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A plane crashes in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. 8 survivors discover the underwater city of Rapture. But how was this place built? What mysteries exist in a city sprawled across the ocean floor? What has happened to all of the city's residents? And when the survivors find themselves trapped in the city, how will any of them get out alive?
An excerpt from writer/producer Michael Raben about Bioshock - The Series:
Q: Let's talk about Bioshock – The Series. Why tell this story as a TV series and not as a feature film?
MR: The Bioshock games - and the original Bioshock in particular – are fantastic, immersive stories. Over the years, there have been some attempts at trying to adapt the material to a feature film, but no one's been able to make it 'work.' I think that part of the difficulty is that there's just so much story in that first game that compressing – and that's the best word for it: "compressing" – all of that story into one film is really difficult. To attempt it, you'd have to leave out so much of what made that game so popular – beyond the action, gun fights, plasmids and powers, there's the characters and the mystery of the city - and I wouldn't want to cheat the story, or the fans of that story, by doing that. So a TV series is the better story-telling medium.
Remember the show 'Lost?' Imagine trying to do that show as one film. You could tell a similar story in a general way, but that 'world' had so many interesting characters - and so much story to tell - that it just wouldn't have been the same phenomenon that it ended up being. You wouldn't experience that same level of investment; the type that fans have with The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones. With a television series, we have an amazing opportunity that a film just doesn't allow for.
Q: How literal of an adaptation of Bioshock are you planning for?
MR: Not 100%, but you'll see all of the major characters, and many of the things that the fans love about Bioshock will be there.
There's also the historical timeframe. Bioshock takes place in 1960, but I don't think that today's audience wants to pretend that it's 1960 when they go to Rapture.
As an immersive experience with any film or TV show, you – as YOU, right here, right now – think in terms of how you would react to the situations that you're seeing. I don't have any interest in pretending that it's 1960. When I play Bioshock, I think about how I would react, in 2016, to traveling through Rapture. In our story, something went really wrong in 1960 down there, so part of the mystery will involve unraveling what happened back then to Rapture and its citizens and how all of that carried over to now. Thus, changing the timeframe so that characters from "today" are experiencing that environment is also a difference.
Q: How will that time shift change the overall story from the game?
MR: A bit, obviously – but not as much as you might think. The overall story idea actually accounts for the change in time, in some fun and surprising ways that we'll reveal over the course of the series. Most of the little changes that fans of the game would notice are really about the structure of the city and how it runs.
Q: Can you give any examples of that?
MR: Sure. There's a 'cut scene' – fairly early on in the game – in which you meet a Big Daddy and Little Sister for the first time; but if you really watch that scene, you're left wondering HOW those two entered the area and how they left. It's not properly explained, so we changed the architecture of the area just a little bit to account for how they got there and how they'd leave.
You also have to remember that Rapture is a BIG place – a full-sized city underwater would have a LOT of people in it, so beyond dealing with the major characters from the game, we'll be introducing some new characters to the various areas of the city. It's going to be a fun ride.


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This year, Halloween falls on a weekend – which means that we have at least 2 days of Halloween costume party antics to go through compared to the normal 1.
All Web Watch asks is that you don't go as ONE OF THESE OVERDONE, OVERUSED CLICHE HALLOWEEN COSTUMES this year:
- Tiger Woods, circa Thanksgiving 2009. If your costume is 11 months out of date, then you're 11 months out of touch.
- Don Draper. Trust us – you're not as cool as he is.
- Neytiri from Avatar. Again, that was sooooo last year.
Be creative. Be original. When people see you , they should INSTANTLY know who you are.
- Antoine Dodson. The fact that we're going to make you Google this one should be proof enough that it's a worthwhile costume. Trust us – you'll know it when you see it.
- Try to be timely — a Brett Favre jersey and a cell phone can work wonders for you
- Why not be a Chilean miner? It may be too late to grow a 60+ day beard, but the costume shop is still open, bucko.
- Feeling a bit creative, constructively? Web Watch highly recommends dressing as the ZINGBOT 3000. ZZZZIIINNNNNGGG!
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Who Should Dustin Hook Up With on 'The Challenge: Free Agents'? Probably Not Jessica
Only one episode of MTV's The Challenge: Free Agents has aired so far, but things are already getting pretty steamy in the house. Dustin Zito, who starred on the Las Vegas season of The Real World back in 2011, is being pursued by not one but two ladies: Jessica from last year's Portland season and Emilee from 2009's Cancun season. Based on the preview of tonight's episode on MTV.com, Jessica seems to be winning (so to speak), but is that a good thing? Let's look at the facts:
Jessica, as we learned from her time on The Real World, is a somewhat naive daddy's girl who likes her relationships to move fast. Remember Tyler? You know, the guy whose picture she plastered all over her room after maybe a few weeks of dating? She's like Veruca Salt when it comes to commitment — she wants it now.
Meanwhile, Dustin has a history of dabbling in gay porn, which according to him, was simply to pay the bills. Good for him. There is nothing wrong with (safe) porn. Everyone should have all the (safe) sex they want. But, again, Jessica is a bit of a priss. You can tell she has super traditional views about relationships, and something tells me porn doesn't fit into those views. Plus, this is something Dustin struggled with when his past porncapades were revealed to his The Real World housemates and his then-girlfriend and costar Heather freaked out on him.
So we have to wonder — if not Jessica, who should Dustin hook up with on The Challenge? We have some ideas.
Considering she already has the hots for Dustin, Emilee is the obvious choice. Plus, her parents are therapists, which has probably helped keep her open-minded growing up — perfect for Dustin, who doesn't need a girlfriend judging him for his past shenanigans.
While on her own season of The Real World in Cancun, Jonna had a threesome with a dude and her housemate Ayiiia. Assuming her attitudes about sex haven't changed, she probably wouldn't care all that much about the whole gay porn thing.
Camila comes off as something of a free spirit (and she even kind of looks like Dustin's ex, Heather) who wouldn't really care how Dustin used to pay his bills.
Perhaps Dustin simply enjoys sex, in general, and Frank is a babe. Although, Frank was kind of a bundle of anger on his season of The Real World. Unless he's calmed down in the three years since, any relationship he tries on the show might end up a mess.
