Archive for May, 2008

I shouldn’t browse CNN, I know

May 21, 2008

But…
I saw the little video “article” about how “Clinton should tell racists she doesn’t want their vote!”
Okay cool.  Sounds good to me:
Right after Obama tells American men who are sexist that he doesn’t want theirs.

What’s missing from this article?

May 21, 2008

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4935/
Don’t get me wrong, its a good article and I basically agree with it – abortion is not a problem or a tragedy in my view.
Specifically, I mean the latter half of it where they talk about the problems of contraception failure or failure to use contraception at all.

In which I fail my roll against snark

May 13, 2008

Dom women are totally confident and in control of their sexuality! Dom women are proof that BDSM isn’t sexist! And porn isn’t harmful! It’s all just good clean fun! It could NEVER be that you’re actually looking at a picture of a CHILD who is ENSLAVED while you’re getting your rocks off.  Oh [...]

From the Serious to the Very Silly

May 9, 2008

Because patriarchy isn’t just confined to one area or another, but permeates all areas of life like a sponge…
Everyone wants a place to get away to sometimes, to rest from fighting. So after writing up a bunch of frankly depressing stuff on violent abuse and murder of women it would be nice to have [...]

Female and Imprisoned in the US – A Snapshot

May 6, 2008

“On December 31, 2006, 2,258,983 prisoners were held in Federal or State prisons or in local jails – an increase of 2.9% from yearend 2005, less than the average annual growth of 3.4% [...]

Girls Just Don’t Like Science

May 5, 2008

A True Story from my high school chemistry class, which I took when I was 14 years old, where up to that point in time I had gotten nothing but A’s and B’s in science:
The professor, a tall man, walked around the front of the classroom, staring us all down, giving the rules of the [...]