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If you're looking for good vampire films:
The Hunger
Let The Right One In

It's easy to laugh at the flaming homophobe who turned out 'gay', although I'm not so sure about the gay part. Repressed, twisted, hateful, evil and with a suspicious and alarmingly invasive interest in the sexuality of the young, that's what I'm sure of. Because of what these people do. From here:

Yes, I still believe we need to understand and feel compassion for a tortured closet case like George Rekers. But when people do evil, we need to stand up and call it evil.

In 2008 Rekers testified as an expert witness to stop a gay couple from adopting a 4-year-old boy and his 4-month-old brother.[...]

"The children arrived…on the evening of December 11, 2004. John, the elder sibling, arrived with his four-month old brother wearing a dirty adult sized t-shirt and sneakers four sizes too small that seemed more like flip-flops than shoes. Both children were suffering from scalp ringworm. Although John was clearly suffering from a severe case of ringworm, the medication brought from John’s home to treat his scalp was unopened and expired. James, too, suffered from an untreated ear infection, as evidenced by the one-month old, nearly unused, medication. John did not speak and had no affect. He had one concern: changing, feeding, and caring for his baby brother. It was clear from the children’s first evening at the Petitioner-Roe home that the baby’s main caretaker was John, his four year old brother…"

Trying to destroy families like this one, the only real family these two children ever had, where they were growing up recovering from the inhumane circumstances they came from, that's what those 'funny gay homophobes' do. It doesn't really prove that 'all homophobes are secretly gay', it does prove that they enjoy hurting people.

EtA: According to various reports, he has been a research fellow at Harvard University. Home of 'scientific' racists. Well, butter my butt and call me biscuit.

I know it's a generalization, not particularly gross I think, based on my experience, to automatically assume that all misogynists are also homophobic, and probably racist, and more nothing good ever. They don't do a lot to disabuse me of that notion.

That thing about the baptist minister called Rekers (61) hiring a rentboy (20) that's been doing the rounds? Turns out he's not just a homophobe who buys boys young enough to be his grandsons for sex, he also has this kind of wisdom to share with his flock, about adoption:

McCollum paid Rekers and a colleague $87,000 for testimony that called gay people mentally unstable and advised that the ban should be expanded to include Native Americans because, Rekers claimed, they are also at much higher risk of mental illness and substance abuse.

Four years ago Rekers adopted a boy, then 16. But that's okay since he's a professor emeritus of neuropsychiatry at the University of South Carolina (ETA0: LOOOOOOOL! Should have screencapped I guess, didn't think they'd actually dump him, usually hypocrites' lies fly after all. The physician you have selected no longer exists in the database. Does anyone know more about this? Did they dump him or did they find out some of his credentials/diplomas are fake?). He got his PhD when he was 24? Is it just me or is that fishy? EtA00: There's a screencap of what the profile page originally said here.

Poke the pig day on Queerty.

EtA1: In the Huffington Post and in The Times.

EtA2: Unzipped (NSFW) talks to Lucien (from rentboy.com).

EtA3: Looks like there was confusion about the source agreeing to being identified/outed or not; the Miami Times made it easy for bloggers to find him on the escort site and there's a lot of "No U!" going on, but he has declined to talk to anyone else now, and admitted that there was sex. Perhaps 'just my interpretation', but I don't remember having to stroke an old man's genitals and ass when they tried to tell me about the gospel of Christ.

EtA4: Still confusion, he spoke to JoeMyGod after all.

Now that it's common knowledge that the catholic church actually is one of those 'mythical' 'satanic' cults with ritual child abuse in higher numbers than you can or probably want to imagine, here's another one.

The US armed forces? Like fandom wank in a way: they eat their own.

For two years I had been investigating this personality disorder scandal: how military doctors were purposely misdiagnosing soldiers, wounded in combat, as having this pre-existing mental illness. As in the civilian world, where people can be locked out of the insurance system if they have a pre-existing condition, soldiers whose wounds can be attributed to a pre-existing illness can be denied disability benefits and long-term medical care.

