[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- The Not-Quite-Daily Teaspoon Report
- "Remember: the teaspoon is an indivisible unit. If you done some, you done a whole teaspoonsworth. Be proud of your acts, no matter how small they seem, because that's how teaspoons work: little by little, the ocean gets emptied."
- This is totes what Jesus would do.
- "Ah, it reminds me of those lovely words spoken by the Savior during his Sermon on the Mount: 'And lo I beseech you to fuck over the homeless if the gays get too uppity.'"
- Meanwhile…
- "As Coakley is talking sense, [Bill Clinton] himself urges the Senate to go ahead and pass the healthcare bill…"
- A linkspam too far (12th November, 2009)
- * Dr. Susan Niebur has kindly posted a preprint of her published article on the underrepresentation of female planetary scientists in NASA mission teams [...]
* Sarah Stokely wonders if we really want to know what’s keeping women out of tech. [...]
* Why should you attend Girls in Tech’s Catalyst Conference?
* Because it sometimes needs repeating: a guide for the awkward ones.
* Women in Victoria, Australia, might be interested in the Women’s Leadership Grants, providing funding for projects and activities that develop capacity and increase opportunities for women to participate in leadership roles.” Applications close at the end of November.
[TRIGGER WARNING.]
- Cowards
- "The argument always, always, goes: No topic should be totally off-limits, and, you know, I actually agree with that. But context is everything.
"As is the perspective from which the joke is being told, and its intended audience: After I once observed acerbically in comments that anyone can participate in discussions of sexual assault 'even without the benefit (ha!) of having been raped,' Shaker Carleigh said, 'You are one of the handful of people on the planet that know how to make a rape joke funny.' To which I replied: 'That's because my rape jokes are for rape victims, not rapists.'
"Rapists and rape apologists loathe the sort of dark survivor humor that, contrary to diminishing and normalizing rape, instead casts in stark relief what a fucked-up rape culture we live in—and, by extension, how fucked-up rape, rape apologia, rapists, and their allies are. Nothing makes a rapist/apologist squirm like a joke that firmly implies he is a deviant piece of shit, told by a survivor whose devastating irreverence is evidence of a strength of character he can barely contemplate.
"The same goes for any bully: A racist, a misogynist, a homophobe, a transphobe, a disablist, a fat-hater, a xenophobe, a privileged jerk of any stripe who belligerently wields hir privilege like a weapon. They don't like being the butt of the joke.
"[...] It's hard to argue that it's impossible to be funny, be relevant, make a career that way when there's someone who's proven it eminently possible, and spectacularly so."
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