Sep 06
My awesome and wise friend Kathleen told me something her also awesome and wise mother told her: You can tell a lot about someone by how they treat strangers. I was a teenager or in my early twenties when she relayed that wisdom to me, and I was not old enough to get it. Now, …
Aug 23
Here is the it of it: I believe almost every woman in America has either been sexually misused or is close to a woman who has. I, myself, know more women who have been raped, molested, or sexually abused, than women who have not. We are full of rage. This isn’t even about abortion anymore. …
Aug 21
Sunday, I think I actually started foaming at the mouth because of the Akin craziness. Seriously, I’m pretty sure my saliva glands started to overproduce, and I could feel the convulsions coming on. I went on the Twitter and spazzed out. I always spazz out on Twitter because it feels the most like I am …
Aug 17
We live in a society of self-loathing. There is a lot of profit in people hating themselves. There is something intrinsically wrong with nurturing a society who turns in on itself and focuses on what we hate and obsesses on how to fix it. We are told our bodies, our faces, our teeth, our goals, …
Aug 14
Here is my problem for today’s blog: everything heavy on my mind is shit that I really don’t think would make blogs I would want to write. I’ve been in an almost non stop writing frenzy until yesterday. I love it. I makes me feel energized and awesome. And tired, it makes me feel very …
Aug 07
I had determined not to write about current events. I’ve made a few feminist mini-rants on my site’s Facebook page, but that is because I’m a dirty feminist. Still, I was going to rant about current events. I can’t do that though. I need to say things. The shootings in the Sikh temple in Oak …
Aug 02
Gurney Halleck told Paul Atreides “Mood’s a thing for cattle or lovemaking or playing the baliset. It’s not for fighting.” Yes, I just quoted Dune at you. It is one of my favorite books in the history of ever. I am worn out. I am so sick of hate and arguing and chicken. I realized …
Jul 31
I’m sticking with something big and important happened yesterday, I just don’t know what it is. It will take some time for me to be proven wrong to my satisfaction. It is the great thing about being an oddly positive person. My muscles are twitching all over my neck, shoulders, and the base of my …
Jul 14
I believe in being nice. I do. I believe in examining my emotions and handling them the in the most productive way possible. I don’t believe in using my emotions as a weapon. I believe believe believe these things. Mother fuckers, sometime I just want to throw a fit. I know it isn’t productive. I …
Jun 20
Okay. okay, hold on to your hats cats and kittens, we are about to have another feminist rant. This spawns from a Facebook thing between the lovely women at Rock The Slut Vote and another well written fellow feminist Wendy Gittleson, who wrote a blog about the use of the words slut and vagina. She …
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