The Night is Young
June 2013
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May 2013
3 posts
“It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”
—Mark Twain
April 2013
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March 2013
6 posts
“The Steubenville rape victim was certainly someone’s daughter. She may have been someone’s sister. Someday she might even be someone’s wife. But these are not the reasons why raping her was wrong. This rape, and any rape, was wrong because women are people. Women are people, rape is wrong, and no one should ever be raped. End of story.
The “wives, sisters, daughters” line of argument comes up all the fucking time. President Obama even used it in his State of the Union address this year, saying,
“We know our economy is stronger when our wives, mothers, and daughters can live their lives free from discrimination in the workplace, and free from the fear of domestic violence.”
This device, which Obama has used on more than one occasion, is reductive as hell. It defines women by their relationships to other people, rather than as people themselves. It says that women are only important when they are married to, have given birth to, or have been fathered by other people. It says that women are only important because of who they belong to.
Women are not possessions.
Women are people.” —
The “wives, sisters, daughters” line of argument comes up all the fucking time. President Obama even used it in his State of the Union address this year, saying,
“We know our economy is stronger when our wives, mothers, and daughters can live their lives free from discrimination in the workplace, and free from the fear of domestic violence.”
This device, which Obama has used on more than one occasion, is reductive as hell. It defines women by their relationships to other people, rather than as people themselves. It says that women are only important when they are married to, have given birth to, or have been fathered by other people. It says that women are only important because of who they belong to.
Women are not possessions.
Women are people.” —
“I Am Not Your Wife, Sister or Daughter. I Am A Person” by The Belle Jar (via theuncolonizedmind)
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January 2013
10 posts
Observations from the Adventures of the L.A. Apartment Hunt
Wisdom gathered in the last week’s research… (part I in a series):
*if the Google Map image of your prospective new home has a “We Rid Rats” truck parked out front, that cheap price tag loses its appeal
*”Affordable” is a common translation for lack of stove, fridge, microwave, closet, and definite absense of parking
*This landlord quote: “Only once I had to kick a person out that was camping in the laundry room. There really aren’t many break-ins.”
*And this landlord answer: Will the (weirdly stained) carpet be replaced? And the walls painted? “Nah, the tenants have only been here 3 years!”
(Here’s wishing for an apartment fairy godmother in the meantime).
