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Creating Respect
It’s been a while since I did one of these. This one is close to my heart. I’ve never made it a secret that I’m not a fan of spanking your kids, but I’m aware that I don’t have any kids, so some people probably think my opinion’s a bit invalid. I am, however, my parents kid, so I have at least experienced part of the equation. It always bugs me when people in comments to articles on spanking/smacking launch into that old chestnut, “It never did me any harm”. I’ll be just sitting over here, in my little ivory tower, thinking “You’re, on a public forum, vociferously advocating violence…
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Pride
Update: I managed to lose the original image for this post when I moved domains. The original image had a poppy instead of an image of a veteran and was very much saying that this story is a reason to proudly wear a poppy. This image tells the same story. Even without the poppy it’s still a shit story and, I believe, that my point still holds. Woohoo, yeah! Old guys being patronisingly shitty to the French is totally the reason to wear your poppy with pride! Go racism! </sarcasm> This meme is both offensive to our veterans – by making them sound ignorantly racist – and fucking stupid in equating…
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Lessons From Twilight And Buffy
My response to this meme. Edward: I will stalk you, manipulate you, physically abuse you, treat you like an incompetent child and contemplate killing you regularly. Bella: That’s okay. I will just internalise your abuse as my fault and sink into a terrible depression at how terrible my life is, even though lots of people like me and my life’s not that much of a stress at all… apart from the self induced drama over you. Angel: I will stalk you, manipulate you, physically abuse you, treat you like an incompetent child, attempt to kill you, kill and torture your friends, cause you incredible angst over our ongoing relationship and…
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Female Role Models: Pop Verses Geek
An astonishing number of my friends on Facebook have shared this image (I tried to find who to credit it to, but only managed to get back to George Takei and that had no further credit). Or maybe this is not so surprising; a lot of my friends are sci fi fans and women. On first view it has a strongly feminist message, but this image is fascinating because it has so many more layers than that (and some are not that great). My first thought was a little puzzlement. All of these women – all of them, like them or not – are actually fantastic, for a variety of…
