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Event Viewer warnings
Using Event Viewer/Applications I was getting 5 error events each day. This had to do with a "search" for a file on an external HD. I have just formated the HD and now I get "Warnings" about the the same files. The HD is now blank.
How do I get rid of the warnings?
Thanks for any help.
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Windows 7 x64
I've been clearing out my Event Viewer using a batch file I found a good 18 months ago. Gives you a clean slate to look at. I can't remember where I found the batch file but this one is (nearly) the same. They don't delete the actual .event files, just clear your event viewer.
I feel that this is not what you are really looking for though. You are looking for how to fix it so you no longer get the error messages
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Lasy B - Thanks for the reply. You are correct in that I would rather know how to "fix the problem", but if nothing else I'll give your suggestion a try.
Thanks again
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This may be interesting reading. It adresses Vista but should be the same for Win7: Working with Vista's new Event Viewer
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Another Feb. 14 has come and gone, as bevies of bouquets are beginning to wilt and make their way into dumpsters across campus. Valentine's Day meant different things to different people: Singles Awareness Day, Vomit at "Cute" Couples Day, Hallmark Sales Go Up Day, There's No More Chocolate in CVS Day, and so on and so forth. But for those of us with a partner to call our Valentine, it was something else as well — Relationship Peak Day.
On Relationship Peak Day, we get bombarded by our favorite sweets, a bouquet of flowers, a heart-shaped pizza from Papa Johns, new cologne or whatever. We're told by our better halves how wonderful, indispensable and good-looking we are. Oh, and we're also having some ultra hot hook-ups. So it's no wonder we're on a love high, hopped up on compliments and heart-shaped Reese's from the C-Store.
But then, like a ton of bricks, it hits us like a sugar crash, because it is one. Welcome to The Post-Valentine's Lull. We're sick to our stomachs from eating Fannie Mae, and all of the sudden, our relationships are sort of humdrum. No one is telling us how incredibly sexy we are or sending an a capella group to sing to us anymore, and we couldn't be more lethargic.
For those suffering from PVL, there are a few remedies that could give your relationship its buzz back. To keep Valentine's Day from being the only day you two feel the magic, break the monotony of your routine by trying something new and steamy in the bedroom post V-Day.
1. Bring a toy into the mix. Props like a vibrating cock ring (to give pleasure and also maintain an erection), bondage tape, or even a sex swing are perfect for great Post-Valentine's Lull sexcapades. Aside from the fun sex, it also doubles as a gift to your partner. Win-win.
2. Experiment with role play or power dynamics. Taking on a new personality in bed is a surefire way to spice things up. Whether you become a sexy TA, a wookie or just a little more bossy, leaving your norm behind is always fun!
3. Include others. Okay, not necessarily live people, but watching porn together could be a fun way to heat things up. Pick one out together and then be inspired by the professionals in the field of sex. Follow their lead as you watch, and see where it takes you.
4. Take your hookup elsewhere. Location, location, location. Getting it on somewhere other than your apartment or frat house bedroom can be quite an excitement booster. Suggest getting hot and heavy in the great outdoors, in a Norris bathroom, on a roof, in a Tech classroom, or even in the shower.
Cure your PVL and get laid, Wildcats.
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The 15-minute procedure consists of two teeny injections of a polymer gel into the vas deferens tubes—all relatively painless after a local anesthetic is administered. This gel lines the walls of the deferens and essentially tears apart sperm as they flow through (this is called the polyelectrolytic effect, for all you sexy science nerds). There is still semen containing sperm in every ejaculation—it's just not baby-making sperm. RISUG remains effective for up to ten years, and can be flushed out and deactivated with an equally-simple procedure of baking soda-solution injection. This is so much easier to reverse than vasectomy, making it a smart choice for younger guys who want to take birth control into their own hands.
So, the big question is, why don't more men and women know about RISUG? The beauty of RISUG is that it's incredibly cheap, making it accessible to guys all over India. Arguably, big pharma-companies don't want to advertise a form of birth control that is a) ridiculously low-cost, and b) focuses on the male's body. Vaselgel, as it's being dubbed in English, is trying to break into the American market, but is struggling to gain popularity—the vicious cycle of being unknown and thus, unutilized, is ruining what could revolutionize birth control as we know it
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I was talking recently with some female friends and we discovered a common complaint: sometimes our male partners simply cut things short in the bedroom before we have had a chance to finish. Not because they are tired, or because they are lazy, or because we have faked it, and definitely not because they hate female pleasure, but because they sincerely believe they have helped us to achieve orgasm and that their work is done. Often this is accompanied by leaning back and a self-satisfied look that says, "Damn, I am good," or worse: "You're welcome". Let's just call it the "you're welcome, babe" phenomenon. (Please excuse my heteronormativity—it's just that I've never heard of this happening in another context, although I suppose it is possible.)
I shared this with a male friend last night. He just laughed. "Wait, wait," he said, "why don't they just ask? I generally ask."
Why don't they just ask, indeed? For whatever reason, many of my peers have internalized the message that communication during sex is not sexy. It's just somehow too awkward to ask your partner whether what you are doing feels good or what they would like for you to be doing instead. After all, what if you ask whether your partner is close and he or she says no? But what happens when you combine this unwillingness or inability to communicate with a lack of comprehensive sex education is that some men are unable to recognize whether or not their female partners have had orgasms.
Obviously, the other side to this is that there is a need for comprehensive sex education in schools. But this education should continue into the college years, if there are so many well-educated men out there who just do not know what a female orgasm looks like. There are clear physiological signs of excitement, like muscle tension, heavier breathing and the "sex flush"—not that anyone would know it from porn. If your sex ed was abstinence-only, slightly augmented by things you picked up from porn, you would think the height of female pleasure corresponds to the crescendo of moaning so often heard in xHamster clips. Interestingly enough, this is not always the case in real life.
Now, of course a woman has a responsibility in this situation to (gently) inform her partner that he has not, in fact, just rocked her world. Once she gets over the shock of what just happened, that is. Obviously you don't want to shout, "Wait, did you think I came? Because there's no way that would have made me come." A more reasonable course of action might be to ask why he stopped, while emphasizing that it felt good or that you appreciate that he cares about your pleasure.
I think it is important to emphasize that these "you're welcome, babe" guys are not necessarily jerks. They are actually very focused on pleasing women—in fact, some of them seem to derive their self-worth from the knowledge that they are able to get a girl off (that's an issue for a separate post).
Yet parity in sexual pleasure is a fairly recent concept. In studies of straight couples' sexual habits, there still exists an orgasm gap. (This is not to say that orgasm necessarily has to be a part of every satisfying sexual encounter. In fact, some people feel enormous pressure from their partners to come, which can detract from what would be an otherwise enjoyable experience.) Clearly, we have a ways to go before proficiency in cunnilingus becomes widespread. However, sex can only get better through talking about it frankly. I am a firm believer that open, honest communication can ease you through all of the potentially awkward situations that arise in the bedroom. You're welcome.
Annie is a senior Human Development & Psychological Services major. Despite her love of the domestic, she is actually quite an opinionated feminist. She also loves albums on vinyl, doing the NYT crossword and men who wear elbow patches unironically. She imagines she will have to learn to occasionally keep her mouth shut next year when she goes to grad school for social work..
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The other night, I was hanging out with a group of people, discussing other people that we all know, as is so common at college. This one guy came up, in reference to a girl he'd hooked up with the past weekend, and someone said, "I'm pretty sure he's bi though, right?" To which another friend responded, "Well, but has he even hooked up with a guy ever?"
This caught my attention as being a little off. We're in the process of training the new SHAPE babies right now, and just a few weeks ago had our sessions on LGBTQIA everything. We talked about sexual orientation, identity and actions, and the difference between all three of these, an idea that comes from the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid (a follow-on from Kinsey's Scale). For example, someone can identify as "gay" without having ever had a sexual experience with someone of the same sex. We also spent a lot of time discussing the spectrum of sexual orientation, and how we all feel it is a much more fluid thing than one extreme or the other.
I spend so much of my time either in SHAPE or with people of like minds that I sometimes forget not everyone understands these concepts. To me, a guy identifying as "bi" but having never hooked up with another guy is completely normal – why shouldn't it be? If that's how he wants to identify, that's how he should identify, regardless of any action he has or has not taken. But the real world doesn't work like this. In the real world, two platonic guy friends still have to say "no homo" after they hug to make sure everyone around understands that that action doesn't imply identity.
In the real world, a shocking number of people still don't think that "bisexual" can even be a real thing. I was watching an old episode of "Friends" the other day, where Phoebe sang a song with the lyrics, "Sometimes men love women, sometimes men love men, then there are bisexuals, though some just say they're kidding themselves." While in an episode from the mid-'90s, it would be foolish to think that a large portion of people don't still feel this way.
