Hi thar blog post: http://goldfishdontbounce.wordpress.com/2014/01/31/stupid-things-politicians-say-which-is-kind-of-everything-so-well-have-to-narrow-it-down/

New blog post (already!) in response to the whole Steubenville rapist being released yesterday: http://goldfishdontbounce.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/sympathy-for-the-devil/Read more... )

So there's been a lot of scuttlebutt lately around a really awful Kickstarter product. Basic gist--it was a book proposed by a pick up artist dude from reddit and was a collection of his posts on how to get women. Unfortunately, a lot of the advice was pretty much how to sexually assault and harass women.

Highlights include:

-Decide that you' ( Read more... )

Got into a bit of an argument last night with someone over the rape culture post I made yesterday. He said that the way I wrote it painted myself as a victim. That explaining how I was affected by what happened and how I reacted to it somehow continues a victim mindset and that, as long as any victim entertains that mindset, the culture would ( Read more... )

When I was in middle school there was a boy who I shared a couple of classes with. I can't remember his name, so I'll call him Joe. Joe was popular in a class clown kind of way, though he had a bit of a bullying streak. He was overweight and kind of odd looking so a lot of it probably came from overcompensating and wanting to keep himself out of ( Read more... )