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There’s a snark forum I belong to, which had something posted a few days ago that had to do with a 31 year old trans* man sleeping with a 16 year old cis girl. (This actually happened in the states somewhere – there was an article or something.) Anyway, there was a comparison made by [...]
I just registered for an information session at Douglas College for their Animal Health Technology program, and on the registration form it has the following: I request the following disability accomodations (ie Sign Language Interpreter, Braille, E-Text, Large Print, etc). I think that’s all kinds of awesome.
An old lady is walking along a beach and millions of starfish have washed up on the shore. The old lady is walking slowly down the beach and picking up starfish one by one and throwing them back into the ocean. A little boy sees her and says, “Why are you doing that?” The lady [...]
There have been some amazing posts recently on my favourite feminist blogs. Rape Culture 101 at Shakesville: Rape culture is 1 in 6 women being sexually assaulted in their lifetimes. Rape culture is not even talking about the reality that many women are sexually assaulted multiple times in their lives. Rape culture is the way [...]
One of the things that I am learning, slowly, is that it is okay for me to not want to interact with toxic people, or passive aggressive people, or mean people, or people who are unwilling to respect my boundaries, regardless of whether they believe them to be valid. It’s thanks to people like Melissa [...]
Lessons from the Rape Culture by Shaker SugarLeigh There are a million ways to try to make a woman shut up. And they’ve all been used on me. Now suddenly I’ve been given the gift of those who are willing to listen and I barely know where to start. I’d like to start with what’s [...]
Historiann started an awesome meme entitled Lessons for Girls. There are 10 lessons posted by various authors, and I highly recommend going to take a look.
I received a response: Dear [Erin], Thank you for contacting United Airlines Customer Relations Department. I am sorry that it was necessary to apply our current seating policy. Effective April 15, 2009, for the comfort of all of our guests aboard United flights, we decided to align with other major airlines in adopting a seating [...]
F.U.nited – another great post from Kate Harding, exploding the bullshit ideas around charging fat people extra to fly. My email to United: I flew a few times last year with United, and I was really happy with your “Economy Plus” option. I was still waiting for knee surgery and having that bit of extra [...]
I recently discovered a new blog that I am loving – Tiger Beatdown. In her most recent post, she discusses rape, consent, and the movie Observe and Report. I want to quote the whole damn thing but I’ll refrain and just quote the one paragraph that hit me so incredibly fucking hard: But what happened [...]