LJ Meme

... via kefiraahava:

QUESTIONS:
1. My username is ____ because ____.
2. My journal is titled ____ because ____.
3. My subtitle is ____ because ____.
4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.
5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.


1. Asher is actually my regular, real-life name. It's the Hebrew name I took when I converted (many, many moons ago) and subsequently took as my legal name. Oh, and I don't tell people this very often, but I like it because it suggests the ancient goddess "Asherah". (See "The Red Tent" Anita Diamant.) 63 is, you guessed it, my birth year on the civil calendar.

2. "Translinear Light" is the title of the recent album by Alice Coltrane (John's widow, and a very talented keyboardist). I love the music and I love the sound of the phrase.

3. Still trying to come up with a subtitle.

4. See 2 and 3. Haven't really thought about a separate title for my friends page.

5. This is the avatar I use at the Free Iran forum; had to trim it a bit to get it within the 100 pixel limit. I'm a technical moron, so I'm not very good about creating avatars and stuff. I do have two more saved - one of them actually looks like me! - and will roll them out one of these days. (Found them using the highly sophisticated method of googling "avatars".)

Not a Good Victim

Ginmar posts on a girl in Beaverton who had the temerity to report a rape:

After a day-and-a-half trial, Municipal Judge Peter A. Ackerman on Friday convicted the woman of filing a false police report, a class-C misdemeanor. Ackerman explained his decision, saying there were many inconsistencies in the stories of the four, but that he found the young men to be more credible. He also said he relied on the testimony of a Beaverton police detective and the woman's friends who said she did not act traumatized in the days following the incident.

What inconsistencies? Trauma makes people remember things strangely. It’s a little known fact that someone who’s survived a ghastly experience may not remember everything about it till days later, when their brain starts to recover. Someone who’s lying, of course, will have inconsistencies in their story because they want to avoid getting arrested for it.

The judge found the young men to be more credible. Why?

What police detective? Did this guy have any experience as a sex crimes investigator? Cops are just as likely---and might be more likely---to be sexist as is the general population.

And of course we all know that if a woman doesn’t act traumatized and horrified it’s not because she’s in denial or trying to forget it, it’s because she’s a lying whore who’s trying to put innocent guys in jail. ...

Read the rest at Ginmar's post, along with her thoughts on the experience of watching "Cops" after reading about this. You can also visit my main blog at my Website link.