Via synecdochic:

* Gender will be a mandatory field at account creation, and it will be able to appear public on one's profile. (I can't tell if people with existing gender specification will be defaulted to "nobody can see it" or "everybody can see it".) (Subsequent changelog reading indicates that the public specificity has since been removed. ( Read more... )

WARNING: May be triggering to some

It's not every day that I check the news and come across an article about the rape of an eight year old girl by four boys not much older than her. What's so incredibly disturbing about this is the fact that her attackers range from ages 9 through 14. This is just something that horrifies me beyond any imaginable ( Read more... )

When someone posts what is intentionally a trolling post on chuunin, is the policy to really allow that post to stay up?

This post is completely inappropriate and is, I feel, extremely disrespectful to the entire community as a whole. I personally find it insulting that this stupid little idiot has gone and posted something like this with the intention ( Read more... )

senior_witch, I see what your last post was about now.

Apropos to this, a reminder of thisI think that's all that really needs to be said. I don't really understand why people feel like they really need to shut down conversations when it's not hurting anyone in the first place. Critiquing something is not the same as personally attacking someone, especially ( Read more... )

There are a lot of things that I need to write, and a lot of things I've been planning on doing but I just can't seem to work up the energy to do it. Mostly because I've spent so much creative energy building an entire new world, so I feel pretty drained at the moment ( Read more... )

Is it just me, or is Kakashi seriously fail in this recent Shippuden filler arc? I mean, what the fuck. He has Sharingan. That hitai-ate is not just for show. x_x; He doesn't wear it sideways cuz it makes him look cool.

And what is up with not showing him actually killing someone with Raikiri?

EDIT: OH GOD WHAT IS UP WITH ALL THIS CHEESINESS. ( Read more... )

i⋅con⋅o⋅clas⋅t, noun.

1.       a breaker or destroyer of images, esp. those set up for religious veneration.
2.       a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions, etc., as being based on error or superstition.

I have left Somarium.

I have done so because of one reason: I am a feminist, and I refuse to be punished for what ( Read more... )

For the past few days, I have been trying to think of how to write this post, but have been too ill to think coherently, much less write. But I think this needs to be said, otherwise the time for anything to be said will have passed ( Read more... )

Feminism can be iconoclastic, and all the more so when it calls itself Third World. But we have all let ourselves be infected with the leprosy of egotism, which remains the most difficult disease to cure, for what egotists, like lepers, inevitably undergo is a loss of feeling and are consequently apt to injure themselves without realizing it. I can ( Read more... )

Okay, what the fuck, really.

So, I discover ginmar's blog through autoschismatic, and interacted with her once or twice on a post she wrote about false rape accusations. After that, I chose to friend her because she seems to cover and explore a lot of issues that I am interested in as a feminist.

And then she makes a post that says, " Fuck you Feministe and ( Read more... )