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Review: Ready Player One review: I don't think he likes it.
Current: A response to Martyn Iles on Australia's brutal "refugee" policy and how Christians shouldn't get involved. (But we should get involved on marriage equality and including LGBT& in school sex ed?)
Current: We Weary - a sermon by Mike Frost, Australian Christian author, at Seaforth Baptist, Sydney.
Mental Health: Anxiety Is An Invalid Excuse - thoughts from a sufferer.
History Repeated: economics thriving on racism
Recipes: 40 low-carb recipes - my diet has been mostly carbs lately and it's not good.
In the wake of #MeToo: Why Consensual Sex Can Still Be Bad - this is a good point. It's not 'bad' as in 'bad dirty wrong', it's 'bad' as in 'well, that was a complete waste of time'.
Abortion: Pro-life voters and pro-choice politicians: what most people reading DW would expect, I expect.
Recipes: Chefs share the greatest recipe they've ever found: I think I got this in a thread about people who stole other people's recipe (and by 'stole' I mean "took a home/personal recipe and turned it into a commerical recipe which they sold and made money out of without crediting or repaying the person whose recipe it was").
Faith/#MeToo: Christian women share stories of their assault at the hands of Christian Men - heartbreaking, but necessary to know and be aware of.
A Comic: Dimorphism
Faith: Is The Reformation Just A White Man's Racist Legacy?
SPOILER: The Reformation addressed issues of social justice back in the day Luther posted it up on the Wittenberg church door. The movements/belief lines that the Reformation spawned may choose to divorce economic, racial, and social justice from the spiritual justice that it chiefly espouses, but Luther believed the two were firmly intertwined, and they were and still are today.
Gun Control: This Snopes article from 2001 provides fact-checking on the ‘crime went up’ call.
Honestly, I've heard it all from the pro-gun 'you can't control my guns' lot and frankly, it boils my bunny. Crime still happens at a steady rate (over years), but gun massacres do not. Aussie cops do not wish the public were armed, and if one does then I'd like to see the specific cop's psychiatric reports, thanks. Oh, and our gun clubs are actually the ones calling for stronger gun control laws: a local man shot his two kids and then himself - he was an occasional member of a local gun club, and they characterised him as 'weird' and 'worrying' and were in the process of reviewing their membership laws to become more strict about it.
This is, of course, one of those ones where "my beliefs as an American beat out your actual lived experience as an Australian". See also: characterisation of Herc and Chuck in Pacific Rim fandom.
Current: A response to Martyn Iles on Australia's brutal "refugee" policy and how Christians shouldn't get involved. (But we should get involved on marriage equality and including LGBT& in school sex ed?)
Current: We Weary - a sermon by Mike Frost, Australian Christian author, at Seaforth Baptist, Sydney.
Mental Health: Anxiety Is An Invalid Excuse - thoughts from a sufferer.
History Repeated: economics thriving on racism
Recipes: 40 low-carb recipes - my diet has been mostly carbs lately and it's not good.
In the wake of #MeToo: Why Consensual Sex Can Still Be Bad - this is a good point. It's not 'bad' as in 'bad dirty wrong', it's 'bad' as in 'well, that was a complete waste of time'.
Abortion: Pro-life voters and pro-choice politicians: what most people reading DW would expect, I expect.
Recipes: Chefs share the greatest recipe they've ever found: I think I got this in a thread about people who stole other people's recipe (and by 'stole' I mean "took a home/personal recipe and turned it into a commerical recipe which they sold and made money out of without crediting or repaying the person whose recipe it was").
Faith/#MeToo: Christian women share stories of their assault at the hands of Christian Men - heartbreaking, but necessary to know and be aware of.
A Comic: Dimorphism
Faith: Is The Reformation Just A White Man's Racist Legacy?
SPOILER: The Reformation addressed issues of social justice back in the day Luther posted it up on the Wittenberg church door. The movements/belief lines that the Reformation spawned may choose to divorce economic, racial, and social justice from the spiritual justice that it chiefly espouses, but Luther believed the two were firmly intertwined, and they were and still are today.
Gun Control: This Snopes article from 2001 provides fact-checking on the ‘crime went up’ call.
Honestly, I've heard it all from the pro-gun 'you can't control my guns' lot and frankly, it boils my bunny. Crime still happens at a steady rate (over years), but gun massacres do not. Aussie cops do not wish the public were armed, and if one does then I'd like to see the specific cop's psychiatric reports, thanks. Oh, and our gun clubs are actually the ones calling for stronger gun control laws: a local man shot his two kids and then himself - he was an occasional member of a local gun club, and they characterised him as 'weird' and 'worrying' and were in the process of reviewing their membership laws to become more strict about it.
This is, of course, one of those ones where "my beliefs as an American beat out your actual lived experience as an Australian". See also: characterisation of Herc and Chuck in Pacific Rim fandom.
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"Crocodile Dundee" and "Steve Irwin".
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Herc is a millenial, Chuck is a post-millenial, they're very much global citizens with a broad range of influences, even if the commonality of our world with the PR world only goes until 2014. The accents might very well be 'Australian' but neither would use typical 'strine' slang as depicted by either Dundee or Irwin.
I could keep going, because I have a lot to say on this. I won't. :D
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I went to school with a girl who unironically used words like "bonzer" though so I guess I'm used to people who genuinely use what I would think of as old-timey/strine language *shrug*
Maybe in an era of multiculturalism they're aggressively clinging to their Australian identities by consciously using strine to reinforce who they are presenting themselves as? :P