Getting caught in an explosion = pre-existing mental condition, thank you for clearing that up, Cheney.

About world health cultural imperialism, the pushing of patriarchy, 'tradition' (=misogyny), and iatrogenic disease: it's not about making anyone feel guilty about being conned by the medical establishment, it's about human rights. Dear LJ? Breastfeeding, still not a sexual act, did you get with the program?

Evidence based medicine, little, baby steps: Study: Lack of breastfeeding costs lives, billions of dollars

Comment from Feminist Breeder: When It Comes to Breastfeeding, We Can’t Handle The Truth EtA: account suspended, that was fast. o.0 More epic 'how to suppress women's writing', wow. EtA a few days later: back online.

Somewhere along the line, someone told you that you couldn’t make milk, and you believed them because we’ve all grown up in a culture that tells women their bodies aren’t good enough for much of anything except being toys for men.

Over 35 years after the first boycott, Nestlé is still killing babies. And it's not Nestlé's fault that your KitKat contains, among the unlisted ingredients, child slave labour from Mali and Cote d'Ivoire: Nestlé has repeatedly argued that it is just buying a product when it comes to cocoa and is not responsible for egregious labor rights violations involved in its production. Nestlé also consistently argues that its own code of conduct is merely “aspirational.” Sounds a lot like the catholic church. Digressing, but about that catholic church, which also has a long history of not respecting children's genital integrity, especially if those children are in their 'care'.

The sheer concentration of known sex offenders in these isolated communities begins to look less like an accident than a plan.

That's god's plan, in the hands of 'innocent old men', for you.

It was Genital Integrity Awareness Week until last week, campaigning against the genital mutilation of all children, female, male, as well as and especially intersex. Adult attempts to control the sexuality of subjects who don't know what that is, is wrong. As with breast feeding however, many people cannot talk rationally about mgm, because that is what 'we' do and 'can't be wrong', while fgm is what 'those people' do and 'has a much higher likelihood of being wrong because we're not involved.'

Gendercide continues to take lives and cause suffering because 'culture' and 'tradition' will insist on cutting up children and women's genitals to control them. Healthy body parts are not options, and not superfluous.

It's not just sex-selective abortion that accounts for the amount of missing girls and women, the scarring of radical FGM kills girls and women giving birth by the thousands.

FGM is illegal in many countries that would call themselves 'civilized', but fear not, they have ways to mutilate you anyway, and control your sexuality too. There are still doctors who perform episiotomy* routinely, although the procedure is as good as never necessary. It does however always cause scarring and has the alleged 'benefit' of making you 'virgin tight', which is why it used to be called a 'husband's stitch', as a present of one man, your doctor, to another, and let's not mention in polite company that it makes intercourse painful, because that is what 'better' and 'tight' means for them, and because of the scarring, increases your chances of getting one more episiotomy, and a deeper one, with every succeeding birth. And bowel incontinence. Unnecessary Cesarians contribute to falling birthrates by making it dangerous to have more than two, at most three, children.
ICAN

*For the uninitiated: they cut your perineum, with a pair of scissors. No, rly. About an inch, or several centimeters. Because there already is a cut, it tears down a lot deeper when the baby's head crowns than any a natural tear would. It's not talked about, but it gives many women trouble for years and some for the rest of their lives. Hell no I didn't have one. If you have a doctor who's all for it back away slowly and find another one.