Look, I didn't say anything to my friend who made this comment. How would that have gone: "Actually, even if he hasn't hooked up with a guy before, he can still identify as bisexual and we should all respect that identity." Statements like that, well, they're alienating and a tad pretentious. And I wouldn't want to come off that way for fear that people wouldn't take what I said seriously. What I do make efforts to do, however, is never to find myself making a similar comment. If someone tells me they're gay, I don't say, "Ooh so how many guys have you hooked up with so far?" I say, "That's really cool, thanks so much for sharing with me."
People can identify however they want to. Just because I've never known you to do anything like an elephant doesn't mean you can't come in one day and say, "Hey, I think I'm an elephant!" Okay, that's a bad example. But you get the point.
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Last Thursday, SHAPE's Miriam Mogilevsky wrote about the seemingly innocuous question, "Do you have a boyfriend yet?", and talks about the problems that stem from making assumptions. A SHAPE member sent in this follow-up. She wishes to remain anonymous because she's not out to everyone that might read it.
In her post, Miriam said that it bothers her when
friends and relatives ask whether she has a boyfriend, either not knowing or
not caring that she is, in fact, bisexual and the gender of her partner is not
a given. Well, I have another complaint about the misunderstandings involved in
But first, a bit of backstory: I have been
grappling with my sexual identity of late. Just a few years ago, I identified
as straight-ish, which turned into "a Kinsey 2," which then morphed into the label
bisexual. And now? I'm starting to wonder whether I might be pansexual, because
rather than feeling attracted to people of both genders, I increasingly find
that gender does not really matter to me. I like the way this particular label
acts as a big "fuck you" to the gender binary, and I feel like if I must have a
label for my orientation, this one fits the most comfortably.
Although I am not yet out to my family, I have been
telling my friends and people I meet at college that I am bi for close to a
year now. This usually elicits supportive reactions. However, I occasionally
get the feeling that the misconceptions attached to the label are more common
than I previously believed, even among the liberal, well-educated folks you
tend to find at Northwestern.
So, if calling myself pansexual is my way of saying
fuck you to the gender binary, then here is my "fuck you" to people who want to
stereotype me when I tell them I am bi:
I have no intention of giving up pussy once I graduate.
Just because I like boys and girls does not mean I want to have sex with
you and your girlfriend. I am not your human sex toy. On a related note, just
because I want to make out with your girlfriend at a party does not mean that I
want to make out with you. My orientation is not an open invitation.
It is offensive to
try to pair off your friends based on the sole fact that they are both queer.
Would you just go get Safe Space Trained already? Besides, what am I supposed to do, drunk text her this Friday
night with my address?
I really don't mean to be a killjoy. I understand
that everyone comes to college from incredibly different backgrounds; for some,
there is a lot of catch-up involved in becoming sensitive to LGBT issues and I
appreciate it when people at least try to understand. Also, if that random girl
you think might be gay is cute and single and actually gay and doesn't mind if
I'm a bit of an angry feminist…would you mind introducing us? Like, maybe this
Friday night?
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: This is a cross-post from Miriam's blog, Brute Reason. If you're not getting enough SHAPE blogging here, Miriam updates regularly. Check it out!
One thing I've always been thankful for is that I have never had a problem comfortably expressing my gender. Gender expression isn't something that only transgender people do. Cisgendered people do it too, although we might not have to think about it as much. When you opt for blue instead of pink, pants instead of a skirt, or Rocky instead of America's Next Top Model, there are a lot of implications about gender at play.
If I'm secretly a huge Top Model fan, does that make me unmanly? How about if I just watch it occasionally? Or if I saw it once and kinda liked it but never watched it again?
It doesn't matter.
Although I don't watch Top Model (for reasons that have more to do with my feelings about trashy TV than my feelings about gender expression), there are certain things about me that you could call unmanly. I've been known to wear dangly earrings. I have a pink V neck. I've been in drag more times than you might guess.
If you asked most people, they'd probably say that those are deviations from gender norms. Guys generally don't wear dangly earrings, but is there anything inherently feminine about them? When I wear them, it's not because I'm secretly wishing that I had been born a woman. It's because I'm kind of an eccentric person, and I think it's a good look for me.
(And this has nothing to do with my sexual orientation. No, wearing pink does not make me gay. Being attracted to men would make me gay. Not my T-shirt. Gender expression and sexual orientation are two completely different things. Are you gonna tell these guys that they're not manly because they're gay? I didn't think so.)
For me, this isn't a form of gender exploration, although it certainly could be for others. And although people generally don't tell me that I'm unmanly, it wouldn't matter if they did. I am comfortable identifying as male, and for me, identifying as a male can include dangly earrings from time to time.
Jai edits the SHAPE blog and is co-president of the Northwestern Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Club. He likes enthusiastic consent, when girls tell him he looks cute in hats, and mixed martial arts.
Dobrý den,
readers! This edition of SHAPE's blog is coming to you all the way from Prague,
Czech Republic. I'm studying abroad here for the quarter and am quite excited
to give you a little taste of Prague's sex and gender culture. I've been here
for five weeks so far, spending time in class, on group excursions, and have
already traveled for two weekends to Vienna and Berlin. I'm taking a gender and
culture class while I'm here, so I'm likely to drop in references from our
class discussions or the readings, but I think most of what I have to say will
be from general observations. You'd be amazed what you can see on a day-to-day
basis in this city...like half-naked women.
On one of our first days in Prague, we decided to go for a walk up through Old Town Square — aka tourist central. It was still late summer technically, so there were swarms of tourists in every direction and we were struggling to make our way through. We reached an even denser crowd of people
and knew there must be something captivating their attention. Sure enough,
there was a woman standing in a robe and two cameramen, ready and focused on
her. Within a few seconds she'd stripped off the robe and was completely
topless and wearing just a flimsy lace thong that was half off her butt. As the
cameramen started snapping their shots, so did the tourists.
None of the people I was with took pictures — we were all far too taken aback. You always hear about Europe being more sexually open than the U.S., and I've definitely seen that in my travels to other places in Europe, but I don't think any of us were ready for it to be
this blatant. Here was this woman, in the middle of the busiest part of one of
the most tourist-y cities in the world, completely comfortable being mostly
naked and having her picture taken. I just can't fathom the sheer guts that
took for her to be able to do that, and to seemingly appear so comfortable.
In the U.S. we
live in a culture where sex and nudity is so unbearably taboo and needs to be
covered up all the time. SHAPE and other organizations like it work hard to
take the taboo out of sex so that people can have a healthier and safer
understanding of it, but it still blows my mind whenever I see how far behind the rest of the world we really are. I'm not saying that all Europeans have a healthier attitude towards sex — or that this specific incident proves that in any way — but I do wonder how there ended up being such a stark contrast. It's refreshing to be somewhere where a woman can be that comfortable in her own body and where things are generally more straightforward.
As some Austrians
in a club in Vienna explained to us, when you want to dance with someone, you
go up and dance with them; when you want to make out with someone, you go up
and do it. You don't have to dress like a slut to get attention — you can demand it however you want. I like to think that this creates a new atmosphere of mutual respect, but I don't know if it really does or if that's just me being an optimist.
By name, SHAPE is a group of Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators. By definition, we are a group of trained students dedicated to promoting dialogue, reducing sexual assault, and creating a sexually healthier campus. By conception, however, SHAPE has a variety of different meanings: condom people, sexperts, feminists, the list goes on. What does being in SHAPE actually mean? Great question.
I joined SHAPE as a freshman at Northwestern after witnessing several other students make jokes about a flyer that asked, "Like talking about sex?" When they left the flyer on a table, I sneakily folded it into my bag and applied later that week. I loved talking about sex. But SHAPE was more than that.
SHAPE training woke me up to a new world. The way Aladdin introduced Jasmine to a whole new world on a magic carpet, SHAPE introduced me to sex, sexuality, and this book, titled Yes Means Yes, that transformed the way I said yes to sex. After every training class I would call my long distance boyfriend to tell him what I had learned that day. "Sex education in schools ignores the female orgasm!" I would rail, infuriated, "It describes male ejaculation like that is all there is to sex!" He was kind enough to listen intently.
After training ended I missed it. I wanted to see my fellow SHAPE members every day. I wanted to talk to them about 'rape culture' and sexism, and all of the awful things I saw in the world around me. Anyone who came into my dorm room was quickly introduced to the Guide to Getting It On and encouraged to explore their sex related questions. My fabulous roommate allowed me to display a large vase of condom roses year round. I gave as many presentations as I could sign up for, but that wasn't enough.
