This morning I woke and heard about a piece of online activism regarding gay acceptance. It looks at the small things people say and do that reinforce the homophobia in the world. I must confess it is a fairly strange one for me, partly because I have been known to comment on those around me who are making what are best described as micro-racist comments.
This morning someone sent me a link to the trailer for Miss Representation, a documentary which intends to challenge the media's limiting protrayal of women and girls.". Now I've only seen a 9 minute sales pitch for it but, it raised a few thoughts in my mind. Allow me to share the clip:
In amongst the collapse of the News Of The World I find myself actually feeling weirdly sorry for those involved. It's strange, certainly in my lifetime it's not exactly been a paper I'd feel a need to mourn the passing of, and in truth I would say my feelings of it range from "don't care" to "content", but I do feel sorry for the people affected by this.
Recently I've spent a lot of time thinking about various aspects of the web software world. I would love to pretend there is some coherent pattern in all this stuff, and in my mind the jumps were perfectly logical, but truth be told it's a bit random. Hopefully some of these things make sense.
I spent some time yesterday doing some campaign work for Thursday's voting. The leaflet drop (sorry folks) was a nice change to my usual day and I met some fascinating people on my rounds. The most striking part of my day of democracy came near the end, as two voters discussed the Alternative Vote referendum, one for, and one against. I chimed in occasionally but my fellow Pro was doing a sterling job, so much so that the Anti quickly made excuses and ran. And that is what bugs me about the No To AV crowd.
