Scrolling through tumblr is, like bird, kitten, puppy dog!, feminist screed, kitty cat, moose, social justice warrioring, feminist screed ( Read more... )

in george soper’s 1907 account of tracing a small but perplexing typhoid outbreak back to one person, a cook named mary mallon (later dubbed “typhoid mary” by the press), he pauses to note that she was blond, blue-eyed and “had a good figure, and might have been called athletic had she not been a little too heavy ( Read more... )

From tumblr:
Flower causes cat to malfunction
Itty bitty kitties napping
One day things will get better; until then...
My reaction when someone asks me what I'm doing with my life
Copperbadge explains the fuss over Ant Man (does not involve cats)
edited to add:
The Big Gay Hate Machine (which is not at all what it sounds like, except hysterically ( Read more... )

wehatefeminism ( Read more... )

Tim Hunt piece on The Mary Sue.

Sorry, Sir Tim Hunt is a pig ignorant moron. Who, even as a joke, starts any anecdote with "my problem with girls is..." ? I mean, anywhere? Let alone in a room full of women, many if not most of whom are members of the press?

Blergh

(edited to correct name)

Do I get geek cred or feminist cred?

The Boycott Mad Max article

Laci Green's (by way of her MTV Braless youtube channel) discussion of whether the movie is "feminist propaganda."

I'm justalurkr in the youtube comments.

What is sea lioning?

...consisted of visualizing the "Old Boy" comfort zone.( Cut for length )

I have, like, four tabs open as a result of Googling "white feminism," so research is in progress, but I'm wondering if anyone on my flist can explain in small words and short sentences when white (sometimes "liberal" is thrown in) feminists became problematic ( Read more... )

So, some kind soul on tumblr linked the world to this very serious video about street harassment, which has one of the best ending lines I've heard in awhile.

After that, I riffled through Marina's other videos, one of which concerned Myths About Feminism.

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Geezer response: U R NOT TAKN FEMINISM SRSLY ENUF, WPRSNAP, except a geezer wouldn't use ( Read more... )

Australian Newspaper Criticized For Sexist Obituary Of Famed Author Colleen McCullough

Or maybe some jackass family member submitted it? Or the author herself wrote it in a tongue-in-cheek moment before her death?

Edited to add: So, I went to the obituary itself to see if the second paragraph mentioned that she was a well-loved author. Not so much ( Read more... )