The fonts in Windows 7 are numerous and many of them non-Latin. Fair enough. This is a global product.
But I am not allowed to delete what Windows considers "protected" fonts. So I to scroll through them in my fonts list to get to the ones I like.
And even the foreign ones I like do not print in the foreign scripts, just in Latin.
Unless I change the whole keyboard. Which requires a previous set of choices and such.
Were I still doing papers which required me to add text in Greek, for example, I would have to switch keyboards to do it and lack choice of typefaces.
Amazing how frustrated and murderous these things make me feel.
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I think you're starting to affect me. Listening to some simpering radio host on Fox saying that if Eric Holder was wrong about amnesty and American citizenship being rights, than everybody from Rousseau to Voltaire to Lincoln to Friedman was wrong about human nature. I thought to myself, "Oh you silly man, still clinging to the notion that man is inherently good!" :)
Your posts about homoeroticism were very informative and helpful, and now sexual submission doesn't sound so bad. My problem seems to have been with hardcore S&M videos that I've watched. Taking pleasure in physically striking and dehumanizing another man, and allowing that to be done to you, seems contrary to what real sexual love between men is. Is that stuff a form of the Alpha-Omega dyad you wrote about? If so, it is voluntary slavery to the Alpha-Beta dyad's fraternal submission, and something I want no part of.
If I'm starting to affect you, maybe I should but a warning label on the blog!
Re sexual submission, and S&M etc. It's complicated and has a wide range of meanings. One recurring theme -- also true for straight men who submit to dominatices-- is of men with powerful moral egos and positions of power or responsibility in the daylight world who find a kind of catharsis in it.
Often you can't really know ahead of time what a human activity means just by looking from the outside. The range can be pretty wide. Themes can be initiatory, religious, etc. The human soul is a labyrinth.
I wrote that in light of a couple videos starring a porn couple I've seen. The dom seemed like a nice fellow in more vanilla scenes he'd done, but his apparent disregard for the discomfort of his partner, who was sobbing in pain at points and clearly was not enjoying himself and probably wanted to be doing something else. Last I heard, they had broken up after the sub had stabbed his dom. I have no idea how the case ended, the dom claimed it was an accident with a dog bowl.
That's the aspect of it that I don't like, the potential for physical play and discipline to go wrong if both partners aren't 100% committed to it, and don't trust each other 100% . I would love to talk to a couple who engage in it to hear how they make it work.
-Sean
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