Originally posted by twbasketcase at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment

Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media.

Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood ( Read more... )

I can say without any fear of overstatement that I hate one of my classmates.

It is a simple fact, nothing more.

As part of a class exercise on interpretation and other such things, we had to listen to Eminem's '97 Bonnie and Clyde. If you're unfamiliar with the song, please read the lyrics before you go on ( Read more... )

I have decided to join and participate in 100_women.

According to their userinfo, the goal is to write about as many different canonical female characters as you can! If you're only comfortable writing about one or two female characters, that's okay, too. I am SO IN ( Read more... )

bookshop makes a post about something that has been bothering me about fandom in general for a very long time:

Fandom is not woman-positive. Fandom needs all the urging it can get just to talk about female characters, let alone talk about them nicely. Fandom prioritizes men above everything. Fandom prioritizes male-based fantasies, and fandom ( Read more... )

So.

One of the current trending topics on Twitter is #itaintrape.

Do I even need to say what is wrong with this?

karnythia is working making #ARapistJustifyingYourCrimes a trending topic.  Anyone care to help?

You know what pisses me off the most about the anti-abortion crowd?

They don't raise a goddamn finger to help the women who follow their party line and "choose life".

They don't give a shit about the "poor, helpless babies" after they're born, only while they're in utero.

They don't support life, they support punishing women for having sex.

I don't ( Read more... )

What the shit is this?

No, seriously.  What the shit is this?

There is so much wrong with this I can't even BEGIN to--

Like that's going to stop me.

( Problems with 'My New Pink Button' )

First and foremost -- I will NOT be available on Monday the 21st at all.  And I won't be available until after one PM on Tuesday the 22nd.  This is because I'm going on a choir retreat to the Sierras, and like HELL I'm bringing my laptop along.  Not like I'd have internet anyway.  I may or may not be available Friday the 25th through Sunday the ( Read more... )

I kind of like the timing on this, purely for the... is irony the word I want here?

Anyway.

Shortly before I wandered off to class, I was talking to the guy next to me, Simon. Simon found out that I'm going to be twenty-four in ten days. His reaction is probably one of the most infuriating, insulting things I have ever been told in my life.

Ladies ( Read more... )

On August 5th, 2009, a man named George Sodini walked into a gym during a dance-aerobics class and opened fire.

Three women died; nine more were injured, including the instructor.

Why commit such a crime?

Because, claimed Sodini, because, claims the media, women would not go out with him.

And that phrase right there is what is wrong with so much these ( Read more... )