Comments on: Human Rights Film Festival

By: Lara

Lara — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:53:19 +0000

Thanks for posting all of these documentaries, allecto. I find the one about the Australian government’s imposition on Aboriginal communities (in regards to child abuse) very relevant as I am going to Perth in just a month. I have learnt here and there about the issues that Aborigines deal with, and the oppression they face, at the hands of the Australian government, but I don’t know that much about it otherwise. It sounds eerily similar to the situation that many Native American Indians face here in the United States.

By: allecto

allecto — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:32:52 +0000

Hi Neaera. Thanks a lot for your comment. I’m glad that you feel you have more confidence in speaking up for the rights of women in prostitution. It can be very confronting to try and combat the lies out there: that it is a free choice.. etc. So many people just accept that unthinkingly nowdays. Although I think a lot of women are against pornography and protitution. I think they know that it isn’t in their interests to be bought and sold as commodities. I think that many of us just feel helpless to do anything. But convincing others that it is a problem is the first step. Abolition is the next.

By: Neaera

Neaera — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:39:34 +0000

Hi,

i originally came to your site through the articles you wrote about firefly, and have just been reading your blog since then. its really enlightened me a lot, i just wanted to leave a comment saying that. your blog has given me confidence, to the extent where i am no longer afraid to express my views, to the point where i feel informed enough, for example, to explain to idiots (who still seem to think that prostitution is ok, and that its a woman’s PREROGATIVE to go into that kind of life) that they are completely delusional.

so, i just wanted to say thanks, as a lurker on this blog!

By: allecto

allecto — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:56:18 +0000

I am a LESBIAN SEPARATIST!!! Look it up moron.

By: Rigen

Rigen — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:44:13 +0000

if you don’t like men, why don’t you just stay away from them?

By: allecto

allecto — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:37:35 +0000

Yeah, I know. It is so, so unfair that the people who are going to be most affected by climate change are not the ones who have cause it. I think those of us who live in Western countries deserve to be underwater because of the wounds we have inflicted on mother earth. But the Pacific Islanders? No way. They have cared for and appreciated her, lived in harmony and peace with her. They haven’t raped her nearly to death like we have/are/will.

By: citywood

citywood — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:03:21 +0000

This looks really good. I’ve read a bit about Pacific Islanders who have to leave their homes due to climate change and it makes me soo sad. Having to be uprooted and leaving behind your history, your country gone; I can’t imagine.