Alternate title: My friends are fucked up.

Soooo,
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So, yesterday, I read this tumblr post about feminism in YA lit (h/t to
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It's not perfect, not by a longshot. But it's something that is not eye-searingly painful:

LJ rolled out their new sitewide comments page in the middle of the night last night. This is the page you see if you have custom comment pages turned off -- like almost every RPer on LJ -- or if you're not logged in at all ( Read more... )

I'm having a pretty lousy day. Mostly I just feel like crap. Last night, I stayed up all night and was working on my thesis and then sort of had a breakdown in the middle of it, trying to figure out why I should even bother to finish the stupid thing because no one is going to want to hire someone who needs to take a day off every 5 weeks so she ( Read more... )

An article describing the gang-rape of an 11 year old girl.

Some responses.

If you think that the way the article was framed was somehow NOT McKinley's fault, please read this. Hat tip to lyricaldiscord Alternately, you can read this article which deals with the same case.

And another entry explaining why victim-blaming = bullshit. Thanks to mindways for permission ( Read more... )

( Until then, just skip it while I simmer here in INCOHERENT RAGE. )

So, the problem with not posting right away after the New Year? You start to feel like your first HAS to be something cool and important and witty and the longer you wait, the higher the bar gets ( Read more... )

*Just a warning to all of my lovely readers out there. If I hear you whining about how hard it is being white, I will have to throttle down my desire to punch you repeatedly in the face. Alternately, I will just throttle you. Ditto with how tough straight people have it, how it isn't fair that all the good parking spaces have handicapped markers, ( Read more... )

The term vajayjay makes no sense to me ( Read more... )

First of all, there's the outcry against the "Free Polanski" movement by these crazy people who think that a bunch of great movies and hardships like not being able to pick up his Oscar in person don't actually mitigate the fact HE DRUGGED AND RAPED A THIRTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL ( Read more... )