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Comment by jayfactor
on Word of the Day: Heterosexualist

August 4th 2009 23:51
BREAKING NEWS

Gay Scientists discover Catholic gene

In a recent breakthrough, the scientists at the GGL Labs have discovered the gene that renders people Catholic.

Parents have rejoiced in relief saying, "it is great to finally know that this is a natural biological make-up and not due to how we have raised our child.

A spokesperson of GGL Labs said, "we can now be certain that this is not a lifestyle choice but something a person is born with."

There have been reports of riots in the Vatican city and Brazil, a pro Catholic nation, between people who are now increasing the pressure for an anti-catholic treatment and Catholics that insist that Catholicism is a conscious choice.


"For the sake of our children and the future of the world, it is imperative that we urgently find a suppressant for the Catholic gene." Iam agaye said in a press conference.

The debate continues....

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Comment by jayfactor
on The Sheer Horror Of Being A Brunette

October 10th 2008 13:06
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Comment by jayfactor
on A day in my life, pt. 1

July 28th 2008 14:41
I am in Sydney and was on that day. I had to go to work and remember shaking terribly along the way. Pulled up to the side thinking I need to cry, but nothing came. Everything was just numb and I felt dead and then angry and disappointed at myself for not being able to react.

What in the world does a barbaric act like this fulfil for anybody. It doesn't matter how much of an extremist these people are but how can they possibly rationalize this?

The entire day was moving at agonizingly slow pace, the hands of the clock ripping through my chest with each tick.

But what was going to happen next would hit me so personally, shooting right through my soul, making an announcement of what would continue to haunt me for a long, long time.

As a Sikh I was taught that there is one universal God and irrespective of who you are, where you come from and what you believe, you are ultimately the children of the same God. Everybody and everything is part of the same circle. There is no hierarchy. Black, White, Man, Woman. Catholic, Anglican, Buddhist, Whatever, deserve respect as people first and foremost.

For a Sikh, tolerance and co-existence is not enough, one must have deep respect for any person's right to live life their way.

As Volaire says, ""I might disagree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

I was amazed at how relatively easily people around were able to take it and soon enough get back to work.
Maybe I was just too sensitive and weak, but I couldn't not handle the fact that somebody, could sit and plan, meticulously for such a long period of time, to kill so many people who have done no wrong.

Here I am trying desperately to collect myself, when a work colleague comes over and says,

"So, how's your pilot training going?"

- Jay

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Comment by jayfactor
on It's Not Funny Because It's True

July 28th 2008 13:36

Thanks JCL. I appreciate it.

PostmodernCritic - Thank you for your concern and time to avail your delicate sensibilities for my vague comments. You should be proud. Pride is truly a good thing to have, especially when one haslittle else.

But truly, thank you.

Now let’s be civil, shall we?
If you consider it so bad. Ok, I give up. I’ll say it. I might not have used the most appropriate words and was vague and opened myself up to idiots misconstruing what I was saying without applying a little intellect to understand the message, which of all things is a personal expression on a blog, and insist on harrasing me to the point where I have nightmares about these critics.

Ruby - I hope you didn't take my comments as an attempt at offending you. It was certainly not the intention. I admire your work.
And I guess you are lucky I try not writing such long posts apart from my own blog. Again, apologies for the long posts.


regards
Jay

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Comment by jayfactor
on It's Not Funny Because It's True

July 22nd 2008 01:39
hello again

Please allow me to address the reasoning of my use of the term 'Macho'.

Also, let's take any further discussion on this matter to another post/blog, so as not to cramp Ruby's space.

First and foremost, My intention or the use of the word was not in that context.

My thoughts are that we have a certain love affair with inventing new terms. This is ok to some extent I guess, however in some cases, it robs of the opportunity to address a deeper problem that stands behind the reson of the use of a term in the first place. As an example, let me refer to two terms, Negro and Feminine.

In the case of the first case, the term was simply racist and derogotory. It came to represent so many things that are simply considered wrong today. However, the term or the ideology behind it was never addressed. We simply moved on to better sounding words. I think, it is partly due to this that even today the word is in common use and has actually become a double edged sword. Used within the community, it is an endearing term that bonds people together but let a white man say that to a black man and the results can be quite interesting and 'eye opening' (literally).

There is another problem with this. This term alone has contributed so much in isolating the African American community and continue allowing the term to be used to give expression to a sentiment that we should moved on from.

Second term, feminism has started to take on a negative conotation in some circles. Woman in successful carrers and businesses, see the term as derogatory and believe that to succeed in their proffessional life, they "have to be and act like men".

A recent study published in a pshycology journal explained how this idea alone is having physiological and biological impact.

