January 2011
December 2010
Wage fairness for women is still an issue. (Read:...
justsomeapples:
I’d like to preface this post by saying that during the semester previous to the winter break I’m currently on, I took a course called “Communicating Quantitative Information.” My midterm presentation topic was the glass ceiling and the issue of pay equity for women. While I was doing research for my presentation, I got really, really, fucking angry upon learning just...
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...
“We now live in a country in which the bottom 40 percent (120 million people)...”
– Sam Harris from A New Year’s Resolution For The Rich (via therecipe)
kiriamaya:
In the early eighties, there was a report, written for the US Government, called Technology on the Social and Ethical Aspects of Transsexual Surgery. This report argued that transition-related treatments were medically unnecessary. As a result, consideration of federal and state aid for trans people was dropped, and private insurance companies quickly followed suit, disingenuously...
Gender Neutral Pronoun Blog →
This is very informative.
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Things that annoy me today:
Well, really just one thing—buying feminine hygiene products.
I don’t like tampons, since I’ve just never been able to use them comfortably, and I’m lucky enough to not suffer from particularly heavy periods, so I always just buy ultra-thin pads with wings.
HOWEVER, it is hard as fuck to find them. Like seriously difficult.
95% of the pads at the store have no wings, and...
The Pop History Dig » “Rosie The Riveter”1941-1945 →
History lesson.
Maricela Guzman served in the navy from 1998 to 2002 as a computer technician on the island of Diego Garcia. She was raped while in boot camp, but fear of consequences kept her from talking about it for the rest of her time in the military. “I survived by becoming a workaholic and was much awarded as a soldier for my work ethic.”
On witnessing the way it treated the native population in Diego...
“Get fruity! A mashed banana or peaches inserted in your vagina is a delightful...”
– Cosmopolitan Ultimate Sex Guide. (via ahhellobeautiful-)
That’s fucking gross, Cosmo
(via ivyyy)
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha OH COSMO! This is so hot, I’ll totally be doing it tonight~
(via disgustinghuman)
i just gagged.
(via sexisbeautiful)
the phrase “delightful invitation for him to whoosh...
Fixing all my stuff after my second hard drive...
However, my computer seems, so far, to be running better than it has in a very long time. Probably because I haven’t crudded it up with stuff yet. I am cautiously optimistic about it.
“An execution is not simply death. It is just as different from the privation of...”
– Albert Camus (via azspot)
“It is to be protected against violent crimes driven by bigotry, it’s to be able...”
– Rep. Barney Frank celebrated the repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell earlier this week by admitting he is pursuing a “radical homosexual agenda.” (via corruptpolitics)
WatchBen Goldacre Talks Bad Science (by PopTech)
Hyperbole and a Half: The Year Kenny Loggins... →
I almost peed myself. This is, hopefully, my last Christmas-related post this year. But I could not resist.
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Seriously, guys. Go watch the Doctor Who Christmas...
My only complaint: MORE AMY POND PLEASE.
But go watch it. Right this moment if at all possible.
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In all seriousness, however, Happy Birthday to...
Horus (3000BC) Attis (1200BC) Krishna (900BC) Mithra (600BC) Dionysus (500BC) Jesus (0AD) Quetzalcoatl (600AD)
kelsium asked: http://www.mindware.com/Home/HomePage.aspx?SG=PMDG1&gclid=CMfU9fjP9KUCFcqC5QodeUaQpg
This website is great for educational/imaginative type toys and crafty stuff. My parents started getting me craft kits when I hit the No More Toys age, and that worked out pretty well.
This website is great for educational/imaginative type toys and crafty stuff. My parents started getting me craft kits when I hit the No More Toys age, and that worked out pretty well.
“Science doesn’t concern itself with the non-existence of something. The periodic...”
– Does God Exist? Ricky Gervais Takes Your Questions - Speakeasy - WSJ
kelsium asked: http://www.mindware.com/Home/HomePage.aspx?SG=PMDG1&gclid=CMfU9fjP9KUCFcqC5QodeUaQpg
This website is great for educational/imaginative type toys and crafty stuff. My parents started getting me craft kits when I hit the No More Toys age, and that worked out pretty well.
This website is great for educational/imaginative type toys and crafty stuff. My parents started getting me craft kits when I hit the No More Toys age, and that worked out pretty well.
Trying to figure out what to get my kid for...
She wants expensive stuff, like a computer and an iPod, which she is not getting this year, and she’s at that weird age where she doesn’t seem to really want toys anymore, although she still plays with the ones she has. She has mentioned wanting the Harry Potter books, and I’m thinking about getting her the first one, but I’m also looking for a few other good books for a...
and she's not even pretty!: "McVictim Syndrome,"... →
healthpolitics:
There has always been a strong undercurrent of victim-blaming with respect to American obesity, but in the past few weeks it seems to have boiled up into the public health community. As someone who advocates an unabashedly experimental approach to social and public policy, I…