In which I feel forced to remind people that (a) it’s not okay to be a dick to children, no matter whose kids they are, and (b) it’s also not okay to use autism as an insult. Because apparently these things need saying.
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Photo: “Telelobotomy,” by MattysFlicks, CC BY 2.0 A special Thursday edition of Feminist Friday. *** I promise by the end of this you’ll understand why Feminist Friday is happening on a Thursday. But first, look, […]
Donald J. Trump’s pick for the head of the FDA is a longtime opponent of the FDA, but one of his deleted tweets has one of the most spectacularly awful ideas I’ve ever heard.
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In which our PoW (Prudence of Wyoming) says what a lot of people are thinking about Congress this morning. Just FYI, there will be “language” in this post.
Photo: jeanbaptisteparis, CC BY-SA 2.0 As part of my complicated relationship with my gender, I’ve always hated my tendency to cry when I’m frustrated or despairing, because of the way tears are coded as “feminine” […]
This is a post just for my American readers today.
I’m not going to pretend I don’t have any political opinions. In another year, I might even say it doesn’t matter who you vote for, just that you do get out there and vote.
But this year, if you’re a skeptic, there’s a pretty stark choice…
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Have you ever had one of those weeks where basically nothing goes to plan? Guess what this past week has been for me. On Thursday, I was certain I knew what I wanted to talk about for Feminist Friday this week. I was so pleased, because it was going to be a positive story, one about the increasing representation of queer female characters in comics. (I’m still going to write that one soon, because it makes me happy.)
Then Friday happened.
The Tape happened. ‡
Sometimes, I wonder what I’d do without Alex Jones. If I’m having a bad day, or I’m short on things that are completely barking mad to post, I just think “what’s Alex Jones been up to?” and there it is. This week, Jones declared that both Secretary Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama are demons. Literally.
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Tim Murphy has an article up today in Mother Jones about the strangest of Trump campaign bedfellows, the conspiracy-theory-peddler Alex Jones and his fearmongering site Infowars. I don’t like linking to it. It doesn’t deserve the traffic. But it’s easy enough to find if you want to go down that rabbit hole. I did. I wish I hadn’t.
Infowars is a cesspool of racism, sexism, and instigation of fear. It’s so full of reasons straight white men should be afraid of things, it’s like watching this year’s Republican National Convention look in a mirror and call itself sexy. Here’s a sampling of today’s “headlines,” just for reference:
Weekly World News, eat your heart out.
