What

So I was rereading the comments I got and one of them that I swear didn't have a link now has a link to a Youtube video.
What the fuck is even happening--
Also yeah I reread my comments periodically. There's like 10 of them so it doesn't take very long.
Anyway here's today's blog.
I think we're dealing with some kinda tranny.
Probably.
Isn't that a safe assumption?

So you found a cat on the internet. You're not surprised, not even by the fact that they seem to communicate with you via text verses silly faces and jumping in and out of boxes.

You're curious and want to know more, or at least bored enough to keep reading.

This is what you need to know:
- This cat is trapped in the wrong body. Human fingers and toes never sat well with it, they make it twitch and long for claws and a tail and ears that perk up at the smallest sound.

Or maybe a furry?
For some reason I interpreted this as a metaphor.
That's a dangerous thing to assume with all the weird shit on the internet. Like why, necessarily, does it have to be a tranny and not someone who honestly believes they're a cat?
Why does one seem saner than the other?

- The cat is not male or female, it is both and neither and prefers they/them/their pronouns. It pronouns also work assuming it knows you and trusts you are not doing it offensively.

Oh.
Should have kept reading.
I got into an argument with a person of unique gender description recently.
Apparently I should bend to their wishes even though I refuse to use "they" to refer to a single person outside of a royal context because it's mean if I don't play exactly how they want me to.
I don't think the real world works like that.
You know I want to be referred to only as Lord because I am, in fact, a Space Marine but unfortunately that's not the actual case in reality.

- The cat has a strange belief system cobbled together from life experience and what it's gathered in books. It will not shove it's beliefs on you if you don't shove yours on it.

In before shit about elves in a parallel dimension that you can visit if you have brain damage.
Remember that blog?

Me neither.

- The cat is polyamorous, demisexual and kinky. These topics may come up at some point but any sexual talk will be warned for.

Demisexual.
That's a new one on me.
That's a new one on me and I frequently substitute for schools designed for special snowflakes.

 A demisexual is a person who does not experience sexual attraction unless they form a strong emotional connection with someone. 

Or "hopeless romantic" as we say.
Also that rings a bell now that I've read it.

- The cat is mentally ill. It's just a part of who it is. It has bad days just like everyone else and it tires to not express them too often but this is it's space and it does what it likes.

Yeah no kidding.
Hey here's a picture.

Writing slumps suck. I've been having trouble braining for any sort of word type things since like...Wednesday. It is problematic. 

Ever have a tumblr social justice warrior tell you something you said is "problematic"?
Nothing evokes a primal 'kill' instinct from me faster.
 I feel like that's a cheap way to get me to default lose in a debate.
You lose a debate when you call someone a name.
How does that make any sense?
If you act like a twat
I'm going to call you a twat.
I mean I guess "fuck you the noises coming out of the stupid face in front of you fucking head are problematic" might be a grounds for a ban from a chat group
I GUESS
One question I get when I say I'm moving to South Korea is "aren't you afraid you won't fit in?" to which I respond "I've made two friends after living in North Carolina for almost 8 years. I don't think If it in very well here either."

I am tired and twitchy and feel horribly disconnected from everything. I don't even know why I just don't feel like I am braining right. I want to sleep but I can't manage to do so and just....nrrrrg.

"tired, twitchy and disconnected" sounds like a typical Wednesday substituting at any of the 5/10 schools I go to.

 So, I was up for a good long while today. From seven PM until now (about 3:30 AM) and that was...not what I was planning to do but I can't really sleep anymore, even after I've taken drugs. it's a problem.

Everything is a problem or problematic for you.
Maybe there are no problems. Maybe it's all in your stupid head.

So, I was up for a good long while today. From seven PM until now (about 3:30 AM) and that was...not what I was planning to do but I can't really sleep anymore, even after I've taken drugs. it's a problem.

