Friday, January 28, 2005



Sex Farces.

Cutting edge stuff from the BBC- found on the World Edition. I wish I could say it was even funny.

Meanwhile, you don't find much about this- but you'll certainly hear about this.

Anyone for a new world order?

Actually you will find this about the UN's sexual problems in the BBC website, but I usually conclude a journalist wants to forget a story when they use a term like 'upheld' in their headline. The use of legalese in such a context usually heralds a call to move on because the journalist considers there's nothing worthwhile seeing (for you, the reader, that is).

For all the seriousness of the abuse of power involved, the abstraction of such terminology as 'while many of the girls could not identify the individual peacekeepers responsible, their reports of regular sexual contact were detailed and convincing.' tends to distance us, or invite a ribald comment. It's almost Clintonesque in its tendancy towards farcicality. Funny that.


 
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