Dear The World ( Read more... )

Avoiding going in to work, even though I have to. Have already put in a request to terminate the contract. Will see how that pans out ( Read more... )

Thought experiment ( Read more... )

Am slightly obssessed with this topic in the last few days in the wake of John Scalzi's not-gonna-say-"privilege" post about privilege. (This included two of my own followups on my quasi-legit blogNeed to actually do paycheck work today, but thought I'd throw this out as a mental exericse on the topic ( Read more... )

Ran into some essentialist bullshit today (of the "women warriors are 'mannish' and therefore gross" variety ( Read more... )

A couple of hipster chicks are apparently upset at a meme calling them out as geek poseurs, and are crying sexism (because having your geek cred questioned is just like rape.) Hooray.

Have written at length on it on my other blog, but I have a few, more-personal notes to make about it, too ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I feel like feminism has failed. We've worked for so long to try to convince girls that there is life beyond being mindlessly decorative and servient, and yet they still persist. And even worse, they still reinforce that in other girls, by bullying the girls who aren't pretty enough, or who would rather focus on their schoolwork than on ( Read more... )

An awesome friend had an awesome poster idea this morning, so I made it:


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What with this whole KomenCorp/Planned Parenthood funding debacle, I'm seeing an uptick in folks talking about abortion. Most of this is sensible, of course--I try to stay away from places where people think women are obligated to go through pain, misery and the risk of death for the sake of an amorphous clump of cells--but I've also seen a bit of ( Read more... )

Am already failing in my promise to myself to not read comments, because the ones on this article about strange men approaching women? Made me want to scream. So, SO angry at the sense of entitlement from the guys there. (Side note: Was also grousing about entitlement in fandom over on Tumblr today.) Amazing how so many of them seemed to think they ( Read more... )