M A N I K I N S
men, in pictures
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Daniel Graham-Thompson, 18, has become the fourth teenager to die violently in London this month.Thompson was stabbed repeatedly near East Dulwich station in south London on Satarday night. A 14-year-old was also shot in the leg by a 13-year-old during a night of violence that erupted during a birthday party.
In 2010, 19 London teenagers were murdered.
Note: Don't Die Before You've Lived is a series of ongoing entries recording the murders of teenagers in London. Although not necessarily GBLT-related, the desperately premature loss of these young boys deserves our full attention. Please take a minute to remember their names, their faces, and spare a thought for these kids who really did die before they lived.
ka-os|theory is a London-based blog.
In 2010, 19 London teenagers were murdered.
Note: Don't Die Before You've Lived is a series of ongoing entries recording the murders of teenagers in London. Although not necessarily GBLT-related, the desperately premature loss of these young boys deserves our full attention. Please take a minute to remember their names, their faces, and spare a thought for these kids who really did die before they lived.ka-os|theory is a London-based blog.
Tired old queen at the movies
review
From Here To Eternity
Pre-war angst and the effects it has on a group of men and women stationed in Hawaii prior to Peal Harbor, forms the basis for Fred Zinnemann's film version of James Jones' prizewinning novel, From Here To Eternity.
Burt Lancaster headlines an all-star cast in this adaptation of what was termed an unfilmable property. Shot on location and casting against type, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift and in Oscar winning roles; Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed give some of the finest performances of their careers. Ernest Borgnine brings sterling support as Fatso Judson, one the most evil characters ever portrayed on film and Lancaster and Kerr have an unforgettable love scene in the surf that had audiences and critics reeling for years. But, above all, there's Monty Clift, bringing unusual pathos as Prew, the boxer who doesn't want to fight. Taking the Oscar for Best Picture of 1953, it's hot, rugged and tempestuous entertainment as five lives come together in a moment of infamy that will alter their lives from here to eternity.
Steve Hayes
Burt Lancaster headlines an all-star cast in this adaptation of what was termed an unfilmable property. Shot on location and casting against type, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift and in Oscar winning roles; Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed give some of the finest performances of their careers. Ernest Borgnine brings sterling support as Fatso Judson, one the most evil characters ever portrayed on film and Lancaster and Kerr have an unforgettable love scene in the surf that had audiences and critics reeling for years. But, above all, there's Monty Clift, bringing unusual pathos as Prew, the boxer who doesn't want to fight. Taking the Oscar for Best Picture of 1953, it's hot, rugged and tempestuous entertainment as five lives come together in a moment of infamy that will alter their lives from here to eternity.
Steve Hayes
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations
M A N I K I N S
men, in pictures
Three
don't
die
before
you've
lived
die
before
you've
lived
This is 17-year-old Ezekiel Amosu, the third teenager to die as a result of violent crime in London this year.
Amosu suffered "crush injuries" after either being pushed, or chased, into the path of a TfL bus in Walthamstow, north London. A 15-year-old will appear in court on Friday to face charges of manslaughter.*On Tuesday, the BBC screened Scenes from a Teenage Killing, a documentary looking at every teenager who died as a result of violence in the UK in 2009.
ka-os|theory is a London-based blog.
I have met many feminists who were not lesbians but I have never met a lesbian who was not a feminist
opinion
Of all the social evils afflicting society in the West - homophobia, racism, economic disparities (and class), xenophobia - there's one that's so dated, so cosy and retro, that it's become a nice, reassuring plot device for the laboured narratives the media calls news.
Yes, kids: it's sexism.
Apparently, we're to believe that in places like the United Kingdom and the United States, women are the victims of chauvinistic bigotry, their poor faces squished desperately against the glass ceiling. In 2011, we're told repeatedly, men are still better off.
The latest outrage against this repressed minoritygender are comments made by two middle-aged football commentators.
After a piece to camera, Richard Keys and Andy Gray spotted a female lineswoman. Apparently thinking his microphone was turned off, Keys said to Gray, "Somebody better get down there and explain offside to her."
Gray: "Can you believe that? A female linesman. Women don't know the offside rule."
Keys: "Of course they don't."
Keys later said of West Ham Football Club vice-chairman Karren Brady, "The game's gone mad. Did you hear charming Karren Brady this morning complaining about sexism? Do me a favour, love."
Saying women don't understand their (read: men's) stupid "offside rule" is hardly an outrageous slur. But the slightest hint of sexism must be acted on (unlike homophobia, eh, BBC?). Sexism is a big no-no. And so Keys and Gray were unceremoniously axed by Sky - at least from from last night's match, at any rate.
Are women without a sense of humour? No. Could it simply be that women in sports are joyless dykes? I wonder...
Maybe women aren't the problem. Maybe it's KD Lang's mates. Let's cast our minds back to late last year, when gay equality hero Lt. Dan Choi - instrumental in bringing down Don't Ask, Don't Tell - used the word "pussy" in an interview. "Harry Reid is a pussy," Choi said after a failed Senate vote on DADT, "and he'll be bleeding once a month."
A friend of mine argues that in order to further gay equality, we must first be feminists. I can understand his point, and if it wasn't for the feminists, I'd probably agree with him. But feminists - or at least lesbian feminists - don't want equality. They want to go back the 1950s, but with the roles reversed and Cynthia Nixon in the driving seat. The pendulum has swung too far. Female executives now dominate television, and look how that's turned out: drama stifled by gooey soap operatics designed to appeal to women. The London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival seems to be run by and for women - even the gay flicks that do make it into the programme have to have something for the girls.
And just how did "LGBT" come to be the most common acronym for the gay community? Why is it always "lesbian" and gay? Let's face it, compared to us boys, the dykes have a pretty easy time of it. Gay men are at the coalface of activism, taking the worst of the abuse, and generally getting a raw deal. But within the hierarchy of the GBLT community, lesbians want to be seen as the oppressed minority - victims of sexism.
Recently, I read an article that suggested the "T" in GBLT should be hived off, because the gay equality movement isn't serving the needs of the transgender community. I have a better idea. Why don't we keep the trannies, and excommunicate the lesbians. Seems to me they'd be much better off - and happier! - left alone with their ball-busting, hormones and vaginas...
Title quote: "I have met many feminists who were not lesbians but I have never met a lesbian who was not a feminist." Martha Shelley
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