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The European Union's 28 foreign ministers are to hold emergency talks Wednesday to review the bloc's relations with Egypt, according to EU diplomatic sources, asĀ military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pledged a "forceful" response to the continuing violence. A decision to convene the emergency meeting at around noon in Brussels was agreed by senior diplomats holding a preparatory round of talks Monday on the spiralling bloodshed in Egypt, said the diplomat, who asked not to be identified. Egypt's hardline military leader pledged a "forceful" response to violence rocking the country, as top EU officials prepared to hold emergency talks on Monday on the crisis that has claimed nearly 800 lives in five days. In his first comments since authorities launched a bloody crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned security forces would confront any further violence from protesters. "We will never be silent in the face of the destruction of the country," said Sisi, who overthrew Morsi on July 3 after protests against the Islamist president's rule. "We are very prepared for this," he said, pledging a "forceful"response to further attacks on police stations and government buildings. The violence sparked by the crackdown has drawn international condemnation and EU leaders have warned the bloc will "urgently review" ties with Cairo in the coming days. European ambassadors were recalled from their summer break for an emergency meeting on the crisis expected to start in Brussels at 0800 GMT. The European Union has pledged nearly five billion euros ($6.7 billion) in aid to Egypt but the bloc has cautioned this too was under "constant review" after Morsi's ouster. In a joint statement on the eve of the talks, EU leaders Herman van Rompuy and Jose Manuel Barroso said: "The EU will urgently review in the coming days its relations with Egypt." Calling for violence to end "immediately," they stressed that "the calls for democracy and fundamental freedoms from the Egyptian population cannot be disregarded, much less washed away in blood." But the bloodshed showing little sign of stopping on Sunday as 36 Islamists were killed during an attempted jailbreak. There were conflicting reports of how the deaths occurred but the Egyptian interior ministry said the prisoners had taken an officer hostage and died after suffocating on tear gas. "Thirty-six of the prisoners died of suffocation and crowding after tear gas was used to stop their escape," the ministry said. The killings were the latest in five days of bloodshed since Wednesday's police and military operation to clear Islamists from protest camps in Cairo. The Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi's once banned movement that backed his election victory in 2012, said 35 prisoners died, revising an earlier toll of 52. "The murder of 35 detained anti-coup protestors affirms the intentional violence aimed at opponents of the coup, and the cold-blooded killing of which they are targets," it said in a statement in English. The Islamists said they cancelled"several marches"on Sunday, citing fears of vigilantes and snipers. Elsewhere in Egypt, hundreds of protesters briefly marched in the Suez canal city of Ismailiya, an AFP correspondent said. Two policemen were later killed in a shooting attack near the city, according to the interior ministry. Violence has also continued to plague the Sinai Peninsula, where a civilian, two soldiers and a policeman were killed overnight Saturday, security sources said. The unrest has left Egypt divided as never before. (Voice of Russia, AFP)


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text: Mohammad Amir said he would consider returning to cricket after carrying out his ban [GALLO/GETTY] Suspended Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir won't pursue an appeal to sport's highest court to overturn his five-year ban, the International Cricket Council said on Thursday. The ICC e-mailed The Associated Press to say that Amir informed the sport's governing body of his decision last week. "Mohammad Amir told the ICC last week that he will not be appealing against his five-year ban," an ICC spokesman said. Amir returned home on Sunday having served half of his six-month prison sentence after being found guilty of spot-fixing in a test against England at Lord's in 2010. The left-arm paceman hasn't spoken publicly since returning home with his lawyer, Sajida Malik. Salman Butt and bowler Mohammad Asif were also found guilty on corruption charges and are currently in jail. They have been banned from playing cricket for a minimum of five years. All three filed appeals to CAS in 2011, but did not request a date for any hearing because they were occupied with a court case in England over corruption charges. Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Zaka Ashraf said on Thursday that 19-year-old Amir would be considered for a return to international cricket once his ban expires. "He has so much talent that he could have become a great fast bowler,'' Ashraf told reporters. "Unfortunately the incident happened in England and ICC banned him for five years. We will definitely consider him once his ban is over.'' Ashraf also promised to involve Amir in various rehabilitation programs which could pave the way for the fast bowler to return to cricket before his ban ends in September 2015, provided the ICC Board allows it. SOURCE: Agencies Sport Cricket Pakistan United Kingdom


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Merle Wood & Associates is pleased to offer the SURI yacht for sale. An exemplary explorer yacht, SURI accommodates up to 15 guests in 7 staterooms. Her king-size master features his-and-hers en suites, a private lounge with a plush sofa, flat screen television, and massive windows that offer sweeping views of the ocean. Guest accommodations include 4 VIP staterooms, 1 double, 1 twin, and a yoga room that can double as an additional guest room.
The illustrative SURI yacht for sale is equipped to take her guests on journeys way off the typical milk run, and has the volume and stamina to prove her seaworthiness. You will be hard-pressed to find a yacht with more toys.
On the inside, the SURI yacht for sale is special. She features a large media room with views to the sea below through floor windows, as well as a "glass house," which can be fully closed off and climate-controlled or opened to become a large outdoor deck. The explorer yacht also includes a massage room and beauty salon for those wanting to indulge in self-care. Neutral tones ensure she pleases most design tastes, and an abundance of natural light through vast windows bring the outside in.
Exterior decks feature an abundance of lounging areas featuring built-in sofas, lounge chairs, and sunpads. Al fresco dining is optionally covered by a large, removable awning on the sun deck. A vast helideck can double as a dance floor or an entertainment area, while her expansive hangar deck houses her impressive toy collection, which includes kayaks, a speed boat, motorcycles, a hovercraft, hybrid bicycles, and more.
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Spring Into Fashion - KIDS
Yes, of course you know by now I am the FARTHEST from being a 'fashionista' for myself. I mean, I definitely try to look nice when I need to. But then I also end up spending all my time shopping for my kids!!!
My oldest was the luckiest kid in the world with the hand me downs from great neighbors on my block. But the baby has kind gotten the 'shopping shaft' if you will.
