Keep the title in mind.
It’s a beautiful spring afternoon here, one of the first we’ve had, and I went out into it, and not ten minutes along I saw a dog get hit by a car.
I probably could have prevented it, and I failed to. [Read more…]
Physioproffe said let’s for fun post pictures of our bookshelves so I said ok so here’s my picture.
Metametameta coverage – reactions to the Steubenville verdict, reactions to reactions to the Steubenville verdict, [continue the series].
Too much sympathy in court being shown for these disgusting little rapists. It is not a tragedy when a rapist is found guilty.#Steubenville
— Radical Feminist (@RadicalFeminist) March 17, 2013
Is there? I looked for coverage and haven’t found it yet but did find commentary on the tears and sobs of the rapists themselves. The anchor (a woman) in the studio asked the commentator (a man) outside the courthouse about how gut-wrenching it all was, and he said the boys “didn’t realize that what they did was so serious.”
They didn’t?
Well why the fuck not?
Did they think it’s just ok and normal and no biggy to shove your fingers up a nonconsenting girl?
If so, why would they think that? Why would anyone ever think that?
Why would anyone ever think it’s ok to shove your fingers up a nonconsenting girl while other people watched and took pictures and video? [Read more…]
Both were found guilty of rape; Mays was also found guilty of disseminating a naked photo of a minor.
Richmond’s father told CNN that his son was doing OK.
“I told Ma’lik to put all his trust in God. God will see him through this,” Nate Richmond said. “I told him that I love him, basically. And to be strong.”
I wonder if Richmond’s father told him anything about not raping.
QED has released the video of the panel “A Question of God” from last March. The panel is moderated by Paula Kirby and has Maryam Namazie, DJ Grothe, and me. Ironic, isn’t it.
It’s as I remembered it – fun, congenial, entertaining, interesting. That’s why I was so surprised when a few months later Paula Kirby called me a Feminazi and Femistasi. Watching that panel, she doesn’t seem like that kind of person.
How…quirky. Brazil’s House of Representatives elected a racist homophobe as the new chair of its Commission for Human Rights and Minorities. Kind of defeats the purpose.
Marcos Feliciano is known for his homophobic and racist declarations: “Africans descend from an ancestor cursed by Noah. This is a fact,” he wrote. “Noah’s curse on his grandson, Canaan, lingers in Africa, therefore leading to all the hunger, diseases, ethnic wars.”
This is a fact? What would a fiction look like then? If an old story in an old book is “a fact” then what criteria do you use to detect a fiction?
Marcos Feliciano’s image has been further tarnished by the exposure of his behavior during his fund-raising sermons at the ‘Resurrection Cathedral’ (Catedral do Avivamento) for his church ‘The Assembly of God’ in Riberão Preto, in São Paulo state. Feliciano accepts donations in cash, check, credit cards. Even motorbikes can be used to pay for ‘divine rewards’, he announces.
In this video (not subtitled), Feliciano says: “This is the last time I’ll say it. Samuel de Sousa has donated using his credit card, but hasn’t provided the password. This is not fair. Then he is going to ask God for a miracle, and if God doesn’t reply he’s going to say God is evil.”
Even more quirky. Racist, confused about what a “fact” is, and venal to the point of embarrassment.
Bjarte’s stick figure has discovered “civility.”
1. So you think you should not be treated like a public toilet and I disagree. [butterfly, flower, smiley]
2.Surely that’s a legitimate difference of opinion over which we can have a polite conversation. [birdie, musical note]
3. *@! no, because:
context
facts
values
analysis
logic
conclusions
4. #FTBullies blabla “*@!” blablabla uncivil blablabla uncharitable blabla tone blablabla rather than engage in civil dialogue!
There’s a gallery in a little neighborhood shopping area about half a mile from where I live, not the main top of the hill shopping area, but a smaller one, with a miniature grocery store, and the dentist I go to, and a great bakery-coffee shop called Macrina, and a taco place, and an orthodontist with witty signs (“if you have more tattoos than teeth, come see us”), among other things – quite a humming little spot really.
The gallery is the Fountainhead Gallery. I went past it yesterday and looked in the windows as I always do, and then looked some more and then went inside. They’re having an exhibit called Frontline Heroines, by Judith Larsen. The heroines are journalists killed on the job.
For instance –
NEDA Neda Agha Soltar was an Iranian student demonstrator who was gunned down during the 2009 student protest. She has since become an icon and martyr for democracy in Iran.
ANNA Anna Politkovskaya, born in the USA, was a Russian newspaper editor, journalist, human rights activist and an award-winning author who was shot to death near her Moscow apartment, allegedly for her coverage of the Chechen conflict and her investigative articles.
MARGARET Margaret Moth, CNN photo journalist, was shot and critically wounded while covering the Bosnian War. She died later from related health issues.
SHAIME Shaime Rezayee, host of an Afghan MTV show, was executed for her role in that program.
An important subject.
How do you demonstrate that you are too wise and grown up and sensible to feed internet drama? By ignoring it bringing it up out of the blue for no apparent reason when no one was talking about it.
The CBC doesn’t seem to consider internet harassment just “drama” or “playing the victim card” or similar. The CBC takes it seriously enough to report on it, at least.
An Alberta man found out just how ugly an online debate can become when someone hijacked his identity and went on a crude Facebook rampage.
He joined a Facebook page about preserving an Edmonton airport – whoa, controversial, right?! – and things got heated.
One of the users started harassing him, using profane language, so Ken blocked him.
This only angered the man and he recreated Ken’s Facebook profile, stealing his real profile pictures, his name and even where he worked. [Read more…]