Feel for poor Lauren Rankin, a graduate student in Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, assuaging her deep guilt over her cis-privilege assumptions about abortion by rending her garments in public At this crucial moment for reproductive freedom and abortion access, the abortion rights movement stands at yet another crossroads: How do we adequately address and include those who have abortions but are not women? We must acknowledge and
August 1, 2013
Please don’t call abortion a ‘women’s issue’! You’re engaging in cissexism & make people of indeterminate gender cry! [Darleen Click]
“Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack”
Many of us had surmised this — between the ambassador’s strange meetings, the nearby annex, rumors of attempts to recover ground to air missile launchers, etc., — the whole story has never added up. And a man still sits in jail for a video, his government at the highest levels, with pre-knowledge of his innocence, having determined to use him as a scapegoat in order to hide their own massive
“McCain’s Senate takeover has consequences”
We in the literary field refer to headlines like the one chosen by ALG litotes. I can’t remember when it was — maybe a week or so back — but I predicted that John McCain might single-handedly (well, with some reach around help from Princess Lindsay, natch) bring down the GOP. Frankly? I hope the old dust-farting phony and angry statist tyrant does just that. Kind of like nuking it
EDUCATION SHOCKER: Inside Higher Ed gobsmacked to find faddish, balkanizing identity politics creates racial and educational divide
I know. I, too, was stunned. I mean, when’s the last time leftist theoreticians have taken over control of governed institutions, implemented social engineering policies that essentially promote special dispensations for favorited specialty group enclaves, and the result hasn’t been a kind of United Colours of Benetton quilted Utopia of culturally diverse bliss? So sure, things may not be working out now. But you can’t blame the racialists or the
I am a bug light for crazies
(With thanks to Bacon Ninja on Twitter for that apt description). I don’t know what it is, really. I mean, I’m a real charmer when I wish to be. And yet I seem to cause certain personality types no end of grief — and with each new attempt to counter me or wound me with their words, things just seem to get worse and worse for them until, at long
August fundraising post is here [sticky; new posts below; THURSDAY UPDATE]
This call for contributions goes out, lonely, into the vast empty wilderness of a once teeming cyberspace solar system drawn inextricably to the force of the protein wisdom sun. Such illumination! Such heat! But then those stupid, jut-jawed aliens with the heads shaped like schlongs and acid for blood were set loose, and as a result, cyber space is a cold and “realist” wasteland, where John McCain now essentially runs
