February 2012
18 posts
“It is our responsibility as lawmakers and educators to make this system work....”
– Barack Obama
Notice he’s not talking about just four-year college. What a snob. (via soupsoup)
I love my president.
“Every time I read an article about conservatives being “pro- life” I am reminded...”
– The ‘Safe, Legal, Rare’ Illusion - NYTimes.com
YES.
(via golden-notebook)
Straight up.
I wonder why anti-choicers don't go out and...
socialistexan:
It would allow a man to control his reproduction, and give him an opportunity to have nearly inconsequential premarital sex (outside STDs of course), and allow sex to be not just for reproduction.
Oh, you mean it’s because it’s a man and not a woman? Ya don’t say.
Well, aside from the fact that (I think) that’d just mean protesting either regular doctors’ offices...
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To the Man in the Subway Today:
Dear Sir,
I regret that my response to your comment today in the West 4th Street station could not have been fully fleshed-out and reasoned. To be honest, I was taken aback, and ill-prepared to inform you on the issue of objectification of women in a grand sense. Allow me to make up for my response’s incompleteness now.
You approached me as I exited an uptown B train to inform me...
Your Halps. I Needz Dem
So.
I have recently become the owner of a Nook Simple Touch. I was all excited to fill that shit up, until I realized that I don’t have a to-read list.
Truth time: generally, I DO judge books by their covers. I wander around a bookstore, touching spines (of books, not employees/other shoppers) and holding books in my hand and deciding what to buy and read because of the outside.
I...
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TheCapitol.PN →
I’m officially a member of District 4. May the odds be ever with me at this year’s Hunger Games. What’s your District? http://www.TheCapitol.PN
Also, I’m a canner. Because yeah, I’m a nerd from Brooklyn who likes to make jam. But fish? Nooo…. no, President Snow, I don’t can fish.
Annie Elainey: pervyanon: I understand ship... →
pervyanon:
I understand ship loyalty, I really do, and I realize how awesome it would be to have another interview talking about Brittana. But that’s the thing- it’d be another one. It’d be an interview on top of a few other interviews, on top of pinkie holds and a stage kiss and a…
Something about the part where the original poster says that Dianna and Lea would be “Forced”...
On being an object, and then not being an object |... →
This post, which I got via Amber’s excellent blog, is spot on.
I’ve noticed since I got my mohawk, in fact maybe since I cut off my hair, progressively shorter and shorter, and started wearing it less and less femininely, that men have left me alone a lot more. I still tense whenever I walk by a man or group of men alone in the street late at night. I’m sure that most of them...
Johanna Lynne Is: I got yer cliche right here →
Assuming you’re still not following my other blog (and frankly, I can’t blame you, as I’ve only opened it once or twice since the summer), you might have missed this gem.
I am a cliche.
johannalynne:
I have become a cliche.
I’m a 20-something Brooklynite without an office job, who is sitting in a cafe, working on a novel.
A novel I started during an internet initiative...
Composite Fantasy: Have you ever noticed that... →
thatonetheycallchloe:
“Your name’s only in there once, they aren’t going to pick you.” Gets picked.
“I can’t believe I did that, I’m going to get a score of 0!” Gets score of 11.
“There’s 24 of us, Gale, only one comes out.” Two come out.
“I don’t want any of them as my allies.” …
Yep.
Composite Fantasy: Have you ever noticed that... →
thatonetheycallchloe:
“Your name’s only in there once, they aren’t going to pick you.” Gets picked.
“I can’t believe I did that, I’m going to get a score of 0!” Gets score of 11.
“There’s 24 of us, Gale, only one comes out.” Two come out.
“I don’t want any of them as my allies.” …
Yep.
January 2012
18 posts
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“We accept all girls in kindergarten through 12th grade as members. If a child...”
– Rachelle Trujillo, vice president for communications of the Colorado Girl Scouts, responding to a story about a transgender girl who was allowed to join the Brownies.
Looks like I’ll be buying a ton of cookies this year.
(via Shakesville article on various bigoted attacks on the GSA by religious...
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December 2011
40 posts
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New Year's Eve Menu?
So, having found out that my sweetie will not be working late on New Year’s Eve, which means I do not have to go into a cafe in a dress, order a glass of champagne, and kiss my boyfriend like the world is ending in front of customer and coworkers at midnight on Saturday (which actually, come to that, doesn’t sound like the worst idea there ever was…).
It also means that as long...
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“Here’s the thing: If you’re using the holiday season to go out of your way to be...”
– John Scalzi on The War on Christmas(tm)
Thank you. Thank you. Don’t pitch a fit, in person, on Twitter, or on Tumblr or ANYWHERE, if someone wishes you a Merry Christmas because your self-righteous ass is “a proud atheist”*. I am a proud GOOD HUMAN BEING, an as far as I’m...
