The Great Cameron Seduction of 2012

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I was asked 10 questions by vigwig as part of a kind of “Get to know your followers” chain ask. Questions and my answers are as follows…

1. In which country, other than your own, would you like to live?

I’d like to live somewhere in Europe. Perhaps Switzerland? It seems like a very beautiful and peaceful place to live, all those gun owners having served in the military for however many years they’re supposed to.

2. Who is your favorite historical person?

Historical implies s/he’s dead and was a significant figure in history in some regional, national or international sense. I dislike picking favorites because it can put me in awkward positions. Having said that, I’m a great fan of Charlie Chaplin.

3. Would you rather be a virtuoso musician or a great painter?

I think I would prefer to the former because music is a more universal and effective form of communication than paintings. It’s crass generalization and shallow reasoning to say that painters are less relevant, but there you go.

4. Last book you’ve read?

That I finished? The Sun Also Rises, for school. I fell in love with Hemingway because of his damn icebergs. He’s just fantastic and he doesn’t waste words.

5. Breakfast: eggs or cereal?

Eggs. I didn’t grow up eating cereal for breakfast; that may explain my apathy towards cereal.

6. Name 1 special skill/quality your friends love about you:

I’ll quote a friend: Knowing an absurd amount of obscure facts that are somehow extremely relevant. I am pretty good at trivia (though, I used to be better).

7. Gala night: sequins or silk?

For a gala night? Silk, because I don’t know how sequins would fit into a man’s black/white tie outfit and I prefer the more understated look of silk.

8. Country cabin or city penthouse?

Hmmm… The latter because this penthouse would probably be on the coast and I am surely a coastal person.

9. beer or wine?

I’m neither a huge fan of alcohol nor have I ever had anything more than a sip here or there to drink. Wine.

10. Date night: pick just one! Tom Hiddleston/Benedict Cumberbatch/Chris Pine/Christina Hendricks

Benedict Cumberbatch! How could I say no to that indescribable face?

May 23, 2013
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Beverly Sills/Lucia/La Scala/Act 1 “Fountain Scene”

May 23, 2013
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May 22, 2013
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Society has allowed rapists to define what resistance is: screaming, crying, scratching, pushing, kicking, biting, punching. I didn’t resist like that. My resistance was to wriggle a bit, turn my head away when he tried to kiss me, try to stop his hand going into my bra and knickers, push him ineffectually, talk about wanting to get my cab; all things which normal men recognise as not being enthusiastic participation when they are engaging with women but pretend it’s a grey area when they talk about rape. Rapists have managed to get society to believe, that what I did, was consent.

Because I didn’t resist in the way rapists - and society - say that women should resist, they define our non-participation as consent.

A section of the article “How I became a rape victim”

(via sociolab)

BOOM, rape culture at work… Can I also add, when you are in a situation that involves rape or you think might involve rape or looks like it might involve rape in a few minutes, its usually pretty scary to scream and kick… Especially if you know this person and sometimes might even care about them and think they care about you too. It is much more likely that you’ll say “No.. Lets stop.. I don’t want to right now..” etc

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May 22, 2013
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