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By exquey • 15 years ago

Amanda Palmer “Oasis” not being played in the UK

Amanda Palmer is an exceptional performer who is known for writing very hard biting, sometimes cynical, sometimes scathing, and always interesting music.
***TRIGGER WARNING****
She’s writen a public blog about her tongue in cheek song “Oasis” being rejected for airplay in the UK due to the topics of a girl getting drunk, dated raped, having an abortion, and yet shrugging it all off because she received an autographed picture from the band Oasis. “making light of rape, religion and abortion”.

As Ms. Palmer’s blog makes clear the upbeat ‘everything is fine’ attitiude is intended to highlight the disconnect between the events and the people experiencing the events.
It doesn’t offend me. In fact my first reaction was the realization I wish there were more mainstream songs about abortion and girls’ and women’s experiences around rape and abortion. Perhaps if there were more artistic expression about these subjects through the entire spectrum of feelings we as surviors and supporters might have an easier time selecting what to accept and reject on a personal level rather than requiring an agency to do so on our behalf.
The song made me want abortion to be free of public shame and I felt pain for all the girls/women for whom date rape is par for the course, normalized through denial and folded between pages of glossy fashion magazines.
What do you think?

By exquey • 15 years ago

Fuck voter suppression

When you hear about broken voting machines, long lines, douchebags leaving flyers on car windows saying voters will be arrested for unpaid parking tickets, robocalls about people’s religions, hatred, racism, and fear watch this video. Remember America is made up of people who will stand in line all day and all night to vote, who will check ballads by hand, and recheck them, by watchdog bipartisan groups, and it is made up of people like you and me who want with all of our hearts to wake up to America we can be proud of tomorrow morning.
Yes We Can.

By exquey • 15 years ago

About those rape prevention chain letters

Hi Ladies, I wrote this for another online community response but I wanted to share it with the community here as well.
How many of us have been swamped with these rape prevention chain letters?
Born and raised in a rape culture I occasionally get a bit overwhelmed with “Ladies here’s what you need to do” lists.
How about we as like minded adults who think rape is not a valid sport like undertaking for the human race firmly and utterly stop allowing our entertainment and advertising industries frame it as such?
How about a chain letter, fuck it, how about live conversations with people we have relationships with talking about why so many tv shows, movies, and even ...