( Trigger warning for Hugo Schwyzer )

Amidst the controversy surrounding the news that Orson Scott Card is going to write for DC and there is finally some progress being made on the long-planned Ender's Game movie, a very important fact keeps getting lost. That is the fact that Orson Scott Card wants homosexuality to be criminalized. He does not merely oppose gay marriage or merely ( Read more... )

I need to make cards for Wanky "Hard" SF Writer Bingo. These are the spaces I have so far:

Turing Test that Alan Turing wouldn't have passed- Proving an entity's sapience and personhood involves demonstrating that the entity has a prurient interest in young, female humans. In many cases of this, the entity in question does not even have an ( Read more... )

Like a fool, I tried to follow discussions on tumblr instead of just looking at nice pictures and keeping that as my fluffy fan art and fuzzy animals happy space. I tried to follow non-fandom feminist discussion on tumblr. Ugh! Everything people say about "gender/sexual identity" and "social justice warrior" tumblr is true. EVERYTHING. Tumblr ( Read more... )

While I was busy last week, something terrilarious happened on the internet. ( Warning: Hugo Schwyzer and Jezebel )

Who made the decision to turn Jezebel into a platform for sexually predatory men?

( cut for Jezebel, Reddit, and an avalanche of rape and rape apology )

( Warnings for sexual abuse, attempted murder, religious issues, Hugo Schwyzer, and Jezebel )

( Cut for references to religious stuff and racism )

Apparently, women are finally fleeing the Republican party in droves after waking up to the fact that it is controlled by and beholden to people who hate them to an extreme that recently-ex-Republican women had never before imagined. All I can say is, good-- or rather, better but still not good enough.

( Cut for getting personal, misogyny, a few of the more disturbing ways mammalian reproduction can go wrong. )

1. Spend two days writing a worldbuilding-heavy fic and planning out the complicated magic/marriage/kinship system for a secondary world that I started constructing after going meta about annoying trends in fanfic and profic ( Read more... )