November 2011
32 posts
For those of you unfamiliar with New York and their laws regarding condoms. →
feministe.us
so many depressing things going on in the world. I like to think people are starting to get serious about the intrusion of government into people’s lives, particularly police. But then again our democracy is so feckless right now it’s hard to be optimistic.
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“One of the Republican weaknesses is that we rely too much on consultants and too much on talking points, and we don’t rely enough on actually knowing things.”
— Newt Gingrich • In an interview with David Brody. Not quite sure what the political calculus is here, as admitting publicly that your entire party doesn’t know what it’s talking about is rarely good politics. However, not “actually knowing things” would seem to be a disqualifying factor for someone running for president, so Newt’s obviously exempting himself from this assessment. source (via • follow)
How absurd, to take a statement about the over calculation that plagues modern politics and try and analyze “the political calculus.”
Today’s date: 11/11/2011
Two thousand years ago: 11/11/11
Few people reckoned dates based on the birth of Jesus when he was in his teens…
#260
I wish the knitting community was more sex positive.
I guess you’re not going to like this abstinence sweater…
“White people default and refer to hip hop videos, Latino telenovelas, & extremely conservative Muslim practices to mournfully shed silent, condescending tears over the “sexism” they see in our cultures, without batting an eye at the extreme ignorance, hypocrisy, and racism in their words. They simultaneously ignore the many women of color who themselves have seen the sexism in their cultures and wish and work tirelessly to see it eradicated, the best and only people suited for such a job in the first place. They forget how privileged they are over the many women of color who are immigrant, who live in poverty, who are undocumented, who are living in third world countries, all to whom which mainstream white feminist history, culture, and rhetoric means absolutely nothing, and just isn’t relatable or accesible in any concievable way, shape, or form, no matter how many “White Saviors” might say otherwise. They forget how imperialism and colonization historically enacted by their ancestors in the past and by them in the current day IS AGGRAVATING and CREATING the sexism and lack of human rights WOC experience.”
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(via theangryblackwoman)
I absolutely understand how easily people will ignore the sexism in their own cultures while simultaneously preaching at others. What I will not accept is that we should simply allow somebody else to take care of these problems. I live in this society, and sexism directed at any races is a problem for all of us, not least of which because I am a gay male and homophobia comes from people of all colors and is well demonstrated to be tied to the respect (or lack their of) of women. I will also not accept a designation of “white people” without questioning who is lumped in with whiteness and who is not, and without seeing that this is a society and a country which is at its heart deeply racist, and which produces racism in people from every race, ethnicity, creed, sex, sexuality, etc.
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