January 2011
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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Sulking in 3 2...
I’m gonna go see what kind of response the Dalek I get on Crafting blogs. :-/
Re: Snarkbox: spending my night watching doctor...
snarkbox:
This is seriously my night, too. Except instead of sparkling grape juice it’s red wine. Oh dear. I better not tweet tonight XD
I *wish* this was how I spent the night. Instead I’m keeping myself out in the living room, dealing with my land lady’s extended family being here. I like them all well enough, but I can’t even handle my *own* family in crowds too well, and...
"Most Minimum Wage Earners Can't Afford... →
snarkbox:
ryking:
Remember that when some right-winger declares how awesome it would be if the minimum wage was completely abolished.
Yeah, that was thing morning.
December 2010
Harry Potter and the Girls Who Weren’t Chosen Ones →
You can't justify your *isms with your own...
justjasper:
Being non-neurotypical doesn’t mean you can get away with ableism. If you slip up and use an ableist slur, note your mistake (we all make them). Apologise if you need to. “I’m not ableist because…” or “maybe it was ableist but it’s okay because…” bawing does you no favours. Neither does an attempt to justify your accidental or casual ableism with “well if progressives are too...
“Roosevelt, a rich man, had an easier daily schedule—even in the White House—than...”
– Virginia S. Wood, Psy.D. commenting at Disability Archetypes: Supercrip (via fourloves)
Not co-occuring for me?
I’m not Anhedonic. Though this is appearently a common co-occurance with Alexithymia, it is not one I exhibit. I have plenty of Positive emotions and take joy from eating, bathing, sexual activity, and so on. Sometimes I do get overwhelmed by those positive emotions and have limited ability to do skills that are very learned to me (executive functioning and spoken expression) as consequence,...
That awkward moment when...
JYou post something you think your friends will think is awesome, and no one notices. (Image description coded in)
“Then you are mistaken, and you know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort...”
– Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
(That’s Right, You can read it any time on google books. Speaking of, it’s nearing time for my yearly ish re read. One of my favorites…)
genderbitch:
goaquatic replied to your post: Being mentally unwell DOES affect consent. If you delete me for ‘trolling’ then you’ve got to deal with that, I suppose, but I’m offering an opinion. You’re assuming that all mental illness falls under the same umbrella and can be categorised by the same degree of pain etc. How appropriational is that?! ‘I’m mentally unwell (read: depressed) and...
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has photographed a...
acciolovex:
We are not fooled. We know the truth.
The truth is, we’re all screwed.
[Image one: a colorized photo taken by NASA as described.
Image Two: a screen Grab from Doctor Who, of one of the Cracks in the Universe (in this case, in a wall.)
The “Sooty Cloud” is Shaped JUST LIKE the crack.]
OH MY G-D Where’s the Doctor when We need him???
Rahm Room: Real talk corner, and I am so ready to... →
snarkbox:
strawberrysgirl:
I’m not particularly religious—seriously, last time I went to church was about 1998 (Mom and Dad left, taking me with them, when they discovered the pastor was virulently anti-gay, which is unusual for a Presbyterian church in liberal little Decatur, Georgia, but alas) so—but I always get this…
FUCK YES. Seriously, atheists can be just as bad as religious folks.
Think women have achieved equality? Think again. →
We Can’t Be Equal While:
Gender Roles
Men are the default and women are the Other (and therefore lesser).
Being called “girly” or a “sissy” or “pussy” are some of the worst insults you can give a man.
When a woman shows confidence in herself, she is said to “have balls”, or conversely she is a “man-eater”, “ball-buster”, or a “bitch” because she was “too” assertive.
Men are beat up,...
this ain't livin': Social Justice Matters:... →
meloukhia:
If you are transgender, you are more likely to be incarcerated, as discussed above. Once you enter incarceration, you are more likely to be inappropriately housed, because most systems use a highly medicalised, cissexist, and binarist system for making housing assignments. If you are assaulted while in prison, which you most probably will be, you are less likely to be provided...