Easter and springtime is always a great time to not only purge the crazy that you have going on in your house - but also to update for the great things that come for the summer and spring!
A friend from high school sent me a message a few months back about her new business with a company called Bashful Bliss. I had actually never heard of the company before and totally checked it out. I love these start up companies with entrepeneurial women in charge! Bashful Bliss is a woman based business with the main goal of getting the simple message out that it's the little things in life where bliss is found. Kim, my high school friend, gave me the details about the company and offered to send us something for Hudson. Now, mind you - I get things sent to me often with this ye'old blog & often I turn the items down. But she's the excepting as a high school friend. Plus, at the time - I had plenty of time for reviews!
So, She sent me an adorable necklace and a super cute onesie for Hudson that has his name on it.
Another great place to kick spring into high gear is One Step Ahead. I love this store for sooo many reasons. From toys to toddler to taking the family to the shore - they have it and so much more! One Step Ahead has this fabulous & unique line for kids to fight that dreaded sun burn! Their Sun Smarties collection is great at reflecting that insae sunshine that pelts at your kids in the summertime! They sent me the Sun Smarties Kids coverup and now also Sun Smarties Swim Trunks. All UVA fighting materials that are soft, washable and what we need most as a mom - DURABLE!
Both are great lines to put your kids into their cutest self!
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Admit it: You've had the startup daydreams.
They really kick in when you read that Company X just secured millions of dollars from a venture capital firm (for what seems like a pretty ordinary idea). "If I had millions of dollars," the little voice in your head says, "I'd hit this one out of the park!"
Maybe. But few people know what it takes to raise millions of dollars (or even thousands of dollars) for that next great idea. Rand Fishkin does and, thanks to the cautionary tale he recently published about his own pursuit of a big round of funding, the rest of us know more than we did yesterday.
You can see it as a cold, wet blanket on those fanciful visions of Aeron chairs, catered lunches and hiring rock star developers by the dozen. In reality, it's an amazing insider's view into the twists and turns of raising money – especially big money.
Rand is the CEO of SEOmoz, a Seattle-based search marketing and technology firm. I first met Rand at an ONA workshop in 2006 in Seattle. He's brilliant and his company apparently does amazing things (although I can't say that I've worked directly with Moz). He's also extremely generous and is always giving back to the startup community in Seattle. His latest gift is this blow-by-blow account of how his company considered new funding, went after new funding and ultimately saw a deal blow up at the 11th hour.
The world of venture capital can be difficult (if not impossible) to penetrate for outsiders. The level of detail Rand provides here is an incredible resource for anyone planning to deal with investors, whether you're hoping to raise $25 million or $250,000.
In the end, Rand and his company are using this "misadventure" as a learning experience – just as you would expect a good startup to do. His summation:
What I can say is that this experience makes me and the rest of the Moz team even more inspired and motivated to build an amazing company. We can't help but feel passion for proving doubters and naysayers wrong. The greatest revenge is to execute like hell, bootstrap all the way, and do what we said we'd do – become Seattle's next billion-dollar startup, and make the world of marketing a better place.
With chip firmly planted on shoulder, Rand and his team might be better off now than if the $25 million had come through. The experience cost of going through the process was steep, for sure. But in the end, probably way more valuable than a bigger office space, new desk chairs and a fridge full of Red Bull.


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Join us for the best Burlesque performers on the London stage, classic cabaret stars delivering an unforgettable show of skill and sass. Enjoy a two course meal with an hour of bottomless bubbles and take part in Burlesque Bingo.
Want to shimmy like a showgirl? As a special treat for any hen parties, join us on stage to learn a few tricks of the trade from our International acts.
Arrival is between 11.30am and 12.15pm, with brunch beginning from 12.30pm.
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My love affair with the internet is now again in full force...
Thank you, Road Runner high speed... (with download speeds up to 16/17mbps!!)
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Focus Home Interactive and DONTNOD Studio new RPGA called Vampyr, which will be an set just after World War One and players will take on the role of a doctor. He returns home while the Spanish Flu is going around, and is bitten by one of his patients. That bite transforms this doctor into a vampire.
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Host's 'Amazing' adventure
What an adventure for Phil Keoghan. As host of CBS's The Amazing Race, the man has definitely racked up some mileage. The New Zealand native, 43, even travels in his off time. In his documentary The Ride, Keoghan chronicled his cross-country cycling trip throughout the U.S., spanning 3,500 miles in 40 days, to raise awareness for multiple sclerosis. You can ask him about his travels yourself when Keoghan visits Miami Friday to screen The Ride at Regal South Beach Cinema as well as attend a Saturday night party at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel for the 10th anniversary of the show; the final season finale airs May 8. He may even give a hint as to who the winner is.


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Restoration Hardware Holdings Inc. RH, +1.69% will change its name to "RH", effective Jan. 1, the upscale home furnishing company said Friday in a filing. The decision does not require stockholder approval and the company has amended its bylaws to reflect the pending change, according to the retailer. The company's stock will continue to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under its current ticker symbol. Shares were up 0.3% after hours.
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Clients Corner explores the subjective experience of being-in-the-world, and the struggles, successes, failures, and modes of adaptation that characterize this experience.
Clients Corner explores the subjective experience of being-in-the-world, and the struggles, successes, failures, and modes of adaptation that characterize this experience.
I noted in part one that feelings are signals that provide information about the world, not facts. As signals, feelings are more like open-ended questions than absolute signs of what is. The path to emotional literacy involves first recognizing the presence of feelings and then being able to make sense of them, interpret and decode them. If only this process was as simple as reading road signs.
Images of self and others carry us through life. Known by different names: life scripts, archetypes, internal self and object representations, these images design the stage of our experience, create the conditions for conflict as well as the obstacles that prevent resolution. They determine what constitutes our successes and failures. They inform our judgment about others, determining those who we trust and those we distrust.
We carry these images as an emotional-cognitive lens through which we experience and interpret our reality. We believe in the reality of our reality. And this reality is mediated by our feelings.
These images of self and others trigger reactions to experience that interfere with self-reflection, the ability to step back and think about what one is feeling and experiencing. While there are many ways to describe what psychotherapists do, helping individuals learn how to recognize, tolerate, understand, and communicate their feelings is a critical aspect of the work. This path to emotional literacy involves the development or fine-tuning the capacity for self-reflective functioning.
