Posted on November 12, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
Over at HealthBase I did a search, knowing full well from Sady of Tiger Beatdown’s description that it was horribly flawed.
I searched in Asperger’s Syndrome. My own disability. Aside from not being treatable with drugs and HealthBase suggesting the first 5 pharmaceuticals to treat it with (symptoms and bonus diagnoses might be drug-treatable), and under [...]
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Posted on October 28, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
I use the tag surfer and the Readomattic with great pleasure. Sometimes it brings me to awesome blogs the existence of which I didn’t know of. For instance it caused the recent addition of Feminist Whore to my blogroll. However, it also sometimes brings me to blogposts about feminism, written by people who have no [...]
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Posted on October 5, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
Recently there’s been a lot of concern about the use of force in psychiatric wards here in Denmark. Many stories of patients being restrained to their beds for weeks on end have rolled over the headlines, and the Council of Europe have expressed concern that there seems to be an overuse of patient restraints in [...]
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Posted on September 24, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
I’m all for receiving exports from you in terms of science, inventions, good books, music and actors. That’s cool. But there’s one thing I would’ve appreciated you’d have kept for yourselves:
40 Days For Life
This despicable anti-abortion propaganda group has now begun their first serious campaign. On the road leading to Holbæk hospital they have placed [...]
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Posted on August 18, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
On Sunday night the news broke that a 13 year old girl had died after having a fight with her father. Not long after the media started speculating that she must have been mentally ill. Surprise! An article in English has this to tell:
Odense man charged with murder says he was only trying to knock [...]
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Posted on August 9, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
From the sometimes strange and sometimes frightening list of search terms that bring people to this blog I have drawn these little tidbits.
woman wants breast reduction
That one appears rather neutral. No problem there. But then the ‘fun’ starts.
breast reductions are bullshit
why women should not get breast reductions
how to talk a girl out of breast reduction
breast [...]
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Posted on July 24, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
I wish I could be surprised. I really do. But I’m not.
I haven’t been able to find this piece of news in the English news sources from Denmark, so you’ll just have to make do with a link to a Danish news source and my post here.
A trans woman was arrested, the news story doesn’t [...]
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Posted on July 12, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
In Ireland legislation to ban blasphemy has been passed. This is a huge step backwards for the Catholic nation in the Atlantic. The law not only makes blasphemy illegal and punishable by a considerable fine, it also grants the police the right to enter and ransack premises, where blasphemous material is suspected to be kept, [...]
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Posted on July 6, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
Laurelin:
if you are a consumer of pornography, you have a vested interest in it, you benefit from it, and therefore your word on how wonderful and harmless it is is seriously compromised.
And:
Survivors of sexual violence have a vested interest in opposing pornography. Without it, they would benefit from not having their abuse shown over and [...]
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Posted on July 6, 2009 by Jemima Aslana
Sometimes I just want to cry: Boobie Burglary
Police are interested in anyone who may have recently increased their cup size after a pair of implants was stolen
Police responded to an unusual theft at a hospital in Grindsted, mid-Jutland, recently, after it was reported that a pair of silicone breasts had been stolen from an operating theatre, [...]
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