perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 27th, 2008
Just…fuck.
An Arizona shock jock who goes by the name of “Jon Justice” has made an effigy of Isabel Garcia, a prominent and widely respected immigrant rights activist, and then proceeded to mock sexually assault the effigy on air, while making racist comments. As Emily said, it’s pretty disgusting - and telling - that his first […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 14th, 2008
There’s a second piece of good news that I’ve been meaning to blog about: I got a new job. This one beats my last one in a lot of ways: better pay, better conditions - and considering I’m working under two women, the rather strong likelihood that I get not to be dicked around for […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 14th, 2008
I don’t generally read Australia’s left liberal big blog, Larvatus Prodeo, but I was curious about one of the posts linked in today’s Missing Link - and boy, what a doozy. This effort from Paul Norton reads like a combination of garden variety misogyny, existentialism and some sort of acid trip.
Norton sets out to ponder […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 11th, 2008
It seems it just isn’t the week for scumbag police officers who think they can get off on abusing women.
Senior Constable David Mits, an officer based out of Knox in Melbourne, plead guilty to demanding a bribe in the County Court of Victoria this morning. He tried to demand sex from a woman he had […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 9th, 2008
It’s that time of year again: Summernats.
Every January, this usually safe city gets taken over for a week or so for what essentially amounts to a festival for car hoons. It’s supposed to be a car festival, but - as it has every other year - it winds up being less about cars and more […]