I am a radical feminist.*

I am very proud to be one. I realized today when talking to Juicey, that you are not upsetting the status quo if no one calls you radical. And God dammit, there is nothing I want more than to disrupt the status quo.

*That's just a full stop. There is no disclaimer or further explanation.

I'm unsure if anyone who knows and is worried about scuttling/green_and_warty watches this LJ but not icemilk's, but...

scuttling is alive and well.

Thanks for the update, icemilk, and thanks again to the others of you who helped me in my search for info.

We do not exist in a vacuum ( Read more... )

So I got my vocab quiz back in Korean, and I lost a point. Why?

I wrote "To hear a noise" instead of "To hear a sound."

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So I've been wondering why "feminism" is a bad word. I run into people all the time who make jokes at feminists' expense. Equality's not a bad word, so why is "feminism ( Read more... )

In one of my classes:

Kid: "Hai" in Japanese doesn't translate directly to yes. It's more of an affirmation.
Me: That's what "yes" is.

Over the course of the last week I've ODed on three different drugs. Granted, one was at the recommendation of my doctor ("Go ahead and take three pills three times a day!") but I took that with Coke.

On the bright side, I'm almost functional again! Yay!

Surreal conversation of the day ( Read more... )

Sometimes I look back on my past and wonder how I could have been so stupid. Like, I got myself into situations where I *knew* better. It's hard to see the bigger picture when you're embroiled in something, and perspective is a huge block. From certain perspectives it's a stumbling block, and from others it's a block that you can stand on to get ( Read more... )

dspace, this might be most relevant to you ( Read more... )