Russian coverage of foreign cultural/social news is so depressing, and mostly directed at ridiculing human rights movement, tolerance, LGBT acceptance etc. I never trust anything Russian mass media says and try to find English-language sources, but ( Read more... )

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Fuckity fuck fuck. A major Russian publisher publishing a SF anthology with some of the major Russian SF writers... on the theme of 'dystopia set in the world of total political correctness'. Editorial blurb talking about 'the world where the aggressive incoming cultures and ideologies stomped all over the friendly host culture' and 'traditional ( Read more... )

So, our municipal council did approve that Church-inspired amendment about prohibition of LGBT propaganda. ... You know, I am proud that my representative voted against it. That's what elections are for, aren't they ( Read more... )

Sometimes I feel like our country is a distorted mirror of everything that goes in the rest of the world. From a leading candidate in the elections who says that elections are dirty and unpleasant and he's not going to campaign because he has work to do, to professional psychologists who don't know the difference between sex and gender ( Read more... )

And now they are thinking of a Federal-level law for this stupidity of ours. And I'm not even surprised, but I keep being surprised by homophobia on the fandom level (from an anon meme type thingy: "I am annoyed at people rallying against this law. Come on, people, do you really think that propaganda of homosexuality is normal ( Read more... )

So our city now has a new local law, prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality and transgenderism among thos under age. No, they're not clarifying what they mean by promotion, they just set up fines for that. And some local lawgivers are worried that it's not enough, that everyone knows rainbow is an international LGBT ( Read more... )