About
The Brunettes Blog was originally conceived as a collaborative blogging effort by two siblings. We have lots of things in common: the surname and hair color from which the blog’s title derives, a childhood that was strongly religious and valued sexual abstinence until marriage, and an adulthood that rejected both of these values. We are feminist, humanist, nerdy, and creative. We also have many differences, the most notable of which is that only one of us has contributed substantially to this blog. Oh well.
Other contributions are welcome: if you have an article that relates to one of the subject areas of this blog (atheism/religion, gender/sexuality, and pop culture, especially as it relates to either of the above topics), please send it along. If we like you enough, we may even let you be a regular contributor.
Ahhhhh! Have you heard about this? My knee-jerk reaction is that it’s her 1st Amendment right to write whatever she wants, and it’s not like she was making her work public to the students! The students would have never known had a parent not outed her!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1382075/Parents-shock-teacher-Judy-Buranich-turns-erotica-author-Judy-Mays.html
I would love to know what you and/or Shaun think about this! As a degreed English major (focus in Creative Writing), this makes me absolutely mental!
Yes! I think it’s pretty flippin’ ridiculous. Her private life is her private life… as long as what she’s doing is legal (check) and harms no one (check) what she does in her spare time is nobody’s business. If she wrote pulp Westerns instead of erotica, no one would give a crap… but teachers aren’t allowed to be interested in sex in their private lives, because they’re moral guardians and being interested in sex is a sign of moral decay. (Nobody’s actually arguing that, but that’s the logic behind the furore.)
Exactly. I’d love to pose this argument to the parents: How exactly did your darling little angel-babies come into existence?
Ginny, I saw you’re Lirelyn on twitter. Were you also Lirelyn on sluggy.net? If so (and perhaps if not), I posted something you might be interested in in General Discussion… a little cryptography.
Yes I was! I was actually thinking about you quite recently, because I was reading the biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay, and I remembered one of the cryptography puzzles you sent me was a sonnet of hers. I’ll go check out the forum!
Hello Ginny,
My name is Jack.
I’m the author of a popular guide called “Jack’s Blowjob Lessons” ( you can Google it ), I ran into your blog and I believe that your readers might find my guide valuable.
Please tell me if it is possible to write a guest article on your blog and/or do you write book reviews? If yes, I can send you a copy.
Thanks in advance,
Jack