I normally don't do this, but...
haterina:
kalamah:
I kept my silence when an intersex tumblr insisted that all intersex people were binary-identified (as in only men or women in gender identity) even though I knew it was a false assertion, and when the person who ran the tumblr told a genderqueer intersex person that they were a lying troll. I stayed quiet when another tumblr was offensively dismissive of linking to...
Excerpts from Teaching Community
genderbitch:
sheresists:
adailyriot:
So, for my “on the side book”, I’m reading Bell Hooks Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope. Here’s some stuff that’ve stood out to me so far:
1. Since well-educated white women with class privilege were uniquely situated to ender the academy via affirmative action policies in far greater numbers than black people, they were in turn able to make...
Being mentally ill doesn't mean I'm incapable of...
calixti:
It also doesn’t mean I’ll ‘cry rape’ the next day.
Or that I’m an ‘animal’ in bed.
Or that I’m promiscuous.
Or that I’m ‘frigid.’
Or that I’m kinky.
Or that I was sexually assaulted or abused.
Saying these things about mentally ill women, then telling me ‘Well, I was talking about other crazy chicks, not you!’ or ‘I was just joking!’ is a fast way to piss me off. Don’t do it.
Trans 101 →
transpride:
From Binary Subverter
You are human. You are worthy of respect. You deserve to be treated with the same dignity as anyone else. There is nothing inherently wrong with your gender. You are not broken, you are not disgusting, you do not deserve to be hurt.
You’ve been brought up and live in a world that’s designed to erase and demonize your existence, you’ve probably internalized a...
Gawker Fiasco update!
[I got a response that included that they weren’t seeing the issue on their end, but that they reset password and so on. Since this is relatively prompt- or maybe after dealing with WoW I have a high tolerance for support folks, lol- I did some cross check and gave below detailed feedback.]
Thank you for such a prompt response! I’ll try it now. Okay, here’s what is happening...
Hopeless Romantic: I don't know what I'm doing... →
quinnofhearts:
I’ve totally stalled. When Immy moved away I lost the last thing keeping my going down this road. I don’t even know whether I should bother going back to school next year. I know I need to finish high school, and I would love to be able to have the experiences and memories of graduating with my…
You have love and support whatever you do. Just FYI.
... Too Dorky?
navigatethestream:
nicocoer:
So I just admitted to a lover I’m trying to retain That I’m planning on making a “gingerbread” (Graham Cracker) Dalek Tomorrow, and that I’ve knitted two Daleks and am working on a third.
I’m a liiiiiittle bit worried I might have over dorked it. I think even for an avid Magic player, there’s a limit on the dorkiness you can handle in others… Then again, I might...
I would like to take the apparently radical...
Yep. (My only objection is in cases where a power dynamic could mean coerced consent, but I don’t think this is talking about those cases.)
Obsidian Project →
Abstract:
I want a feminism that doesn’t tokenize or fetishize the marginalized folks within the movement, i.e. people of color, queer folks, people with disabilities, etc. To this end, I am really interested in the margins within the margins and how people with intersecting marginal identities create the world they want to see and resist others’ attempts to use their...
... Too Dorky?
So I just admitted to a lover I’m trying to retain That I’m planning on making a “gingerbread” (Graham Cracker) Dalek Tomorrow, and that I’ve knitted two Daleks and am working on a third.
I’m a liiiiiittle bit worried I might have over dorked it. I think even for an avid Magic player, there’s a limit on the dorkiness you can handle in others… Then...
Cafty TARDIS LJ community →
I could spend forever on this. :) Doctor Who crafts! yay!
In non Gwaker bitching
I met a guy on OKC who looks a lot like Fargo from Eureka. I Favorited him on that basis.
Yeah, Dorking it up.
FUUUUUUU GAWKER YOU ASSHOLES! WTF?
(reposting the complaint I just sent them. FUCKING ASSHOLES. Rawr!)
Subject: What the Hell????
I’m sorry for the cursing, but I’ve been a user on gawker for a long time. I was a starred commenter on Jezebel, and even after the leak and subsequent Changing of passwords and waiting I managed to be one of the lucky folks who didn’t have to get their account deleted. I had no...