I became more involved with my committee and began working year round on developing the SHAPE training. I had loved every minute of my training and all I wanted was to share that excitement with every single future SHAPE member. As far as I was concerned, SHAPE training was the best thing. Ever. What more could you ask for than twenty, intelligent and wonderful people sitting in a room together talking about sexuality? Answer: Nothing.
It was during this time period, however, that I was confronted with the first real challenge to my training. A close friend was assaulted on campus, and piece-by-piece, recounted to me her experience the morning after the events took place. No amount of training, regardless of how comprehensive, can fully prepare you for the anger, fear, and sorrow you feel when someone you care for has been so hurt. In those first moments, all of the facts and references I had so diligently memorized left my mind and all I could manage was to wrap her in a hug and profess how incredibly and deeply sorry I was.
SHAPE is more than a group of students who know about sex. We are more than a pool of collective knowledge that gives out condoms and advocates for safe sex. What makes us more is not our training, or our presentations, or our events (although those are excellent) but the fact that deep down, every single member in SHAPE lives and breathes our mission. Because at the end of the day, what makes a great peer educator is not the ability to recount a relevant statistic, but the ability to really be there for a friend in need. And it is for this reason that I am so incredibly honored to assume the position of SHAPE director.
As a member of SHAPE's exec board, I receive a fair number of emails from other student leaders requesting SHAPE's involvement in events. However, it is rare that these emails have much to do with our goals as an organization. SHAPE's mission is to provide education, organize events, and stimulate discussion and awareness on issues surrounding sexual health and sexual assault. The purpose of SHAPE is to increase students' comfort with sexuality, to encourage sexually healthy behaviors, and to teach students how to recognize unhealthy and dangerous behaviors and attitudes regarding sexuality. We aim to provide a safe space for students to ask questions, find resources, and of course get condom six packs!
Surely my understanding of SHAPE is more nuanced than the average Wildcat's. However, I am sometimes a bit confused by these requests. It seems that other student leaders contact me in part because in their minds, SHAPE is pigeonholed as "that group that deals with women's issues". Yet sexual health is not only a women's issue, nor is sexual assault. Sexual assault affects more than just women on this campus, even if, statistically, a survivor is likely to be female. If we were to be emailed a security alert about an assault on campus, we would all feel a little less safe; and when sexual violence is student-on-student, it creates rifts in our student body that do not necessarily fall along gender lines. As for the other part of our name: last I checked, a dude could have concerns about his sexual health even if he never has sex with a woman in his life. Plus, SHAPE does have male members (go ahead and laugh, SHAPE loves a good penis joke) and this year we managed to receive more applications from male students than any other year. Really, how could these just be women's issues?
So please, fellow student leaders, continue to send your strange requests to my inbox. I always enjoy a good belly laugh, and I'm looking forward to telling you exactly what SHAPE stands for.
Annie is a senior Human Development & Psychological Services major. Despite her love of the domestic, she is actually quite an opinionated feminist. She also loves albums on vinyl, doing the NYT crossword and men who wear elbow patches unironically. She imagines she will have to learn to occasionally keep her mouth shut next year when she goes to grad school for social work.
Something strange is happening to the world's vaginas.
Sure, they've been given all sorts of haircuts, some more awkward than the ones (on our heads) our moms made us get before picture day in grade school. They've been waxed bare, dyed all sorts of shades of pink, even "vajazzled" with tiny, multicolored rhinestones. But this is something entirely different. At this, women ought to cross their legs tight and say no. In fact, they ought to scream it.
In an attempt to have aesthetically pleasing lady bits, more and more women are electing to undergo various "vaginal rejuvenation" procedures. Although the American Society of Plastic Surgeons only collected statistics for two years, they report a 30% increase from 2005 and 2006. The British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology revealed that in 2008 the number of operations increased by 70% compared with the previous year: 1,118 labiaplasty operations on the National Health Service records, and experts assume the trend is still moving upward.
Labiaplasty is a two hour, outpatient procedure performed under local anesthesia. Typically, it entails a trimming of the labia minora, or the inner vaginal lips, to become flush with the labia majora, or the outer lips. A few snips and a hundred or so stitches later, and you've got yourself a vagina beautiful enough for the Louvre. Ouch.
The procedure can cost upwards of $5,000, is rarely covered by insurance, and sometimes requires a second surgery to finish the job. But aside from the fact that women are paying doctors huge sums of money to botch up their perfectly normal genitalia, there's also the tiny fact that no medical board or association seems to support the surgeries.
The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, or ACOG, released a statement in 2007 condemning the surgeries, and even went on to say that they were "unproven surgical procedures with obvious risks" and not "medically indicated." The American Society for Plastic Surgeons has described the operation as "fringe."
And while these procedures are supposed to make women feel good about their down theres, the ACOG asks us to consider that "patients who are anxious or insecure about their genital appearance or sexual function may be further traumatized by undergoing an unproven surgical procedure with obvious risks."
Instead of undergoing dangerous surgery that is deemed unnecessary and dangerous, a woman's "concern regarding the appearance of her genitalia may be alleviated by a frank discussion of the wide range of normal genitalia and reassurance that the appearance of the external genitalia varies significantly from woman to woman."
Essentially, what ACOG is trying to get self-conscious, jaded women living in an appearance obsessed culture to understand is that appealing to a vaginal standard of beauty is senseless.
One question, worth asking yet seemingly swept aside, is where does this standard of vaginal beauty come from? Who is perpetuating the forces at play that cause women to undergo expensive, painful surgeries and weeks of recovery time to achieve an arbitrary definition of "normal?"
Some angry women and men, such as the Love The Lips Anti Labiaplasty interest group on Facebook, seem to have conjured images of middle-aged white men in charcoal gray suits (the culprit for nearly everything when there's no specific or obvious way to place blame) sitting in fancy offices, concocting ways to make the women of the western world feel inadequate.
But no, "the man" isn't the (only) one to blame. We're all to blame.
You, me, and the media that surrounds us—the media that we feed into and that feeds off of us—are creating an unlivable world for women. A world that bombards us with photoshopped images of women so flawless they appear alien, that disregards older women as sexually expired, that puts all of us up against scrutiny for every measly inch of our bodies. A world in which a USC frat brother sends an email to his entire chapter warning his fellow Kappa Sigmas to avoid women whose genitals look like "a bag of roast beef on the outside." A world in which there is little to no account for natural diversity, but instead shouts at us that there is only one way to be sexy, beautiful, and desirable.
This socially constructed self hatred that we push onto women for their bodies is only stronger when science and medicine appear to be backing it up. By offering these dangerous cosmetic surgeries, doctors perpetuate and legitimize an extremely narrow view of aesthetic and sexual ideals, encouraging women to be self conscious about their bodies and risk infection, altered sensation, dyspareunia, nerve damage, adhesions, and scarring to be "normal."
Instead of medically sanctioning these insecurities, we should look to medical professionals to stand up and tell us that we are normal, that we are healthy, and that going through pain and blowing our savings on a designer vagina is not the way to feel better about ourselves.
A person in a relationship that's interested in taking a break isn't an anomaly. That type of behavior has become so typical that many relationships can now expect to hit that road at one point or another, or know someone that does. Usually this happens because one or both people feel like they have lost a part of their personality or are being suffocated because of the relationship and a lack of private space. But just because this is typical, doesn't mean that it is right for the relationship.
What really matters here are the intentions of the person who wants the break. If someone feels as though they have lost a part of themselves then it is understandable and can benefit the relationship to have a break. It isn't healthy for someone to become so engulfed in a relationship with another person if it consumes the entire person they are. Unfortunately, some relationships begin and then the couple allows the relationship to move faster than it should. Because these relationships progress quickly it is easy to lose yourself. These are the times when a break is exactly what a relationship needs. The understanding here though is that these two people will come back together when the time is right.
However, there are times when a break is the opposite of what a relationship is in need of. When the person who wants the break is just unhappy and is looking to end it then why drag things out any longer then they need to be? I can understand if you don't know whether or not you want to end the relationship; but if that's the case then don't use a break as a way of determining whether or not you want to be out of that commitment. This is a time when one needs to sit down with their partner and communicate. Communication is key to a relationship, irrelevant of whether you are at the peak of the honeymoon period or about to crash and burn. Figure out why you're truly unhappy and if it turns out that you and your partner can't come to terms that will make both of you relatively happy then I'm afraid the time has come for the two of you to break up, not take a break.
By saying you need a break instead of just cutting things off the only thing that comes from it is hurting the other partner involved by allowing them to cling to the hope that they have a chance. Remember, a relationship only works if both people are satisfied with it and want to be involved in it. So unless you're a ruthless douche bag who enjoys ripping apart the person you're with: be open about your feelings, be clear that this is the end, and wish your partner the best. And even if you are that kind of douche bag, treat the person you're with the courtesy of respect until you're done with them. Clear cut and done.
