For those who read via RSS, there’s new information on my Open Letter to Feministing. Please spread the word. And please cosign if you haven’t already.
The thing about being poor, which many people with money do not understand, is that sometimes, there is no more money.
Comcast wants to take some of my Hulu away! Nooooo!
Sociological Images explores the question “what is real rape?” in light of the recent confusion highlighted by varying responses to the Polanski case.
You know what happens when people lack access to safe abortion? People end up spending a lot of money dealing with the aftermath of unsafe abortions.
Sweet Machine talks about the Nice Guy trope, and how even generally awesome people can get caught up in it and fuck up. (I’m looking at YOU, Randall Munroe!)
People with disabilities experience violent crime at a rate 1.5 times higher than that of the temporarily able bodied population. Guess who is most at risk? That’s right, women with disabilities. See also the link in comments to Anna’s speech at Take Back the Night, which specifically referenced the fact that the most up to date statistics available were 21 years old. If you don’t collect statistical data, apparently that means you get to magically ignore what’s happening?
The funny thing about walls is that they can be deadly, so, surprise surprise, there’s been a rise in documented deaths along the US-Mexican border since the border fence has been put up and expanded. For the record, I thought the border fence was a monumentally unwise, wasteful, and hateful project.
Annaham has written an excellent letter to Feministing. So has Amandaw, who also added some specific recommendations for how Feministing could work on its ableism problem. More linky goodness on ableist language and efforts to get people to stop using it.
In a year, the LAPD has halved their backlog of DNA testing. So, maybe there wouldn’t have been a backlog at all if they had, you know, stayed on top of things.
Taking away Hulu won’t stop a lot of people who get their TV online. They’ll just get it somewhere else, probably not legally, and without any advertising.
What does Obama have to do with Whoopi Goldberg’s comments? She’s not part of the government, or particularly affiliated with him.
I also was a bit uncomfortable with that particular xkcd strip. Not because of the content of the strip itself — I think the whole “Hay ur a geek too” thing is awesome most of the time and am quite gleeful when it happens IRL — but because I suspected that people would… expand that to cover other kinds of comments.
very true about hulu, Aoede. I already know many people who watch everything on other, not necessarily legal sites, and it would just open the door for more of those.