March 2012
22 posts
What does Dodgeball have to do with anything?
The 2004 comedy Dodgeball isn’t exactly a social-justice classic. It’s about a group of white ‘loser’ dudes, who take on a fitness conglomerate in a dodgeball tournament. Like most comedies, it’s got microaggressions galore. But it also has Steve the Pirate.
Steve is a pirate. It’s a nonsensical identity for a landlocked modern-day man to have, but...
[tw heterosexism]
shakethecobwebs:
So, a girl in my Women’s and Gender Studies class was talking about how she’s a spoken word poet and she’s written a poem to her gay sister about how her choices are tearing their family apart. At the end of her little rant, she goes “wait, what’s homophobia?”
THE AMOUNT OF SIDE-EYE IS UNMEASURABLE.
Is today really Easter?
I was told it is. I dunno.
i am home: I really dislike how the “Love Your... →
idiosyncratic:
scarbunkle:
idiosyncratic:
gallifreyanrose:
nolanslifeisaverage:
presidenttaftssecretponybrigade:
Yes, it’s a great thing, because all girls deserve to feel good in their skin and no one should have to feel the pressure of changing their body to conform to what everyone else wants.
But heavier girls aren’t the only ones with…
Thank you! Someone else has said what...
i am home: I really dislike how the “Love Your... →
idiosyncratic:
gallifreyanrose:
nolanslifeisaverage:
presidenttaftssecretponybrigade:
Yes, it’s a great thing, because all girls deserve to feel good in their skin and no one should have to feel the pressure of changing their body to conform to what everyone else wants.
But heavier girls aren’t the only ones with…
Thank you! Someone else has said what I’ve been saying. It’s so...
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Some people don't seem to get sex-positivity... →
This is a link. The article I am responding to is in the link. I ran across the linked article, which is a 10-point list against sex positivity, which manages to severely mischaracterize sex-positivity. I’m just gonna run through a point-by-point rebuttal, here.
“1. Sex is neither inherently ‘positive’ or ‘negative.’” Granted. But sex-positive is not...
Apparently, no one in the Arizona legislature has... →
Seriously. Shit like this does not fly under HIPAA. People, including your insurance company, aren’t allowed to tell your employer what you’re prescribed or why. They aren’t allowed to tell anyone, unless you sign a TON of paperwork.
Really. In order to let people talk about even things like billing, with not actual conditions discussed, you need to sign a damn release. ...
Freedom Without Exception: Do You Really Want to... →
logicallypositive:
Do You Really Want to Make Contraception More Accessible? Make Birth Control Available Over the Counter
Anyone — a local teenager, a traveling businessman, a married mother of four, an illegal immigrant, even a student at a Jesuit university — can walk into my…
Trusting women isn’t just a matter of trusting them to buy EC and get abortions. It’s about...
Freedom Without Exception: I do not doubt for a... →
I do not doubt for a second that those involved in KONY 2012 have great intentions, nor do I doubt for a second that Joseph Kony is a very evil man. But despite this, I’m strongly opposed to supporting the KONY 2012 campaign.
KONY 2012 is the product of a group called Invisible Children, a…
It’s easy to get swept up in what seems big and brilliant, but, all too often, the fervor...
i am home: Free thought, unless you're asexual,... →
sidneyia:
So I decided this and this deserved a better takedown when I’m not so fuming. No, I won’t be going back to the original thread because I think it will probably make me throw up. Yeah, I’m chickenshit, whatever.
What we have is a helpful third-party informing me that I’ve…
Y’know, while the person being taken down was unneccessarily snarky—“special...
Really need to see an orthopedic doctor about my knee. The question with regards to the muscles I’m using to limp is no longer “two ibuprofen, or three?” but “three ibuprofen, or four?”
Freedom Without Exception: Why 'if you don't like... →
just-smith:
Studying the Philosophy of Religion, my classmates and I applauded the logical rebuttals of many theological arguments by one Immanuel Kant, whose sensible objections made him (in our eyes) the embodiment of secular scepticism. Imagine our surprise, then, when the last of the…
Except that by and large, what pro-life does doesn’t support the idea that abortion kills...
One of These Things is Not True
The primary concern of a corporation is its ability to make a profit.
When a business provides health insurance to employees (as it is now required to), health care costs of employees are passed on to the business.
Birth control coverage reduces health care costs.
If we don’t mandate birth control coverage, most businesses won’t provide it.
(Obviously, this list doesn’t...
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If you do not get your child vaccinated, you are a...
Let me repeat that: if you do not get your child vaccinated, you are a fucking moron. I do not use this term lightly. Not vaccinating is stupid. It’s denying facts, in favor of paranoia, in ways that have real consequences. But it’s not even about the facts. Really. Even if anti-vaccination propaganda is true, not vaccinating is still fucking stupid.
Let’s, hypothetically,...