Rigo is an advocate of sex positive thinking as well as living, even when it comes to controversial topics. He writes from his experiences as a sexually active adult, peer educator, political activist, role model, friend and as a human with general observations.
To most women, this question is a cinch to answer with a
simple "yes" or "no." Friends and relatives ask it innocuously all the time.
But for lesbian or bisexual girls, it's not that simple. Do
we just say no? Do we explain that, actually, it's not a boyfriend—or not just
a boyfriend—that we're looking for? Even people who are out about being gay,
lesbian, or bisexual might not want to tell that to anyone who asks.
Statistically, 3.5% of adult Americans identify as gay,
lesbian, or bisexual. Although that percentage is probably higher at a school
like Northwestern, the chances of creating an awkward situation when you ask a
girl if she has a boyfriend or a guy if he has a girlfriend are still pretty low.
In light of those statistics, should people even bother
trying to make sure they don't accidentally make an LGBT person feel really
awkward? I think so. After all, it's incredibly easy to make sure that
questions about someone's love life don't involve any assumptions about their
sexuality—just remove the references to gender.
For instance, instead of asking someone if they have a
boyfriend or girlfriend, you could just say, "Are you seeing anyone?" Instead
of asking if they're bringing a guy or girl to an event, just ask them if
they're bringing a date. Instead of asking if they've met any cute guys or
girls lately, ask if they're interested in anyone.
This leaves room for the person to tell you as much—or as
little—as they want. After all, if you're asking about a friend or relative's
love life, it's probably not the gender of their crush or partner that you're
most interested in. Chances are, you just want to know how things are going for
them on the romantic front. Asking questions in a way
that doesn't make any gender-related assumptions is a simple way to make sure
that you create a safe, comfortable space for everyone, whether they're
straight or not.
Miriam is a junior psychology major from Dayton, OH. She enjoys reading, writing, and asking people about their feelings.
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Ali's a senior psychology major who loves dancing, art, and cutting her pancakes into squares. She's a little bit artist with her drawing and graphic design, a little bit nerd with her web design and programming, and a lot SHAPE enthusiast.
Last March, Northwestern's Campus Coalition on Sexual
Violence applied for a $300 thousand
federal Office on Violence Against Women grant. However, since the Coalition wouldn't hear the official
result of the grant until September, we didn't waste any time getting down to
business to do what we're charged to do by the Vice President of Student
Affairs: "assessing and improving campus policies, prevention programs and
response services dealing with sexual assault, intimate partner violence and
stalking." Over the summer Laura
Anne Stuart and other members of the CCSV's steering committee created the
Center for Awareness, Response and Education as a separate legal entity on
campus. Part of that included the
necessary creation of a website with centralized information about resources
and information about sexual violence, healthy relationships, consent and
healthy sexuality. We were
hesitant to advertise CARE fully over the summer because Laura was the only
full-time staff member working for CARE and we didn't want to create a huge
influx of students seeking CARE's services, although that is the ultimate
purpose of it. However, on
September 30, we discovered that this wouldn't be a problem, because we got the
There are many different goals and objectives that are
required by the grant, but the most exciting one that we're pursuing at the
moment is hiring a full-time Sexual Violence Response Service Coordinator. This position will provide individual
support and assistance for students who have experienced any kind of sexual
violence, such as sexual assault or intimate partner violence. We've currently received over 50
applicants for the position, and a committee made up of the members of the
CCSV, SHAPE and Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault, is reviewing applications
and will begin phone interviews with candidates in the next few weeks. Both the CCSV and SHAPE have the
opportunity to be part of on campus interviews; we want the candidates to have
the chance to meet the awesome students on Northwestern's campus with whom
they'll be working for (at least) the next three years. We hope to have someone hired by
Now that we're definitely going to have a full-time victim
advocate working for CARE, the next step for the CCSV is to start a media campaign
for the services offered by the department. Look out for the awesome advertising that should be around
campus in the near future. A few
other important components of the grant that will be implemented within the
next year or two include revisions to the sexual misconduct policies in the
Northwestern student handbook, a revamped sexual assault protocol, and more
training for different departments on campus, such as student leaders, CAPS,
the study abroad office, and very importantly, all NU police officers and
This is only the tip of the
iceberg of what this grant will allow us to do on campus to raise awareness of
sexual assault resources and support for survivors. The CCSV has been extremely proactive and has completed many
requirements of the grant before we even knew we had it, which will leave us
room to go above and beyond the minimum to lead our campus to be a safer, more
sex positive place for students.
Sarah is a senior English and Spanish major who loves writing, playing in the rain, and anything involving sparkles. She's committed to creating a sex positive environment on campus and making it possible for students to have mature discussions about sex, as well as about more difficult issues like sexual violence.
In honor of National Coming Out Day and NU Rainbow Week, SHAPE's Amanda Mather sat down with (read: emailed frantically) Rainbow President Zach Wichter to get the cliffnotes on NCOD and this week's events. Enjoy!
SHAPE: Zach! Who are you?
Zach Wichter: I am from Bethpage (Long Island), New York. I'm a junior studying journalism and gender studies. I like to think of myself as the queen of all things gay at Northwestern. I'm co-president of Rainbow Alliance and of the NU chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. I'm also president of Gender Protection Initiative.
SHAPE: So, what is National Coming Out Day, and why is it important?
ZW: NCOD is pretty self-explanatory—it's a day for people to come out. But really, it's so much more than that. It's about sending the message that it's safe to come out and that LGBTQA people should be accepted. It helps raise awareness and lets people know that there are LGBTQA people in their lives, which reduces discrimination. If you know someone who identifies within the community, you're much less likely to take an anti-LGBT stance.
SHAPE: How can students get involved with NCOD?
ZW: This year Rainbow Alliance is hosting a candle light vigil on NCOD to honor those who took their own lives because of their real or perceived LGBTQ identity. After that we're going to be chalking affirmations across campus. Students are encouraged to join us, but if they can't make it they're also just encouraged to be supportive of any LGBTQ friends or family who decide to confide in them.
SHAPE: Rainbow Week?
ZW: Rainbow Week is basically a week where Rainbow Alliance does programming every day. It helps ensure that the LGBTQA community is visible on campus and contributes to making Northwestern a safer, more welcoming place for LGBTQA students. This week we'll be having a bunch of different events, including our fall speaker on Thursday evening, an outing to Boystown on Friday evening and a BBQ on Saturday.
SHAPE: What are you looking forward to this week?
ZW: The vigil is probably the most poignant event of the week. We did it for the first time last year and got a lot of positive feedback, so I'm hoping that it will be the same sort of bonding experience this year.
SHAPE: How can students get involved with Rainbow?
ZW: Join our listserv and come to our general meetings, which are every other Saturday.
Our big thanks to Zach for the rundown and to Rainbow for all their work in making NU safe for and accepting of everyone. Check them out at their website. For more information on National Coming Out Day, visit the Human Rights Center website on NCOD and consider donating your Facebook status.
The statistics on STIs are sort of scary. I mean, about one in four adults has genital herpes, 50 percent of sexually active people will get HPV at some point in their lifetimes, and according to Coach Carr, if we listen to our urges to touch each other we will get chlamydia and die. Except I think he spelled it with a "K," but whatever.
But there's another side to those statistics that people are less familiar with. No one bothers to bombard us with the fact that 90 percent of the time an HPV infection occurs, a person's body will clear it up on its own, no harm done, or that chlamydia can be cured within a week with some antibiotics. And if you use condoms, herpes is not so scary after all.
So, to keep you on your daily grind without bringing you down, here are some tips to staying clean, healthy and happy:
1. Always use protection. There's almost no reason not to, and those "reasons" are never as good as avoiding pregnancy and STIs, anyway. Never. So, wrap it up.
2. No, really, always use protection— not just for intercourse. Using a barrier during oral sex is really important, too. Ten percent of men have been infected orally with HPV, which can turn into throat cancer. So bust out condoms and dental dams for oral sex! And if you're not sure where to find that dental dam, don't fret! Just cut a condom longways through the tip and place on the vag of choice.
3. Get tested. A good rule of thumb is to mosey those genitals on down to your clinic at least every year if you're sexually active and right after having unprotected sex with someone whose status you don't know.
4. If you test positive for something, let your partners know. You could be saving them and their partners a lot of trouble. It's the right thing to do, so just buck up and do it.
5. Don't perpetuate stigmas against people with STIs by making the mental leap that everyone who has one is dirty and skanky. It's mean and makes people less likely to get tested, which is never a healthy choice.
6. Get it on with people you know and trust. Having more partners doesn't make you a slut or a bad person, but it can make you more likely to run into an STI. It's just plain probability.