I am working with a man who after many years of being adrift in the cross currents of his feelings, is gradually acquiring the capacity for self-reflective functioning. He has been married for over 25 years, a marriage that until recently, had been characterized by tension and an unswerving capacity for mutually creating conflict.
He described to me the following observations that capture the uphill battle that most of us encounter in the development of reflective functioning. He became aware that his way of coping with situations that bother him was to withdraw into himself and ruminate about it. He also realized that when he withdrew, he would perceive his wife as indifferent and not wanting to talk to him. These unchecked perceptions led to a simmering resentment that characterized his underlying feelings toward his wife and fueled his reactivity.
Over time, my client began to question his feelings of distrust and resentment, and his perception that his wife was indifferent. He realized that he had been walking through his marriage carrying inaccurate images of his wife that he had believed wholeheartedly. These images triggered his negative reactions that had led repeatedly to insoluble arguments! This recognition represented a profound paradigm shift in his understanding of his marriage.
As my client became more conscious of his feelings and how he distorted his experience, he recognized both his need to be more open with his wife and his fear that that she would not be receptive to his vulnerability. He described the following incident that represents an important step in the process of developing a self-reflective function. He and his wife were discussing going out for dinner. My client sensed (felt) that his wife didn't want to have dinner with him and felt hurt. He became caustic, said something nasty and walked out of the room. He realized that he was over-reacting and returned explaining to her that the reason he got mad was because he was feeling insecure. He quickly left after saying this, failing to hear his wife's apology that she offered when she realized that she had hurt his feelings. He returned to his wife who now was hurt because he had walked right passed her, and was now angry at him.
While the development of a self-reflective function can be described in a step-wise manner, reality belies the simplicity of such formulas. However for heuristic purposes, it does help to outline those elements that are involved self-reflective functioning.
It is not unusual when I ask a relatively new client, why do you think you are feeling anxious or depressed, to hear responses like "I don't know," "I've been feeling this way a long time," or "it just comes upon me at certain times of the day without reason." With exploration, we are often able to identify a set of circumstances that have contributed to the unpleasant feelings.
It seems that the ability to understand feelings is lacking in many and in others it is a fragile tool that is all too easily compromised in the heat of interactions. I can't count the times my wife and I have had the following exchange: "Why are you angry at me? I am not angry at you! You are angry at me!" This exchange happens in many homes across the country reflecting the ease at which individuals misunderstand themselves and others as a result of projecting their feelings onto others. Individuals walk through the world of interpersonal relationships believing that people are angry at them, disappointed in them, or scorning them without ever substantiating these feelings. The combination of misunderstanding and not recognizing feelings is central to the difficulties that individuals have navigating their lives and the interpersonal conflicts that arise.
Many individuals live with feelings deposited in their body as sensations, somatic aches and tensions that leave little trace of any psychological significance. They experience hurt as anger, depression as tiredness or physical sickness, and anxiety as tension, physical conditions that lead them to the ER or their general practitioner. What is difficult and allusive, but critical to understand is that feelings are signals that communicate important information that registers as sensation in body and conveys information about how one feels in the social world.
Recently I began to reconsider this lost ability to understand feelings as I was reading a rather dense book on the art of reading a poem. I did an Amazon search on the topic "the art of reading feelings." Amazon produced a dazzling array of titles that had one thing in common: they were all geared toward very young children.
The connection between these two art forms is both coincidental and telling. The rarefied art of reading poetry rests on the centrality of ambiguity and uncertainty in the construction of poetry and the requisite need to have what Keats referred to as "negative capability" in understanding it. He described this capability in the following way: "that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason — " This art is a sensibility cultivated over time with practice. The "negative" represents the capability of dealing with negativity, those unresolved tensions that don't simply resolve into solutions.
The lost art of reading feelings speaks to a relic encased in our personal history that people tend to ignore, minimize, and deny. Happiness, sadness, fear, and anger are the four primary feelings. Guilt, shame, anxiety, resentment, jealousy develop later. Most preschoolers are fluent in the language of primary feelings. They feel things intensely and express their feelings uninhibitedly. By the time they have passed through elementary school, most have lost the ability. As adults, most approach the world of feelings with distrust and shame. This art of reading feelings is also a sensibility and a capacity that has atrophied through the process of development. In some trauma has severely damaged this ability.
One can describe this atrophy as leading to emotional illiteracy, the difficulty in attending to, processing, and understanding one's emotional state. The crowning achievement of emotional illiteracy is what I call the concretization of feelings, where what is felt about an experience is not only a compressed version of that experience but it is understood to be the reality of that experience. In this mode of experiencing feelings are experienced as facts. If I feel that you are angry with me, you are angry with me. If I see the sneer in your face or hear scorn in your tone, you are feeling scorn. The achievement of certainty comes at the cost of experiencing interpersonal reality in its full, diverse, and often contradictory states. In contrast to Keats idea of "negative capability" that apprehends life through the broadest lens, concretization reduces experience to its smallest tolerable unit.
A client who I have been seeing for several years in psychotherapy illustrates how naturally one concretizes feelings. He has complained that his wife ignores him and treats him disdainfully. When asked what she does, it is difficult for him to describe, except to say that they argue a lot. With exploration, he describes how he often feels anxious and helpless. He regards these feelings as unmanly and unacceptable, and feels contempt for himself when he has these feelings. This sets the scene for what often erupts into an argument. He will approach his wife on a mundane matter. He will notice something in her tone or gaze that suggests disdain and react to her defensively and angrily without being conscious of his underlying feelings of contempt toward his helplessness. He believes with conviction that she feels disdain for him without recognizing his own self-contempt.
Feelings are signals that provide information about the world, not facts. As informative as feelings can be, they frequently mystify and misinform. As signals, feelings are more like open-ended questions than absolute signs of what is. The path to emotional literacy involves first recognizing the presence of feelings and then being able to make sense of them, interpret and decode them, a capacity that is essential to anyone who aspires to live in his or her own skin and wishes for intimacy with another.
Part two will discuss the development of emotional literacy.
