I went to bed last night thinking about all of this, and woke up wanting to add to my post yesterday.

I am a very aware and proactive person when it comes to my personal safety.  I've studied a martial art for going on 16 years.  I have a CWP, and I almost always have a weapon on my person, though it is more often my Benchmade than a gun.  I am ( Read more... )

Apparently, there has been another Con-related...thing.  (I say another, because of the Boob Incident two years ago.   My post on that here.)  I came late to the explosion across LJ this time, but from what I've been able to piece together, it actually has to do with an incident that happened two years ago at a Con (NOT the aforementioned Boob ( Read more... )

Let me start this by saying, I LOVE the Outlander books.  So much, that reading DG's recent post about the moral evils of fanfiction, kind of hurt.  Now, to be fair, the impetus for her post was a young woman auctioning off a to-be-written fic specifically involving James Fraser (of Gabaldon's series) with proceeds from the auction to go to help ( Read more... )

Are you kidding me?

I'm doing something extremely rare, and breaking my politics free zone with this.

So, President Obama gets to stand with people like Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa? Giving this award to our President for things he hasn't done yet, is flat out ridiculous. I'm sorry if you don't agree. It doesn't matter if he's the best ( Read more... )

I thought about my post on Roman Polanski a lot last night. This morning, I updated it to include a little more detail on my own personal history. If I'm going to come out and talk about this, I need to be as open and frank as possible ( Read more... )

Wired talks about the strong women of Battlestar Galactica, and gender equality in SF.

"Battlestar Galactica speaks to a broadening of women's roles in sci-fi that we began to see in the '90s with shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly, which introduced stronger female characters." ~ Professor Sue Brennan of Ohio State, quoted in the ( Read more... )

There is an interesting discussion going on at Elizabeth Bear's journal today that started a couple of days ago, with another post, to which this was a reaction, but really this topic has been circulating the blogosphere for some time before that, even. ( This post by deepad is also extremely relevant ( Read more... )

*waves hello to all the new people*

I think yesterday set some sort of record for number of people to friend me in one day! I feel I should warn you all that most of my posts will not be like yesterday's. Mostly I post about writing, and jewelry, and fannish things. I tend to avoid politics and things of that nature. But you're welcome to stay ( Read more... )

No? Well, it is. Normally, I would let something like this go by without too much more than a lifted eyebrow, and commenting on the f-list to those who posted about it. But given yesterday's post about rape, and the fact that this month we're supposed to be spreading awareness of things that relate to sexual assault, I could not let this pass ( Read more... )

jimhines talks about rape, specifically from a man's perspective ( Read more... )