What Would Sappho Say?
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
On one of the other sites this blog is posted on a woman trying to discover her sexuality asked innocently, “How does one know if she's a lesbian before actually engaging with a girl if even straight girls like lesbian porn? I started out with gay porn (of the fan fiction variety) I think in part because it was a safer place to start for me thinking about homosexuality and myself.”
Another reader commented, “Why do all these women use pornography? I thought lesbians at least would be above such smut.”
Now, I expected the second response as of course everyone who has seen pornography has a collection in the box in the back of their closet or someplace equally as discrete, bowing in shame if anyone were to ever know they owned it or watched it with any modicum of regularity as deemed by the morality police who have just stepped out and shown themselves to be alive and well living amongst our homosexual kind. For those of you who read Liberals, Labeling and How Much We Lose, just think of those who have seen porn as another label. Having watched it makes you neither a better nor worse person, more or less moral, it simple happens as a product of our sexualized society and we are marketed towards its taboo from almost birth.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Sappho Speaks: Best New Blog - The Fix Is In!
What Would Sappho Say?
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
First. let me just say up front I AM INDEED, a SORE LOSER when the odds don't seem to have been even going in at the Lezzy Awards over at The Lesbian Lifestyle from the get go. I had no huge expectation going in as the winner in the Best New Blog category since I launched at the end of November 2009 giving me hardly three months to collect a following. I have to say it was a shock that I made it into the final three. Once there, however, I came to believe my competition would be other singular blogs as the word in the award is BLOG and that some voters might actually review each if they were not familiar with them before making their pick.
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
First. let me just say up front I AM INDEED, a SORE LOSER when the odds don't seem to have been even going in at the Lezzy Awards over at The Lesbian Lifestyle from the get go. I had no huge expectation going in as the winner in the Best New Blog category since I launched at the end of November 2009 giving me hardly three months to collect a following. I have to say it was a shock that I made it into the final three. Once there, however, I came to believe my competition would be other singular blogs as the word in the award is BLOG and that some voters might actually review each if they were not familiar with them before making their pick.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Sappho Speaks: Alice, You’ve Really Stepped In It Now!!!
What Would Sappho Say?
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
With the Royal premiere of Alice in Wonderland this past week I thought I’d bring her into the mix for what I’m sure will bring some jeers from the peanut gallery. And as Alice blindly and without much forethought ran down the rabbit hole into Wonderland (or was it?) so do children born of their parents follow them into the family’s religious fold. It is a predestined plan, one the child has no control over and once indoctrinated will fight to the death for those beliefs as strongly as their parents before them. Religion is really a geography problem easily solved with money when you get right down to it.
If we could wrangle up the low income expectant mothers and offer them relocation, a stipend to raise their child Catholic, and be attached to a certain parish for looking after during the child’s life...... Oh yeah, they already do that. It’s called missionaries. The stipends can be food and better shelter or any other basis need but in return the families are expected to dedicate their lives to Christ.
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
With the Royal premiere of Alice in Wonderland this past week I thought I’d bring her into the mix for what I’m sure will bring some jeers from the peanut gallery. And as Alice blindly and without much forethought ran down the rabbit hole into Wonderland (or was it?) so do children born of their parents follow them into the family’s religious fold. It is a predestined plan, one the child has no control over and once indoctrinated will fight to the death for those beliefs as strongly as their parents before them. Religion is really a geography problem easily solved with money when you get right down to it.
If we could wrangle up the low income expectant mothers and offer them relocation, a stipend to raise their child Catholic, and be attached to a certain parish for looking after during the child’s life...... Oh yeah, they already do that. It’s called missionaries. The stipends can be food and better shelter or any other basis need but in return the families are expected to dedicate their lives to Christ.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Sappho Speaks: Liberals, Labeling and How Much We Lose
What Would Sappho Say?
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
I know we were all taught as children not to call each other names and we know how much racism hurts us as a culture (or at least I hope those reading this blog do) but there as so many more ways we use labels in our lives that shut us off from groups, from information, and from individuals and if you are anything like me, it takes someone pointing it out every now and then for a real wake up call to happen in your life so change can begin to rebuild your way of interacting in the world.
When I was young and just attending college I thought I was so open-minded because I was liberal and to me the terms were interchangeable. I mean isn’t that what a liberal is supposed to be – tolerant of others no matter who or what they believe in? Uh no. That part was not part of my limited indoctrination into my leftist viewpoints. I was definitely pro-choice and would rally around all women’s rights issues and stand up for any woman, but she had to think like I did if I’m being honest here. I was a narrow-minded liberal as are a majority of the liberals I meet, truth be told, but I was only 18 and I am let’s say 29 now and have grown a bit in my definition of what it means to be a human and a human who is liberal.
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
I know we were all taught as children not to call each other names and we know how much racism hurts us as a culture (or at least I hope those reading this blog do) but there as so many more ways we use labels in our lives that shut us off from groups, from information, and from individuals and if you are anything like me, it takes someone pointing it out every now and then for a real wake up call to happen in your life so change can begin to rebuild your way of interacting in the world.
When I was young and just attending college I thought I was so open-minded because I was liberal and to me the terms were interchangeable. I mean isn’t that what a liberal is supposed to be – tolerant of others no matter who or what they believe in? Uh no. That part was not part of my limited indoctrination into my leftist viewpoints. I was definitely pro-choice and would rally around all women’s rights issues and stand up for any woman, but she had to think like I did if I’m being honest here. I was a narrow-minded liberal as are a majority of the liberals I meet, truth be told, but I was only 18 and I am let’s say 29 now and have grown a bit in my definition of what it means to be a human and a human who is liberal.
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