Shame binds and dictates, blinds and slanders. Shame holds two in a broken embrace. Shame weakens attachments, kills potential, and ends lives. It is the master magician who makes the moment interminable.
Shame acts as if it precedes Being which translates into: "I suck therefore I am!"
The face of shame hides its eyes from the world. The feet of shame walk in the margins and gutters of the world. The tongue of shame speaks of unworthiness. The body is disfigured: too small or too large. Achievement, gratitude, and joy slip through the cracks in the self. The mask of shame wears the thin smile of normality and with an element of luck the sneer of excellence.
Shame lives as clearly in the window paned-towers of Wall Street as it does on the planes of the Kalahari, and as it did in that prosaic moment in the garden.
Shame mistakes the false self of defectiveness for the true self and weaves a dream-like veneer that is taken for Reality! The simple tragedy of shame is that it wants to be other than itself. It drives itself to extreme lengths. It swims against the current of being and the textures of life in tantalizing pursuit of this other self. It gauges the world with an instrument of impossibility whose gravity is a force beyond measure.
The future of shame is an endless repetition, a flat line, a cracked pitcher. Like the proverbial frightened dream-figure who cannot move, or the mythological prisoner enchained, it stands fragilely in the presence of beauty, and destitute by its encounter with chance.
Shame goes to therapy as it goes to the bar. It enters the consultation room with one hand extended and the other withdrawn, its fingers crossed in fear and disgust. Shame engages the therapist with small talk and the desire to change: its need for help an open wound. Shame brings to the table a plenitude of rage that surrounds the pain. It can only seem to ask for help, and as quickly reject it. Shame is anchored in the conviction of defectiveness that dresses every wound, and shadows every movement. This belief that can appear as humility is shored with contempt.
Shame presents difficulties, tests, and temptations for the therapist. It extends a mirror for therapists to reflect upon and sets a stage upon which the two can play, with the preferred role assumed by the therapist.
Shame softens within the tenderness of a patient psychotherapy. When effective, psychotherapy secures its role as a beacon whose illumination glows in presence and wanes in absence. In time, in the face of all that has been remembered and forgotten, and through repetitive movements that seem like a glacial dance, Shame releases shame. It staggers forward across the emotional precipice of unworthiness and surrenders to a warmth that learns empathy for itself.
I write these words as I climb my wall of shame erected by the pain of my faults. I can see from my small perch across the wastelands a reflection of a better being, beckoning sometimes in the form of a lover, other times a dream, and ever mysterious as if seeded by a spirit.
Recently, two clients weeks asked me the same question in response to my suggestion that they need to forgive themselves. "How does one forgive oneself?" For a moment I was silenced. I didn't have an immediate answer.
One client remarked that he couldn't help but laugh at the thought of self-forgiveness; "It is such a cliché," he said. It was not my intent to prescribe clichés as solutions to complex and painful psychological states.
To each client I said the question was an excellent one that required further thinking. I realized that the superficial way we as a sanctioned healing profession bandy the prescription "forgive yourself," reveals a larger dilemma that is weighted down by cultural values. A quick palliative would be a disservice. As a profession we must question our impetus for quick cures and recognize the presence of external pressures, cultural and economic, along with internal pressures that might lead us down soothing but misleadingly easy paths. Psychotherapists neither administer absolutions nor wave magic wands.
I did suggest that forgiveness was not a simple matter of saying, "Sorry self I didn't mean to beat you up." It is an attitude born out of self-examination. Without self-examination forgiveness is like putting a Band-Aid over a gaping wound. And with each of my client's, the wounds were deeply embedded in a vast interior region of shame.
We had entered difficult emotional territory. One client pulled back, retreated into a series of intellectualized questions brined with anger. The other client went deeper, making connections between earlier wounds and his current malaise. What differentiates the psychological capacity of individuals for self-examination is a subject for another essay.
The client who explored the question of forgiveness is a single, successful professional in his early 30's who had been feeling anxious and depressed for many years prior to starting therapy. I had been seeing him in weekly psychotherapy for about three years. Recently, he had been arrested for a DUI after having been stopped for speeding. He was angry and ashamed. His blood alcohol level was just below the legal limit. Although he felt that the police unfairly arrested him, his anger was directed mainly at himself. He described how he had been initially polite with the police, but continued calling them "sir" with what he derided as a "pussy bullshit attitude" even after the police had handcuffed him. He felt that this was unacceptable.
He had a court appearance and had consulted with an attorney. Even though he felt reasonably certain that charges would be dropped, he described feeling an overwhelming sense of weakness" and that everything was out of control since his arrest. He was plagued by obsessive thoughts. Repeatedly, he imagined going to court, angering the judge who then sentenced him to 20 years in prison.
I asked why he thought he was having such thoughts. He didn't have a clue. Knowing his history, I suggested that his obsessive thinking represented a punishing fantasy in which he repeatedly victimized himself for acting weak. He took in what I said and thought it made sense. I wondered why he was so angry with himself for what seemed at worst a minor offense. At this point I suggested that he might forgive himself.
As we explored the question of forgiveness, he realized that the thought of forgiving himself had never occurred to him; instead he felt that he needed to teach himself a "hard lesson," a lesson that he had been hammering himself with for many years. His obsessive fantasy represented one module in the lesson plan.
The obstacle to forgiveness is self-hate: hatred for the objectionable and unacceptable aspects of the self. Self-hate is embedded in core beliefs about the self and is often unwittingly administered. It is unconscious and present in what I've described in an earlier blog as negative self-talk, the background noise of self-loathing. The personal obstacles to self-forgiveness are reinforced by cultural values that prescribe a "tough love" regimen for self-improvement. The essence of this regimen is embodied in the message "Be strong, show no vulnerability, admit no weakness" as you learn the hard lessons of life on your own.
In contrast, self-forgiveness is an integral aspect of personal growth that involves examination and acceptance of weakness, failure, and disappointment. It entails identifying personal shortcomings, recognizing the subtle judgments, punitive fantasies that characterize one's reactions, and challenging their veracity. It calls for an effort to understand these failings within the larger context of ones' life. To this end Carl Jung said, "The patient does not feel himself accepted, unless the very worst in him is accepted too."
