February 2012
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… I’ve never understood the idea that cutie marks are super-evil and lock ponies into doing one thing for the rest of their lives. I mean, Twilight Sparkle is good with and studies magic, but her actual job is researcher and librarian. Pinkie Pie seems to be a pastry chef and does party planning more as a hobby. Rainbow Dash has a talent for speed, but her actual job is weather pony.
“He is rigid and a homophobic. He said, ‘I want a constitutional amendment to ban...”
– Former US Senator Al Simpson, (R-Wyo.) on Rick Santorum. In 2011, Simpson emailed me this statement on HB 74, a bill to ban recognition of same-sex marriage in Wyoming:
“I can’t imagine anything more inhuman, insensitive and unfair. Wyoming people believe in getting the government out of their...
Kris Straub (kris at krisstraub dot com):... →
krisstraub:
Just now I had a Twitter exchange with someone that gave me concern. I tweeted innocently that I was thinking about writing a novella related to or about my short horror story “Candle Cove,” which was originally published at my horror fiction site Ichor Falls.
I wrote it in a cubicle in my…
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My current Literature class is absurd...
The teacher complained about people not bothering to read his How To Take an English Exam PDF, apparently never actually checking on it to see that it was displaying in a manner that rendered it unreadable. Quizzes include questions that amount to “choose the correct interpretation of this poem/this poetic element.” I got marked down for selecting that a common theme of H.D.’s...
STFU, Sexists.: When to Shut Up (rebloggable by... →
I was going through your blog and happened upon your post about the wage gap (the one involving “theignoredgender.” Now, I don’t like to jump to conclusions so I wanted to go and see the video first and then judge. It hurt to try and watch the video and the insane hypothetical reasoning that…
“One popular classroom exercise, for example, employs Scotch Tape to demonstrate...”
– Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth (via wishful-sinful)
This was done in my “sex ed” class about 4 times in my grade school career.
(via the-sexpert)
WHO DOES THAT. Ugh. My faith in humanity is constantly diminishing.
(via becauseiamawoman)
This is so disgusting to me.
(via...
unknowable woman: It's really hard to feel bad... →
stfusexists:
anticapitalist:
amazingatheist:
I mean, are you people serious? I said something foolish that I regret, but you don’t regret what you’re saying at all. Do you think you’re making me feel bad? You’re just making me feel more justified. You’re showing yourselves to be every bit as…
Both of these people are fucking horrible. No more commentary necessary.
My final and ultimate position on "misandry".
stfusexists:
Here’s the thing; hatred and discrimination against men simply for being men is not something that exists in a powerful institutional form in the US, and I suspect the world as a whole, but being a US citizen, I can only speak to the US. This is evidenced by the wage gap (which really does exist), the disproportionate number of men in government power, the statistics of rape and DV...
Brilliant Democratic State Senator Tacks 'Every... →
stfusexists:
stfuhypocrisy:
Undaunted by the monumental failure of Personhood USA’s push to declare fertilized human eggs exactly the same as grown ass adults in Mississippi, conservatives in Oklahoma have pushed forward with their own Personhood Bill. But one Democratic smartass isn’t having it, and she finds the whole thing so absurd that she tacked on an amendment of her own that would...
Obama's "Controversial" Birth Control Rule On... →
stfusexists:
bridges-balloons:
stfusexists:
President Barack Obama’s decision to require most employers to cover birth control and insurers to offer it at no cost has created a firestorm of controversy. But the central mandate—that most employers have to cover preventative care for women—has been law for over a decade. This point has been completely lost in the current controversy, as...
Can someone call bullshit on this immediately so I...
stfusexists:
Seriously though…this cannot be real.
STFU, Sexists.: Can someone call bullshit on this... →
rexcerebri:
stfusexists:
Seriously though…this cannot be real.
What about the urinals that are either women bending over (always the position of submission where you cannot see their face because it doesn’t matter) or open huge lipstick colored mouths which are iconic symbols of…
“I’m glad that you played the Rachel Maddow clip because I think she is the best...”
– A Fox pundit, acting like a first grader. Take a guess, did anyone at the Conservative Political Action Conference condemn the comment? (via think-progress)
FUCK Cal Thomas. What a supreme asshole.
I just got home & actually saw the clip on Fox News of this fuck nut who said this about Ms....
“In the US, abortion is framed as a deeply moral and highly emotional issue. In...”
– via Feministing, “A new script for talking about abortion”
(thanks to keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus for sending this to me!)
“(The Presidents Agenda) It’s not about you. It’s not about your quality of life....”
– Rick Santorum (though you probably could have guessed that by now) calling the President’s faith a “phony theology.”
It actually gets worse than that, Santorum’s communications director clarified the comment by saying “Rick was talking about the President’s belief in the secular theology of...
It really is horrifying
stfusexists:
cyruspotnoodle:
ginger—gal:
vuhnessah:
that Kanye West got not only more flack, but a worse reputation for grabbing a microphone out of Taylor Swift’s hands and making a rude comment than Chris Brown did for beating his girlfriend until her face was unrecognizable.
White Woman Tears (TM) are a powerful thing.
And Janet Jackson hasn’t been invited back to the Grammys...
yobaba: Foster Friese To Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC:... →
stfusexists:
sarahlee310:
yobaba:
Foster Friese To Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC: “In My Day, Girls Used Aspirin For Birth Control” “They put it between their knees.”
Yep. He just said that on national TV.
Birth control is dependent on girls keeping their legs closed.
Friese is Santorum’s Sugar Daddy billionaire benefactor. The remainder of his interview was just as insightful. Sure to...
“The bottom line is my position is very clear. I’ve had a consistent record on...”
– Rick Santorum, who apparently doesn’t know the internet exists and that we’re not all a bunch of fucking stupid goldfish who can’t remember what he said five goddamn minutes ago. (via stfusexists)