Interesting. I've been posting a lot of #YesAllWomen stuff over on Facebook. And I just got a private message from a male reenactor I know:

Julie, Clearly you have an issue with men. I have not publicly posted a response to your postings, because my response is personal, and I do not want to call you out in a public forum.Wow, I don't think he's ( Read more... )

( The Blanket Fort, not so exciting, which was kinda the point )

So this morning I stumbled across the campaign to #BanBossy thanks to a link on the Google home page.

I love the video. But I’m not quite sure what to make of this article. Here we are talking about breaking gender stereotypes, and the final sentence of the article is But possibly the strongest Girl Power message of all comes from Beyoncé. The ( Read more... )

For malterre

http://bikiniarmorbattledamage.tumblr.com/post/78258766632/female-armor-bingo-downloadable-pdf-by

(And anyone else who enjoys women warriors and wants them to stay safe when they go into battle).

I am really having one of those "Men are fricking assholes" days.

( Dudes may want to avert their eyes )

I originally had zero plans to see Pacific Rim. It’s about giant robots punching giant monsters. Two movie tropes that I have never really been able to generate any interest in. So I didn’t worry about reading stuff that I thought was going to be spoilers, because I had NO intention of seeing this movie. But after about a solid month of ( Read more... )

It’s Friday! *Kermit arms ( Read more... )

"But how could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?"

-Ellen Page (Source via alphafemale1 on Facebook)

Gah. Well I survived the week. I’m not sure next week is going to be any better. But we’ll deal with that when it gets here. For now… *Kermit arms*

This weekend is the wedding of kaige_of_ct to her sweetie. I’m bunking with allgudallthetim and guy_todd and on Sunday we’re going to Mutton and Mead, which is run by friends. I am very much looking forward to the entire weekend ( Read more... )

Crotch shot revenge, send it to his mother. OMG, I wish I’d thought of this. Because seriously, dropping nudies of yourself into a G rated conversation deserves public shaming.

Meet the new X-men, all women. *big ass grin* How awesome is that?

And a couple of folks on FB have posted this awesome article about gender stereotyping our children. ( Read more... )