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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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Equality And Privilege In Four (And A Bit) Really Simple Graphs
Please excuse the crudity of this model, I didn’t have time to build it to scale or to paint it. (points if you get that reference *wink*) This is my explanation of how the process of achieving equality is believed to work and how it actually should work. I’ve labeled the graphs with men and women, but it can also be applied to religion, sexual orientation, etc. anyplace there’s a dominant group and an other or others. We start with a graph of what a lot of people probably think the current situation is: In this belief, the place men are at is what we’re aiming for, and women are…
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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…
