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Trying this again.

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Thank you, Mr. Stewart, for saying everything I wanted to say.

So, I've been keeping tabs on this whole Roman Polanski thing (probably more than is good for my mental and emotional state), and this has led to some pretty awesome discoveries. This set of links about women in Hollywood speaking out against Polanski, and in particular this post by Abby McDonald, were insightful and thought-provoking ( Read more... )

I've been staring at a blinking cursor for an hour, having trouble figuring out how to get what I'm feeling down in words. Sorry if this entry is hard to follow.

So, I saw the movie Crash for the first time today. ( CUT FOR POTENTIAL TRIGGERS... )

I know I'm late to the party on this one, but I wanted to point you all to cereta's amazing essay On rape and men. She talks very clearly about some very tough issues, and I'm thankful to her for being the one to put it out there and take all of the flack. I'm still reading through the comments, but behind the cut are ( some of the gems... )

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The latest play is done, which makes me both sad and happy. I'm thrilled to be getting real sleep for a while (theoretically), but this was a really awesome production and I'll miss some of the actors.

In other news, remember a couple of days ago when I answered someone's question about the necessity of feminism and someone else was a ( Read more... )

Did anyone else notice that during the coverage of the Olympic women's marathon, they started blurring the women's bellybuttons? That's right, folks, the navel is now apparently a sexual characteristic that can't be viewed on network TV ( Read more... )

My boys were kind enough to share the bug that has been going around, despite my telling them that they could be selfish and keep it to themselves. My tonsils are the size of grapes. I fucking hate summer colds ( Read more... )

Now, y'all know that I consider myself a feminist. (As if my default icon wasn't enough of a clue.) I usually explain it to people using the Alan Alda quote: "Feminism is the radical belief that women are people." So you you know I mean business when I say that this woman brings "batshit crazy" to a whole new level.

( Of course Firefly isn't perfect. )