News round-up for mid-June

I like Obama fairly well. I don’t think I’ll vote for him. I think I’ll write in “Some Other Crook,” because I think this country is broken, and I don’t believe in any way, shape, or form that I have any control over the lurking, monied behemoth that manages the most intimate details of my [...]

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More Posts About Rape Part II

Since my bear got me the laptop, I’ve been transcribing all the scribbling in my notebooks over the years. Here is a journal entry I made about a year ago, during a business trip, having a drunken Law & Order meltdown in my hotel room. Please note, this is not how I feel all the [...]

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More posts about rape

I have lately gotten ridiculously pissed off at the number of movies that have rape scenes in them, but have no indication of this in the reviews or description. Not that they need to give away plot, but if in the ratings system where we point out a movie might contain swearing (my god!), it [...]

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The Pill

The Feministing blog put up this request recently:
Check out this author’s query from Elaine Tyler May, amazing feminist historian and big fan of feministing. (She’s the one who wrote feminist classic Homeward Bound, that I reviewed alongside Faludi last month.) Please, please take some time and respond!
The Pill is often considered one of the most [...]

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Friday fucking around

Aspie test!
Apparently I am super neurotypical.
Now it’s time for wikipedia to tell me what the hell that is.
Oh, Friday.

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