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Comment on Please stop sending me return address labels! by Deb

Deb — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:57:02 +0000

Please send me some, since I got married I have no address labels with my new name and I am reduced down to having to actually write out my name and entire address! Talk about my aching hands, oh and that’s because I still pay a lot of my bills by check and mail someone a card or two once in a while!

Comment on Only my friends can call me a ‘Ho’ by Deb

Deb — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:53:46 +0000

I do agree with you that Don Imus was railroaded, I have heard and seen much more offensive words and behavior by Howard Stern and he is incredibly popular. I believe in free speech but do the rest of us have to hear offensive things?? It should be freedom of speech without offensive language written in the constitution but in those days they didn’t have all of our made up words. I just call my friends “Girlfriend” and I use it so much I have started calling my cat “girlfriend” when I talk to her.

Comment on Only my friends can call me a ‘Ho’ by Trisha

Trisha — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:16:55 +0000

Hi Rebecca - thanks for dropping by! I have to admit that my best friend (and two sisters) and I did the same thing, also with affection, never giving it much thought. But when the incident with Don Imus occurred, and caused such uproar, it made me think about it as well. Although I’m not a fan of his (I have always found his shtick to be offensive), I really felt he was railroaded by hypocrisy.

Because I believe that you can only follow one path - you either find them offensive and don’t use them, or use them and don’t find them offensive, the girls and I made a pact to stop using them. Now we just call each other “sissy” (short for sistah/sister).

Comment on Only my friends can call me a ‘Ho’ by Rebecca Thorman

Rebecca Thorman — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:41:10 +0000

Hm. Interesting. My best friend and I call each other names all the time, endearingly of course. We’ve known each other for such a long time that it’s a safety zone when we’re together and we can laugh at things that might in fact be hypocritical. I wonder if you’re right and we are encouraging the stereotype/slur by using certain words with ourselves… thank you for making me think!

Comment on Girls just wanna have Blogs? by Rebecca Thorman

Rebecca Thorman — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:14:08 +0000

Thanks for republishing the list, Trisha. I think you’re title “Girls just wanna have blogs,” is the best yet! I’m looking forward to getting to know your blog!

Rebecca

Comment on Girls just wanna have Blogs? by Heidi Miller

Heidi Miller — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:54:16 +0000

Thanks for the link love, blog sistah!

Comment on The Darkside of Facebook and MySpace? by Trisha

Trisha — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:12:53 +0000

Hi Joanna - thanks for commenting!

You make a number of excellent points. I do think that sites like MySpace and Facebook will continue to play an important role in the lives of the majority of their users for many years to come, in both good and bad ways as you mention. It’s up to each individual to decide how much they want to “filter” what they present of their lives to others.

Comment on The Darkside of Facebook and MySpace? by Joanna

Joanna — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:32:13 +0000

Just wanted to say I love the facebook/myspace blog. Suffering from a severe addiction to both sites, I can share the good and the bad. The best part of both sights: you can find out what anybody is doing and what’s going on in their life. The worst part: they can do the same thing with you. I have reconnected with many people from my past and both sights help you keep in touch better then if you had to actually call and talk to people. I keep in better touch with my own sister by having myspace considering we have such different schedules and are a thousand miles apart! At the same time though, I was browsing my former quasi step-sister’s myspace and realized her mom was on there. Checked out her profile, and guess who stole a picture from my myspace of my cat sniffing around a keg at a party we had? Kinda creepy, huh? Even potential employers are getting smart to using these popular sites to their advantage, I’ve done it myself. As part of an internship that requires a panel interview in front of current interns, I’ve done my homework. Everytime we got an applicant I checked their myspace and facebook profiles. Lots of drinking pictures and comments about being hungover at work? We don’t want you. I could go on and on about these sites, but as most people will tell you, you gotta decide for yourself how you feel about them!

Comment on Turning American Soldiers into Crusaders? by Trisha

Trisha — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:54:03 +0000

Hi Jason - thanks for commenting - I welcome all opinions, even dissenting ones.

You may be completely correct - I have not played the game myself, nor do I intend to, but I welcome the opinions of anyone who has played it. However, I have heard that it does have quite a bit of violence involved (as do many secular games), and that the primary point of the game is to convert non-believers.

I do not take issue with anyone of faith attempting to spread their word in an appropriate setting using appropriate behavior, logic, and rational arguments.

I do take issue with those that would use an arm of our government, which is supposed to be secular at best, and non-denominational at worst, to spread the word of only one faith, since our government is supposed to represent all of us, of all faiths, including atheists.

So that’s what has me upset - not the violence, but the extraordinary length over which the line between Church and State has been crossed.

Comment on Turning American Soldiers into Crusaders? by Jason

Jason — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:21:05 +0000

It’s not an “article.” It’s a blog entry, and a very dishonest one at that. Even the Anti-Defamation League - no friend to evangelical Christians - agrees that “convert or kill” is not a part of the game.