Let me take a moment here to say that man does complete the picture. I am of-course reffering to a global system. It would be different world if there were only men or only women. This is going beyond the choices of individuals and on a world level. Everybody has a right to make their own personal choices and not be discrimiated for that.

anyways, Macho. yes. well here's some food for thought. you may or may not agree with this. i respect that.

The term Macho or Machismo is inherently racist and elitist. huh? What the hell am i talking about?

Firstly, here's a few things.

Main Entry:
1ma•cho
Pronunciation:
\ˈmä-(&#716chō\
Function:
adjective
Etymology:
Spanish, literally, male, from Latin masculus
Date:
1928
Merriam webster dictionary

"The etymology of the idea of machismo has roots in political and social concerns of the late twentieth century. The origin of the term is found in texts, especially journalistic, social science, and feminist dissections of Mexican men and Latinos in general in this period. The popularization of machismo as an epithet for Spanish-speaking males of the species coincided with the rise of second-wave feminism and, later, cultural identity politics in which supposedly immutable cultural traits were linked, as if genetically, to men with one or another geographic and/or class ancestry.

The origins of the term give an indication of its future as an idea: to the extent that hegemonic ideologies and ways of constructing knowledge about Latin America and Latinos remain unchallenged, including with regard to gender relations and inequalities, it will be possible to continue employing machismo in a stereotypical fashion and as an expedient label for complex social interactions. If, on the other hand, the idea of machismo and that of its even more problematic would-be opposite, marianismo, are recognized and discarded as antiquated paradigms invented to explain and teach about gender inequality in Latin American and Latino/a societies, then the idea of machismo could be short-lived. Machismo as a shorthand for sexism may have come into journalistic, social science, feminist, and popular vogue for a variety of reasons, including the well-intentioned desire to criticize gender inequality and oppression. The continued employment of this hackneyed term can only reflect the persistence of an elitist and racist model to understand gender inequities among women and men of Latin American origin.

What is more, frequently these traits of machismo and marianismo are pegged in particular to working class men and women, as if those from the middle and upper strata were too sophisticated for their lives to be captured by such crude academic groupings. As theoretical categories, therefore, machismo and marianismo are not only culturally chauvinist but elitist as well. The machismo-marianismo paradigm represented an expression of a widespread intellectual colonial mentality in the behavioral and social sciences that remained dominant and unchallenged for far too long."

My thoughts are that we should not let this term to exist in its present form and allow abusive behaviour find justification and expression through this term but rather understand and change the conotations so that no explanations or glorifications exist to offer any expression to such behaviour.

to end here's another thought that bothers me:

In our era of increasing egalitarianism, macho movie heroes remain the rage, literally and figuratively. And in 1992, astronomers gave the ultimate tribute to a newly discovered (or at least imagined) celestial body, like a planet but larger, by naming it Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Object, MACHO for short.
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My sincere apologies to those who only see the term in the light that Post Modern Critic has offered and don't agree with what I've said. In that sense, please let me state that no, i am not "Macho".
But do think about it.


regards and respects to all
Jay

sorry about the long post

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Comment by jayfactor
on It's Not Funny Because It's True

July 22nd 2008 01:34
Hey Ruby

I really admire your humility. I mean some people just have this need to brag about how good they are but not you gal.

Sophistication and grace like this is rare in the world today.

Besides, some people just have a thing for underminig others to make themselves feel like they are better then they think they are.

Keep it kicking.
Jay

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Comment by jayfactor
on It's Not Funny Because It's True

July 20th 2008 21:48
hmm... I like this conversation.

Ok. Let me get serious.

To begin with please let me say that these are my views and wishes only. When it comes to it, I would probably wimp out and not be able to cut anybody's, well...

I understand what you are saying and I do agree with you that education is the best answer.

It's just that over the past few years I have been (a few years ago I would said, "had the opportunity", been privileged", "the honour” so some crap like that. Now it all seems so, so beside the point.)

well, over the past few years I have been with mothers and fathers and daughters and sons from Sudan, Sierra Leone and Egypt, other wonderful African nations and Middle East. I have tried to look into the eyes of young boys who have lost everything including their father who was, in some cases, eaten, half alive. I have tried looking into the eyes of boys who have shot a few men. It is chilling beyond expression. Trust me, some things cannot change. Not in time anyway. No one deserves to be killed but do we also not have the right to stand and watch these horrid acts while we debate our moralistic responses?

Having said that let me say that the people I speak about are like a poisoned arm of a person. It will kill you if you keep it and you will hurt and suffer your entire life if you lose it.

I for one, my friend will bow before any person that can teach people to not cut up little kids into more pieces that the years they have seen.

I will be a slave to the person that can save the girls getting raped right now and have been every single day for years.

Education has its place. and it is my deepest wish that we can teach. I also know that it is wishful thinking.

