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In which I rant about Breast Cancer awareness.

More specifically, bullshit like the "save the boobies" bracelets and MLS turning their twitter avatar pink for a month.

If you let me play...

Does anyone remember those Nike ads from the 1990's?  The "If You Let Me Play" ads?  I have to admit, I still get chills and all teary eyed when I watch them.  ( Read more... )

Yes, I know.  It's been a while, yes?  We'll see how on top of this series I manage to be this time.

Chapter 2 - Bad Faith

Back when I worked at the bookstore, one of my tasks - one of the tasks of every employee - was to greet every patron.  Since, depending on how busy we are, this could meant that an individual customer might be greeted several ( Read more... )

Before I start to rant, I would like to make it clear that I was incredibly impressed with how Readercon ultimately handled the well-known harassment incident that happened recently.  The final apology from the ConCom, in particular, was excellent and should be held up as an example to all of how to do it right.  I have a lot of respect and awe for ( Read more... )

I stayed up last night writing a take-down of this shitty article - just because it pissed me off that much.  Perhaps, if enough people want to read it, I will post it later.

What I want to do today though is share a story that it brought to mind - because it’s a story that doesn’t often get told.

You see, my friends, I was a once a young, geeky, ( Read more... )

So, there is a whole mess of messiness going down lately among some of the atheist/skeptic blogs I read.  It's generally the same sexist messiness that has been going on for...well, for ages, but in terms of being publicly discussed...for the last year or so.  Which I bring up here and now simply because rather than just the typical infighting and ( Read more... )

(I feel like I mentally start out half my posts with "I should be asleep, but I HAD TO SHARE THIS THOUGHT WITH YOU."  If only you knew how true that was this time around.)

Part 1.

This is the list of science fiction books that Flavorwire suggests for girls.  Note the lack of of modern female writers, the dearth of female protagonists, and the way ( Read more... )

I just posted the following to my class discussion board.  We will see if everyone - my prof included - thinks I am a crazy feminazi or not.

“What Does 'Will Boys be Boys' Really Mean” attempts to interrogate sexist attitudes towards boys, sex, and responsibility.  Disappointingly, the article fails to question the underlying assumption that sexism ( Read more... )

This post started out several hours ago as a list of complaints.  Or, rather, a recounting of all the shitty ways that patrons were shits to me yesterday.

Everyone has their off days though, and it’s not exactly the patrons’ fault that they all decided that they were going to be shitty to me on the same day.

There were, however, two patrons in ( Read more... )

I am really not liking my Teen Materials Professor.

It is perhaps too soon to make such judgements, as we are only two weeks into the semester and she has been laid up with the same nasty whatever-it-is that I had -er, have.  However, I just skimmed one of our readings for this unit and, well, let's just say it is full of more fail than this lovely ( Read more... )