April 7, 2011 @ 11:44 a.m.
THERE IS NO CODE INTENDED IN ANYTHING I WRITE, WEAR OR DO TODAY.
--I think that taking pictures of children and making sexual insinuations about them is something that needs to be stopped, whether the insinuations are made in the pictures themselves or by ads, print or other media around the pictures. I don't think that that practice is in the same category of things to begin not to worry about as numbers, words, and other symbols that have been used as code over the past year.
I also don't think that sexual insinuations should be getting made about teenagers who are going about their business being teenagers. If there are teenagers who are of age and who want to be sex objects as part of a career, that's something for those teenagers to discuss with their parents. Hopefully there are enough responsible parents out there that teenagers getting used to make sexual insinuations in daily newspapers in stories that are supposed to be about sports, school or other non-sexual teenage activities will stop.
Also, as I've said before, teenagers are seen automatically and fervently as role models by younger children. In addition to my hoping that teenagers who are still in high school will be responsible about that fact, I would again ask college students and others who are of typical college student age to be thoughtful about how their actions affect the very young people who look up to them.
(@ 4:42 p.m. I feel as if I need to add to what I wrote in the above paragraphs earlier today.
Technically, people aged 13, 14 and 15 are teenagers. However, even if those people are models, actors or other performers, at the most they ought to be getting portrayed as crush-worthy and suitable for age-appropriate relationship activities with people their own age if they want to be dating.
As far as I know, the legal age of consent in Vermont is 16. However, I hope that people who are 16 and 17 who want to be actors, models, etc., have serious and ongoing discussions with parents and/or other responsible adults who care about them regarding what deliberately and consistently doing things that can attract sexual attention from a lot of people brings with it.
People who are 18 are legally considered adults in a lot of ways and are free to make their own decisions accordingly. However, I don't know how many people in their teens know that for the majority of the adult population, sexuality is fraught with violent and negative emotions that go far beyond and far outweigh the ability to appreciate whether or not someone is attractive.
It seems to me that few adults know how to create and sustain healthy lives for themselves in most ways, and that this includes sexuality and everything that sexuality includes from thoughts to feelings to relationships. I think that sexuality is confusing, frustrating and painful for most people to some degree, and that means that the subject of sex also involves feelings such as misery, disappointment, envy, hatred of self and others....the list goes on.
Someone once said to me that "It takes a great deal of courage to face oneself." That's true, and I also think that most people prefer to think that getting something that is usually or correctly unattainable to them would fix their problems or at least make them feel better about themselves. I think that's why teenagers are at high risk of being abused by adults; teenagers physically represent the beginning of adult life, and for adults who don't want or who don't know how to try to make their own lives better in appropriate ways, the thought of having sex with a teenager or using a teenager as a sex object allows them to keep their minds on something that is emotionally compelling but ultimately bad for everyone rather than on what those adults could be doing to improve their own life experience overall without using teenagers as sex objects or as sexual partners.
Anyone who makes a career out of trying to attract sexual attention from a large number of people has no control over who gets attracted by his or her efforts or over what goes with that attention. There are a lot of people in the world, and it only takes one person to give you an awful experience that you don't get over for a long time.)
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--It wasn't true that Jake Gyllenhaal got involved with Stand Up To Cancer in order to use the organization as coded humanitarian activity to harass me. That was a very bad mistake that I made last summer. I realized my mistake a few weeks before I was in the hospital last fall, but I didn't mention it online or to anyone when I first realized it because the harassment was getting worse all the time and I didn't think it was safe for me or for Mr. Gyllenhaal for me to apologize directly to him online.
Soon after I was admitted to the Vermont State Hospital on 11/21/10, I left a voicemail for the New York Times telling them that I had realized that I had accused Mr. Gyllenhaal in error and explaining my reserve in apologizing for it.
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April 7, 2011 @ 5:02 p.m.
--I wish that at least the New York Times would stop trying to make the rebellion in Libya seem like a worthless cause. The reason that there was talk of arming and training the rebels was so that the rebels would be less likely to be "a hapless bunch," as the New York Times describes them on its front page today.
In the rest of the article, the New York Times tries unconvincingly to disparage the rebels, whose achievements are many and impressive. Whatever its intention is, the article describes a brave group of people who are doing a great job with what they have. It's also clear from the article that the fight for democracy is supported by a large and unignorable cross-section of Libyan citizens.
--As of today, there are signs on the front and the back of the doors to all of the restrooms in the library here. There was also an empty container of cottage cheese sitting by itself on one of the carts closest to the librarian's desk today.
The signs on the front of the restroom doors say:
"Leave this Bathroom as clean as you found it, or you will be denied future use
Return key to desk"
The signs on the back of the restroom doors say:
"Be Considerate! Leave this Bathroom as clean as you found it for others to use
Ask for key at desk"
Minus the quotation marks, I have accurately transcribed the signs here, including the punctuation or lack thereof.
Perhaps this is a good time for me to repeat that no harasser has made me feel humiliated by his, her or their behavior once, not in all of this past year. All their behavior does is make me think that THEIR behavior is gross.
