for that sort of thing, and it isn't the office.

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[info]prickly
2010-06-29 05:43 am UTC (link)
Normally I would agree if it the office wasn't directly related to Quidditch. However, it probably would get better use in the loo.

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(no subject) - [info]rejoyce, 2010-06-29 10:42 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]prickly, 2010-06-30 12:40 am UTC

[info]stubborn_as
2010-06-30 02:40 am UTC (link)
Wasn't that trip just loads of fun? I completely agree about those posters too. I mean they should have at least taken them down while we were there. I don't exactly want to see that.

Also, how many days left until graduation? Too many.

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[info]rejoyce
2010-06-30 04:23 am UTC (link)
Exactly.

One less, now. I'm keeping a tally. On my buff quidditch men calendar.

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[info]stubborn_as
2010-06-30 04:33 am UTC (link)
Oooh, I like buff quidditch men. I'm sure it helps you stay focused with your tally.

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