[Bernadette Powell, a black woman from Ithaca, New York, is now serving a 15-year-to-life sentence … because in 1978 she shot and killed her ex-husband.] [T]he Tompkins county prosecutor … argued … that [she] had no reason to fear bodily harm from her ex-husband because although the man admittedly had committed many violent acts against …
October 2023 archive
Oct 24 2023
What if all news were written this way?
From the RadFem News Service the news, without the male-supremacist spin (LOVE that!) “Today, one Dr. Frank Ochberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Michigan State University and former Associate Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, reports for CNN that boys and men are responsible for almost all school shootings, consistently, around the world. …” Read …
Oct 21 2023
Shriver on healthcare costs
from “In Defense of Death,” in Abominations, Lionel Shriver “In the United Kingdom, 40 percent of the government’s budget goes to the National Health Service …” (p222) “Alas, for many patients, we don’t extend life but drag out death …” (p225) Among the recommendations attributed to Daniel Callahan (Taming the Beloved Beast) … “Return to …
Oct 20 2023
The Frightening Cluelessness of PoliSci Students
“I was studying political science at the time, so I had never thought about social processes like misogyny and sexism.” What? What? (from https://narratively.com/i-was-an-angry-mens-rights-activist-now-im-a-fierce-feminist/)
Oct 15 2023
Let me tell you how much I HATE MEN! (reblogged)
https://elementalwitch.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/let-me-tell-you-how-much-i-hate-men/ And here it is (in case it disappears): I’m a feminazi. I laugh at men, but not at their stupid jokes. I want to take away their porn—erm, sorry, I mean “free speech.” I won’t fuck them or flirt with them. I don’t find them interesting. I think they look like mutants. I hate…I …
Oct 10 2023
Great bit from wwomenwwarriors
From “It is my judgement in these things that when you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it, and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. I don’t think anybody opposed …
Oct 10 2023
good bit from Graeber’s “Bullshit Jobs”
“If 1% of the population controls most of its disposable wealth, what we call ‘the market’ reflects what THEY think is useful or important, not anybody else.” “Bullshit Jobs,” David Graeber (p.xx)
Oct 05 2023
She wanted it.
She was dressed like a slut = She wanted it She was dressed all prim and proper = She wanted it She was aggressive = She wanted it She was submissive = She wanted it She ran = She wanted it She didn’t run = She wanted it She was afraid = She wanted it …
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