Date: March 21, 2017
01) The Grandmother – David Lynch
Creepy and disturbing…
…This reminds me of horror movies from the 70’s…I’ve always loved their visual style.
…And, this has a cute boy in it.
…Instead of growing a grandmother…he probably should have grown a BoyLover.
Date: March 20, 2017
01) Hope in a Pedophobic World: The Rainbow and the Rain
Date: March 19, 2017
01) LGBT community anger over Youtube restrictions which make their videos invisible
02) YouTube is Anti – LGBT? (Restricted Content Mode)
“YouTube’s content restricted mode policy claims to protect children and families, but how is it effecting LGBT content? Who is protecting queer and trans youth?”
“Restricted mode is turned off by default but can be turned on to automatically filter “potentially inappropriate” content. According to Google, which owns YouTube, this is identified by “community flagging, age restrictions, and other signals”.
It is not a new feature, but Ellis said YouTubers were “just starting to realise the extent” of its impact: “it is filtering out a hell of a lot of LGBT content”. She said 40 of her own videos had been hidden.
“I think it’s really important to look at why LGBT content has been deemed as inappropriate. This is something which goes far beyond a mistake that YouTube might have made that they’re going to draw attention to and fix later.”
Tyler Oakley – one of the platform’s most popular personalities, with more than 8m subscribers – had tweeted on Sunday afternoon that he was “perplexed” by the apparent double standard for “LGBTQ+ creators” but was awaiting a response from YouTube, fuelling the #YouTubeIsOverParty hashtag.
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Many members of the YouTube community are now questioning whether LGBT content are inherently “sensitive” or “mature”, given inconsistencies in the videos that are restricted. In a statement to the Guardian, a spokesman reiterated that restricted mode was an “optional feature used by a very small subset of users” that, if enabled, meant some videos “that cover subjects like health, politics and sexuality may not appear”.
British YouTuber, NeonFiona, said videos in which she referenced having a girlfriend or her bisexuality had been hidden, but not those that did not specify her partner’s gender. Restricted mode didn’t appear to discriminate by discussion of sex, she added: “It’s just any and all LGBT+ titles being flagged.”
Kind of sounds like they are complaining about people’s ability to choose to have a restricted account…But, likely they’re more concerned about those who have these filters forced upon them…or who are unwittingly being affected by them.
It creates an interesting question, as to where the right to be seen or herd actually exists.
…And as a MAP, with the history I’ve had with YouTube…I am fully sympathetic.
Does the LGBTQ community have a right, to give messages to children and teens?…even when a parent or guardian [or YouTube, itself] wants to prohibit those messages?
What is the queer child’s rights, to know themselves and have queer role models?…to have some sense of normality and belonging?
It also sounds like, maybe, certain groups are exploiting the flagging system…Which is one of the oldest tactics of internet warfare…assemble large groups of people, who are willing to show up at any video for the sole reason of flagging it…It’s all about inhibiting the content creator, and their channel.
I’m not convinced that there is anything new going on here…I just think that the saturation of LGBTQ in everything, has created a false sense that “nothing’s going to stand in their way”, and “the world is on their side”…And we have all these young, LGBTQ people, who’ve grown up with this false sense…And they’re just now discovering, some of the things that many of us knew were rotten about YouTube, ten years ago.
YouTube has always had these problems…And they’ve always been bad about handling them…
…The only real difference, is that the LGBTQ community is something of a social sacred cow…And it’s a well organized, motivated sacred cow…So, the fur could really fly in this fight.
I look on with interest.
As a side note….
…This is amongst the reasons why so many people loathed the coming of ABC, Oprah, etc, to YouTube…It’s why people were angry, when Google bought up YouTube…
YouTube was built off of the alternative, and off of counterculture…
Likely…most people would not believe who the first [and maybe second] wave of YouTube stars even were, especially when compared to the sea of YouTubers out there, today.
…The content and expectations were so different…YouTube was “our” platform…It wasn’t the corporations…It was “ours”…And it was a great equalizer, in terms of advancing your voice…when previously you’d had no other hope of doing such.
Nobody who understood the writing on the wall, wanted Google to buy YouTube…because they’d turn it into a soulless, money grubbing machine…and if it couldn’t make them money, they’d kill it somehow.