My client had his court date. No charges had been filed, and he was feeling much better. He described how the last session gave him the "bonk on the head that he needed." He explained how he had not realized how badly he had been torturing himself with his obsessive fantasies until I had pointed it out. When he stopped the fantasizing, he began to feel better.
Sheepishly, he said that he was beginning to understand what forgiveness meant. He compared his situation to being in a relationship. "If you were angry at your partner and did not forgive her, you would be stuck, not growing. I was doing that to myself." With this insight, he felt he had found a new guiding principle. He was eager to put this realization at the front of his conscious mind and wondered what that would be like.
Transforming Negative Self Talk
Part Two: The Road to Healthy Self-esteem
Changing negative self-talk is not simply a matter of replacing negative statements with positive affirmations. The psychological work involves altering patterns of thinking and behaving that have been intimately connected to one's identity. The goal is to learn how to view oneself in a more balanced and integrated manner that will lead to changes in behavior and greater fulfillment in life.
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
While I will break down the process of changing negative self-talk into three steps, the work doesn't occur neatly in sequential steps. The statement two steps forward one step back captures the non-linear path of change. The key to this process is commitment and stamina, especially following the inevitable setbacks. Psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists describe this process as "working through." Psychological change requires an effort that is equivalent to the work needed to learn a martial art or to play a musical instrument.
Becoming aware of the problem involves developing the ability to step back and critically examine one's thoughts and feelings. Becoming aware of negative self-talk involves attending to one's internal chatter and noticing what one is saying to oneself with the ear of a compassionate observer even when the last thing that you want to do is be aware of your feelings. What stands in the way of self-awareness is shame. We have learned to be ashamed of our feelings of weakness and vulnerability. When we feel shame, we dim the lights of consciousness. At this moment the idea of self-awareness feels like salt on a wound.
The Road to Hell is Paved With Shame
The major challenge in overcoming shame is understnding the need to disidentify with the negative punitive perspective that has been such a familiar presence. The recognition that negative self-talk represents only one point of view among many is a good start. Beginning to monitor your internal dialogue introduces the possibility of a personal corrective second opinion. In fact catching yourself in the act builds up the strength of the observing ego. It allows one to wonder, "Why am I saying such mean things to myself?" "Under what circumstances would I ever talk to a friend like I am talking to myself?" When you can reflect on your feelings, then you are on the road to recovery and achievement and far from being lost off road in some desolate woods.
The Power of Negative Thinking
The mind requires self-monitoring and self-correcting in order to keep thoughts in check with the ever-shifting subtle changes of reality. The second step in dealing with negative self-talk follows from the ability to self-reflect and involves questioning the validity of self-criticism. It might seem counter-intuitive to suggest that questioning how one feels is an adaptive function, but feelings can be misleading. Feelings are signals that communicate information about the world. They do not simply represent reality. The ability to make this differentiation is a critical aspect of self-reflection.
When you are self-critical, you may view the self and others through a distorted lens. You believe in the "Truth" of these feelings with a certainty that defies logic. Projection is a powerful and subtle mechanism that underlies this distortion. If I am feeling stupid, it is likely that I will project these feelings onto the people I am interacting with. The projection appears as the thought, "they think I am stupid. " I will notice something in their look or tone that conveys a judgment that confirms this feeling. Ironically under the social pressure to appear smart, I might end up saying something stupid. Ah, the power of negative thinking!
Feelings need to be examined, questioned and reflected upon. Questions need to be asked. "What am I feeling?" "Are my feelings distorting my understanding of the situation?" "Am I projecting my negative feelings onto the situation?" This process is deepened by a psychological inquiry into the source of one's core negative beliefs. When you understand why you think and behave in a certain, not only do you feel less crazy, but you also can have compassion for your difficulty.
As you observe and question your feelings and perceptions, you begin to see patterns. Black and white thinking is a mode of thought that underlies negative self-talk. In this mode there are no shades of grey. You are all good or all bad. Making a single mistake, no matter how small can be costly because it is magnified to monstrous proportions and negates all that is positive and good about you. Black and white thinking is grounded in perfectionism that creates unrealistic standards for success.
Developing a balanced, integrated sense of self, in other words, good self-esteem works to dismantle the standard of perfectionism. It introduces a new standard that is flexible, inclusive, and compassionate. This ability to see the big picture of yourself and accept your strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures is the hallmark of good self-esteem.
Beyond the Comfort Zone
The third step entails changing the behavior that has functioned to support negative self-talk. Self-critical individuals tend to be quiet, sensitive to slights, risk aversive, and anticipate negative outcomes. Their behavior often reinforces their subjective reality that in turn further reinforces their behavior. As you begin to challenge negative core beliefs, you may feel more willing to take risks. When you move beyond the comfort zone, core beliefs are tested in the great laboratory of life. And in most situations, individuals are profoundly relieved to discover the fallacy of their convictions.


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James Fowler, age 59, of Douglasville, GA passed away Thursday, June 07, 2018. He was born on April 04, 1959 in Austell, Georgia, the son of the late James Earl Fowler and the late Helen Marie Goode Fowler. James was a painter by trade and a member of Abounding Grace Baptist Church.In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his sister, Judy Crowley.He is survived by his daughter: Connie Lynn Fowler Jones of El Paso, Texas; sisters: Kathy Fields and her husband, Phillip of Winston, GA, Sherry East and her husband, Tommy of Winston, GA and Angela Fowler and her husband, Patrick of Braxton, GA; brothers: Tim Fowler and his wife, Lisa of Villa Rica, GA, Hal Strickland and his wife, Debbie of Villa Rica, GA; several nieces and nephews.Per the family's wishes, he was cremated and a memorial service will be held on Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 2:00 P.M. at True Gospel Baptist Church with Brother Tommy Costner officiating.The family will receive friends at True Gospel Baptist Church on Saturday, June 16, 2018 from 1:00-2:00 P.M.You may share your thoughts and condolences online at www.hightowersmemorial.comHightower's Memorial Chapel of Douglasville has charge of the arrangements. 770-489-2818
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Presented by MIFF 37ºSouth Market & Accelerator, Adrian Wootton returns exclusively to Melbourne for more of his acclaimed Illustrated Film Talks exploring the relationship between cinema and great modern cultural icons.
