Rambling thoughts on bullying

Originally posted on my Tumblr, now revised somewhat and re-posted here. I have seen people chased off a forum because of bullying. I have seen people have tearful break-downs because of bullying. I have had those break-downs myself. I have been bullied in meatspace – online I seem to have mostly escaped it, with a [...]

We Are Not Broken Souls

Well, let me start out with something nice. The media have, unfortunately, often shown and written about how parents of autistics (not to mention professionals) think autistics are empty shells or soulless husks. That is some seriously scary rhetoric right there, especially when you belong to the group they’re talking about. I don’t feel particularly [...]

Radio Host Opines: Woman Would Be Better Off Being Lied To

Just another day in the patriarchy. I listen to the radio when I drive. Just the music, though, as I tend to get distracted if I listen to people talk. That means I continuously cycle through my 4-5 pre-programmed stations during a ride, as I switch channels every time commercials are on and every time [...]

How to Give Your Daughter a Shitty Day

No, it’s not me who had a shitty day. I am, in fact, having a very nice day. I and my mum went shopping in Germany. Wine, beer, spirits, cheese, flour, jam, honey and candy comes in more variety and much cheeper there, so we have major huge re-stocking-the-kitchen trips twice or thrice a year. [...]

I Hate

Well, no. I really don’t. Hating takes so much energy, so much presence of mind. In my 26 years on this planet I have had only very, VERY few occasions to truly hate. Most of those were back in my childhood. I think, perhaps, as children we have a quicker route to the extreme ends [...]

Self-defense, murderous rage, same difference

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hardships make people stronger, who’d've guessed?

A couple of days ago a study was published here in DK, and every major news source covered its findings. Here’s the article from The Copenhagen Post. Mental illness is apparently less likely among children growing up with two mothers. The study found that while five percent of children from traditional families developed conditions such [...]

Who’s angry again?

WordPress has this lovely feature called tag surfer. I’ve found some wonderful blogs that way, and sometimes I find some less fantastic ones. A few days ago I found yet another post by an angry white male, who absolutely denies any white male anger to ever have existed. He’s not angry. Nope. Never. No, he [...]

An update

A while back I wrote about the state of sentencing in abuse-cases here in Denmark. Overall, our track record is not impressive. The couple who each got sentenced to 5 months for violently abusing the woman’s daughter during a period of (at least) 4 years, they appealed their case – as did the DA. Now [...]