It's a cell phone snap of an instant camera photo. But it's my favorite picture of my Granny right now, and I don't have the energy to get the original (which isn't super to begin with) and scan it in.

You get the idea, though. She hated, hated having her photo taken, but it was my birthday and she did it for me. She even went along with the ( Read more... )

But this is one of those things I want to document ( Read more... )

This makes my heart sad, as girlpirate is someone Matthew and I have been friendly with over the years. I used to buy jewelry from her regularly and we had both RL and email contact. That was many years ago. At some point it seemed things went sideways and it's been very disappointing. I'm afraid that I can first hand verify that the things ne_seul_jamais reports are true ( Read more... )

This very young lady has very strong opinions about women's behavior and appearance and it's heartbreaking. I know that when I was her age, I was just as messed up in the head because of all the brainwashing I got from The Church (capitalized not for Catholicism, but because it was something of a mix of Christian denominations).

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Of the Wikipedia entry on Gamergate.

It was JUST AS HILARIOUS AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE.

This is one of the first stand-outs (bolded emphasis mine):

If anyone bothered to look at this twitter tag, you'd see that there are lots of females outraged by the lack of journalistic integrity. Which means there is no trace of sexism. But that is not a ( Read more... )

Me, to someone posting on an article listing a number of things men can choose to do if they independently desire to further feminist goals: "Do you believe that women deserve an equal place in leadership?"

Their response (bold emphasis mine):
"Deserve"? What does that even mean? No one deserves anything based on gender. If you're asking if women ( Read more... )

It's a Maggie feffer! Itty bitty tiny one!


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This stuff has come up lately...

11:47:15 PM This Guy: Hey. [Person]'s player is a dude, right ( Read more... )