Hey, bearfuckers

The next person who finds my blog by searching for “bear rapes woman,” please leave a comment telling me what the hell you were actually looking for when you found a hairy-legged feminist blog instead.
Is “bear rapes woman” really what you want out of life, sir? Because you appear to be searching for it every [...]

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Africa does not apply

We recently had an event for our transracial adoptive families. Transracial means a lot of things, but for the program I work on, this means families — pretty much exclusively white — who have adopted African-American kids. Or, as one of our moms — in an unparalleled Midwestern show of euphemism — puts it [...]

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Dear Co-Worker Who Shall Remain Nameless,

You have a problem.
It’s called “forwarding.”
I have delicately tried to point out this problem to you, via a gentle redirection towards Snopes.com.
But you have another problem.
It’s called “self-aggrandizement.”
I know that’s a fifty-cent word.
Dear co-worker, I think you’ve earned it.

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A list of reasons why I am not writing much

Also a list of things I maybe eventually need to write about.
1. I still hate my job. Other than the one position I applied for that I really really want, there is nothing open. Because, you know, recession and doom and gloom and all.
2. My job is very busy. It’s the end of the fiscal [...]

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It always takes me aback…

when I remember sometimes that there are people in the world who hate me, who wish me tremendous harm, who honest to god spend time thinking about the horrible things they hope will happen to me.
And, don’t fool yourself, anybody who says, kindly, “I don’t wish anything bad on her, but I know the way [...]

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