I am happy to engage in polite discussion, but I don’t like being talked down to based on imagined opinions that have been invented for me.

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I can deal with either option, but please do not reduce me to a stereotype.

There is a tendency within [community] to demonize those who hold controversial opinions even when those opinions are ( Read more... )

Detained by the TSA for carrying condomsThis story is absolutely outrageous. Who a woman has sex with has absolutely no bearing on whether or not she is safe to be allowed on an airplane. This is just another instance of male TSA agents sexually harassing female travelers ( Read more... )

I bite my tongue a lot over on Facebook. I write a lot of comments that I delete before I click post. But tonight I had to bitch-slap one of the young fellows that friended me after MTA last month for posting a really sexist picture. "Real friends show me their boobs." Um, no, actually Real men don't repost sexist shit like this on Facebook.* ( Read more... )

When I went to my fifth high school reunion, I ran into a classmate who was attending Brown University in Providence. I asked if by any chance she’d run into my sister, who was attending the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence? “OMG!” She whispered to me, “Do you know what your sister does for work? She’s a stripper!” I quickly ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago Gingerhaze posted a video on her Tumblr. I clicked through, but since it was almost 25 minutes long I didn’t watch it. But I watched it last night after UnWinona posted some comments about the fact that the woman who made the video did not enable comments when she posted it on YouTube. And The Internets Exploded.

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And it’s only been a hundred years since the idea of women being able to vote was openly mocked. (No, you’re not imagining things, I posted that link the other day to point out the hats).

Though the parade began late, it appeared to be off to a good start until the route along Pennsylvania Avenue became choked with tens of thousands of spectators ( Read more... )

This video is totally worth five minutes of your time. It’s a message to the Patriarchy in response to the War on Women ( Read more... )

In Indonesia: Indonesian city mayor wants to pass law prohibiting women from wearing pants and "straddling" motorbikes or bicycles, requiring women to instead ride two-wheel vehicles "sidesaddle.” “We wish to honor women with this ban, because they are delicate creatures ( Read more... )

According to Star Wars Aficionado there were female fighter pilots in the original Star Wars trilogy that ended up on the cutting room floor. The footage has been salvaged for the Blu-Ray release. It meant a LOT to my eleven year old self when Princess Leia turned out to be a self-rescuing princess who could handle a blaster and sit in the co- ( Read more... )

OMG, a man who not only “gets” male privilege but wrote about it. On CNN no less!!! *Squee*

Some years ago, I appeared on a well-known television talk show opposite four "angry white men": four men who believed they had been discriminated against in the workplace by affirmative action programs initiated, they argued, by feminist women ( Read more... )