Content note: contains facetious discussion  of rape, rape culture, victim blaming. Also racism. Also generally the sorts of things the Telegraph endorses these days.

I’m going to link to a blog post. Feel free to not click the link if you don’t want to. Free doubly free to stop reading the post at any time if you do click through. And be warned: ( Read more... )

Regarding that heavy thinking, I’ve been doing? Well part of it involves the content of this post, which I recommend you read. If you read nothing else today, read this:

Great, Now I Hate Everybody, by Harriet J.

A long but fantastic post about how to incorporate ideals into your day to day life.

There’s a larger social/political/cultural structure ( Read more... )

Last night, this showed up on my Twitter feed: DrEvanHarris: It is surprisingly nasty sometimes. RT @ naomimc Feminist bloggers have a community. Its a lot more shouty tho ;-) # talkfest
I've since been informed that there was a conversaion with @ naomimc (whom I do not follow, but her tweets are unprotected and I can't see it) in which that R/T comes ( Read more... )

When I woke up at 2.30 this morning with a rush of a panic attack, layered over it were two emotions: annoyance because high stress and panic attacks make it hard to sleep at 2.30 in the morning in a heatwave with a cat on my bed where my knees should be, and relief, because I can use the adrenalin.

If I use it, of course ( Read more... )

Uh, on Friday I had better things to post about. Maybe this is better for Monday anyway, idk. Also, these links have been kind of random.



Feminism and other Animals.

This ‘women in tech’ debate is actually two separate debates, and should be treated as such Caroline McCarthy breaks it down twicewise:
1) why aren't more women learning science and ( Read more... )

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This morning in my LiveJournal inbox was the following private message from w6chamap

Hi
I saw your posts on Feministe - may i talk with you?
Of course, the first thing I did was check the journal - empty and a few months old - info - empty and icons - empty except for a webcam pic of what appears to be a young woman with long hair. This raised my ( Read more... )

THIRTY DAYS OF MEME: 22 A Website

There are no female politicians.
There are no female scientists.
There are no women creating comics.
There are no women writing, directing or producing movies or TV shows
There are no women creating science fiction/fantasy/horror genre stories of your choice.

There sure as hell aren't any women interested in or ( Read more... )

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  Raising boys? Help yourself to some gender stereotypes
  
  Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew.
  
  (tags: feminism books)
  

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  Letters to Our Daughters Project
  
  A reminder that this project exists, and is amazing.
  
  (tags: feminism science)
  
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  Boys Talk About How Girls Should Talk About Science...
  
  Not just science either. Men like to tell women how to engage in feminism discussion more than they like to engage ( Read more... )