My mother just called me at random to ask if I knew who Patricia Hill Collins is.

I think she's testing my feminist cred or something.

So, the episode is called "99 Problems", and people are shocked-- SIMPLY SHOCKED-- that it has sexist slurs and over-the-top misogyny.

Bwuh?

In other news, I saw that thing about the Hetalia cosplayers from last week, and why is the world made of stupid people?

Interesting thought for the day after St Patrick's Day.

There's a comment to this Sociological Images post that states:
There’s a fair amount of bemusement when Americans tell us that they’re Irish when they mean that they’re 5 generations down from an Irish ancestor. Added to that, the way that so many people (not just Americans) find an Irish ( Read more... )

A number of people pointed me towards this spnroundtable post about how "write Americans". From one standpoint I understand it in the same way I sometimes read "how to write British people" properly when I'm in a British-based fandom. On the other hand, I also agree with delux_vixen's post here about the fact that Supernatural's America isn't actual "America" in the ( Read more... )

Can we declare a ban on all uses of the phrases "the last oppressed minority" and "the last minority it's okay to [insert act of oppression here ( Read more... )

This post at one point made a very cogent statement about white privilege also meaning you can just say "I have nothing useful to offer" and retire from the fray.

So I just want to say something. All I can say, because I honestly don't have anything particularly useful right now is that I am sorry that fen of color, including but not limited to ( Read more... )

Michael Copon is the leading actor in the running to take over the part of Jacob Black in the next Twilight movies.

On one hand, he's cute and more butch than Taylor could ever hope to be. On the other hand, he's still not Native American. :/ (What's wrong with this guy, I ask you ( Read more... )

On putting holds for people on stacks of books, I came across a book titled:

The Pleasures of Computer Gaming (Edited by Melanie Swalwell and Jason Wilson)

The first article in it is: "Little Jesuses and *@#?-off Robots: On Cybernetics, Aesthetics and Not Being Very Good at Lego Star WarsHeh ( Read more... )

Calling a Filipino character a "baboon" and telling him he should go "swing in trees and leave the real humans to have a conversation." Does this strike anyone else as somewhat racist ( Read more... )

This is just raw data. I'm surveying the seasons just so that I have a reference to come back to as to who was on what season. If you know I've missed something, or have a theory to expound, go right ahead ( Read more... )