Fighting the Good Fight and Fighters Need a Break Sometimes

WARNING:  I’m angry as fuck in here.  And I know that has a tendency to fluster the delicate constitutions of the dudes in the audience.  I’m not in the least little bit interested in being nice about this shit.  Straw. Camel. Back. This is an edit of a rant I posted on my facebook the other...

Lookism and Love

I’ve blogged about his obliquely before, mostly on the Geek Girls Rule! blog, where I talk about men who fancy themselves “in love” with some woman they’ve never met or actually spoken to, based solely on her appearance.  Over there I spoke primarily about the difference between...

Podcast: “Nice Guys” and How Not to Rape

So, I try not to do this very often, but this is an important subject.  On my other blog Geek Girls Rule!, I had two guys on the podcast to talk about “Nice Guys” and about how not to rape.  The reason I did this is because Geek Culture has a lot of problems, particularly with “Nice...

Review: Adult Entertainment: Disrobing an American Idol

Ok, I went in to this expecting to find an actually non-biased documentary about the adult entertainment industry.  I was sadly disappointed.  I’m not entirely sure I can finish watching it.  First off, the film-maker’s “study” consisted of three people, one of whom either dropped...

Rape Myths (Originally posted on Livejournal, and CANOW in May 2009)

Sorry for the radio silence all week.  I appear to have contracted the plague (not swine flu, I did go to the doctor), and have had difficulty stringing together any sentences more complex than, “Juice, now!” or “Get these hot cats off me!”  Apparently illness brings out the...

Contemplating Dr. Tiller’s Death – Originally Posted at CANOW.org

Originally posted June 10, 2009 Part of the reason I haven’t posted much here is that I’m still not over the frothing with sputtering profanities stage of my grief over Dr. Tiller’s death.  It’s still very raw, very real, and very, very upsetting that the powers that be are still not...