An open letter to American feminists on the death of Margaret Thatcher[A]s one of our members put it, ‘Holding Thatcher up as a feminist icon is like kicking intersectionality in the stomach.’
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Jezebel, which featured a bunch of blatantly racist post-election tweets the other day, has contacted the schools and potential colleges of the teenagers and very young adults who made such tweets.We contacted their school's administrators with the hope that, if their educators were made aware of their students' ignorance, perhaps they could teach ( Read more... )

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This smug jerkwad, Michael Grunwald, "senior national correspondent" at Time magazine, telling Nice Polite Republicans that both the right and the left have good points. The left has good points about how so many of us depend on government, but the right has good points about how government does too much... because they dump sand near his home in ( Read more... )

So sayeth Daniel Fincke, overrated, tedious, verbose, pinched-mouthed, intellectually masturbatory douchenozzle philosopher on FreeThoughtBlogs, in the comments to this post of his, informing his commenters that insults are just as bad as gendered or racial slurs.

When a trans woman (Natalie Reed) angrily tells him, in several places, that this is ( Read more... )

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Dear condescending, patronizing mansplainers all over the "progressive" internet who declaim regularly about what women "need to" do in order to "earn" our human rights:

Fuck you.

First of all, women are fighting for our rights. How much fucking attention do you pay to feminist activism? Yeah, I thought so ( Read more... )

This post linking to a Vice magazine story is making the rounds on Tumblr."My background is in fine art, and I worked as a mass market designer for a while, so I was always amused and excited by the branding. I also wanted to keep tabs on the quality of the product, especially if something was particularly good, bad, or just dangerous, so the site ( Read more... )

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Unlocked.

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Via PZ Myers: S/F author David Brin responds to the latest pus-streaked chunk of phlegm coughed up by Frank Miller: that Occupy Wall Street protestors are filthy anti-American criminals. (If you want to give Miller traffic, you can find his essay via either link. I'm not giving him hits ( Read more... )