While STIs are definitely something to be concerned about, if you're smart, take precautions, and make the right choices for your body, you'll be just fine.
Get laid (and tested), Wildcats.
ABOUT THE AUTHORFelicity is a columnist for The Current and a member in good standing in SHAPE. She enjoys safe and consensual sex, feminist blogs, and mysterious pseudonyms.
Sure, we've all tried to test latex durability limits by attempting to make balloon animals out of condoms (...or is that just SHAPE people?), but inside the Trojan Factory, they literally put their products through the ringer in order to ensure reliability. In this hilariously mock-science-class video, you'll see what the process of condom production is like, from liquid latex drying on a penis mold to actual condom on actual penis. Well, right before actual penis, anyway. There are other videos for that. Enjoy!—Amanda Glickman
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: This is it! While this is our last post this quarter, we'll be back posting bi-weekly when winter quarter starts.
This weekend, we chose the SHAPE class of
2012. Out of 59 total applicants — a pool that includes theater and engineering
majors, fraternity and sorority members, transfer students and international
students, former high school peer health educators and students that received
abstinence-only sex education — we
chose 21 of the most qualified and passionate students I think SHAPE has ever
Throughout this whole process (the
application went online in July, but for me, it began last Spring Quarter), I
grappled with one idea: what is a SHAPE member?
When I joined SHAPE, I thought being a member
meant spreading the word about healthy sexuality. I joined SHAPE because my
public high school sex education had been dismal. The most "enlightening"
aspect of the curriculum included the rubber cementing and consequent ripping
apart of paper hearts, to symbolize the bond sex creates and the destruction it
can leave behind. I was 12 years old.
It took seven more years and Professor Beisel's Gender and Society
course to realize that Cosmopolitan is an unreliable source (at best) to
learn about sexuality. To me, SHAPE became the alternative: it created a place
people could go to ask questions because SHAPE knew the right answers. A SHAPE
member was someone who knew what they were talking about, who ensured
information was available.
It only took my first day of training to
learn there were other ideas of what it meant to join SHAPE. One of the men in my training class had
applied because he was close to two women who had been sexually assaulted. For
him, SHAPE was about educating others about consent, about boundaries, about
understanding what others need and want. I think to him, SHAPE wasn't a
resource; it was his way of saving his friends.
In my two years at SHAPE, I've heard dozens
of ideas about what a SHAPE member does, from people within the group, from
friends, from my family: we're advocates for change; we encourage dialogue;
we're trying to get everyone on campus to have random hook-ups. I've had friends call me to ask about
deep-throating. I've had friends call me to say they'd been raped and didn't
know what to do. Since joining SHAPE, I've been called a lifesaver. I've also
been called a whore.
The point I'm trying to make is that everyone
has an idea of what a SHAPE member is. The one thing these ideas have in
common: SHAPE members do unto others. What they don't see —
what I haven't realized myself until recently
is that our members don't just change the
lives of the people around them. Their lives are changed as well. Being a peer
educator opens your eyes, to new ways of thinking, to diverse people. The experience of being in SHAPE is so
profound that the experience itself may be the greatest gift to a college
campus: the gift of giving some students this new lens through which to see the
Which brings me to my final answer: a SHAPE
member is someone who continuously views the world in new ways, and who tries
to show that new perspective to others.
Dear SHAPE training class of 2012,
Your life, your understanding, your personal
identity are all about to change. These changes may be small or dramatic. They
may affect every aspect of your life; they may affect nothing. The best thing
you can do for yourself, the best way to get the most of your time with SHAPE,
is to be open.
Some of you have experience with sexual
assault, some with peer education, some with sexuality and culture. Be ready to
forget everything you know, and be ready to embrace all the new ideas we're
going to throw at you. The more you learn about sexuality, the more questions
you will have. No answers are simple and easy. There's no one right way to go about
something. Be ready to admit you were wrong.
Be ready to see our lessons in every aspect
of your interactions with friends, parents, teachers, partners. Pay attention
to how your peers talk about sex, about relationships, about their math
midterm. Notice how the words you use will change, how you may understand your
roommate better, how you might approach conflict differently. See how some of
our lessons about sex aren't really about sex at all.
But really, be ready to listen. Because, I
have found, listening is the only way to become a great peer educator.
SHAPE love,
Sara can be loud and inappropriate, but she's been told (by her mother) that she has a good heart and means well, so it's OK. Sometimes she acts like an adult and sometimes she takes naps instead.
It's that time of year again! Autumn is recruitment season for SHAPE, so make sure to keep an eye out for us. We'll be at the activities fair tomorrow, the bonfire pit on the lakefill sometime in October, and more. Stay tuned...
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Both sex and logic are things that can be a lot of fun when done right. This post will be a combination of the two. It is a basic guide to some logical fallacies and their relation to sex positivity. Remember that the conclusions are not necessarily wrong because logical fallacies can lead to true conclusions. In the examples I show, I highlight flaws of reasoning and show that the conclusions are wrong due to lack of evidence and a nature contrary to fact.
Inspiration for this post came from here and here.
Straw man Argument: A straw man argument is when somebody misrepresents their opponent's position and argues against the misrepresentation they created instead of their opponent's actual beliefs.
Sex Positive Example: Sex Positivity promotes positive attitudes and viewpoints towards sex and sexuality. It does not promote unsafe sexual practices or immorality. So if somebody were to argue that sex positivity is bad because it promotes unsafe sexual practices and immorality that would be an example of a straw man argument. It would be untrue because evidence shows that Sex Positivity does not approve of these things.
Ad hominem attacks: Also known as poisoning the well, this is when instead of refuting somebody's opinion you attack them as a person.
Sex Positive Example: Rush Limbaugh is a racist and a sexist; therefore calling Sandra his beliefs on the contraception mandate are incorrect. A valid argument would say his beliefs on the contraception mandate are incorrect because he does not actually know how contraception works and is using false premises. Him being a racist and a sexist does not make him wrong on this issue, but does make him a bad person.
Post-hoc ergo propter hoc: It means after this therefore because of this. In other words, event A happened first therefore it caused event B that happened afterwards.
Sex Positive Example: This is essentially how victim blaming works. If somebody is wearing provocative clothing and then is raped, the rape is often blamed on the provocative clothing (they were asking for it) because it preceded the rape. However, provocative clothing (or anything the survivor does) does not cause rape, which can be proven by the fact that people are raped when not wearing provocative clothing, and nobody ever asks to be raped.
No True Scotsman: This argument is when you define something as pure or true arbitrarily and use this definition to deflect future criticism
Sex Positive Example: There are people who say that pure or good women have to be virgins. Even if a woman were shown to have exemplary character and be a great person, she would not be considered a good woman by the fallacy's own definition. I recommend viewing the documentary "The Purity Myth" for further information about how cultural notions of sexual purity are used to control women's behavior.
False dichotomy / black and white: Only two options are presented, when actually there are more alternatives.
Sex Positive Example: According to some abstinence only education, the choices are abstinence or unsafe promiscuous sex. This is the dichotomy presented in the class where students were forced to drink each other's backwash as a symbol for sex. In reality, there are other options such as safe sex and sex within a monogamous relationship to name two.
I am a feminist. I am a man. I am Latino. I am young. I could go on but I think my point is clear: within one person I fit into multiple categories, with different agendas and different priorities within those agendas. Feminism is an incredibly large concept that is often interpreted in conflicting ways depending on the interpreter, his personal experiences and relationships and his values. This is precisely why all of us feminists need to look at the bigger picture here and work together on what we all agree on, the woman's right to choose.
The first step here is putting all of us together in one group in order to form a united front. I will use the term "third-wave feminist" to describe us feminists, because as far as I can tell, it's a safe assumption (although the age range is up for debate). Taking this one step further, let's take a look a few ideologies and how they all come back to the main issue, choice.
Liberal feminists want nothing more than a seat at the table, to be just as equal as men. They have fought for the Equal Rights Amendment, Title IX and Roe v Wade; all ground breaking successes to aid women in their inalienable rights to government, property and the pursuit of happiness. What this all comes down to is whether or not women wanted rights from the ERA, they would have chosen to use them or not; they couldn't be denied because of their sex. Title IX made sure women could participate in the extracurricular activities, with a major emphasis on personal choice. Roe v. Wade gave women the choice to have a baby based on what they wanted.
Next take the pro-sex feminists and the anti-porn feminists. While the anti-porn feminists who follow the notion that "porn is the theory, rape is the practice", we also have the pro-sex feminists on the other end of the scale who believe (and I agree with them here) that eliminating pornography wouldn't eliminate the rape and battery of women, and that policing sexual desire and prohibiting free expression aren't good for anyone.
