Userinfo change madness

I really can't understand the fuss as yet. A header and 2 columns instead of one big clunky column, doesn't seem so radical to me, quite a bit better organized in fact. Maybe a cultural thing, people seem to be objecting more to the perceived motivations of LJ rather than the change itself, and it does look more slick and less free/volunteer/fringey. Probably, I've missed the bit where they're changing it to better allow the DOJ to datamine it, and I'm going to look really foolish and uninformed.

I'm just happy that LJ has turned their attention to the thingy that lets me change my journal title, now that they're done making most of their peeps mad. Wish they'd changed their links saying 'Click here to change your journal title' or left it there but greyed out. Anything, but the madddening void! But I can't complain (hah! already did) since I do get this for free.

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I know I’m so alone here, but I went through this phase where I was kind of cranky with the writers about Spuffy in S6.  One of many such phases really.  The theme of this particular phase was: Why the hell shouldn’t Buffy have Spike for a sex toy if she’s so inclined?

So he’s a bad (bad, very bad) boy.  Of all the women in the world, Buffy would be The One who can have sex with anyone she wants without worrying about becoming a victim.  I’ve never heard anyone express the notion that a guy should avoid bad girls because they might get raped or because it could all end with their bleached bones ruining some poor hunter’s afternoon.  That ME contrived (and I do mean contrived) to make Buffy a victim anyway just tanned my hide that much more.

Spike cannot get her pregnant, he cannot give her any disease.  He is piss-poor boyfriend material for Buffy, but is it, or is it not, OK for her to have sex with someone she’s attracted to just because it feels really good?  Well, maybe it’s not OK in this case.  I mean, there’s the whole he’s in love with her thing, and the stalking, and the pointy teeth and the accompanying bloodlust.  So I haven’t a leg to stand on really.  *shrug*  But I was cranky just the same.