A former director of the London Film Festival, British Film Institute and the UK's National Film Theatre, Wootton is currently CEO of Film London & The British Film Commission, director of the Crime Scene Festival and a program advisor to the Venice Film Festival, London Film Festival and Italy's Courmayeur Noir Fest. He contributes articles on screen culture to The Guardian and Sight & Sound, regularly broadcasts and reviews films on BBC Radio, was awarded an honorary doctorate by The University of East Anglia and is a Norwich University Film & Media Visiting Professor.
As the Director of the Crime Scene Festival, and a program advisor to the Venice Film Festival, what kind of impact do you think that festival cultures have on films?
As someone who has worked on many festivals, including The London Film Festival (now for over 25 years!) as well as the others you mention, I really believe that festivals – especially of the size and scale of MIFF – are increasingly important to the fate of films and filmmakers in our industry. Festivals can launch new careers, create new professional and business networks, build or cement reputations, help define a film's identity to audiences, generate sales to distributors, launch films in the marketplaces and help secure finance for future projects.
Thinking about Humphrey Bogart, do you believe that 'tough guy' and 'romantic hero' are the only two types of characters that can be presented by males?
No! Actually I really believe that Humphrey Bogart's talent and extraordinary career demonstrates that it was possible for a male actor to escape gangster tough-guy stereotyping and portray a variety of versatile characters, ranging from typical hardboiled gangsters (in a lot of his early films and notably in both Dead End and The Roaring Twenties) through to an ambiguous anti hero in High Sierra and the classic romantic hero from a string of memorable films including Casablanca. He also protrayed a psychotic gold prospector in The Treasure of Sierra Madre, a loveable rogue in The African Queen and violent, tortured screenwriter in In a Lonely Place. All these are explored in my talk.
Apart from Alfred Hitchcock, which filmmaker's directing style would also collaborate well with Patricia Highsmith's crime and suspense novels?
Well, clearly Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train from 1955 was not only the first but one of the most famous of the Highsmith film adaptations. But what is interesting to me is that despite being an American her work has a particular European sensibility, which has attracted French, German, British and Italian filmmakers. Indeed Plein Soleil (Purple Noon) by Rene Clement is one if the very best early versions of a Ripley novel, and Claude Miller's wonderful 1977 film This Sweet Sickness captures the tension, unease and psychological suspense of Highsmith brilliantly. In the same year, German maestro Wim Wenders also brought his superb cinematic eye to Highsmith in the terrific The American Friend. And of course Anthony Minghella gave us a great glamorous version of The Talented Mr Ripley in 1999.
Highsmith was a wonderful writer, a fascinating and reclusive personality and a rich subject for film adaptation.
What is your opinion towards the spy genre in film history? Do you think audiences will always have high interest in spy thrillers on the screen?
I am assuming this links back to my talk on John Le Carré. So to give a bit of background, spy fiction has been represented on screen since the silent era (because spies have existed in fiction since the era of Dickens) and especially from sound in the 1930s because of the popularity of writers like Somerset Maugham, John Buchan, Eric Ambler and Grahsm Greene.
The complex stories with crosses and double crosses, ambiguous and amoral characters, often exotic locales, political undercurrents and the opportunities for sexual intrigue and violent action provide a rich canvass for writers to exercise their imagination, and for filmmakers to translate into large- and small-screen adaptations. In the case of Le Carré, he has – in a career now spanning more than 50 years – fashioned a large and unique body of work and become one of the giants of the espionage fiction genre. In so doing, his work has spawned many fascinating and terrific film & TV versions, from the 1960s The Spy Who Came In From The Cold to the 1970s TV version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (and the most recent wonderful film), from The Constant Gardener to the forthcoming A Most Wanted Man.
Le Carré has also had good, bad and ridiculous experiences working as a screenwriter, which I had the pleasure of interviewing him about and I will recount in my talk.
As one of the greatest actresses in romantic films, do you think that Katharine Hepburn was objectified on the screen through the 'male gaze', like most female characters in Hollywood?
Although the Hollywood studios tried, Katharine Hepburn was never moulded into the typical stereotype of the female star. Her family background (her mother was a suffragette and her father was a campaigning liberal doctor), her education, her intelligence and her forceful, independent personality made her a really unconventional actress who defied the dictates of the dream factory. In fact this counted against her in first phase of her career and despite winning an Oscar and making some wonderful films in 1930s (including Bringing Up Baby) she was described as "Box Office Poison".
So it was only when she consciously developed a screen personality that enhanced her free spirit, energy and charm, from Philadelphia Story onwards, that she really became popular with audiences. In the 1940s and '50s in her onscreen partnership with Spencer Tracy she broke boundaries in the way women's lives were realised onscreen (wives, professional woman and even female sport stars) in such classic satirical romantic comedies such as Adam's Rib and Pat and Mike.
Then in the 1960s she broke the mould as to how older women were represented, with amazing performances in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner and The Lion in Winter. She still has the record for an actress in the number of Oscar nominations and wins (four), the last of which she won for On Golden Pond in 1981, when she was 76 years of ag .
So it was an amazingly long, groundbreaking and glittering career, with much to pack into my talk!
For detailed information on each of Adrian Wootton's film talks, please click the links below. Each lecture is $15* (MIFF passes not valid).
Humphrey Bogart: Tough Guy & Romantic Hero
Patricia Highsmith: From Strangers to Ripley
John le Carré: Spy to Page to Celluloid
Katharine Hepburn: A Maverick's Diamond Career


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Wollstonecraft and polyamory
A woman must take care for her reputation. A microcosm of oppression is encapsuled in this one precept. It sets up a system in which some women are esteemed at the expense of other women.
Wollstonecraft believes that male chastity would solve the problem of womens oppression. I will try to connect some of the dots in her argument. Strictly mathematically speaking, there must be unchaste women for the males to be unchaste with. This creates the basis for esteeming the women who arent unchaste. Oppression follows.
