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Jackadandy alerted us to an act of censorship against a prominent lesbian, ‘daddy Rhon’. Reading about this incident sent me back to the day when Y was removed from Rhon’s web site community. Freaky.
Here is my story:
While browsing the forum list, Y came upon a thread title which caught my attention Burning/Bloody Noses/God Hates Me . Y read what had been posted, and sent a message privately to xPrettyHate, who had started the thread. Then Y followed along as more posts were added. Y was surprised when Kyssme complained about the thread not beginning with a trigger warning. Well. Anything which has the title Burning/Bloody, etc. is sure to be upsetting to pretty much anyone. And what is this online obsession about ‘trigger warnings’? If one is too emotionally delicate to handle certain topics of discussion, one would do well to invest one’s time in good therapy or support groups instead of cruising the internet. At least, one could avoid sites which focus on gender, sex or sexuality. Anyway, when Kyssme first posted to the thread, her avatar was a video clip showing a hand fastening a set of industrial wrist restraints onto another set of hands. If you had never been in a prison or a mental hospital (where these things are employed regularly) you might think nothing of it. If you had been in such a facility, her video would remind you of these inevitably traumatic times. Oh, well. But, you can read what happened: if the link above becomes ‘broken’, don’t worry. Just email me, and Y will post the copy Y have of the thread.
Participating in this particular thread was quite taxing as well as painful, for me at least. So, since music is my medicine, Y created a song mix to help myself ‘get over it’. Y then posted the mix on my own blog and sent the link privately to each participant in the thread, figuring that some other participant(s) may appreciate it. You can imagine my surprise when Y soon got a private message from Peach who vigorously accused me of using up ‘their’ resources by sending out private messages about “THIS”. Y took it as a denigration of my work and my attempt to help others. This annoyed me greatly. So Y shot back a private response to Peach. The next time Y went to log onto the site, Y got a big white screen with a box in the middle of it informing me that Y had been banned from the site “Time: Forever, Reason: None.” Wow. Y must be so powerful!
Y guess Y, like Rhon, was found to be lacking in family-friendliness. But, Y am only guessing because Y didn’t get an email explanation and the only reason provided to me was: NONE.
If you are interested in political censorship (and you are something of an egg-head) you might appreciate my blog patriarchy which Y began when my work was removed from wikipedia.
The Songs: (Click arrow to listen. This mix is about an hour long. Stick with me thru the sad part, and we will kick some ass at the end. If you don’t have time now, right click on the ‘MP3′ , save file as, select a folder for it on your computer, hit ‘save’. )
The Playlist: click on the artists’ names for links to some info about them Songs for Lesbians Archives – BFU2
for high speed connections
for dial up connections
By the way, Y really do qualify for that site, because NO ONE is more Butch
OR more Femme
than ME
A well-done news clip about Rhon who had one painting removed from a show (unlike me who had my whole being removed from her site and who got no news-flash about it):
Anyway, here is a post Y wrote about my alma mater teenage prison: Dangerous Lesbians At Marian High School.
Later, on myspace, Y joined myself to myschool. They have a forum, so Y ‘started’ a discussion. One student contacted me directly to say that Genther’s daughter attended Marian at the same time as she did. ‘Everyone knew’ and ‘no one thought it was a big deal’ until Genther’s book came out. For posterity, here is the forum in its entirety (both posts by me) as of today:
Posted: Mar 14, 2007 12:29 PM
Does anyone know about the lesbian guard that was fired? Was it homophobia…huh? Y blogged about it on my page and would be interested in any info…
Dykes and everyone else are welcome to visit my web page: urlsbn.org
Lesbesquet
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Posted: Apr 19, 2007 11:42 PM
Looks like christian values are still not practiced at marian, the same as when Y attended over 30 years ago. Prejudice and discrimination still reign supreme. Hey, as long as mommy, daddy or you have an income – even if you have to act fake – all is well, huh? At marian the truth hurts, as it has always done.
In my day, they called us marian flowers: cute and stupid. All show/no go. You too?
Cowgyrl Tough and Lesbesquet
glam·our
noun
1720, “magic, enchantment” (especially in phrase to cast the glamour), a variant of Scot. gramarye “magic, enchantment, spell,” alt. of Eng. grammar (q.v.) with a medieval sense of “any sort of scholarship, especially occult learning.” Popularized by the writings of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). Sense of “magical beauty, alluring charm” first recorded 1840. Glamorous is 1882 (slang shortening glam first attested 1936); glamorize is 1936.
Look at other interesting definitions of glamour at Dictionary.com. You may be surprised by what you find there.
