March 2012
50 posts
“I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. Like a five-year-old, I want to close my...”
– I don’t want to be a feminist anymore.
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February 2012
23 posts
I am so angry about Rosemary McLeod’s hateful transphobic troll opinion piece on Stuff today. I’m not going to link that shit. Stuff doesn’t deserve the page hits. It was so painfully obvious an attempt to troll up controversy.
McLeod spent the entire piece misgendering the subjects, calling them attention whores, and showing her disgust at trans* surgery AND those who are...
“[TW rape, violence against women] When we complain about men raping, abusing,...”
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Fat Acceptance SFF: "Fat Girl In A Strange Land",... →
Here’s what I’m doing to help stand up to fat shaming and stigma - now when I get angry, I write it out.
“Fat Girl in a Strange Land” to be published on February 17th by Crossed Genres Publications (@CrossedGenres, @FatGirlAntho) is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories which include positive depictions of fat women. That’s right y’all. POSITIVE.
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*looks down* OH JESUS CHRIST, I'M FAT?! HOW DID I... →
But medical experts agree that to say nothing is more cruel.
But don’t you know being fat is BAD? Fuck no, we’ve just been soaking in the shame of god knows how many decades, how could we miss THAT?! *places bingo spot*
Almost every New Zealander is either overweight or knows someone who is.
Everyone’s fat. Everyone. You fucking ugly bastards. You’ll make the...
[TW: Homophobia, Assholery] Dan Savage Fails... →
amaditalks:
So let me get this right.
Dan Savage:
- tells this girl a flat out gender essentialist lie about women’s sexuality being more fluid than men’s.
- says that he knows this lie to be true from his experience, which translates to “I know some women who said they were lesbians but they married men.” Never mind that this isn’t his experience, never mind that identifying as a lesbian has...
Undies
I had one of those Click moments last night. It’s like that moment you realize women’s clothes don’t have pockets, but UNDIES.
My SO was showing me the new underwear he’d bought, having a chuckle about the selling points on the tag (‘Arctic Cooling’). When he tried them on he went “Ahh, they’re so comfortable!”
So I decided to try these...
