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Monthly Archives: January 2012

Four Facets of Forty (FFfF)

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

I think only somebody like me could decide to have a mid-life crisis. I’m good at crisis. I decided to have one of my own. My life is, by any standards, a fucking mess. I finally found an image which really does it justice: I’m a chisel. A very hard, very flat chunk of grey [...]

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On losing respect for Feminism

Monday, January 2, 2012

I’ve lost respect for western models of feminism after one stupid argument too many. I have not lost respect for women, any more than losing respect for Marxism means you no longer respect Russians. The issues women face are real. However, political mistakes made in the early stages of women’s struggle in the West are [...]

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Tantra, race and feminism

Sunday, January 1, 2012

People have no fucking clue what Hinduism is. The monotheisms – the paths which admit a single truth – are four major and many minor. The four major are Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism. Buddhism is not often discussed as a monotheism, and in many variations it is not, but the notion of a single [...]

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