February 2012
1 post
January 2012
1 post
October 2011
1 post
“Stop acting like a princess! You’re acting like a princess!! Ooh… little...”
– Parents talking to their crying, four-year-old son. (via microaggressions)
We need to start calling out this kind of behavior as the emotional abuse it is. And talking about how this kind of abuse both oppresses men and teaches them to have utter contempt for women at the same time - this little...
July 2011
1 post
“Could you imagine what the Tea Party would be saying right now if there was a...”
– Matt Taibbi, “Corporate Tax Holiday in Debt Ceiling Deal: Where’s the Uproar?”
Yeah, I just can’t anymore…
(via cognitivedissonance)
I know it’s not Your Local Professional Sports Team Winning/Losing The Championship but this deserves a street-riot, guise.
(via youlikemealready)
Someday...
May 2011
1 post
Esoterica: The Do’s and Don’ts of Being a Good... →
A couple of weeks ago someone on twitter asked me how to be a good ally. With 140 characters at my disposal, I said, essentially, Shut up and listen. Karnythia says it better:
karnythia:
1. Don’t derail a discussion. Even if it makes you personally uncomfortable to discuss X issue…it’s really not about you or your comfort. It’s about X issue, and you are absolutely free to not engage rather...
April 2011
2 posts
Cops Bust Homeless Woman for Sending Child to... →
telegantmess:
cnt-:
A homeless woman from Bridgeport has been arrested for enrolling her 6-year-old son at a Norwalk elementary school.
Tonya McDowell, 33, is accused of stealing $15,000 — the cost of her son’s public education — from the Norwalk School District, according to the Stamford Advocate. She was arrested Thursday.
McDowell, whose last known address was Priscilla Street in...
March 2011
2 posts
Curiouser Jane: Guest Post: Transmisogyny is... →
curiouserjane:
Transmisogyny is Misogyny Against All Women: An Open Letter to Cis Feminists
By Gus Thunder
mi·sog·y·ny
/mɪˈsɒdʒəni, maɪ-/ [mi-soj-uh-nee, mahy-]
–noun
hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women.
I need to know something. I need to know what a real woman is. I’m a woman and I need to…
February 2011
2 posts
shonagon-chan:
Today would have been my Dad’s...
“My colleagues know when we began this new session off Congress, we enacted a new...”
– New York Democratic representative ANTHONY WEINER, challenging Republicans to follow their own rules requiring bills to include a statement attesting to the constitutionality of a proposed law — which they can’t in this case, because restricting abortions violates the Constitution!!!
But they...
October 2010
4 posts
This may be the best tumblog ever. →
Also the massive sexualization heaped on top of...
genderbitch:
You are not saving “sexy titties”, you are saving PEOPLE. Fuckers.
SO. Much. This.
I fucking hate the “save the ta-tas” and similar campaigns. Way to make it about disembodied parts and saving “property”, thus actually potentially harming more people with breast cancer in the process when they feel like they need to “save their breasts” so...
“Would you mock a Chinese tourist visiting Texas for buying and wearing a cowboy...”
– Some angry white asshat on Tumblr, claiming it’s racist to laugh at white people in Africa, based on the above logic.
This is too juicy for me to pass up, let’s have some fun…
Um, just so you know, Chinese people don’t have to go to Texas to “try our hand” at riding a horse. China’s Yuan Dynasty,...
August 2010
1 post
“If you don’t actively fight back against the [people of your group] who are...”
– Me, because it needs to be stressed.
It applies to feminism, to cis people, to white people (like myself), to abled people, to thin privileged people, to liberal and progressive movements, to political parties, to members of whatever little group you’re in (newspaper, activist community), etc etc...
July 2010
3 posts
All Joy and No Fun (or, people with bizarre... →
I’ll admit that my reaction to this article, which popped up on my facebook feed this morning via a childfree friend, is primed by having first read this absolutely gutting response by a mother to a daughter with disabilities. The point of that response is a point that the article finally got to after 6 pages of self indulgent blather, which is that in the day to day moments of parenting,...
December 2009
4 posts
“The feminist thing is still very, very important. Most people think, ‘That’s...”
