...and how were your holidays ( Read more... )

Someone elsenet brought up Schneier in a discussion about "yes means yes", and underlying attitudes about rape ( Read more... )

'If a Black person calls you on saying something offensive, say, "I'm sorry ( Read more... )

I have the impression that parents / family members are like filling equipment slots on a D&D character. You're not obliged to fill every slot, but make damn sure you don't equip a cursed item...

- Rick Vermillion-Salsbury (rickvs) via IM. 04 April 2011
(in response to my mopery about my current family structure)

&heartsPerfect antidote for my moment ( Read more... )

I've seen some of the [redacted] woowoo, and...yeah, I'd forgotten about some aspects of it. I know someone who refers to The Cultural Appropriation Store - the sort of place where they sell a mishmosh of "ethnic" tchochkes, with little taupe colored rough paper tags printed with burnt umber platitudes in Papyrus ( Read more... )

[in response to a discussion elsejournal about words such as "ableism ( Read more... )

People hate "shots". Their children get these mandated "shots", and then that night, their children are cranky. This is upsetting ( Read more... )

(This is a chimera of a few of my comments in other entries elsejournal.)

I have just said elsewhere that there's also no reason to think that if things are "bad enough" that killing a key person (or a few key people) will help - horribly repressive and corrupt systems are just that, systemic. We have hydra legends for a reason ( Read more... )

Quoting myself from elsejournal:

A lot of misogynistic but masquerading as feminist men say that various sorts of women make them feel like hitting women, or otherwise feeling hateful to women in general ( Read more... )

Quoting myself from elsejournal, because I don't have "copy my own comments to e-mail" privs anywhere, and I want to keep this one shiny:
I'm leaving this conversation here, because I am starting to become angry about having issues I haven't bared here in a public discussion dismissed as if they were delusions on my part, and I'm not willing to ( Read more... )