THERE IS NO CODE INTENDED IN ANYTHING I WRITE, WEAR OR DO TODAY.
--I think that taking pictures of children and making sexual insinuations about them is something that needs to be stopped, whether the insinuations are made in the pictures themselves or by ads, print or other media around the pictures. I don't think that that practice is in the same category of things to begin not to worry about as numbers, words, and other symbols that have been used as code over the past year.
I also don't think that sexual insinuations should be getting made about teenagers who are going about their business being teenagers. If there are teenagers who are of age and who want to be sex objects as part of a career, that's something for those teenagers to discuss with their parents. Hopefully there are enough responsible parents out there that teenagers getting used to make sexual insinuations in daily newspapers in stories that are supposed to be about sports, school or other non-sexual teenage activities will stop.
Also, as I've said before, teenagers are seen automatically and fervently as role models by younger children. In addition to my hoping that teenagers who are still in high school will be responsible about that fact, I would again ask college students and others who are of typical college student age to be thoughtful about how their actions affect the very young people who look up to them.
(@ 4:42 p.m. I feel as if I need to add to what I wrote in the above paragraphs earlier today.
Technically, people aged 13, 14 and 15 are teenagers. However, even if those people are models, actors or other performers, at the most they ought to be getting portrayed as crush-worthy and suitable for age-appropriate relationship activities with people their own age if they want to be dating.
As far as I know, the legal age of consent in Vermont is 16. However, I hope that people who are 16 and 17 who want to be actors, models, etc., have serious and ongoing discussions with parents and/or other responsible adults who care about them regarding what deliberately and consistently doing things that can attract sexual attention from a lot of people brings with it.
People who are 18 are legally considered adults in a lot of ways and are free to make their own decisions accordingly. However, I don't know how many people in their teens know that for the majority of the adult population, sexuality is fraught with violent and negative emotions that go far beyond and far outweigh the ability to appreciate whether or not someone is attractive.
It seems to me that few adults know how to create and sustain healthy lives for themselves in most ways, and that this includes sexuality and everything that sexuality includes from thoughts to feelings to relationships. I think that sexuality is confusing, frustrating and painful for most people to some degree, and that means that the subject of sex also involves feelings such as misery, disappointment, envy, hatred of self and others....the list goes on.
Someone once said to me that "It takes a great deal of courage to face oneself." That's true, and I also think that most people prefer to think that getting something that is usually or correctly unattainable to them would fix their problems or at least make them feel better about themselves. I think that's why teenagers are at high risk of being abused by adults; teenagers physically represent the beginning of adult life, and for adults who don't want or who don't know how to try to make their own lives better in appropriate ways, the thought of having sex with a teenager or using a teenager as a sex object allows them to keep their minds on something that is emotionally compelling but ultimately bad for everyone rather than on what those adults could be doing to improve their own life experience overall without using teenagers as sex objects or as sexual partners.
Anyone who makes a career out of trying to attract sexual attention from a large number of people has no control over who gets attracted by his or her efforts or over what goes with that attention. There are a lot of people in the world, and it only takes one person to give you an awful experience that you don't get over for a long time.)
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--It wasn't true that Jake Gyllenhaal got involved with Stand Up To Cancer in order to use the organization as coded humanitarian activity to harass me. That was a very bad mistake that I made last summer. I realized my mistake a few weeks before I was in the hospital last fall, but I didn't mention it online or to anyone when I first realized it because the harassment was getting worse all the time and I didn't think it was safe for me or for Mr. Gyllenhaal for me to apologize directly to him online.
Soon after I was admitted to the Vermont State Hospital on 11/21/10, I left a voicemail for the New York Times telling them that I had realized that I had accused Mr. Gyllenhaal in error and explaining my reserve in apologizing for it.
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April 7, 2011 @ 5:02 p.m.
--I wish that at least the New York Times would stop trying to make the rebellion in Libya seem like a worthless cause. The reason that there was talk of arming and training the rebels was so that the rebels would be less likely to be "a hapless bunch," as the New York Times describes them on its front page today.
In the rest of the article, the New York Times tries unconvincingly to disparage the rebels, whose achievements are many and impressive. Whatever its intention is, the article describes a brave group of people who are doing a great job with what they have. It's also clear from the article that the fight for democracy is supported by a large and unignorable cross-section of Libyan citizens.
--As of today, there are signs on the front and the back of the doors to all of the restrooms in the library here. There was also an empty container of cottage cheese sitting by itself on one of the carts closest to the librarian's desk today.
The signs on the front of the restroom doors say:
"Leave this Bathroom as clean as you found it, or you will be denied future use
Return key to desk"
The signs on the back of the restroom doors say:
"Be Considerate! Leave this Bathroom as clean as you found it for others to use
Ask for key at desk"
Minus the quotation marks, I have accurately transcribed the signs here, including the punctuation or lack thereof.
Perhaps this is a good time for me to repeat that no harasser has made me feel humiliated by his, her or their behavior once, not in all of this past year. All their behavior does is make me think that THEIR behavior is gross.