Signal Boost: THE STREET NEEDS FUNDING TO BECOME A MOVIE!
Signal Boost: Native family assaulted by skinheads — help them and others get justice.
Signal Boost: Tony Ward is kind of amazing, and provides free resources to help educators design culturally relevant pedagogy to their students. He’s writing a book!
Kansas is not a good place for women. Neither is the GOP.
Reducing the stigma from abortion –> a case for marketing.
Duke Nukem… is not a good game.
Quick How To on brainwashing voters.
VONA RULES!
Precious and Black Swan: the black survivor vs. the white victim. Also: the sequel to Push, the book Precious is based on, is now out.
Female armor SUCKS.
The numbers behind reviews…
“It is a solidarity designation.”
White guy mad at lack of strong “buddy” roles for white guys.
Woman drowns in public pool.
Leigh is starting a massive ficalicious apocalypse tumblr.
First out soldier to die after the repeal of DADT.
Rebooting comics and women…
Woman catches toddler who fell 10 stories
FORESKIN MAN!
Expat housewife helps Libyan rebels.
Short recap: Rebecca Watson was asked to give a speech about feminism and atheism. She mentioned a personal example of an unnamed man propositioning her in an elevator at 4 AM and said something to the effect of, “Guys, don’t do this. It’s creepy and it makes women uncomfortable at atheist conferences.” The atheist blogosphere was then swarmed by MRA trolls claiming the proposition wasn’t sexist and women should feel flattered when they find themselves trapped and alone with a stranger who wants sex. Including Richard Dawkins, an atheist heavyweight, who claimed that the proposition was as offensive as chewing gum. Anyway, I really liked PZ Myers’ response: ”If you’re a decent human being, here’s how to flirt without looking skeevy. If you can’t handle this, please don’t even come.
An update on Yemen
Oh shit! A con report from the Caribbean! <3 <3 <3
From Casey:
For those who can’t see it, it’s a pseudo-anime style picture of three protesters at what appears to be a gay pride rally. A white
woman holds a sign saying “FOR” whilst holding her fist in the air, next to her is a brown man gritting his teeth and holding a sign that
says “AGAINST”, the third person is a white man with an excited look on his face holding a sign saying “I JUST WANTED TO HOLD A SIGN AND MAKE NOISES TOO”.
The author says this: “Good ol’ politics! No matter how passionate and active you are toward your cause, you’ll
always be just a sign-waving, noise-making collection of cells taking up space on sidewalk intersection corners. I understand why though. It’s fun to have a supposedly legitimate excuse to run around yelling at the poor public about beliefs that no one wants to hear
I can’t wait for election times coming up. Sign waving people gathering pointless screaming car honking season!”
This really irritated me.
The American Widow Project connects a new generation of war widows with one another.
Is Marriage for Rich, White People?
Holy bloodstains, Batman!
Let’s play “Spot the Racist Charge!”
Nikki Giovanni on reading and family
The SFPA is engaging in racefail. Again.
Texting is reviving some endangered languages.
Oh, Chloe King.
Fanfic NOM NOM NOM.
What the fuck, Jim Butcher. Chicago needs some love, y’all.
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Jennifer Kesler,
I see your point now. Possibly I’ve been arguing with rape apologists too long, because when I saw you ignoring that point (“it would drop”) and focusing on another (“so should we do it?”), I assumed you were conceding the point, which would be victim blaming. Probably a sign I should get off the internet and enjoy some fresh, non-MRAsshole contaminated air.
Sylvia Sybil(Quote) (Reply)
Jenny Islander,
I actually had a very depressing moment while visiting family. A couple of months ago, my mom said something very astute and aware about rape culture … which was pretty much negated to me during this visit, when she engaged in a very long, horrendous conversation with one of my sisters about how girls shouldn’t wear bikinis because that’s sleazy and is basically asking for bad things to happen; it was their job to control their environment and body so as not to borrow trouble, etc., etc.
I attempted to clue them in to their woefully misinformed opinions, failed and started downing vodka lemonades like they were Kool-Aid instead.
Hmm, what was my point? Oh, that somehow there are people who get that rape culture is real on one hand, yet also perpetuate it themselves with their other hand and we never. get. anywhere.
sbg(Quote) (Reply)
You know… I don’t even know how to respond to the fact I was thinking about a specific case, and then I get several links to and find via google COMPLETELY different cases which are similar enough to prove the point.
Jennifer, I love your extremely logical argument there. Sadly I don’t think this is going to go anywhere since dude is rape apologizing all over the thread (I just pulled out Derailing for Dummies and listed all the techniques he learned) but it might be useful for other people reading.
Also I’m apparently JUST LIKE a fundamentalist Christian. I don’t even know what kind of derail that is, I’m still kind of amazed at the comparison.
Shaun(Quote) (Reply)
*Confused* What thread are you talking about?
Jennifer Kesler(Quote) (Reply)
Godammit, Jim Butcher. I actually BUY the Dresden Files books!
SarahSyna(Quote) (Reply)
Jennifer Kesler,
On her FaceBook, I think?
Casey(Quote) (Reply)
Jennifer Kesler,
Yeah sorry. The creepy rape apologist was on a friend’s facebook. He’s since been defriended after stating that rape was a “natural consequence” of how women dress and implying that this is also the case for 11-year-old girls, SO, I don’t think your brilliant logic would have made a difference.
Shaun(Quote) (Reply)
Ironically, this was in response to pictures from SlutWalk, initiated by his assertion SlutWalk makes no sense/is unnecessary and false.
Shaun(Quote) (Reply)
SarahSyna,
Yeah, I stopped buying The Dresden Files when they switched to venti sized books, but I still read them and that stung to hear about.
Sylvia Sybil(Quote) (Reply)
Pumpkin, I hear you. I’ve been an atheist for as long as I can remember — except for an ugly period of being guilt-tripped and fear-mongered into religion when I was first manifesting my mental problems at full tilt as a young teen. Later, around twenty, I had long left that behind and got into some “loud-mouthed atheist” circles (who, thankfully, really WERE forward about the whole gender/sexuality/race issues) as a kind of backlash to that experience and in delight that I wasn’t alone. It felt bloody GOOD to let all the rage out and really speak my mind. I drifted away later because flaming proselytizing trolls is only novel for so long and doesn’t really solve anything, and I discovered more constructive/interesting things on the ‘net.
Color me sickened and furious when I later found out that some “famous”, “big-name” atheists are just as full of misogynist, homophobic etc. hate and contempt as the most backwards theists. If they really were skeptics and critical thinkers and good scientists, then why don’t they bloody USE the tools that this gives them to examine and deconstruct their sky-high shitpile of privilege? But no, instead they make up some awful pseudo-scientific excuses and enshrine them like a “holy book”. Way to go, guys. I still can’t stand most religions I know of, but if anyone needed proof that religion ISN’T the root of all problems, Dawkins and his wankbuddies provide plenty of it.
Ironic, really.
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