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[identity profile] cairmen.livejournal.com 2010-07-19 11:34 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not entirely sure if the fuss about the "torture guide" is justified. They all sound like self-defence and restraint techniques to me. And for all the hand-wringing about 12-year-olds, if I had, say, two full-grown seventeen-year-olds with violent backgrounds and lots of experience fighting (not a huge stretch from "young offender") trying to kick my face in, I'd say using most of those techniques would be justified.

Of course, if they've been abused, that's a very, very serious issue. But the piece didn't seem to offer evidence they had been.

(Also - if you're in a brawl, you may end up with the other guy in a headlock. It's probably a good thing if your self-defence manual has pointed out that you need to watch out for impeding their windpipe.)

[identity profile] supergee.livejournal.com 2010-07-19 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
Over here, Borders has separate-but-equal shelf space for GLBT and black writing. Remember when we wanted sf out of the ghetto?

[identity profile] broin.livejournal.com 2010-07-19 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Drive straight fingers into the young person's face, and then quickly drive the straightened fingers of the same hand downwards into the young person's groin area."

Dating was really different in my day.

[identity profile] pseudomonas.livejournal.com 2010-07-19 12:02 pm (UTC)(link)
When I needed a flu jab last autumn, I had pretty much no choice of time/date to get it at my GP's. I was quite tempted to skip having the jab rather than waste a morning when I wanted to be elsewhere. One could easily imagine patches being sent through the post and people being asked to phone- or web-confirm when they've applied it, with medical staff calling people who've not bothered or who've had problems.

[identity profile] ninebelow.livejournal.com 2010-07-19 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't read the Erotic review link at work because everything to do with sex is obviously wrong and must be blocked. However, since when is Winterson filed under LGBT rather than Fiction? Not in any bookshop I've been into.

Presumably the wider point is that LGBT (and Black) sections of the bookshop are ghettoising and I agree with this. I do wonder if the books they contain would be stocked with out them though.

[identity profile] momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com 2010-07-19 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh that Gillian McKeith. She just won't learn.

The playground thing -- is it really a gender thing, or is it just rough kids vs quiet kids? Of course, it's a gender thing that more of the rough kids are boys. But their actual behaviour in their roughness I mean.

[identity profile] phillipalden.livejournal.com 2010-07-19 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
That article about torturing children in custody is appalling!

I just read a similar article about how gay and trans-gendered kids are abused by the system.

It's not wonder they come out more fucked up than when they went in.
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