World Peace!

[juldea]

Lately I really have the desire to write some indepth essays on topics that mean much to me. The two that have been forming in my head lately have been "why I mud" and "what sex means to me". The second topic was forced into focus because I have read in several places lately the phrase "I like [or respect] you too much to have sex with you," which to me is only a valid phrase if your premises (definition of respect and/or sex) are false. Anyway, once I make the chance to sit down and write those, I will link them here.

Last night, upon recommendations from Randen and Jason, I watched Miss Congeniality. It's a comedy starring Sandra Bullock (for those of you who know and care about names) about a "tomboy" intellectual FBI agent who has to pose as Miss New Jersey when the Miss United States pageant is targetted for a terrorist attack. I really, really loved the movie, and will buy it when I find the chance. I think I sympathize a lot with the main character, who doesn't give a damn about makeup or wearing dresses and is thrust into this world of beauty and big hair and bikinis - not that it's happened to me, just that I think I would act like she does. ;) The movie is done very well and doesn't take itself too seriously. The only times I weren't smiling happily at it were when I was laughing. So go rent it. :)

On another note, waking up is getting to be an impossible task in the mornings. Bleh.

Comments

[goldbug.livejournal.com]

hmm, see, i think that there are a lot of people that i like/respect too much to have sex with them. like ty. but what i mean is that these are people i don't want to have sex with, and if i did, it would be only to make them happy, or because i was taking pity on them. and i like/respect them too much to do that. of course, i think the other thing to consider is that i like/respect myself too much to do that.

anyway, i'd be interested to read any essays you write.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Well, the context of the phrase that I am against is that you DO want to have sex with this person, but you state that you like/respect them too much to do that. This is the case that I disagree with.

I don't have much to say to someone who dislikes or disrespects him/herself so much that s/he would have sex with someone s/he didn't want to have sex with... I can't imagine what could cause someone to drag their own bodies through the mud like that.