July 2010
"Not Ever": Scottish Anti-Rape Campaign →
It’s pretty blunt, but we’ve got to challenge victim-blaming head-on.
waifsworld:
brave-slut:
stfusexists:
This fantastic ad came to me from inquisitart. Obviously, it’s a critically important issue, and one that needs to be pounded into the heads of absolutely every person the world over. I really hope that we start seeing ads similar to this in the states.
Iceland Legalizes Gay Marriage, Prime Minister...
I cannot wait to see how the anti-equality and anti-female world deals with this. It will be EPIC.
waifsworld:
eatingcheese:
We missed this awesome news: Iceland has not only legalized gay marriage this past weekend, but its Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir married her long-term partner on the day it took effect, making her the world’s only national leader with a same-sex...
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June 2010
Watchwaifsworld:
Rachel Maddow rips John Boehner to shreds and uses his own words, captured on video, to demonstrate what a clueless dope he is.
Priceless.
“Geek communities (particularly, in my experience, geek men) see themselves as...”
– Interesting. Any of my geek girls have thoughts? @geekgirldiva, @geekgirls?
Courtney Stoker on Feminist Geek - The Sexist - Washington City Paper
This is interesting—and not something I’d really thought so much about before. As a Feminist Geek myself, I can relate.
(via champagnecandy)
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Doctor Who 30 Day Challenge
I may have to do this. Not now, but between now and Christmas. Probably November. A 30-day month. Or, possibly, like an Advent Calendar, in December.
I geek hardcore for the Doctor.
Day 01 - Your Favorite Quote
Day 02 -Your Favorite Classic Series Episode
Day 03 - Your Favorite New Series Episode
Day 04 - Your Favorite Doctor
Day 05 - Your Favorite Companion
Day 06 - Whatever Tickles Your...
“Much leads up to a scene in a tent on a mountaintop in the midst of a howling...”
– THIS. Buahahaha.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews
Ebert made me LOL with this one.
(via champagnecandy)
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Doctor Who - What's the point?
“…Then what’s the point of you?” - Amy Pond What is the point of Doctor Who? Is there a point to Doctor Who? Well… Yes. I’ll leave analysis of the Classic series to far more knowledgeable and capable hands, thank you. New Who is where my nerdy little heart resides. What exactly is the point of Doctor Who and why does it matter? One word: Hope. It’s...
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The most beautiful Tardis ever →
I would pretty much walk on broken glass to own this. Not only because it’s Whovian, but because it is one of the most beautiful pieces of modern art I’ve ever seen.
Human foetus feels no pain before 24 weeks, study... →
I hate that we have to arm ourselves with this information, but I’ll take what tools I can find.
waifsworld:
The human foetus feels no pain before 24 weeks, according to a major review of scientific evidence published today. The connections in the foetal brain are not fully formed in that time, nor is the foetus conscious, according to the Royal College of Obstetricians and...
Opinions of a Wandering Waif: Americans United... →
From People for the American Way email:
An important new poll commissioned by People For the American Way shows that Americans of every political stripe resoundingly reject the Roberts Court’s dangerous decision in Citizens United v. FEC, which opened the floodgates of unlimited corporate cash…
Genital Mutilation At Cornell Medical Center
Science and medicine are wonderful. Except when they aren’t. Research is an area fraught with ethical conundrums. We see public outcry over embryos being used in stem cell research. These are, mind you - embryos that would otherwise literally be down the drain. Embryos that could contribute greatly to ending human suffering, as stem cell research progresses. Then we have ...
Why I hate Father's Day
Some people have fathers who love them. I don’t. I have a father that wishes I were dead, or blinked out of existence. I have a father who has, since I was five, considered me a personal inconvenience, thorn-in-his-side and all-around very-bad-thing. My father pretends I don’t exist, except when people ask him about me point-blank. At which point, he’s got a very convincing...
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Dear England, it's nothing personal
Full disclosure: I am an unapologetic Anglophile. I cheer for England in football, (prefer Man U when not international matches.
I’m also an unapologetic environmental activist. I believe we need to go to rehab, when it comes to fossil fuels, and we missed a huge opportunity back in the late 70s, to do so.
That said…
Dear England,
It’s not personal....
Fierce...Flawless...: and really, would people... →
YES, THIS. All of this is exactly true.(via @telegantmess on twitter.)
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dorianisms:
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YES.
I’m so tired of hearing, “God, we should just show everyone that eats fast food Supersize Me and Food, Inc. That’d teach them to learn how to braise organic okra in a Le Creuset casserole dish and serve it at 7:00 PM sharp after Millicent returns from horseback riding!”…
Muesdays
Muesday, (noun) The Tuesday after a Bank/Federal Holiday weekend, in which Tuesday takes on some of Monday’s less attractive qualities.
Today was a Muesday. There was a strange sort of sloooow chaos afoot at work. Even before I got there, the electrical transformer serving my street randomly blew out, letting off a rifle-crack report that kinda freaked me out for a minute.
Bad things...
