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Goddess grant me:
The power of Water,
to accept with ease &
grace what I cannot change.
The power of Fire,
for the energy & courage
to change the things I can.
The power of Air,
for the ability to know the
difference.
And the power of Earth,
for the strength to
continue my path.
(and the wisdom of the Center to hide the bodies of the people I had to kill because they pissed me off ;) )
(Note to the radfems I’m certain are spying on this blog: THAT WAS A JOKE)
My mother has birthed six children, and she forgets our names all the time. She usually ends up calling us “whoever you are”
My mom only has the two of us, but my dad, my brother, and myself all have names that begin or end with the same two letters. So she would just cycle through names until she got the one she was trying to shout at (because it was always shouting…)
Honoring Dr. Tiller: A Call for Collective (blog) Remembrance -
Tomorrow, May 31, marks the three year anniversary of Dr. Tiller’s murder. In the wake of increasing restrictionson later abortions and mounting violence against abortion clinics, we at the Abortion Gang and theProvider Project want to honor Dr. Tiller’s legacy of compassionate care by hosting a collective blog remembrance in response to this question: How can the pro-choice and reproductive justice movements better support the people who have later abortions and providers who perform them?
Your post can directly answer this question, or use it as a jumping off point to talk about other issues, such as:
In your post, please link back to this blog post so that folks can come here and find links to other reflections on Dr. Tiller.
The Abortion Gang and the Provider Project will post links to pieces written answering this question, starting Thursday, May 31 through the following Thursday, June 7. Please feel free to forward this call for posts to anyone who you think would be interested in honoring Dr. Tiller’s legacy. Send the links to your posts to info@iamdrtiller.com and lily@theproviderproject.org, or tweet them to @IAmDrTiller and @Provider Project.
Study finds TV can decrease self esteem in children, except white boys -
If you are a white girl, a black girl or a black boy, exposure to today’s electronic media in the long run tends to make you feel worse about yourself. If you’re a white boy, you’ll feel better, according to a new study led by an Indiana University professor.
Nicole Martins, an assistant professor of telecommunications in the IU College of Arts and Sciences, and Kristen Harrison, professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan, also found that black children in their study spent, on average, an extra 10 hours a week watching television.
“We can’t deny the fact that media has an influence when they’re spending most of their time — when they’re not in school — with the television,” Martins said.
Harrison added, “Children who are not doing other things besides watching television cannot help but compare themselves to what they see on the screen.”
Their paper has been published in Communication Research. Martins and Harrison surveyed a group of about 400 black and white preadolescent students in communities in the Midwest over a yearlong period. Rather than look at the impact of particular shows or genres, they focused on the correlation between the time in front of the TV and the impact on their self-esteem.
“Regardless of what show you’re watching, if you’re a white male, things in life are pretty good for you,” Martins said of characters on TV. “You tend to be in positions of power, you have prestigious occupations, high education, glamorous houses, a beautiful wife, with very little portrayals of how hard you worked to get there.
“If you are a girl or a woman, what you see is that women on television are not given a variety of roles,” she added. “The roles that they see are pretty simplistic; they’re almost always one-dimensional and focused on the success they have because of how they look, not what they do or what they think or how they got there.
“This sexualization of women presumably leads to this negative impact on girls.”
With regard to black boys, they are often criminalized in many programs, shown as hoodlums and buffoons, and without much variety in the kinds of roles they occupy.
“Young black boys are getting the opposite message: that there is not lots of good things that you can aspire to,” Martins said. “If we think about those kinds of messages, that’s what’s responsible for the impact.
“If we think just about the sheer amount of time they’re spending, and not the messages, these kids are spending so much time with the media that they’re not given a chance to explore other things they’re good at, that could boost their self-esteem.”
Martins said their study counters claims by producers that programs have been progressive in their depictions of under-represented populations. An earlier study co-authored by her and Harrison suggests that video games “are the worst offenders when it comes to representation of ethnicity and gender.”
Other research is starting to show the impacts of other kinds of entertainment sources, such as video games and hand-held devices. It indicates that young people are becoming creative at “media multitasking.”
“Even though these new technologies are becoming more available, kids still spend more time with TV than anything else,” Martins said.
Interestingly, the young people were asked about their consumption of print media, but the results were not statistically significant.
Martins conducted the research while she was completing her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, as part of a larger longitudinal study done with her co-author, Harrison. They sought out certain school districts in Illinois because of their diversity, but African-Americans were the predominant minority group.
I am pointing this out because there are way too many white women who still think that TV caters to males.
It doesn’t.
It caters to WHITE males.
That is all.
Today in “Duh, but maybe now that there’s an Official Study people will take it seriously?”…
(Source: sparkamovement, via knitmeapony)
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The file name here is “murderthug.png.” Because that is what the alias “Rose Verbena” represents - murderous thuggery.
