Mainly links for my benefit, in case I have to point other people to it.

The quote about patriarchy that is floating around Facebook etc unattributed is due to Chally Kacelnik, and she'd prefer to be acknowledged as the author.

There's an attributed version of the quote here.

The original post the quote comes from is here, at her Zero at the ( Read more... )

This is mostly a test post of a link that's causing trouble for me over at Hoyden about Townhttp://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/roller/jmcp/entry/marriage_equality_the_scurrilous_backlashRead more... )

So, I'm cruising along, reading Geek Feminism's latest linkspam.

And I notice before I start reading any of the links that there are some moderately critical comments about one of the links, but I click through and read it anyway, because the comments don't make it sound that bad. And I dunno if "triggered" is the right word, but I've not ( Read more... )

I've not said anything so far about the Evelyn Evelyn affair, because lots of other people have spoken up more eloquently than I could about the ableism, exploitation of child abuse sensationalism, and general thoughtlessness of the project. Also, I've not been sexually abused, let alone involved in child pornography, and I don't identify as ( Read more... )

So, what's become increasingly clear to me in the discussion of Star Trek and my reaction to it ( also good comments in the LJ cross-post is that there are a lot of women out there who not only have issues around whether anyone will ever find them personally attractive, because they are intelligent and creative and more interested in that than ( Read more... )

I still have too many posts and emails to write and the mammothfail thread to keep up with (I think I've given up on the latter). But I went to see Star Trek last night, and I've finally figured out in full proper words what I personally found skeevy about it, so I'm going to share it ( Read more... )

I just set up a community on dreamwidth,
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So, beth47 made me a new icon.

And then David Friedman made sure I wouldn't need a gratuitous new icon post to show it off.

David Friedman wrote:
> In article ,
> Aqua wrote ( Read more... )

I have two epic fails in sexism to "share". Firstly, David Friedman on rec.arts.sf.composition proves definitively just how wrong one can go with rigorous reasoning based on shaky premises. The historians who sometimes read here will be particularly entertained.

David Friedman wrote:
> In article <1igd968.13z28uo1u5zfsgN%zeborah@gmail.com ( Read more... )

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