What we should recognize here is that with different ideologies coming together, differences can be found. Despite that though, all that needs to be done is for these two groups of people to sit down and see that what they both need is for women to have the choice to either participate in sexual activities (on or off the camera) depending on how comfortable they feel regarding the acts. This way, everybody gets what they want, to live their choice.
Come together fellow third wavers, join me in accepting a new era of feminism. Let's be man-friendly because patriarchy isn't a gender issue, it's an issue of humanity. Let's be pro-femininity if you want it because it's okay to choose that, as long as it is in fact your choice. Let's recognize that it doesn't matter whether or not a person considers themself a feminist, as long as they are in support of raising awareness and advocating for feminist issues like: being pro-choice, believing in equal pay for equal work and campaigning against sexual harassment. We live in a new age, it's time for a new movement.
Rigo Fernandez is an active supporter of all things equal. When not blogging his opinions or keeping up with current events, he can be found pondering the complexities of gender, sexual orientation and society in order to aid in the general betterment of humanity.
I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I'm thinking, okay, here's a gal who's capable of making a decision she'll regret in the future.
For full disclosure: I got my first tattoo a few weeks ago and it is not a tramp stamp – that is to say, it is not a lower back tattoo that for some reason is now associated almost exclusively with being a slut. My decision emerged from a long, deliberate thought process during which I weighed the pros and cons. This included considering the ramifications of getting a tattoo in a society that stereotypes women who have them as sleazy. In fact, there are a lot of reasons people think women should not get tattoos, most of them heartily endorsed by my own mother, a self-identified feminist.
Your tattoo will become distorted when you get old and fat.
Presumably this reason applies to people of all gender identities. After all, why should women be more concerned than men about having tattoos when they become old and possibly out of shape? Yet more so than men, women seem to be judged harshly for aging. (For evidence for this claim, note the tone of derision used in references to cougars or the comparable infrequency of women over 40 being deemed the sexiest by People magazine.) If a woman's merit is based primarily on looks, it makes sense that she would be devalued after a certain age in that society. If tattoos are perceived as youthful mistakes, then it follows that women might be met with derision more so than men for attempting to cling to their youth.
You'll regret it later (i.e. when you have a job and/or children).
Fair enough. Then again, there are a lot of things that I will regret when I am older and presumably more responsible – like spending so much money on chai lattes and not paying enough attention during that bio class in college. But this denies the ability of young people to make decisions they can live with. Apparently women are more likely to have their tattoos removed than men.1 This could be for any number of reasons, but according to the article by Armstrong et al., "the gender difference might be attributable to the fact that women appear to face more social stigma and negative comments as a result of having a tattoo."
This stigma is the cause of my mother's primary worry about tattoos:
They will give people the wrong idea about you.
This is the idea, encapsulated in the Richard Jeni quote, which bothers me the most. While I realize feminists are often mocked for lacking a sense of humor, I do think that jokes are firmly grounded in reality in that even if the speaker does not mean what he says, the joke can only be funny if others do. The joke and the idea behind it assume that getting tattooed is always a mistake. It implies that a woman who makes this mistake necessarily has poor judgment, which must extend into her sexual life as well. However, the part of this quote that irks me most is the predatory undertones. Much like the guy at the bar who looks for the girl stumbling the hardest in her stilettos, Jeni jokes that he looks for a girl with a tattoo because he thinks he can tell how sexually available a woman is based on her appearance, and that he should be able to use that knowledge to his advantage.
Perhaps it even goes deeper than that. There is an idea in feminism that women's bodies, more so than men's, are implicitly assumed to belong to society. While this may sound extreme at first, few could deny that women are still being objectified even in 2011. The need for feminism has not yet been eliminated. Consider, for example, my most recent commute to the city. I was standing in a crowded train and had just taken off my jacket, so that my tattoo was now visible. A man – a total stranger – standing behind me reached out and touched my shoulder blade while he read the words out loud. It is more difficult for me to imagine this happening to a man than to a woman.2 Or consider my good friend, who recently expressed to me her irritation at men (and it has, for her, always been men) who tell her to smile as they pass her on the street. This seems innocuous enough, and it certainly happens to me on a regular basis.
But on a fundamental level, it violates a woman's autonomy to be told when to smile, when to appear happy. We want young women to smile on the street so that they please us, so that they appear docile. It suggests that a woman's inner state does not matter so much as what we ask of her, that she appear happy. If we think women are somehow ours to dominate, it makes sense that we do not want them to have tattoos, but if they must, we interpret tattoos as their way of submitting and presenting themselves as sexually available. I am often asked what my tattoo means. I don't mind answering this question when it comes from friends, but it bothers me a bit when I hear it from strangers (which I imagine will become less of an issue once the Chicago winter begins in earnest). I did not get a tattoo so that it would communicate something to strangers. After all, why should it be so radical to claim my body as my own?
1 http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Healthday/story?id=5420345&page=1
2 But of course this could happen to a man. Despite my prolific use of gendered pronouns in this post, my (rather idyllic) version of feminism is actually one of total gender equality.
You're sitting at a table, surrounded
by friends and glasses of wine. You refill yours and begin to notice your
fingers and toes going numb. Directly across the table is Adam, in an untucked
button-down dress shirt and wrinkled trousers, looking cuter than ever. His
shaggy brown hair goes well with his boyish smile and you can't help but want
to jump on his lap right then and there, despite his girlfriend. After all,
she's in an entirely different state, so why should he be faithful? You lead
him outside and walk a few blocks to your apartment and have sex. For the next couple
of days, the two of you continue hooking up and your conscience couldn't be
clearer. Is there really anything wrong with the two of you satisfying your
sexual cravings?
The answer is yes. I get it, it's
exciting and taboo and you don't necessarily care what your partner thinks. You
might be single, and think Adam's really the one being the jerk, but knowing he
has a girlfriend gives you responsibility, too. It doesn't seem like that big
of a deal for you, not at that moment.
But just imagine being in that girl's
shoes, finding out that your boyfriend is off sleeping with another girl, and
you're sitting at home feeling like an idiot for staying faithful. Just like
you wouldn't physically harm someone on a whim, you shouldn't emotionally harm
I'm not singling out any particular gender or orientation. I'm talking about
those of you out there who take pride in hooking up with someone who's in a
relationship, and I'm condemning those who are in a relationship and are having
sex outside of it without the consent of your partner. If you're in a
relationship and your partner is GGG, then there is no excuse for infidelity.
When in a relationship, you make a
commitment to that person to not be with anyone else unless otherwise stated. Not
assumed. Not expected. Openly and directly stated, and as long as you choose to
be with this person and they are interested in a monogamous relationship, you
shouldn't be putting them at risk of either sexually transmitted infections or
emotional pain. If you don't like it, break up with them first.
Look at it from a different
perspective. Why is this particular guy so important to you anyway? There are
thousands of other people out there who are single and looking for a partner.
Livelinks, eHarmony, Lavalife and RedHot Dateline are just a few matchmaking
companies that I can list off the top of my head that put single people
together. If there are all these single people out there looking for others,
then why is there difficulty in finding people to date or hook up with?
And don't feed me the typical B.S. that
I know you're just itching to sputter out, like, "I'm not physically attracted
to any of them," or, "I don't like her personality," and, "He's just too young
for me." If you can't find one, and I mean one, person who is mildly attractive
with a decent personality in a reasonable distance from you then, you need to
throw away whatever list of yours that you use to dismiss potential mates and
stop being so damn picky.
It's one thing to have standards, but
it's something else entirely to go to that level. Try something new and don't
make yourself miserable beforehand. Pump yourself up and go with the flow. If
all goes well, then great. If not, oh well, move on and try again. If you find
yourself considering getting together with someone who is taken, stop and go
look at a website and find someone who is available and enjoy yourself with the
clear conscience and the feeling of being better than the losers out there hand
in hand with infidelity.
On October 18th, the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division's Advisory Policy Board Uniform Crime Reporting Subcommittee unanimously voted to update the federal definition of rape! As it stands today, "forcible rape" is the only form of sexual assault recognized in the FBI's UCR Program. Since 1929, the FBI has archaically defined forcible rape as "the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will." In their own words, "[a]ttempts or assaults to commit rape by force or threat of force are also included; however, statutory rape (without force) and other sex offenses are excluded."1 Their intentional exclusion of many forms of rape has has generated a lot of controversy and action, spurring the creation of the "Rape Is Rape" campaign by the Feminist Majority Foundation and a Change.org petition aimed toward changing this definition.