[IMAGE: Two posts from an Internet message board. The first, from a user with the alias “Rose Verbena,” reads “Well then when McDonald gets beaten to death in prison, we can re-visit your vicious “Darwin Award” statement, m’kay? Because one of the BEST ways to ensure that you don’t get killed in prison is to…wait for it…stay out of prison. That is: don’t stab someone in the heart because you didn’t like their words.”The second, from a user with the alias “Kittyburger,” reads “Once again you are conveniently eliding (not “overlooking,” this is a deliberate elision done with the specific, malicious intent of painting CeCe as the aggressor) both the previous violence (previous as in “within the same half-hour”) and the fact that Schmitz was in hot pursuit BECAUSE OF the fact that neither CeCe NOR anyone in her group had previously presented the slightest threat to him.
You are being willfully deceitful. Stop.”]
What a really horrible person.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4uy4r9cU21qcwidbo1_500.png)
The file name here is “murderthug.png.” Because that is what the alias “Rose Verbena” represents - murderous thuggery.
[IMAGE: Two posts from an Internet message board. The first, from a user with the alias “Rose Verbena,” reads “Well then when McDonald gets beaten to death in prison, we can re-visit your vicious “Darwin Award” statement, m’kay? Because one of the BEST ways to ensure that you don’t get killed in prison is to…wait for it…stay out of prison. That is: don’t stab someone in the heart because you didn’t like their words.”
The second, from a user with the alias “Kittyburger,” reads “Once again you are conveniently eliding (not “overlooking,” this is a deliberate elision done with the specific, malicious intent of painting CeCe as the aggressor) both the previous violence (previous as in “within the same half-hour”) and the fact that Schmitz was in hot pursuit BECAUSE OF the fact that neither CeCe NOR anyone in her group had previously presented the slightest threat to him.You are being willfully deceitful. Stop.”]
What a really horrible person.
It is if the subject on which you “disagree” with me is my own humanity.
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In case anyone is wondering, I’m talking about Holly Lisle, because I don’t think she deserves anonymity over this. I’ve only read one of her books - Talyn - but it’s one of my favorites. I also have bought several of her mini-courses on writing, and paid like $250 over a year for her massive novel-writing/editing/etc course.
First of all I discovered via the lessons in her big course that she’s drunk a massive dose of bootstraps kool-aid. Claimed that an essential part of Being a Writer is “separating yourself from a victim mentality induced by groups (like the NAACP, NOW, etc) who profit from your belief that you’re a victim of society”. That sort of shit. Ew.
Then there was the blog post like six months ago where she railed against government art grants, literally saying they were akin to slavery, because “tax money is the government forcibly taking from the fruits of our labor and using it for their own purpose [just like slave owners did]”. What even the fuck. Quoting dictionary definition of slavery to “prove” her point. For bonus points, acting like slavery is a purely historical artifact, not something that continues today. Fucking disgusting.
Now, she’s talking about revamping her delivery systems for her courses, putting them on iTunes as ebooks and Nook and Kindle and whatnot, and also selling copies on her own site the way she has been doing but not quite the same; she’s also talking about going publisher-free and self-pub’ing any future novels she writes. And she asked for opinions on DRM and how she should handle that. Well, I chimed in along with over a hundred other people, most of whom (that I saw) were saying “the only thing DRM really does is hurt people who have legitimately paid for the content, when they upgrade a device or want to read it on a different platform or the site goes down and their DRM can’t connect/be read/whatever, so please don’t go that route.”
And then today there’s a new blog post sanctimoniously holding forth on people she thinks are feeling “entitled” because they only want to buy a book/course/etc once rather than multiple times, saying “well I used to buy multiple copies of physical books, even when I was only making $100 a week” and “well I don’t have a problem buying multiple copies for Kindle and iPad” literally following it with this:
If I valued the book enough to want it in two places, I paid for it in two places.
I do not want what I have not earned. I do without a lot of things because I cannot afford them.
Well, Ms. Snowflake (first name Special), I’m so glad you’re a perfect human being who loves to buy things multiple times over. But if you’re going to be a self-righteous fuckwad about it, why did you even bother asking for reader opinions???
Oh! And then there was the bit about “some people said if I release my work DRM’d they won’t buy it. Well if you said that, even if I do release it non-DRM, I don’t want you buying it anyway, because you tried to economically blackmail me!” Really? People expressing their opinions, WHICH YOU ASKED FOR, that they will choose not to purchase work that is DRM’d, is “economic blackmail”?
Honestly, this just really makes me want to take all the stuff I’ve downloaded that I legally bought, package it up in a nice little zip file, and email it to everyone I have ever exchanged emails with, just to spite her petulant libertarian ass.