Wollstonecraft then criticizes women who are unchaste! (Commentators have pointed out, she is a prude.) Basically, this is a criticism of heterosexual women. She blames women whose chastity is only for show, i.e., for public consumption. A woman must take care for her reputation, so she is careful with whom she is seen, etc. But then she finds an agreeable partner. Her chastity ends there. Then it becomes a game of sating the unchaste male, so glutting his appetite that he has neither the strength nor the inclination to pursue other women, in effect, chastening him (only for show) by drainage. This creates much work for the woman, and leads to a mercenary attitude. This is a well-known phenomenon, and has more recently been characterized by Alexander Sanger, Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom for the 21st Century.
Take Wollstonecrafts superficially-chaste woman as the anti-feminist. What would her opposite be? The woman who is unchaste, but only superficially so, i.e., the women who is not careful to appear chaste, who does not take care with whom she is seen, i.e., who is perhaps too friendly or too intimate with more than one man, but who is nevertheless actually not just the anti-chaste woman, the anti-Madonna, the whore, but who is chaste in fact, as it were, in secret.
Men would have to rearrange their ideas about women in order to accommodate the feminist woman. They would have to get used to the idea that a woman expressing friendliness or physical contact is not giving the green light for sexual intercourse. They would have to get used to a whole range of signs and signals, which had previously indicated availability, interest, and consent, now indicating nothing of that sort.
Unless that occurred, as a practical matter, such a woman would find herself overwhelmed with unwanted male interest. Beyond the misinterpreted signals would lie simple lack of masculine restraint. In order to be tolerated by the feminist woman, the male would have to dial back their sexual aggressiveness to absolute zero. They would have to become chaste.
She lived within the constraints of a very different time.
The world opens up... when you do.
"Oh, oh, can't you see? Love is the drug for me." ~Bryan Ferry
"Love and the self are one . . ." ~Leo Buscaglia
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Women haven't changed at all. Sanger confirms it!
I am absolutely in favor of a woman's right to choose. Always have been, always will be. But it is the right to use sex to manipulate men. Men, rather than prohibiting this, ought to learn from it how to restrain themselves. Wollstonecraft was right: sex equality requires it.
I didn't say women changed. I said times have changed - you deny that? You say she didn't have different (and more) societal constraints than we do now? That's making you sound a little nutty.
The world opens up... when you do.
"Oh, oh, can't you see? Love is the drug for me." ~Bryan Ferry
"Love and the self are one . . ." ~Leo Buscaglia
Click here for a Solo Poly view on hierarchical relationships
Click here to find out why the Polyamorous Misanthrope is feeling disgusted.
to continue...
Prostitution are even more a use of sex to manipulate men, and vice laws prohibiting it are laws protecting specifically male weaknesses. It's my opinion that these weaknesses are worsened, rather than aided, by such protection. The old positivist argument that the state should limit its intervention to the prevention of physical harm applies.
There is a lot of bizarre...logic?...in this thread already. So when I ran into another strain of bizarre logic on Facebook yesterday, it actually reminded me of this.
The argument presented there was:
It is not right that women want access to birth control and abortion, when they could merely be expected to exercise SELF CONTROL in the interest of not becoming pregnant by abstaining from sex, on the grounds that SELF CONTROL is expected of men, to not engage in rape.
The mental gymnastics required to try and weigh these two things, to even begin to argue back against this, caused my mind to "blue screen." As in, "ERROR: brain.exe has stopped working." It is moments like that, which gave rise to the phrase, "I just can't even."
So let me just lay down some talky talk. It seems as though people who think of all interactions of men and women to be strictly about the pursuit of sex, and then try and shoehorn the whole business into "natural" evolutionary breeding strategies...are people who really are not very socially adept and frankly just don't know what the hell they're talking about.
I like to call myself a "stark raving extrovert" and as such, I have had interactions (conversations) with thousands of other humans, and consider several hundred of them to be "friends" and if anything there are more men than women in at least one of my larger social spheres.
I was previously married to a man who could not conceive of the notion of talking to a woman without contemplating sex with her, or with some kind of likely hidden agenda to try and get it (this would be that "unwanted male attention" that women are supposedly subject to.) He didn't want me to talk to other men. I was his property and if I were properly protecting his property, I'd deny other men the chance to pursue me, by staying home or at least being properly chaperoned. Now, from a rational/logical standpoint he'd have denied this. But from an emotional standpoint, it was utterly true. (That he held this opinion, that is.)
The problem arises when I analyze the interactions between myself, unchaperoned and "out," I would go on trips across the country to see a metal band, to attend many parties and concerts, to be out at night, to have a hotel room to myself in a property booked mostly by my "friends" most of whom were male. Please feel free to take a moment to visit my public profile and see photos of me in my albums. I am not a beauty queen, but I don't think I'm ugly enough to put off a mindless rutting male, if indeed they were so driven as my ex suspected, and there is a TREMENDOUS parallel between his attitudes and the concepts espoused in the original post of this thread.
Also, I am a flirt, I am outgoing, I sling innuendo and crass humor. In the settings I used to put myself, I was outwardly unchaste, yet in actuality, I was faithful to my mate...and we didn't have the most active sex life, certainly not enough for "drainage" (what a ridiculous concept) so I was functionally "chaste". Ish. I was your "feminist" creature.
I SHOULD have been getting bombarded by panting animal males trying to hump my leg, because my god, my friendly behavior must surely be interpreted as interest, nay, CONSENT, right??? Only if one sees the situation from the perspective of a socially inept, insecure, primitive, narcissistic idiot like my ex, I'm afraid. My friends were not only very respectful, in fact when I divorced my ex and even made it known just how available and UNCHASTE I was interested in being on one particular excursion...my friends, to a man, decided I was vulnerable and not to be messed with, and did not pursue me. Not even for a one night fling. Even though most of them were drunk, high, what have you. Fact is...humans aren't just animals. We're THINKING animals. Which makes us a lot more complicated than any all-encompassing, unifying theory of social behavior, can possibly explain.
We have got the power to re-write our own natures and our own scripts. Every single one of us. And I will take the social truths I have lived, over the dusty ideas that someone wrote about, any day of the week.
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Women as THE primary moral arbiters BUT not to be trusted with any authority whatever?
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