Motley Moose – Archive

(This post is part of a blog carnival to raise awareness and funding for Scarleteen – the longest running fact-based sex education resource on the Intenet.)

(Posted at SexGenderBody)

I confess.

I am a gang member.

I have benefitted from my membership in this gang, all my life.  Everything in my life has come to me easier than it has for most of the planet, because I belong to this gang.  My clothes, food, shelter, luxuries and freedom are the spoils of my membership.  We live a life of ease, gluttony, vanity and waste built on the backs of oppression, deceit and cruelty.

(Posted at SexGenderBody)

(Posted at SexGenderBody)

There are some crimes that are just gut wrenching to think about.  “Honor” killing, the murder of a someone (usually a woman or girl) by family and friends over sex / marriage is an awful thing.

I object to it personally.  as a father of a girl, I shudder to think what could bring a father or brother to slaughter their own kin.  It cannot end soon enough for me.

(Posted at SexGenderBody).

In the span of 24 hours recently, I came across several vastly different experiences of women regarding feminism, choice and the question of women’s control over their bodies.

(Posted at SexGenderBody)

*Trigger Alert* Among other things, this post discusses sex, kink, rape.  Links will show you naked people.

I can say “Fuck you!” in public, but I cannot (with your permission) actually fuck you in public.

Have you ever wondered why is it that a statement of sex as an insult between people who don’t like each other is a protected right, when the actual performance of sex as an act between two people who like each other is prohibited?

Why is sex profane?  This is not something that comes from nature.  Sex is one of the basic needs of all mammals, along with air, water, space, warmth and food.  So, it doesn’t come from our DNA, which means that we made this shit up.  Sex is free.  Sex feels good.  Societies across the globe discourage us from having sex, talking about sex, thinking good things about sex, being proud of sex.

The opposition to sex is so widespread across human cultures, that it seems universal, but is it?

(Cross-posted at SexGenderBody)

Julian Assange visited Melbourne Australia last week and was greeted by having his passport seized, told that it will be canceled and questioned about hacking crimes he committed as a teen.  According to The Times Online, the authorities took his passport for a period of time and when they returned it to him, he was informed that it would be canceled because it is “looking worn”.  They also brought up his past computer criminal record – hacking Telco’s and US Military computers as a teenager, for which he had already been tried, convicted and sentenced.

(Cross-posted at The National Gadfly)

Have you ever seen a dead human body?  Some day, we will all become one.

What will your body look like when you are dead?  How will it feel?

Real dead bodies are all around us.  Everyone we know dies.  Everyone. 

(Cross-posted at SexGenderBody.)

If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not
revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble you in that.

      (William Shakespeare)

(Cross-posted at SexGenderBody)

Over at SexGenderBody, one of our regular contributors – Christina Engela is tirelessly drawing attention to the assault on the laws protecting the LGBTQI community from harassment, hate crimes and violence.  These attacks come in the wake of their own “tea-party” of religiously intolerant politicians seek to gain power behind the cross and at the point of a gun.  She is a member of the board of the South African Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation(SA GLAAD), and president of the Eastern Cape Gay & Lesbian Association (ECGLA). She is also active in local politics.

She posted this today at SGB and at her own blog, Sour Grapes.  It is a good primer into how the politics of hate are burning in South Africa right now.

-gadfly