Posts tagged “Queer”
What I’ve Noticed
The rapists who don’t get caught are smart, misogynist predators, not confused young men. (via Michael Alan Miller) Teaching teenagers about healthy relationships reduces teen pregnancy. (via OPT) Unfortunately, about the only people who get a decent sex education in the US grow up on a farm. Obama gives the go-ahead for offshore drilling, reneging on […]
What I’ve Noticed
Dollhouse is over. It was a great show. When Americans say they want to cut NASA’s budget, they think they’re talking about a budget of more than 600 billion instead of about 15 billion. Female orgasm described as ‘abhorent’ and banned on film in Australia along with small breasted women. Unsurprisingly, the standard does not […]
What I’ve Noticed
It’s more expensive to be gay. The Straight Girl’s Guide to Sleeping with Chicks. I’m beginning to think straight women don’t actually exist. Mac vs. PC hilarity. Another health insurance company screws over another sick person. Frat boys that aren’t awful human beings. Hooray feminism! Nike resigned from the board of the Chamber of Commerce […]
What I’ve Noticed: Really Long Edition
Between things like steep fines and jail time for the “crimes” of being poor and/or a person of color and being unable to get a job because of poor credit, it’s almost impossible to escape poverty in the US. Yesterday was the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in WWII. Still sucks to be a woman in […]
What I’ve Noticed
Finding effective treatments for Lyme disease and other chronic illnesses has become much more difficult. As usual, it’s all about the money: The problem, they say, started back in 1980, when Ronald Reagan changed the rules governing how scientists (and the entities they work for) profit from their work. Where scientists used to gain fame […]
What I’ve Noticed
My university, like many others across the country, is facing unbelievable budget cuts (40%!!!). They’re cutting programs and employees right and left. What I don’t get is why they aren’t cutting athletics. “Corrective rape” of lesbians in South Africa goes unprosecuted. Incredibly bad news for women in Arizona. Come back, Janet! Dear Famous Asshole Neurologist […]
What I’ve Noticed
After Katrina, a white neighborhood militia murdered blacks who wandered into “their” neighborhood. Disgusting, and a stark reminder that racism is far from eliminated in this country. An NYT editorial and Glenn Greenwald call for accountability after the Senate Armed Services Committee inquiry into the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody was released this week. […]