Women and girls are more susceptible to hiv transmission, and mutilation pushers have had some success getting people to believe that circumcision prevents infection. These claims are contested and wrong. A painful, large open wound, in a hospital, in a diaper is asking for all kinds of nasty infections. I've already ranted about the exporting of dangerous and meaningless surgery in a desperate bid to prove that it does anything, and protect the reputation and the wallets of those who commit it; about how that randomized trial by those same pushers disproved their own claims (women in the groups with circed partners were 50% more likely than those in the control group to contract hiv from their partners) and was stopped early 'because of futility'. I wouldn't call spreading the virus to people who would have stood a good chance of not contracting it 'futile', I'd call it 'criminal negligence', but mmv. That mgm makes female partners more vulnerable is very basic science and has been known since at the latest 2003, for these reasons. Of course this is an issue that concerns women who have sex with men, and in particular those whose consent is not taken into consideration and those who are in no position to negotiate condom use.

MGM: the procedure. (Pdf)

A Dangerous Mistake in the HIV Battle (Pdf)

Circumcision gives men an excuse not to use condoms. The myth that mutilated genitals 'protect' from hiv infection put the blame on women again and causes ever more abuse.

Protect yourselves, and your children should you have any, because 'society', 'culture' and 'tradition' will not.

Devil is at work in Vatican, says church's top exorcist

The church is innocent, they were just a little possessed for decades. Nothing to see here, move along, leave some money in the basket to pay for more fancy embroidered robes and pink hats.

Article by Miriam Perez:

Worried About Women of Color? Thanks, But No Thanks, Anti-Choicers. We've Got It Covered.

We know whom we can trust to make decisions about family creation: women themselves. We don’t need limits on what services we can access. And we don't need your ideological bullying.

In questionable motives of the anti-choice crowd: Now that operation "Steal children for Jesus" went bust, missionaries are trying the good old "your soul or no aid" approach again.

Related: Freedom of religion and homicidal sadism, a match made in heaven.

The Pearls also suggest using alternative instruments, such as a 12-inch willowy branch for children under one year old.

Every time I see someone mention in the comments to--usually--a post linked on metafandom, about issues in slash, that yaoi is even worse, I want to go in there and ask, "Show me your data. How did you juggle those data to reach your conclusion of 'worse'? Did you perhaps base your conclusion on the small sample of not exactly representative translations you couldn't bother reading because you heard it's 'worse'? Availability of which is skewed by what foreign fen like to start with? Aren't you perhaps ignoring that the slash written by a large majority of fans who don't give a fuck about anyone's issues probably also qualifies as 'worse'? Have you considered replacing 'worse' by 'different in ways I don't understand because my learnings are severely lacking' when explaining about your thoughts on yaoi?"

And so on. But instead I sit on my hands, and if I see the same person make a crack somewhere else about how 'the Japanese are all weird/perverts' or 'lol azns has small genitals lulz!' the only reasonable answer is 'NO U', but I can't be bothered typing all that, and the ban button is but a click away.

So here's a book that will probably explain a lot of what I'd like people to know about yaoi. ( Contents behind the cut for the link phobic. )

The other day I was watching Night at the Museum: II because the sproglet wanted to see a dinosaur skeleton come to life again, and was suddenly seriously disturbed. It has Custer, whining about how all he is remembered for is getting his men killed (how 'bout participation in genocide? I thought that was the biggie), and then the night guard goes, "Oh no! You'll be remembered for fighting museum exhibits now! Man up!"

Good, clean fun for kids!

... Or: hello something we'll never ever get on DVD. I'm sure there's more offensive stuff in there but I wasn't paying close attention, and that was what crossed the line for me.

More about that here.

Via metafandom: thete1 says it better: "The simple fact of the matter is that every dollar you spend on these films (and TV shows, and books, and everything else) is a dollar telling Them -- yes, Them -- that it's just fine to piss all over me and other people of color for the sake of 'entertainment.' You're part of the problem."

A random fail bucket sexually harasses Bill, but that's hot! (TM) Because he has/is a dick.

A female someone makes Bill look pretty and that's one of the seven deadly sins. Or something. Someone he likes enough to have employed for years and years. But I'm sure someone posting on LJ, where all the cool kids are, must know more about what happens ~on the inside~ than she does.

Not in the mood. Pls diaf.