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  1. Scylla Rhiadra
    And yet, Arielle, you seem to keep saying them . . .
  2. Scylla Rhiadra
    Really lovely use of light in this, Garrett!
  3. Scylla Rhiadra
    This is completely delightful. 🙂
  4. Scylla Rhiadra
    This is the result of my THIRD attempt to get this shot down. This one had better take, damn it.
  5. Scylla Rhiadra
    Is it time for me once again to suggest that LL institute a new "rating" of some sort for extreme violence? Yes. Yes, I think it is. 🙂
  6. Scylla Rhiadra
    I'd lean forward but it would provoke a riot.
  7. Scylla Rhiadra
    Old game. Slip your SPIF card under your boob and see if it falls to the ground. Mine does! If I jump up and down a bit . . . 😞
  8. Scylla Rhiadra
    If I thought red wine and coffee mixed well, I'd try that.
  9. Scylla Rhiadra
    I would literally die without it, I think.
  10. Scylla Rhiadra
    /me hugs her Sex Positive Intersectional Feminist card tightly to her bosom. Sorry, you can't have it!
  11. Scylla Rhiadra
    You know, I have thoughts about BDSM, and things to say. But honestly, why would anyone want to hear them? I don't want it banned, I don't think it's "evil", and my reservations are entirely theoretical. As self-centred as I am, even I don't think that those involved in The Lifestyle either want or need to hear the largely ideological reasons I object to it. People should be able to live their lives without me telling them they're "doing it wrong." (Fakey BDSM is a different issue. People who mask abuse or misogyny behind a distorted version need to be called out. But I know for a fact that BDSMers will do that themselves without help from me.)
  12. Scylla Rhiadra
    Peeve: PEOPLE WHO ARE MEAN.
  13. Scylla Rhiadra
    Peeve: In the "Good Old Days"™ I'd have been at the centre of any discussion of BDSM, dodging flaming projectiles and trying unsuccessfully to convey nuance while being accused of Puritanism. Now, I'm just a bystander, waving at the flaming barge as it slowly slips beneath the waves. I've grown old or something when I wasn't looking. 😞
  14. Scylla Rhiadra
    No, although I took courses, and eventually TAed there for a year. I was a Victoria College girl. I don't mind St. Mike's so much, now that they've lifted the heavy hand of the Society from the place. (I was once "interviewed" by a priest when I requested access to books in what was then, I think, still called The Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies. He wanted to know why I needed their books particularly, and, really, couldn't I go somewhere else instead? *****.) Trinity College is the one at U of T that I loathe.
  15. Scylla Rhiadra
    Well, in the 70s I was bursting into tears at being left at playschool by my mum, so . . . yeah, probably not. And yes . . .*sighs* . . . alumnae, not alumna. Apparently U of T doesn't teach Latin (which I took as an undergrad) very good.
  16. Scylla Rhiadra
    /me ponders the implications of the fact that Prok and I are alumna of the same university.
  17. Scylla Rhiadra
    Richard isn't a kick boxer, though. He's more of a "Jab angrily at your keyboard in a manly way" sort of guy.
  18. Scylla Rhiadra
    I think I know whom you mean now. And ewwwwww.
  19. Scylla Rhiadra
    Wait, what????
  20. Scylla Rhiadra
    I think of myself as someone who is relatively attentive both to equality issues, and the ways in which images "mean," but I have to say I saw nothing offensive whatsoever about the image. In fact, I think I made a joke about it. I will also say that critiquing an image posted here is, in my view, fair game, in exactly the same way and for the same reasons that critiquing a post consisting entirely of text is justified. Images "say things" too, and one shouldn't be afraid of examining those meanings and, in some cases, the unintended implications. But "critiquing" is not the same as asking that an image be removed. I could go on at length about my reading of Seicher's image -- which is clever and beautifully done -- and why I don't have objections to it, but we don't want a derail here. Suffice it to say that one does not free women to explore their sexuality by telling them how they can or cannot explore and express it.
  21. Scylla Rhiadra
    Well, I think what it means is that there is a very supportive community in the vanity threads. You can't "force" people to give your pics 20 or 30 likes -- that happens because those who post there want to show their appreciation for how other people have expressed themselves through their avatars and their pics. No "scorn laughs," very few "confused" faces -- just people being nice to other people. I think it's really rather lovely. It's a very friendly, inclusive, and welcoming community.
  22. Scylla Rhiadra
    I'm voting with you on this one, Bree. I have a friend in RL who lives Halloween so much, her Christmas decorations are festooned with cobwebs and her tree decorated with plastic spiders. Lovely woman, but . . . no. Just, no.
  23. Scylla Rhiadra
    Well, not exactly, no. I think given the topic of this thread -- the SL "intelligentsia" -- it's entirely appropriate to talk about the role of artists within SL insofar as they can be seen as part of such a semi-mythical body. What I suggested is that a discussion of the particular theme of that one particular installation -- feminism and women's rights -- was off topic. Your comments weren't addressing Debora's role as an artist; they were about what she had to say about women. I actually think that Rolig has hit on an interesting point that is applicable to SL, which features a kind of marriage of at least subsets of science -- computer science and mathematics, anyway -- and the humanities. AM Radio, possibly SL's most famous artist, was trained in art . . . but he worked for IBM. And he's currently experimenting with AI-generated art, in part with the metaverse in mind. I find those connections interesting and suggestive.
  24. Scylla Rhiadra
    SL is the embodiment of a science- and math-enabled platform that offer endless opportunities for the humanist. If ever there was a platform that brought the arts, philosophy, and music together with applied science, this is it. I teach literature. I have far more engagement with those working in the.sciences here than I do at my own university.
  25. Scylla Rhiadra
    Are you familiar with Jacob Brownowski, Rolig. He addressed exactly this issue. Brilliant man.
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