But to allow the killings, mutilations and rapes to continue whilst we go about trying to get through a governments that encourage these... (What do you call it?) to get to men who exist on drug, alcohol and human flesh and will kill anyone who suggests anything, to educate them or even stop and think for a minute, does not seem right to me.

Your point of the right kind of environment is absolutely correct. I just don't know how we can create this space in an appropriate time in an acceptable manner?
This is not a shot or a rhetorical question but a question of desperation.

I would like to hear your view on this. Because it is only with our thoughts and efforts that I can keep facing my friend B***u, still searching for her son amongst the boys that once paraded down the streets with AK47s.

The institutions of countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia are not too much better when it comes to the atrocities towards women and others that do not fit the mould dictated by self proclaimed saviours of humanity, with fathers raping their own daughters and then beating them to death in the name of honour.

I guess you are right, I am contradicting myself by saying I don't have respect for people who don't have respect for all.

Guilty as charged. I have no other explanations.


Let's discuss the Macho man bit another day.


Respects
Jay

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Comment by jayfactor
on It's Not Funny Because It's True

July 20th 2008 12:44
Hi Postmoderncritic

I agree 110% with your point. I've never heard of freedom of speech.

I've read about it in stories but never heard or seen in real. Does it really exist?

Besides, what about MY freedome of speech? 
I was also "speaking their, I mean my, mind"

As for my thoughts on arrest and castration (I didn't think I mentioned anything about killing anybody. that is so violent. castration is so much more civil don't you think?)

Anyways, if any group or authority thinks that women should be treated like that and should not raise their voice against crimes like violence and rape and gross violation of their general human rights, then my friend let me restate my point of view.

Viva castration.

My mother was a woman. We exist today because of the love, compassion and intellect of woman. A man alone is a man alone, and that is not a fun place to be.

Not to undermine the MAN. A man is what completes the picture. One cannot be without the other. I am a Man thank you very much. And a very macho man as well, if i may say so. I just like to fiddle with the definitions every now and then.

I have no respect for anyone who does not have basic regard for all people. Man, Woman, Child, White, Black or Mild. (What? it rhymes!)

No disrespect to anyone. It's just me throwing up the soup of my thoughts. (yuk!)

-Jay

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Comment by jayfactor
on It's Not Funny Because It's True

July 20th 2008 10:07
thanks Morgan.

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Comment by jayfactor
on It's Not Funny Because It's True

July 20th 2008 06:13
Hello Ruby

Thank you for the great write-up. I had heard of some of these masterpieces of Human intellect but it was good to read your collection with the observations of another.

On Mother T, yes there are wonderful stories of her "love and affection" for people. I had the opportunity to hear some first-hand experiences.

I do ask myself a question though and I present it to you. Is it time that we start asking "why?"

In Mother T's case, I know that she was a very, very devoted woman. Devoted to her faith and from that, devoted to the people and giving them care.

Here's the twist, her concepts were screwed to beyond frightening.

Her devout belief in, well, her beliefs, made her belief that salvation comes to the "meek", poor and suffering should, and that you must help the sick.

This was so important, that it was made sure that people in her care continued to suffer!

They were 'loved' and 'cared for' to the point where they remained in need of support. The infrastructure was conducive to infection and disease.
There are communal toilets, where everybody squats facing each other in places that are not cleaned for days. Bandages that are not changed when they should etc. etc.

And as you mentioned, it wasn't because of lack of money.

Anyways, the bigger problem is Abortion, right?

It is truly amazing that we can still accept people speaking in this manner. I mean, if somebody is outright racist, that is an offence, well almost. But when something like this is said *and* propagate. We tolerate so easily.

There should be a code of conduct for leaders around the world. What do you think?

Attack Iraq? Sorry. You're fired!

Anti-Abortion? You are under arrested and fined for "causing annoyance and interference" to visitors of the planet/ pilgrims of humanity.

Can’t talk about crime harassment to women? Sorry, for the sake of a safe and *sane* society, you are castrated and incarcerated.

As for SID, c'mon. Be reasonable. If we let homosexuals drive around freely, what's next?
Let's allow women to drive? or Africans? or Sikhs? (Oh wait, that's me! shit!) or Italians!
Huh?
And you know what else would happen? We would have cars of every different colour! And other stuff, which I can't think of right now, but am sure when I do, it would be as dangerous. I mean thinking? AAAHHH!

Let's be reasonable guys. Let insanity prevail.

As for Stalin and his like. May they rest in peace. So that we may live in peace.

No use crying over bad milk. Let's make butter!!
Pour all these idiots in the pot and light up the fire of common sense, intellect, humanity and compassion.

Anybody got a toaster?

Jay


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“To dare every day to be irreverent and bold. To dare to preserve the randomness of mind which in children produces strange and wonderful new thoughts and forms. To continually scramble the familiar and bring the old into new juxtaposition.”
- Gordon Webber


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