Friday, July 25, 2008

It's your democratic duty to be offensive

This is great. Just great. I don't have a problem with Catholics as individuals but I sure do have a problem with any religion, organization or group that is paternalistic and requires me to shut my brain off and keep my mouth shut because they're gonna be offended and go crying to Big Brother. My personal opinion about stuff like that is if someone needs the government or whoever to protect their delicate little religion and their religious sensibilities, well, there is something wrong with both the religion and the sensibility that accompanies it. Any god so small, any belief so weak, that it must be protected from harm in this manner is hardly worth the dedication of its followers. That doesn't apply just to Catholicism, either, it applies across the board.

I'm an equal opportunity bitch, after all.

Germaine Greer

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A hobby cook from the Midwest. Experiments, thoughts, new recipes, maybe even a photo or two... You noticed the pouting little girl with the words superimposed over her face? Growing up in the 60s and 70s the refrain of "there are starving children in [insert current poverty-stricken nation] that would love to have such... etc etc etc." I don't know that anyone actually believed all that but the image of a starving foreign child, holding out a bowl in hopes of being gifted with boiled tongue or green tomato pie, was pretty powerful. I do recall the kind of trouble kids would inevitably be in if they dared to say what most of us thought: "Well, then, send this stuff right on over to those poor, starving [insert country] kids." I don't usually post other people's photos, just my own. If you want to borrow or use one of my photos, I would appreciate your asking first. I usually don't mind but do hate having my work attributed to someone else. By the way, I found the photo of that pouting girl on the web with no attribution. If it's yours? We'll deal, ok? Thanks.
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