If I mention Tucson, Aurora, or Sandy Hook, everyone immediately (or relatively so) identifies them as the site of a violent shooting that rocked America. So why does nobody mention Milwaukee ( Read more... )

The other day, I read about a new LJ community specifically for abused women. In the group's formation blurb, they said "we're restricting this comm to women only, because abused women need a place to talk safe from men and their men-opinions ( Read more... )

(this has been shamelessly copied from eruvande's facebook page ( Read more... )

Altaz: Indeed ( Read more... )

It all boils down to a simple fact and qualifier: Marx was right, but only from certain perspectives ( Read more... )

I've finally figured out why the concept of "privilege," at least as it's commonly applied, irks me so much ( Read more... )

I found a questionable book. May I ban it?How appropriate that this was posted in the middle of the American Library Association's Banned Books Week ( Read more... )

When cataloging an item for a library, you're not just creating a description of its physical and intellectual contents, you're also establishing access points for a library patron to find that item. A large chapter of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR2 -- we're on the second edition) is dedicated to selecting the access points for any ( Read more... )

from elsewhere in my flist, lepusdomesticus rambles rantingly:

I am tired of victim-focus. Like really, really tired. I don't want to read about how 1 in 4 college women has been raped, or 1 in 3 indigenous women. I want to know what percentage of the population are rapists. Then I can plan better. I am not a potential victim. I am a person, minding my own ( Read more... )

the dictionary has been banned from school. No, this isn't from the Onion, this is an actual California school district that has decided to remove the Merriam-Webster collegiate dictionary from its elementary schools because a parent complained that it contained an entry for oral sex. At the risk of being repetitive, this still isn't from the ( Read more... )