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Building New Neuro-Bridges

On By MezzoSherriIn Meta-Blogging, Self-Acceptance, The Voices in My HeadLeave a comment

Yeah, yeah, yeah: it took me very little time to break my “every Tuesday” promise. At least I had a slightly better excuse for August 6th: I was still happily overdosing on Olympics coverage.* Last week’s hiatus was nothing more than that old perfectionism:

I’ve already fucked up, so I’d better have something SUPER awesome or insightful to say for this “relaunch post”!

(And of course, I didn’t have anything super-awesome to say…)

DAMN, that self-critical voice is a vicious bitch.

Generated by OpenArt. Prompt: “inner self-critical voice”

And no, I absolutely do NOT pretend to have something super-awesome to say on THIS Tuesday night. (Spoiler alert!!!) I’m just leaning into the discomfort and writing anyways. So here we go!…

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The Ethics of Looking, Part 3

On By MezzoSherriIn Flagrantly Feminist, Pop Goes the Culture, Topics of StudyLeave a comment

A shorter post than usual — Wednesday is choir night, after all.

I’m following up on previous musings regarding the topic-cluster of domestic violence, NFL culture, media news vultures and Ray and Janay Rice. Here are parts 1 (soapbox mode) and 2 (my own complicity).

Let’s call Part 3, “When ethics cause inconvenience; or: walking the walk.”

Apparently, John Stewart had some very insightful, incisive and funny things to say on The Daily Show last week about how the NFL handled Ray Rice’s February assault on his wife (then fiancee) — or, one could say, how they didn’t handle the incident.

I wouldn’t know. Or at least, I wouldn’t know past the 30-second mark, ‘cos that’s when the first frame from TMZ showed up.*

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