So, something that has been making its rounds around the parts of the Internet I hang out in, and even landed in my Inbox at work, is Yet Another Article about how women's lack of confidence holds them back from achieving everything they're capable of achieving in life, and how women need to be more confident, or at least act more confident ( Read more... )

[Warning: domestic violence]

I'm angry. Really angry.

This wasn't what I thought I was going to write about, and I wish I wasn't writing it.

But here it is:

A young woman who is very dear to me just walked out on her boyfriend of several years, with their baby in tow.

And, as is so often the case when this sort of thing happens, and has been ( Read more... )

( warning for sexual assault, for child abuse, and for NSFW language generally )

Once upon another place and time, there was a little girl who was a fairy princess. And because this was another place and time, there were a lot of other little girls who were fairy princesses too. This little girl wasn't any old fairy princess, she was a superhero fairy princess, with a superhero fairy wizard king Dad and a superhero good witch ( Read more... )

[STRONG WARNING for the link: Doctors doing things to little girls in the name of medical/scientific research that would obviously be sexual abuse in any other context, and in my opinion ought to be considered such despite alleged "medical purpose" to the acts.

There are some things that should NOT be done in the name of medical science. Or at ( Read more... )

( trigger warning. duh. that said, I hope you do read, because it's important to me. )

( The Minnesota Semi-Starvation Study gives the phrase 'Eat to live, don't live to eat!' entirely new meaning. May be triggering for people with Food Issues - but really, isn't that most of us? )

OK, so I know there is at least one person reading this who is going to disagree with me quite strongly, but anyway, here goes:

After having been repeatedly subjected to Monsters vs. Aliens by Alex, I can safely say that I am convinced there is NOTHING "feminist" or "empowering" about this movie. I'd much rather Alex (or anyone else) follow the ( Read more... )

I am a woman, and my smile is my own.Pretty radical concept when you think about it, isn't it ( Read more... )

BACARDI, YOU FAIL!I hope I'm not the Ugly Girlfriend for any of y'all. *sigh* It's all rather depressing to realize that these pin-ups of supposed ugliness are STILL considerably smaller than I am ( Read more... )