The omission of these "other sex offenses"—such as rapes or sexual assaults committed against nonviolently coerced, incapacitated (i.e., under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol), under-aged, male, transgender, or mentally-disabled victims, through penetration of any orifice except the vagina, or through penetration with any body part or object except the penis—skews our national statistics of the prevalence and types of rapes occurring in the US.1 Contrary to popular myth, rape rarely takes the form of the stereotypical "stranger rape," which evokes mental images of disguised male strangers jumping out of the bushes to attack a young woman out alone late at night. Rapes are usually committed by someone the victim knows well or a casual acquaintance, and often alcohol or other impairing drugs are involved.2 Since states have outstripped the federal government in updating their definitions of rape, states have been prosecuting rapes that could not be reported to the federal government because they didn't meet their standard.3
The UCR Subcommittee has now unanimously moved to change their definition of rape to: "Penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim."4 This represents an important step forward in validating the experiences of rape victims currently marginalized by the federal definition. While the APB still must vote on this motion at their official meeting in December, rape victims' advocates, such as Lynn Blanco, the President and CEO of the Rape Crisis Center, hope that the change will lead to more accurate reporting of rape statistics. More accurate reporting would lead to better funding for rape crisis centers and other community resources for rape survivors because they "get much of their funding based on what the FBI's annual Uniform Crime Report statistics show."5
To read more about the discussion surrounding this issue, here are a few suggestions:
The FBI's "forcible rape" definition
FBI to vote on changing archaic rape definition (Updated)
Update: FBI changes official definition of rape
FBI's UCR Subcommittee votes unanimously to recommend change on rape definition
The FBI's Definition of Rape: Older Than a Lot of Things
Ali's a senior psychology major who loves dancing, art, and cutting her pancakes into squares. She's a little bit artist with her drawing and graphic design, a little bit nerd with her web design and programming, and a lot SHAPE enthusiast.
1 http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/violent-crime/rapemain
2 http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus0802.pdf
3 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/fbi-rape-definition-oudated_n_1021738.html
4 http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/advisory-policy-board
5 http://www.ksat.com/news/29575929/detail.html


text: Amna Kanane has been a resident of Kafr Qara for many years, and founded Awareness4U with the hope of transforming gender relations in Arab society in Israel by raising women's consciousness, changing men's attitudes, and challenging gender roles, cultural practices and traditions that disempower women. Her focus is on cultivating women's leadership, economic capacity, health, environmental activism, and Jewish-Arab dialogue. Every Friday, one of her initiatives brings together the organizations Women Make Peace, Hand in Hand, and Green Carpet, to form human chains against violence and promoting tolerance and equality between Jews and Arabs in Israel.


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The lot contains two houses, one of which we will be fixing up into a studio. Previous owners have already started work on adding a screen door and windows, that face the Grasslands! I will have the most perfect views everyday- first a gorgeous sunrise, followed by rocks and hills during the day, and for evening star gazing. This would be an artist's dream come true! I really hope we can pull together the money to get the necessary renovations done. The studio house is what I refer to as my "English Cottage". It just has that look! The land also has two apple trees, which is very cool.
This will be a major adjustment for us. We've never lived in a small town before, or moved so far away from home. We want to chase the dream of freedom away from corporations and credit companies. We want to be self sufficient and surrounded by nature. This is a totally crazy thing, I cannot say it enough, but life is short, you have to do what makes you happy. Its not worth getting by each day, unhappy and stuck in your life.
We have an option to stay an additional six months here, and raise cash for renovations. I'm really torn between wanting the extra cash, and wanting to just DO IT! I hope I can get a lot more gem trees made, and get more sales going! Things have been quiet lately, I really do apologize! I will have a lot more time to get work done and listed now.
And speaking of new gem trees, I do have a Red Agate on Petrified Wood, that will be listed here shortly! I will post the link and photo when they are done. I still have to edit the photos and create the listing at this time.
I got in a fresh new shipment of gorgeous gems last week! I have very dark Amethyst, Aquamarine (for the ever-popular Tree of Life Pendant), Howlite, Red Jasper, Rainbow Obsidian, Tourminilated Quartz, Rutilated Quartz, Moonstone (both peach/grey and rainbow white), Peridot, Garnet & Fluorite.
I want to redo the suncatchers too. I want to make another round of them to photograph, and also hopefully simplify the listings. I am so happy that they sell so well! They are such a cool piece of art, and a great alternative to having a gem tree, if you have more wall and window space than shelf space.
I also have some new gemstones for bracelets! I've been selling many bracelets lately. I also hope to redo the listings with better options and photos.
Its going to be a crazy work week, I see! I better get to it! Happy Monday, everyone!


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Your attempt at flattery will most assuredly get you nowhere with her. Give it up dude, Madonna would be an easier mark.
Actually, hard as it is to believe, Bernhard worked briefly as a hooker. One evening her boyfriend arrived back at the apartment early just as the last john of the day was departing and before she could put away proceeds of the day.
Bruce, her boyfriend, spotted the take, walked over and counted it. It came to $35.10.
Shocked, Bruce asked "Who was the cheap SOB who gave you a dime?"
Sandra replied "All of them."
She was THAT good.


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We made it to 20 weeks! Yay!!! Here's what's going on with us lately:
Right now, as I type this, I'm 20 weeks and two days. It will be a few days before this post comes up on the blog, so I may be a few days behind. I'm not going to actually post my weight or weight gain like some bloggers do, because that's my business :) but I will say that it is less than I had gained with little man at 20 weeks.
I have a ton of stretchmarks from last pregnancy, but surprisingly, they are looking more and more faded as my belly gets bigger. I actually notice them much less on my pregnant belly than I did on my post-partum belly.
As you read previously, we officially found out that we're having a girl a week or two ago! DH is completely overwhelmed by the amount of pink that has entered our home in that short time period, but I am getting really excited about all the adorable baby dresses and shoes that girl clothing allows for. I didn't know what I was missing last time around dressing little man, but goodness are baby girl clothes so much cuter!!!
I have been having crazy cravings this time around. I've actually continued to eat much more meat than I ever would my previous pregnancy or prior to being pregnant with little man. But the random, odd cravings that hit me in the middle of the day or at night are funny. One night recently, I REALLY wanted Doritos. The next night I wanted DH to drive to the movie theater to get me some popcorn. Since it was almost 10p and our local movie theater is at least a half hour drive away, he didn't go, but man the cravings have been odd!
We've been asked several times since finding out if we are having a girl what we will name her. DH and I go back and forth on this one, because we have a terrible time agreeing on baby names. With little man we were really undecided until very close to the end. We know for sure that this babe's middle name is going to be Elisabeth. We're just not sure about the first name yet. My favorites at the moment are Ana, Anna, and Mae. I'm sure that will change about 1,249 times before I deliver.
I am actually feeling a bit more prepared than I did a few weeks ago, thankfully to a lot of leg work on my part. You saw my post on the JBF sale and my newly growing collection of baby girl clothing, so I'm feeling like I'll actually have something for her to wear when she gets here. I also have been working a TON on little man's toddler room, which I will be doing a post on in the future not only to share all the projects I've been working on, but also to highlight a few of the products I've purchased for his new room.
Overall, I'm feeling MUCH better than I did during the first trimester, although my blood pressure has been pretty low lately, (I think my last check was 100/60, and the one before that was 90/60) and I've been feeling somewhat dizzy at times. If I plan well, move slowly, and eat well, I tend to feel less of those symptoms. I have noticed with all this heat that I've been swelling quite a bit. At the end of the day my already cankles turn into thigh-looking-ankles. I've also had to retire my wedding rings. This seems so soon to me, and I'm hoping once it cools down a bit more that I will get them back on for a month or two more.
My next ultrasound with the MFM department (maybe my last with them?) will be in 6 weeks, so I will likely update again then!


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FOXBORO -- Offensive lineman Logan Mankins has had limited participation in practice every day this week, but said after Saturday's session that he's still unsure if he'll play on Monday night against the Houston Texans.
"I got out there a little bit this week and tried to move around, so, we'll see where it goes from today," said Mankins, who's missed the last three games with an anklecalf injury. "I don't know yet. Still limited. We're just trying to do as much as we can. And we can't do everything yet. So I guess we'll find out Monday, I don't know."


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- 150 gm dried black-eyed beans, soaked overnight in cold water, drained
- 2 chorizo
- 2 tsp olive oil
Piquillo chimichurri
- 8 canned piquillo peppers, finely chopped
- 2 tbsp finely chopped oregano
- 100 ml extra-virgin olive oil
- 60 ml (¼ cup) sherry vinegar
- 2 tsp sweet paprika
- 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
Prep time 15 mins, cook 30 mins
Chimichurri – a South American marinade and sauce – goes wonderfully with chorizo and steak. We've added some piquillo peppers to intensify the flavour. You'll need to begin this recipe a day ahead.
Combine beans and enough cold water to cover generously in a saucepan. Bring to the boil and cook over high heat until tender (10-15 minutes). Drain and keep warm.
