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[tinyjo]

Two links from my friends page which caught my eye.

First, No pity. No shame. No silence. Personally I've never been a victim of violence, sexual or otherwise, which makes me very lucky. I still found the post very affecting and I want to support the idea of bringing the scope of this into the light. I've seen a few people on my friends list make this declaration and I want to bear witness.

Secondly, and completely unrelatedly, http://www.electoral-vote.com/, which is a predictor of the electoral college results, based on polls in all the states. I thought the graph of how the votes are shifting was particularly interesting - I noticed that the democrats actually took a dip after Farenheit 911 came out.

Third and last, a rant by swisstone about the King Arthur film and Arthurian scholarship generally. I do plan to see the film but the historical Arthur? Come off it!

Comments

Re: hmmmm

[littlegreenboat.livejournal.com]

I agree with the point that (as I understand it) Cleanskies was making. If you really couldn't afford to walk home alone, that wasn't because streets, or lateness, are intrinsically dangerous, that was because some people some of the time act very badly. And the less the rest of us let them get away with it, the better.