Oh wow, I haven't updated this in quite a while. So, apologies to anyone that enjoyed my 2 page rant on Doctor Who, but here's the new intro ( Read more... )

So it is Election Night here in the US and I always find it kind of overwhelming nerve wracking because I still haven't gotten over the trauma 12 years ago of going to bed after one person won the presidency and waking up to find that that the president had changed overnight ( Read more... )

So my mom came to this country when she was a teenager. She married (what I consider) young, and had kids young too. When I go to grade school and we were learning about politics and all that ("American Government"), I asked my mom how she decided who to vote for. I don't remember if this was something for class, or just something I decided to ask ( Read more... )

""Rape is rape. And the idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we are talking about doesn't make sense to the American people and certainly doesn't make sense to me. So what I think these comments do underscore is why we shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care ( Read more... )

Discussion: The Issue of Maria Hill's Ethnicity - Has She been Whitewashed?

Fuck you Marvel, fuck you. I'm still side eyeing you for attempting to make Nico in the Runaways movie white, (which was fixed after people made a stink about it) but I guess it's too late to call you on this. I admit I'm not really into comic book fandom much anymore, but ( Read more... )

So I just checked my LJ flist, and it looks like the feminist-fandom comm is relaunching and looking for contributers and suggestions for how to make the comm as useful as possible ( Read more... )

So, after having read it years ago, and having gone to see a play based on it last week, I finally finished rereading Venus in Furs yesterday (yay Project Gutenberg!). It was a lot of what I expected and I lot of what I didn't.

( Thoughts on the book- warning for non-explicit mentions of bdsm, which is the theme of the book )

Seriously, what the fuck?

Pretty much every student quoted in the article makes me weep for the future of my country. I hope I never reached that level of idiocy when I was at college.

From a post by gabrielleabelle at this entry.

"Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses personhood status ( Read more... )

So I have a friend that is not at all into fandom, though she knows I am. Recently, she's made an effort to watch Doctor Who, as another one of our mutual friends likes it, and she wants to understand our interest ( Read more... )