For piquillo chimichurri, place ingredients in a bowl, pour over beans and toss to combine. Season to taste, set aside.
Preheat oven to 220°C. Heat an ovenproof frying pan over high heat, add chorizo and oil and cook, turning regularly, until golden (1-2 minutes). Transfer to oven and bake, turning occasionally, until heated through (5-10 minutes). Divide beans among plates, top with thickly sliced chorizo and serve immediately.


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By Monty Pelerin
The Federal Government's Ponzi Scheme noose tightens each day. Time is not an ally for government. They are running out of it and revenue sources to pay exploding obligations. At some point, government dies and with it many of its dependents.
The Washington Examiner states that the Social Security Disability fund runs out of money in 2016:
The Social Security disability program will run out of money in late 2016, a report issued Wednesday by the Social Security and Medicare trustees warned.
At that point, the 10.9 million beneficiaries of the program face an immediate 19 percent cut in benefits, unless Congress intervenes.
The combined trust fund for the retirement and disability programs is projected to run out by 2034, a slight improvement from last year's estimate.
The trust fund for Medicare hospital insurance will be depleted by 2030, unchanged from last year. Source: WashingtonExaminer.com RSS – politics
The reality is that Social Security has no money. Whatever excesses it generated in its early days was funneled into Washington spending. All that remains is a promissory note from the Feds to the Social Security Fund. The quality and integrity of your Social Security depends on the fiscal responsibility and spending prudence of the US government. Good luck with that!
Social Security is merely a bell going off. It is not the final bell. If it were just Social Security and politicians were willing to address this issue and their spending, the retirement fund's problems could be resolved. Those above a certain age would have their promises honored while those below this age would see Social Security, in its present form, go away. It will likely be replaced with some mandatory individual IRA accounts.
Unfortunately, the Social Security issue is the easy one among the promises and debts that cannot be honored. The Medicare liability is too large to honor. So too is the Federal debt so long as it grows faster than the economy. So too is the banking system the next time it fails, and it will. (my emphasis)
By Monty Pelerin for Economic Noise
By permission Monty Pelerin
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Nice effect on his hands but i thing background little empty? but its good
9/10 keep the good work
make bg black it would look ALLOT better
Whats bamboo fun o.o
I got my tablet too :] im downloading photoshop onto my usb b.c my school dones't let me download pirated shit. 8G usb FTW!
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ehh, i cant use computers at school.. only library x]
I fucking love it mate, I love it more when it is on a white background, but that is my opinion.
yh better on white. Better contrast
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This category contains both yearly calendars and also perpetual calendars. Perpetual calendars are ones that can be used year after year, because they dont have any date. Angel calendars have angelic themes while others are inspirational in both their words and images.
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June 18, 2010
Taxes levied on business tend to find their way to costumers, workers and anyone with a 401(k). In other words, you will be the one paying taxes that are supposed to hit Wall Street, says Carrie Lukas, vice president for policy and economics at the Independent Women's Forum.
In March, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) provided a helpful analysis of this dynamic when evaluating a proposed tax on banks with assets in excess of $50 billion. The CBO revealed that big banks alone would not bear the burden of the tax. The cost of the proposed fee would ultimately be borne to varying degrees by an institution's customers, employees and investors.
For example:
- Customers would pay the tax through higher borrowing rates and other fees.
- Bank employees might see their compensation fall.
- The fee would probably lower the total supply of credit in the financial system to a slight degree.
- Less credit for small businesses will make it harder for those businesses to grow and expand, and -- most importantly given our near double digit unemployment rate -- to hire workers.
The CBO report reminds us that anytime government levies a tax, it takes money out of the private sector. Taxes on corporations never just hit some boogeyman called "big business." Businesses are ultimately people: customers, employees and investors. We end up paying those business taxes, even when they are officially directed at unpopular entities from Wall Street to oil companies. An example is the "taxes on millionaires" -- a policy being considered in many states and localities facing budget gaps, says Lukas:
- Certainly, some millionaires will pay higher taxes; however, that means they'll have less to spend on goods and services and less to invest, which hurts businesses, their employees and ultimately all of us.
- And millionaires can relocate; when taxes rise in one city or state, many of these highly mobile individuals will leave -- taking their money and consumer power -- in favor of a lower-tax jurisdiction.
Source: Carrie Lukas, "Forget the Populist Rhetoric -- We All Pay for Big Government," Townhall.com, June 14, 2010.
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By Priyanka Khanna
New Delhi, (IANS) With less than four months left, the Hindi film music trade is still waiting to hit its highest musical note this year and is banking heavily on "Om Shanti Om" and "Saawariya" to deliver its "Kajrare"-like hit of the year.
Though the months gone by have had their fair share of musical successes but the kind of mega-hit that becomes a money-spinner for the many formal and informal affiliated businesses is still awaited.
Some of the hits of the year have been "Shootout At Lokhandwala" by Anand Raj Anand that could be heard "Ae Ganpat" booming from almost every car across the metros. "Guru" by A.R. Rahman that created some foot-tapping numbers in the Mani Ratnam flick, especially 'Barso re', and Mallika's sexy moves in 'mayya mayya'.
In "Salaam-E-Ishq" Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's music was this biggie's leading saviour when the movie shockingly crashed at the box office. "Honeymoon Travels PVT. LTD." With 'Sajnaji vaari vaari' by Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani sent the whole nation on to the dance floor.
Ilaiyaraaja's score in "Cheeni Kum" left a sweet taste in the mouth. Himesh Reshamiyya's "Namaste London", "Shakalaka Boom Boom", "Apne" and "Aap Ka Suroor" were other successes this year.
Some notable works came in "Awarapan" by Pritam Chakraborty and "The Train" by music director Mithoon. Though "Ta Ra Rum Pum" was a box-office dud, the music of the film was lapped up by young ones and their parents.
Understandably, expectations from Shah Rukh Khan's true-blue Bollywood potboiler - "Om Shanti Om" - are sky hit. The second directorial venture for Farah Khan, who has choreographed some of Hindi filmdom's most famous song and dance routines, is a quintessential masala flick.
Much like Farah's directorial debut - "Main Hoon Na" - it will be replete with all the archetypical elements that make Bollywood films unique and give them a mass appeal. As the film travels many eras variety in the soundtrack was expected.
Moreover, both Farah and Shah Rukh are well aware of the importance of music in a Bollywood movie. And that must have been their brief to Vishal-Shekhar and Javed Akhtar when they were roped in for the unenviable task.
At the release of the film's music this week, it became aptly clear that they have come up with very unique tracks. The critics have given them the thumbs up. Vishal-Shekhar have especially got kudos for an unusual, soulful "Aankhon Mein Teri" rendered beautifully by versatile singer K.K.
And the mandatory dance number that reportedly features Shah Rukh flaunting his newly acquired six-pack abs is titled "Dard-E-Disco". The jump-on-the-dance-floor number with a Persian touch is set to dominate every DJs console.
But the number that is likely to climb music charts fastest is the melodious "Deewangi Deewangi". All other songs bring back memories of bygone times. The album does not have any dull moment.
Farah, who is credited for revolutionizing Hindi film dance routines, has shown once again that is very near to perfecting the art of reaching out to the masses and the classes. Critics say the album is a fine balancing act and before long the public's verdict will be out too.
This week also witnessed the music launch of "Saawariya" by a director who has perhaps one of the best musical ears in the industry - Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
The music launch was overshadowed by the introduction of two new entrants in the industry from illustrious film families - Ranbir Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor.
The music by Monty Sharma is beautifully composed and arranged by critics feel that it doesn't have mass appeal. India's music industry is nonetheless hoping that both "Om Shanti Om" and "Saawariya" are musical hits.
The traditional music distributors in India have been facing tough competition from digital revolution. Partly helped by illegitimate downloads and partly because it has become an outright fad, mobile music is set to overtake legal conventional music in India in the next few months, industry watchers say.
According to the Cellular Operators' Association of India, the size of the mobile music industry, which is about $115 million, now, is set to touch $170 million by this yearend, exceeding revenues of the conventional music industry like compact disks and audiocassettes by about $5 million.
The local music industry does not seem to be quite happy with the proliferation of digital music. Local music companies and content owners complain that distributors (the mobile phone operators and companies like Soundbuzz that distributes digital music, who control the network and the audience) walk away with a bigger portion of the revenues leaving the content providers with little, media reports say.
"For a polyphonic ring tone, the telecom operators and the distributors walk away with 60 percent of the revenue while the balance is split between the other middle men and the content owner," Rajiv Hiranandani, of mobile mobile2win, a digital music content owner, was quoted as saying. Illegitimate downloads is the other challenge.
The one thing that is needed for making everyone happy is a hit like "Kajrare".


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