I wanted to say something worth saying about the quite frankly horrifying response to Roman Polanski's arrest, because there isn't enough being said, there could never be enough said. But every time I try, I just devolve into incandescent rage and can't manage anything like coherence ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I wish I could resign from the human race. But remember, kids, institutional misogyny, and devastating effects it has on women and men both, is all in your head.

Today's moment of feminist rage is courtesy of Cracked: Six Dream Jobs That Actually Suck.

#3 is on the list is "Stay-at-home dad," and the article goes on and on about what difficult, unfulfilling work it is as if these descriptors don't apply when women are doing the work, then links an incredibly sexist Daily Mail article that uses a few ( Read more... )

... Why in the hell did I just get about 75 comment notifications all at once? Fucking LJ. Now I have all these things I want to answer that are days or even weeks old.

Shakesville has a really great post, The MRA Mirror, which I highly recommend with this caveat: Reading all the links will probably make you want to resign from the human race ( Read more... )

( Fannish Misogyny Bingo )

I thought Obama's acceptance speech was amazing, and while I didn't agree with everything he said (and while I remain hugely disappointed with his choice of Biden, who, beyond being the consummate Beltway insider who believes in nothing more strongly than politics as usual, is impressed that Obama is "clean" and embarrassed by his wife's education ( Read more... )

Yeah, women's bodies aren't actually public domain, dickhead ( Read more... )

In today's episode of Male Privilege Theatre...

And while we're on the subject, won't someone PLEASE think of the poor boys who just wanted to "playfully" attack and demean women and then were *gasp* cruelly forced to apologize for it? What IS the world coming too.

In related news, I hate everyone.

Remember huntress69, AKA creepy Cassie-bashing chick? This is apparently a theme with her. And hey, she's even promising to write fic to go with it!

The comments actually manage to be even worse than the caption: ( Cut for graphic, triggery shit about murdering women )

I made a flocked post about this yesterday, when I was still at the spitting-with-rage point, but I've calmed down and I still think this is important enough to say publicly, so ( Read more... )