Dear Michael Coren,

Fuck you you sanctimonious, condescending coward.

Dave said it best:

I can't recall when I've read anything so sexist and so wrong in this century.

Last week a young girl dressed up as a soldier died in the increasingly futile and pointless war in Afghanistan. She was 21 years old, had been in the country for two weeks ( Read more... )

Via onceupon, Latoya Peterson's brilliant, powerful, gutwrenching essay about things that are not rape.

Entering our teenage years in the sex saturated ’90s, my friends and I knew tons about rape. We knew to always be aware while walking, to hold your keys out as a possible weapon against an attack. We knew that we shouldn’t walk alone at night, and if ( Read more... )

I don't know if I would have liked Miss Mead. I like to think I would have:
You think I am brave. Well, if I am, what are you? To be sure, I am back here alone, but then I have Miss Mitchell and all these grand instruments, and nobody makes fun of it all here. But when I get home, no one there will take any interest in Astronomy. I shall have no ( Read more... )

Following Justice Minister Rob Nicholson's announcement earlier this week "that the government will introduce legislation that will punish criminals who commit violence against pregnant women but do so in a way that leaves no room for the introduction of fetal rights."*

Ken Epps is standing up for Bill C-484, in today's National Post. In the ( Read more... )

It was about 9:30 at night as I walked through the college, my arms full of books. En route from my basement classroom to the fourth-floor office, I passed through the nearly empty front entrance, up the half-flight of stairs, past the empty security office, and stopped when someone said "excuse me, may I ask you something ( Read more... )

So, audrawilliams found herself watching 27 Dresses on a flight a little while ago, because she wanted to see something with women in it. Anything!

She's asking people to post pictures of women doing Stuff. Dancing, herding chickens, hiking, working, rapping, spinning, anything ( Read more... )

This is what empathy looks like.

'Nuff said.

Hat tip to rivka, and thanks for bringing a smile to my day

Dear Ms. Chow ( Read more... )

Part of an ongoing series of musings about language and oppression, and bias-free* language (or, as I prefer, affirmative language or language of respect).

Cross posted at This Crazy Industry. Feel free to comment here or there. This version has additional linky goodness ( Read more... )

Geneviève Bergeron, 21
Hélène Colgan, 23
Nathalie Croteau, 23
Barbara Daigneault, 22
Anne-Marie Edward, 21
Maud Haviernick, 29
Barbara Maria Klucznik, 31
Maryse Leclair, 23
Annie St.-Arneault, 23
Michèle Richard, 21
Maryse Laganière, 25
Anne-Marie Lemay, 22
Sonia Pelletier, 28
Annie Turcotte, aged 21

sabotabby reminds us that this is not an isolated madman ( Read more... )