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 [...]

Murderer? Then you’re autistic

Find my headline problematic? Offensive? Inaccurate? Good. It’s supposed to be. It’s pretty close to being a summary of what my hitherto preferred Danish newspaper said on June 1st. Yes, you read that right. That day the paper’s op. ed. was written by Tøger Seidenfaden. I will not post all of it here as it [...]

Appropriation. Take 24987…

I was channel surfing the other day. Ran into a music video. This one. Lyrics: Hey, I’m in love, My fingers keep on clicking to the beating of my heart. Hey, I can’t stop my feet, Ebony and ivory and dancing in the street. Hey, it’s because of you, The world is in a crazy, [...]

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 [...]

No one would ever…

In a discussion elsewhere the case of the Mohammad cartoons came up. I’m not going to go into the issue of whether it was right or wrong of the newspaper to publish them. I’m too tired, busy and distracted to revisit that one right now. However, in that discussion elsewhere, it was stated that an [...]

In-game Romances

In more and more role-playing games (pc and console) it has become possible to enact a romance with an NPC (non-player character). Of course this must lie in the script from the makers, or it must be created by loyal fans, who are willing(and able) to write what they feel are missing in the game. [...]

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 [...]

Attention: Women are all the same

Once again due to my use of the Readomattic, I have come across genuine stupidity on the net. (Yes, really) Sometimes I really must wonder where it all comes from. This time it is from a man, A. Guy Maligned, who according to his presentation of himself has been with his significant other for 54 [...]

Or he might have been a tourist

Yesterday with all the whoopla about the IOC congress there was wall-to-wall coverage of the whole damn thing. It wasn’t possible to get any decent news from anywhere else in the country (or outside it for that matter) for several hours. All cams were focused on President Obama just like they were focused on Michelle [...]