Excellent things that other people wrote! Fighting childhood cancer and the awful Stanislaw Burzynski at the same time! With your help, the Skeptics for the Protection of Cancer Patients plan to [raise] at least $30,000 by [Burzynski's] birthday, then challenging the Burzynski Clinic to match whatever they raise, with the total amount going to St. Jude Children’s Research …
Category Archive: feminism
Jan 04 2013
No True Scotsman, Atheists, & Apathy
Okay. So, atheists. You might have seen some arguing in the blogosphere lately. You might have heard people with pleasant accents saying unpleasant things about feminists. Or you’ve been ensnarled in a Twitter spat. Or three. It’s exhausting, and I get it. You want us to all get along and stop writing blog posts at each …
Oct 18 2012
DOMA ruled unconstitutional by CONSERVATIVE federal judge
A woman married to another woman owed almost $400,000 in estate taxes upon the death of her wife because DOMA prevents the federal recognition of her marriage, so she filed a case arguing that this was illegal discrimination. This case was just reviewed in federal court by Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs, a super conservative judge. …
Oct 15 2012
Ellen on Bic pens for people with lady parts
I know the Bic jokes have been going around, but Ellen really nails it.
Aug 07 2012
TIL: Cheerios are flammable and McKayla Maroney is awesome
I’m sick and I have a ton of work, schoolwork and job work, so here are some random things. First up, man protests the fact that General Mills supports marriage equality by setting a bunch of Cheerios on fire. And they’re so sparkly when they burn! Totally gay, if you ask me. ”Queerios” Second, McKayla …
Aug 06 2012
Book Summary: Feminist Theory by bell hooks
For one of my classes this summer, I had write annotations/summaries for several books. I enjoyed many of them and I thought that the annotations might be useful for other people, so I will be posting them here. They’re somewhat rough, but considering how much everyone loves when someone at FtB posts about feminism, I …
Aug 02 2012
News Flash: Sexism still a huge problem
The following is a screencap of a Facebook conversation happening right now. It is a lesson in how not to be welcoming to women in the movement. And I would like to point out that the person who is recievng this abuse is a woman in a position of power. I cannot imagine what a …
Jul 28 2012
Stop making geek culture be about how you were bullied
Update: More thoughts here. To my mind, being a geek is a lot like being gay or being atheist. These are things that can be completely invisible to an outsider. No one in high school knew I went home and wrote Hercules fanfiction. No one knew the fathomless depths of my geekery. Greta Christina has …
Jul 27 2012
Everyone is a geek, even the hot chicks
You simply must go read this piece from John Scalzi, it is too brilliant. Some jerk on CNN posted about how the attractive women who just go to Comic Con to dress in revealing cosplay outfits aren’t real geeks and are only there to get the attention. John Scalzi has an appropriate response, which was …
Jul 15 2012
Everyone Needs to Read This: Pamela Gay is Awesome
“Dreaming is hard. It requires risks. It requires you to own the fact that you are capable of something great.” “Imagine a world in which all the time, all the energy and and all the bandwidth that goes into cyber bullying and trolling instead goes into building good things.” This is part of what it …
About the Author
Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
Recent Comments