Intolerance: a rant about pots and kettles

Originally posted on Tumblr.   Today my newspaper writes about how the DF’ers (That’s the Danish People’s Party – bunch of racist fucks) think that every hospital patient should have the right to refuse treatment by woman wearing a traditional muslim headscarf, and if not possible in that hospital, should have the right to be [...]

Apologies

I’ve been thinking a lot about apologies lately. Apologies are important. In fact, they are necessary for functioning amongst other human beings. Without them we’d probably all run around hating each other and taking our sweet revenge for all the slights committed against us, however small. Yeah, apologies are wondrous peace-makers, I believe. But at [...]

BADD pt.2: To Have Or Not To Have

In Part 1 of my BADD postings I took issue with, how someone who has lived with a person with a disability thinks they cannot possibly be ableist. “My mother/father/brother/friend/partner/boss/employee/whatevs is disabled, so I can’t be ableist” is NOT an appropriate defense when called out on hurtful language or actions. In this post I wish [...]

Patching Privilege

Via The Border House I became aware of a statement Blizzard has made about Freedom of Speech in WoW and in their forums. Basically, Blizzard’s statement says pretty much what most bloggers (or forum moderators) have at one point or another told a troll: “It’s a private establishment. We haven’t promised you free speech, and [...]

Anti-choice ‘feminist’ knows what you ought to think and feel

At least she says so. Faithfully Agnostic has recently posted two posts on how she makes her anti-choice stance match up with her proclaimed feminism. Of course, she calls it pro-life. I engaged for a while – mostly out of boredom – until I noticed something I had apparently not truly digested in my first [...]

Feminism: Explained for Ladybrains

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 [...]

They’re really opposed to breast reductions out there

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 [...]

Freedom of Speech no longer

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, [...]

Intimidation 101

If the situation is in no other way threatening to anyone, then, telling a person that you will not do X, will make that person think that X is exactly, what you’re planning to do. Example from the other day: Early in the morning I drive my boyfriend to work, ’cause I need to car [...]

Rape wasn’t really rape, but was rape, anyway

From the Copenhagen Post: A Jutland couple who made money from allowing men to have sex with two foreign teens living with them had their sentence extended The Western High Court in Århus today upheld the guilty sentence of a man and woman sentenced to prison for keeping two teenage Slovakian girls in their house [...]