I don't think that I'm not racist. I don't think that I'm not sexist. I don't think that I'm not judgmental. I just try to be better ( Read more... )

Say you were never good enough for your parents. Say that even when you did good and followed the rules they treated you distrustfully. More than that, say they punished you without cause because they simply assumed, without evidence, that you had done wrong. Say their punishments went above and beyond what they themselves would tell others was ( Read more... )

I was around six when Star Wars: Return of the Jedi came out, but it was certainly memorable. I had already seen the other movies so I was going into it already loving the main characters, and that included Princess Leia. She was a strong, competent leader. Even when she needed help it wasn’t owing to weakness on her part; they were simply ( Read more... )

I always feel guarded around heterosexual cis men. As soon as I find out that someone is gay, bi, trans, or in some other way queer then I relax a bit. One of the reasons that the Ice Balls essay on The Tusk resonated with me is that men do have it rough too, but you shouldn’t pity them because they are the ones that are making it difficult on each ( Read more... )

It seems that every day brings another group of people offended by something. Well, this is the internet, and expressing displeasure about something is one of the primary purposes of it, eh ( Read more... )

(Disclaimer - I typically try to avoid succumbing to “nerd-rage” and focus more on the things I enjoy, but this time I couldn’t hold back ( Read more... )

I don’t understand the mindset of the people whose entire “Pro-Life” stance is centered wholly on preventing people from getting an abortion. They aren’t paying attention to why anyone would want to get an abortion and helping to address those issues, they are just stuck on stopping access. If someone is Pro-Life and was also supporting sex ( Read more... )

How about everyone that wants to use religion to justify their misogyny, homophobia, and racism be forced to follow EVERY SINGLE TENET of their declared religion and not just arbitrarily pick and choose whatever they want in order to hide hate under “religious freedom ( Read more... )

This entry is an expansion on a post about how the ethnicity change of Tiger Lily is not equal to the ethnicity change of the Human Torch. It's a good rant, but I think he lets folks off easy ( Read more... )

“Intellectual” doesn’t just mean “educated,” it also means someone that values thought. Anti-intellectualism is a movement against thought and is one of the primary tools of fascists and totalitarian dictators. Anti-intellectual individuals primarily fall into two camps; they are either people out to control others or they are idiots. Sometimes ( Read more... )