get on your knees, hands up.

Jun 04, 2010 12:05

I had my first exam yesterday. It was biology and it didn't go as bad as I thought it would. The essay question was on enzymes so it was a frigging gift. Mind, it was on what affected rates of reaction with graphs and you then had to name the independent variable so if you didn't know what each would look like on a graph you were pretty screwed but ( Read more... )

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bewarethespork June 6 2010, 08:01:23 UTC
I was quite mad about Snarry back in the day, much to my embarrassment. I was a Sirius/Remus fan, too, and it always made me a little ill how some people would slam basically every single female those two knew if there was even the tiniest chance that they'd get in the way of their magical OTP.

I think I'm a louder feminist on the Internet than in real life because I can take a deep breath before I respond on the Internet

I know exactly what you mean! I think I'm the same way.

I've basically decided that even if I don't call myself a feminist, if I support the ideas behind it then I should share them with people, and I think I'm in a good place to do it because I don't share that rage. I can sit down with people and go, "Yeah, look, I know all the anger can be hard to work through, but if you put that aside, there are actually all these ideas that I think we can all agree are pretty cool." I figure that if that's something I can do because of my lack of personal baggage or whatever, then I should do it, even if I don't choose to call it feminism.

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