It is a very small, cold comfort that Hillary Clinton appears to have won the popular vote. At least slightly less than half of my fellow citizens are authoritarian-happy fuckheads, rather than over half. Yay.

But that's not what I'm really posting about. ( Cut for length )

Fun aside to my previous post: when I wrote the sentence about fat people being body policed, I thought I'd include a piece by a fat person and the subject. Here are some of the results I got when I googled fat people being body policed when they eat: "10 things I hate about fat people," "Fat Americans Need a Healthy Dose of Shame," "Should we be ( Read more... )

I have thoughts on fictional abuse and fictional villains that I need to get out.

( Spoilers for Agents of SHIELD and discussion of abuse, real and fictional )

Sometimes I get frustrated with fandom. Sometimes fandom disturbs me. And sometimes both events happen at once.

( Trigger warning: rape )

Senate Republicans Vote Unanimously Against Bill to Help Guarantee Fair Pay for Women.

( Also under the cut )

So, you've probably heard by now that there's this chart that claims to show how stereotyped and shallow female characters are. What it really shows is that female characters are varied and many. It also reveals the same old tired misogyny that call itself feminism but is as anti-feminist as it comes. You hate women, but you claim that you hate ( Read more... )

Via heather11483: "normal stories" vs. slash by rmI cannot possibly agree enough with the post. Warning and rating higher for slash makes me so angry. Because it's a continuing message that there's something wrong with queer people. That we're dirty or icky or somehow inherently offensive. And it's culture wide. Look no farther than the MPAA. It's no secret that ( Read more... )

So, lj is going to start requiring gender identification with new account creations, and they are removing the 'unspecified' option.

More info hereFuck this shit. I was always so happy that lj didn't try to force me to fit into the binary. But they want more ad revenue, so it's perfectly fine to fuck over the trans community ( Read more... )

I haven't posted about Iran, mostly because I don't really know what to say. I don't have anything insightful to contribute that hasn't already been said ( Read more... )

I've been putting off this post for too long.

On May 28th, two of the hosts of a Sacramento morning radio show called Rob, Arnie & Dawn in the Morning spent over half an hour encouraging and promoting the physical and emotional abuse of transgender and questioning children. No, seriously.

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