Of course…in the process of making money, these corporations don’t care so much about having to burn bridges, with whomever amongst the user base doesn’t fit in with their projected community image…whatever that happens to be, at the moment.
The problem with these corporations [and wealthy people] with a “clean” image…is that they typically don’t play nice with others…and they often just simply move in to take over, and kick the native population out…or at least subdue them.
Often times…the matter of subduing is not so transparent…People don’t always realize it is happening to them.
Date: March 19, 2017
01) Trump’s Mythical Crackdown on Sex Trafficking
“At Townhall.com, sex-crime victims’ advocate and author Liz Crokin accuses the mainstream media of “ignoring Trump’s sex trafficking busts.” In Crokin’s reality, “authorities have arrested an unprecedented number of sexual predators involved in child sex trafficking rings in the United States” since Donald Trump took office on January 20. “There have been a staggering 1,500-plus arrests in one short month; compare that to less than 400 sex trafficking-related arrests in 2014 according to the FBI,” Crokin writes.
This is, as Trump would put it, “fake news.” Every part of it. For starters, the 2014 data she links to is far from a complete account of U.S. sex-trafficking arrests that year. It reflects incomplete state-level arrest numbers from just 26 U.S. states, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. It does not include all state sex-trafficking arrests, by far, nor does it include any sex trafficking arrests by federal agencies such as the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which make thousands of sex trafficking arrests annually (though far fewer trafficking indictments and convictions).
The idea that there have been “an unprecedented number” of sex traffickers arrested since Trump took office has similarly little basis in reality, and there’s zero truth to the claim of law-enforcement busting up child sex-trafficking rings.”
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Date: March 19, 2017
“There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world, and Islam is the world’s fastest-growing religion. If the evil carnage we witnessed on Sept. 11 were typical of the faith, and Islam truly inspired and justified such violence, its growth and the increasing presence of Muslims in both Europe and the U.S. would be a terrifying prospect. Fortunately, this is not the case.” Interesting article…and some perspective I find new, to me….Not most…just a bit. |
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Date: March 18, 2017
01) No punishment for man who raped girl, 12
“A man who admitted raping a 12-year-old girl has walked free from court.
Daniel Cieslak, 21, had believed the girl – who he met in a taxi queue in Edinburgh in July 2015 – was 16. He burst into tears when police later revealed her true age.
The judge, Lady Scott, said she was taking the “wholly exceptional decision” not to sentence Cieslak.
Instead, she gave the first offender an absolute discharge at the High Court in Glasgow.
She said: “I do not consider there is any need for, or public interest in, punishment. To do so would in my view be disproportionate given the nature of the criminal culpability here.”
Student Cieslak, who was 19 at the time of the offence, had earlier pleaded guilty to the rape charge.”
I wont be offering a lot of commentary here, because I’m badly sick, aching and cranky…for about the bazillionth time, in the last twelve months…So, I’m not really up to saying much.
I think this is the first time I’ve ever learned of anybody in this situation, being legally let off.
When I consider such laws to be invalid in their own right…I’m not really sure how I feel about these anomalies…
It’s kind of a “feel good” outcome, for the guy who didn’t know what he’d gotten into…but really…I’m too under the weather, to contemplate the wider ramifications.
I guess…it’s good that the legal system took half a step away, from it’s Neanderthal absolutism.
…That’s something to consider.
Date: March 16, 2017
01) Karen Straughan – Toxic Masculinity & TOXIC FEMININITY
“Men’s Rights Sensation, Karen Straughan, compares the concept of Toxic Masculinity to the new and novel (and yet age-old, even Biblical) concept of Toxic Femininity. In this presentation, she explores the evolutionary psychology at play (both in men and women who engage in heavily gendered forms of socially toxic behaviours), and the cultural norms that either encourage or place constraints on these tendencies.”
Q&A
Date: March 16, 2017
01) Campaign Calls on Bernie Sanders to Lead a New Party
“Nick Brana, former Sanders staffer, says it’s time to give up expecting progressive change from the Democratic Party and that Sanders should lead his base in creating a new party”
Date: March 15, 2017
01) Waking Up With Sam Harris #67 – Meaning and Chaos (with Jordan Peterson)
“In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson discuss science, religion, archetypes, mythology, and the perennial problem of finding meaning in life.”
Date: March 15, 2017
01) Well met, Professor Sullivan…
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