March 2012
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This Creepy App Isn’t Just Stalking Women Without... →
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How it Flew from Her
From her mouth. It gathered its small, soft body and leapt
forward, up and out. And then it was gone. She knew
because of the dark hollow in her chest, like the place a woodpecker makes,
keeps making, until it’s emptied the wood of food
and moved on. She didn’t try to stop it, because she didn’t know
what it was; what came from her mouth
looked like a white moth, the kind that eats wool, so...
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Strong women: Faster than a speeding vacuum, more... →
Conservatives love the “strong woman” image for an entirely different reason: Because the existence of these women means we don’t need feminism, in their minds. The underlying argument of, “I don’t hate women. I love strong women,” is that we need patriarchy as a sort of litmus test for which women are deserving and which are not. If you can live under a...
“Ever since puberty, ever since I was 11 or 12, I’ve had cyclical depression....”
– Rachel Maddow on depression (via nprfreshair)
Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything as insightful or moving from Maddow.
(via jonathan-cunningham)
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ABC7 Chicago - Trayvon Martin Called 911 Shortly... →
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The link goes to an audio file of the ABC7 Chicago Broadcast, more details as I can find them.
Huh.
Damn.
Have they even found his cell phone yet? There hasn’t been any information on that score as yet.
I knew it. I knew there was a...
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“I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George...”
– Geraldo Rivera on Fox News. (via officialssay)
What. the. actual. fuck.
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“Rick Santorum thinks that women who have been raped should be compelled—by force...”
– Dan Savage (Santorum: ‘I’m Praying’ for Dan Savage Who ‘Has Serious Issues’ | Mother Jones)
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I can't listen to the Zimmerman 911 call.
I know it’s important but I just can’t bring myself to do it.
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What would you tell your child to do if they were...
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You’d tell them to run like the wind towards a safe place, and to fight back like hell if necessary.
You wouldn’t dare tell them anything else.
You wouldn’t dream of doing anything else, yourself.
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The Right Wing Panic Reaction →
Conservatives often have a better read than liberals do on how macro politics affects micro politics, which is to say, they really do get how oppressed people can see progress in the larger political world, and that boosts their self-esteem and makes them feel more entitled to demand better treatment in daily life. Liberals see no co-pay contraception and think, “That’ll help women save money...
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“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic...”
– Hypatia of Alexandria
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