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nilchanceNot a toy, a great editorial on how fucked it is to give animals as presents. Usually rescues end up mopping up after THAT decision.
Air fresheners stink: after reading about the harmful contents in this article, I will never use a damn air freshener again. Unregulated, you say? Ugh.
Felinity and femininity, a neat essay about how felines and females intersect. I'm both a daughter of Bast and a lover of cats, so I kinda adored this.
On ownership, marking the body and tattooing as a feminist act: actually, my dad AND both my uncles had reactions eerily similar to the one described by the author. "I'd have never let you do that." LET me? And my brother has tattoos that go by without any such commentary.
Food and elitism, or how the current local/organic food trends can be exclusionary if you don't own a car, have tons of time, or make more than a certain amount per year. I struggle with this a lot just trying to get fresh fruits/vegetables in the house and dodging migraine triggers, let alone eating only local or organic foods.
Advocate this: "They aren’t “playing the devil’s advocate.” They are supporting the status quo. And while they might argue that I need to “think about the arguments of the other side” to better prepare myself to argue with people who genuinely believe these things, I already know what the arguments of the other side are. I don’t need to have them brought up as hypothetical points. Because I hear them every day. I am living with the status quo."
In which I babble about writing minorities: "Really, you can't do anything without SOMEONE having a problem with it. But what you CAN do is learn what the usual problems are, and try to work around (or even WITH) them." I love the TV tropes links there, and have fallen on them like a rabid hyena.
I know you mean well, an awesome post by Justine Larbalestier re: fellas on how about how not to derail a post.
The abridged Atlas Shrugged: everything I know about objectivism, I learned from this and from Bioshock.
Air fresheners stink: after reading about the harmful contents in this article, I will never use a damn air freshener again. Unregulated, you say? Ugh.
Felinity and femininity, a neat essay about how felines and females intersect. I'm both a daughter of Bast and a lover of cats, so I kinda adored this.
On ownership, marking the body and tattooing as a feminist act: actually, my dad AND both my uncles had reactions eerily similar to the one described by the author. "I'd have never let you do that." LET me? And my brother has tattoos that go by without any such commentary.
Food and elitism, or how the current local/organic food trends can be exclusionary if you don't own a car, have tons of time, or make more than a certain amount per year. I struggle with this a lot just trying to get fresh fruits/vegetables in the house and dodging migraine triggers, let alone eating only local or organic foods.
Advocate this: "They aren’t “playing the devil’s advocate.” They are supporting the status quo. And while they might argue that I need to “think about the arguments of the other side” to better prepare myself to argue with people who genuinely believe these things, I already know what the arguments of the other side are. I don’t need to have them brought up as hypothetical points. Because I hear them every day. I am living with the status quo."
In which I babble about writing minorities: "Really, you can't do anything without SOMEONE having a problem with it. But what you CAN do is learn what the usual problems are, and try to work around (or even WITH) them." I love the TV tropes links there, and have fallen on them like a rabid hyena.
I know you mean well, an awesome post by Justine Larbalestier re: fellas on how about how not to derail a post.
The abridged Atlas Shrugged: everything I know about objectivism, I learned from this and from Bioshock.
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Date: 2010-02-27 09:23 pm (UTC)