Worth mentioning, just because it's so utterly horrible - I doubt Obama would let this pass ( Read more... )

The whole Tony Abbott thing is bad enough, what with the wretched meme of 'the most precious gift a woman can give is her virginity' thing coming back. The whole marriage-centric concept that women are good for precisely one event, and after that, the dude is compelled to hang around because he sure wouldn't stay for any other reason...pth. And ( Read more... )

No matter how much I read about the whole Sea Shepherd incident yesterday or who was at fault for the collision, two things remain the most sickening for me:

a) The Japanese ship in the video continued to use water canons on the Ady Gil after it has been stricken, in what appears to be an attempt to sweep crewmen off the deck. Apparently they ( Read more... )

From gwyd comes a fascinating article 'From Minnie to Mickey'.

The findings suggest that being male or female is not a permanently fixed state but something that has to be continually maintained in the adult body by the constant interaction of genes to keep the status quo - and the gender war - from slipping in favour of the opposite sex.
The best part ( Read more... )

This Iranian protest is cool and awesome:

"A new anti-government movement has sprung up among protesters in Iran -- and now among their supporters in other countries -- with men posting pictures of themselves on the Internet wearing women's head scarves as a political statement."
Apparently it's somewhat standard for the Iranian government to show ( Read more... )

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talking about food and security:

For a billion people worldwide, the daily effort to grow, buy, or sell food is the defining struggle of their lives. This matters to all of us ( Read more... )

This is probably going to be a bit confused because I'm fairly confused myself regarding all of this and the surrounding issues. They are hard! Indeed, if removing racism were easy, there's a chance we might be past it a bit more than we are. Anyway, the following is my own opinion, and I don't mean to offend anyone, save possibly for people who ( Read more... )

So karjack directed me to the conservapedia-sponsored conservative rewriting of the Christian bible. Which they will then claim is the unchanged word of God.

Their objections to any current bible in use now are (italics mine, rest direct):

As of 2009, there is no fully conservative translation of the Bible which satisfies the following ten guidelines ( Read more... )

I have become THAT person ( Read more... )

So an eleven year old kid wore a peace t-shirt. Admittedly, it is Malia Obama, so almost everything she does is scrutanised, but one would think a peace t-shirt were fairly innocuous. Unfortunately the right wing has decided this is an attack on freedom in America. They have said a number of frankly weird and rather racist things, but I would ( Read more... )