Time for some more crowdsourcing. Here’s my first bunch of squares for a harassment bingo card. Need a minimum of 24. I have 16. Y u no name names? Witch-hunts Taliban “hysterical” / “histrionic” “feminazi” Leave it to the cops A policy would ruin our convention Mistaking TAM for the entire community “Leave DJ alone!” …
Monthly Archive: June 2012
Jun 20 2012
Animated film asks why we’re developing tar sands at cost of First Nations and environment
A short animated film by Franke James asks what Harper’s really afraid of. I think this is just one possible answer of many, and it certainly doesn’t help either our country or our planet. Am I a radical too, then, for posting this?
Jun 19 2012
Safe
There’s yet another misapprehension about language in the present ongoing discussion about sexism and harassment in our respective communities lately. I say yet another because they seem to comprise vast majority of the most jarring moments in these conversations — when people don’t understand one word or another, and fight for days about whether this …
Jun 18 2012
An unidirectional “conversation” with an MRA on Google+
Wanted to throw this on the blog for a few days now, but it’s been… busy. Over at Google+, it seems the only people who engage with my linking back to various websites are the MRAs and antifeminists who probably make up the majority of the early-adopters of the technology. I had posted a link …
Jun 17 2012
New Yorker does profile on Bryan Fischer. He then LOSES. HIS. SHIT.
Via Right Wing Watch, apparently The New Yorker did a huge in-depth profile on Bryan Fischer after his successful campaign against an openly-gay Romney staffer. Fischer was clearly excited by the national attention. On his next show, he said, “They went to look for somebody to talk about Governor Romney’s homosexual hire, where did they …
Jun 17 2012
The Horsewomen of the Feminist Apocalypse
Commenter Pteryxx observed on the guest post by Jacqueline S. Homan a few days ago that there were a total of four identified targets of misogynist sentiment in the original guest post and my in-line observation, and that they could therefore be the four horsewomen of the feminist skeptical apocalypse. Of course, there are much …
Jun 16 2012
From the mouths of babes: “He-Man has more power than Jesus!”
It must have been a bumper time to be an evangelical Christian in the 80s, what with all the occultic cartoons tearing young children violently from the Bible and corrupting their innocent brains. With things like He-Man. While I admit He-Man and She-Ra are horrid examples of reinforcing traditional gender roles in kids, and mediocre …











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