– Yoko Ono (via fuckyeahyokoono) (via thecurvature)
Simmering to boiling
Heh. It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, eh?
I need to find more time to write -somewhere - because I’ve got all sorts of shit beginning to reach the boiling point in my brain.
So, I figure to summarize (i.e. brain dump) it here - feel free to help me tease this stuff out.
1. On anger and taking offense - inspired largely by the Method Shiny Suds kerfuffle sparked at...
September 2009
4 posts
Walmart: No More Paycheck Here's Your Pre-Paid... →
telegantmess:
Walmart, our nation’s largest employer, has eliminated paper paychecks. Now employees can choose to sign up for direct deposit or have their wages added to a pre-paid debit card. ABCNews says that only about half of Walmart’s employees use direct deposit — the rest either prefer a paper paycheck or, in some cases, don’t have a bank account.
Does this creep anyone else out?
For...
August 2009
21 posts
breastfeeding discrimination
amandaw:
abbyjean:
[Recently, an] Isotoner employee was fired for taking unauthorized breaks to pump breast milk. Not only did her employee fire her, but the Ohio Supreme Court upheld the firing. Read more about it here (pdf). An excerpt, “According to the trial court, “Allen gave birth over five months prior to her termination from [Isotoner]. Pregnant [women] who give birth and chose not to...
Am I behind?
telegantmess:
emandink:
telegantmess:
I recently saw someone complaining about s.773 the 2009 Cybersecurity act, claiming that it would give the president the power to cut off internet access to the private sector…Well…I read it here and I can’t find that suggestion anywhere.
What I can find is this:
[The President] (2) may declare a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or...
Am I behind?
telegantmess:
I recently saw someone complaining about s.773 the 2009 Cybersecurity act, claiming that it would give the president the power to cut off internet access to the private sector…Well…I read it here and I can’t find that suggestion anywhere.
What I can find is this:
[The President] (2) may declare a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic to...
“You don’t have to tell me about ‘the parts’… just... →
thecurvature:
Why the fuck are my tax dollars still paying for this bullshit?
I left a sarcastic comment on the post, but I am honestly so ridiculously angry now that I could spit.
Withholding information from your children about their own bodies is not okay. And it utterly disgusts me that my tax dollars are going towards encouraging it.
What the bloody hell. I’m so glad to see that...
“His career is proof that a lifetime of privilege and its attendant advantages...”
– yeah, this is what i was trying to say about kennedy. (awl) (via abbyjean) yesyesyesyesyes. (via amandaw)
Well said!
Sexual Assault Prevention Tips Guaranteed to Work!
thecurvature:
katoleary:
nonotyou:
Kat reposted a nice piece about true rape prevention, which reminded me of this little list I whipped up a few months ago. As I just did a college RA training yesterday, re-reading this made me laugh. I mean seriously, the “tips” they give potential victims are so condescending. It’s fun to turn the tables.
Sexual Assault Prevention Tips Guaranteed to...
reblog with your BAD FEMINIST CONFESSION
thecurvature:
isabelthespy:
i fucking love judd apatow movies.
I love early Kevin Smith movies. (Haven’t seen his most recent ones; doubt I’d like them.)
I love paranormal romance vampire novels, even though the plots tend to be horribly regressive and based on “virginal ‘girl’ gets ravaged by evil bloodsucker and falls in love with him despite his flawsfangs.
“This is either a really cool mom or a really weird mom
On the Red Line...”
– Overheard in DC. I can’t decide if I want to be that mom, or report that mom.
Medicare recipients protest *any* federal... →
I trust that everyone protesting against any sort of government administered health plan is going to voluntarily give up their current one, then?
Disturbing.
amandaw:
“The residents feel slighted that a two-year project to replace leaky water pipes focused on Main Street. Those homes, said the black residents, are where mostly white families live, giving the impression that race is a factor in determining where the work is done. “It sends the wrong message,” even if race isn’t a factor, said Michaux. But Josephine Posti, external affairs specialist...
“Each time a murder committed in the name of “honor” is referred to as a killing,...”
– CNN FAIL on Honor Killing Coverage « Muslimah Media Watch (via igather) (via peachesandpenumbras)
“It doesn’t matter how little ill we will, if we don’t also strive...”