jasmineskie points out, here, a disturbing trend in LJ vGifts. Read her post, it's much more articulate than I can be, then go sign the petition that metamaura wrote in no_nasty_vgiftsI've written in the past about depression, some rather wandering semi-meta posts. I'll go find the links and link them here- but it's part and parcel of this, of asking something we're a part of to ( Read more... )

From lotesseflower's journal, a link to I Blame the Patriarchy about the seemingly unending problem of the limited personhood of women. I can say that the debate's changed a bit over the fifty years I've been aware of it- no way in hell would one of my mother's educated university friends be able to use the phrase "slave-drudge " in relation to the constructed ( Read more... )