Oh, you know what else that list has in common? Not really known for being great for -other- women; including, but not limited to, reproductive rights.
"...so he's all like, 'I'm a good person! I run an orphanage for children with AIDS in Africa!' And I'm all, 'that doesn't make you a good person, that makes you--'"
The counter guy glances over at me.
From Iowa Independent:
Stating that a major violation of trust had occurred, District Court Judge Don Courtney sentenced Iowa blogger and self-proclaimed male feminist Kyle Payne to serve time in the Buena Vista County Jail for invasion of privacy.
Erm, I meant to say, of course, THAT'S NOT FUNNY. frownie.
TRUE Lesbian Feminism, Part 1
Let me tell you about lesbianism.
to wit, "Let's you and me duke it out some more over whether your marriage is valid, even though mine is completely safe no matter what happens and the state Supreme Court already ruled in your favor: fair's fair.
i.e. Meanie Meanerton continued.
Sorry, I appreciate Debi taking the time to rebut the idea that
"women are being divided into two camps - pro trans and anti trans.
Just, first of all, read this, okay.
A teenager has been cleared of killing a transsexual woman found strangled in her south London home.
source
at Global Comment:
What horrifies is me is not just the violence, as if it isn’t bad enough, but the fact that being ethnically half-Russian and half-Ukrainian, I grew knowing that the Georgians are our friends.
Update on this post, as reported by Woc PhD:
While Jon Justice continues to enjoy full privileges as a radio host after posting mock sexual assault videos in which he made racist comments about Latinas and immigrants while assaulting a piñata with public defender Isabel Garcia’s face pasted to it (see [PBW's] original post for more), his efforts to have Garcia dismissed from her job as a public
Except for, he's not actually kidding, alas...
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...but I thought I'd just get the jump for once.
See, SnowdropExplodes has a follow-up on the cartoon business from last week, trying to explain one last time why some people were having their "racism!" buttons pushed by it (hint, it's not always black and white, yeah?) by digging up some good ol' Der Sturmer cartoons.
It’s not a radical, politically oriented decision to *not* rape somebody or *not* punch them in the face.
Via Monica Roberts:
Basically, some walking shitstain called Alan Ray Andrade went out with Angie Zapata, had sex with her, and then, upon discovering that she did not have the genitalia he felt entitled to, killed her.
Via The Curvature: (yes, I got the same chutzpahriffic email)
So, yesterday I got an email actually from Kyle Payne telling me that he would be putting up a statement on his blog today regarding “recent events in [his] life.
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I'm admittedly a half-assed pagan at best these days, much less actually Hindu (holy appropriation, Batgirl!) but I do know this much:
"Kali is not your personal army.
from the comments of this post:
"critics of porn and sex work often bring to the table their own notions of what sex is and take that as normative.
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Reposting in full with her permission, as originally posted at Sexual Ambiguities [with some more added hyperlinks].
...and they come in flavors like chocolate chip, and chocolate mint fudge, and everything you supposedly want.
Launch edition of the Carnival of Progressive Christians is up at A Secret Chord.
and then, belatedly, the latest Carnival of Sexual Freedom and Autonomy at Kaleidoglide.
-siiiiiiiiiiigh-
Renegade was addressing this post by Nine Deuce, and at first I was--lazily, I admit it--just sort of responding off of RE's response, briefly, because honestly, I just didn't want to get into it, and I didn't want to go over there and really engage.