Jedi School and laughing at the sick
Sep. 12th, 2008 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrMy brain is utterly befuddled today. But two links before I forget:
A jedi uni course has opened in the UK
An interesting post about the way talk shows prey on the mentally ill Nothing new, really, but I hadn't quite thought of it that way.
Reading Across the Porn divide and the links on the side from an ex-radical-feminist got me thinking about the way all groups turn into dogmatic orthodoxy, and the difficulty of being someone who is in that group but doesn't want to 100% fit the mould. (Which is me with every group I join ever) Something she doesn't mention is the glee with which some people from the "other side" will embrace you only to reel back in horror when they realise no, you still disagree with/are not one of them, just not in the same rigid way as everyone else in your group. But I guess she was trying to be nice and build bridges, not take potshots at both sides :)
A jedi uni course has opened in the UK
An interesting post about the way talk shows prey on the mentally ill Nothing new, really, but I hadn't quite thought of it that way.
Reading Across the Porn divide and the links on the side from an ex-radical-feminist got me thinking about the way all groups turn into dogmatic orthodoxy, and the difficulty of being someone who is in that group but doesn't want to 100% fit the mould. (Which is me with every group I join ever) Something she doesn't mention is the glee with which some people from the "other side" will embrace you only to reel back in horror when they realise no, you still disagree with/are not one of them, just not in the same rigid way as everyone else in your group. But I guess she was trying to be nice and build bridges, not take potshots at both sides :)
