Date: 2019-10-18 02:55 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cmcmck
I met (and indeed was bought a drink by) John Bercow after the passage of the Gender Recognition Act in 2004. I was in the house as the guest of my then MP, Paul Clark.

One of my fond memories, that one! :o)

He's been a long term ally.

Date: 2019-10-18 03:14 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cmcmck
Oh and there are forms and forms of feminism.

I would see Dolly as a feminist (she, like me, has a poor, working class perspective on all that) while I refuse to recognise as such those who deny me the right to exist!

What kind of feminist gets into bed with the Christianist far right?

The TERF kind, that's who!

Date: 2019-10-18 05:22 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] calimac
What Dolly Parton hates is a crude caricature of feminism. Hating feminism for that is like hating Vietnam War protesters because they spit on returning troops.

Date: 2019-10-18 04:31 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] symbioid
Bercow is the kind of conservative I wish we had in the US, with some goddamned heart and respect for people.

I'm sure he's got a lot of shitty views too, but he does seem to be more of an authentic 'Compassionate Conservative' than anything George Bush et al ever seemed to be.

Date: 2019-10-18 05:21 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] calimac
We have them in the US, but they're all Democrats these days. You want someone with a lot of crappy socio-economic views but still a lot of heart and respect for people, try Joe Biden.

Date: 2019-10-18 05:27 pm (UTC)
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What the music experiment is showing is that the people of this other culture perceive relative pitch as we do. What they don't perceive is our sense of keys and octaves. The next thing I'd test on them is cadences. Play them a bog-standard tune and leave out the final note. Do they have a sense, a craving that it ought to come? Probably they won't. I suspect that even some people from Western culture lack this sense.

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