You know Zeus says you shouldn't pray for solutions to your problems. You should only pray that you should be equal to the problems in your life.
Worth thinking about.
You know to me that says Zeus is more legit than Jesus. Jesus is supposedly all powerful, all wise and benevolent yet he doesn't fix really grievous problems in peoples' lives because he "works in mysterious ways".
Zeus might not be all powerful (allegedly) but he is powerful enough to basically do what he pleases.
But that doesn't mean he has to please you, idiot.
Got a problem?
Figure it the fuck out, Jesus.
Yeah he might be the god of the gods and the elemental god of thunder and lightning but he has nothing better to do than fix your headache.

You know when you have something stuck in your head and you can't get it out? Words echoing through your skull and they refuse to get out? Yeah, that's what this is.

Also known as, the cat committed poetry again.


The gods said "Give us an anthem."
And all I could do in reply is laugh.
"I only have one language." I said.
"Twenty six letters and some syllables."

But they smile at me
Not with faces but the bending of the world
And they say, with the sound of birds,
"Give us your letters, your stresses, your tenses.
And we will love them no matter what you'e done."

I smile, not with the world but the turning of my lips.
And put a pen to paper and see what happens.

I give them twenty six letters and some syllables.

And all the while, I hear the birds sing.

Then there's this garbage.
Once again I have to take the Roman view of this. If there are gods then their attention is toward far greater things than us and if they turn to a human it is only the especially great and even then it is only the merest fraction of their attention and only then for a few seconds, relatively speaking.
And assuming all that who even knows if their attention is something you want to invite.
Do you know how many people end up turned to dust or animals in mythology?
Like you better seriously know what's up if that's what you're courting.
Or, you know, it could be like Julian or Pythagoras says. Maybe the gods aren't even conscious as we conventionally understand it.
You know that's kind of the beauty of what we call cognitive dissonance. You can hold two contradictory views at once and understand they're contradictory.

Feel like I am falling, feel like I''m cracked and broken and sick and stupid and gross and wrong.
So, I am entertaining the thought of acquiring a Wordpress.  

It's free. Just sign up for it.

- You can say whatever you'd like here but I do ask that, if its something trigeery, you warn in the subject line. 

Hey can I get a trigger warning for trigger warnings?
They really make me irrationally angry.
Like how fucking thin skinned are you that you need warned that something might bother you?
No one gives me a fucking trigger warning when I turn the radio on and Lorde is on for the millionth time that day.
I'd like one, too, but I don't get one.
Like why can't Ryan Seacrest say "hey we're about to play Lorde so change the channel if you don't want to taste blood" before he starts playing it?
Your radio show is already shit, Seacrest. You can only improve it by doing that.
His entire show is just masturbation at how famous he is and how he can't even believe it and then Lorde records.
In fact, can I get a trigger warning for On Air with Ryan Seacrest, please?

So, I've put a lot of thought into this, talking to people, fussing over it in my head, all that jazz.

I'm no longer going by Charley.

It's a name that has served me well over the years. One that I've grown very fond of. However, I find that, while I still am attached to it, things aren't the same way they used to be when I first picked out the name.

I'm a different person now, with different tastes, views and experiences I have learned more about myself and grown over.

Names, to me, are like clothes. You might have worn something perfectly for a long time and it was wonderful but you eventually outgrow it. That's what happened with Charley, I outgrew it. I found that it didn't fit right anymore.

So, what's the new name?

Mallory. Or Mal. The full name is Mallory Bowen Tam

Real life is a lot like a foreign language class where you pick a name to better get into the mindset of that culture.
In German I was Heinrich after Heinrich Himmler because I was in high school and we all thought giving ourselves Nazi names was funny.

 So, I am taking a writing course, right? I needed a plot and Mor and I were sitting here batting around ideas.

The one I a going with? Is basically The Life And Times Of A Shared Headspace.

Your mind isn't a space. It's not a physical location.
It's a series of bioelectrical impulses your brain arranges into your senses.
Have you considered this is part of your problem?
None of the shit in your head is there objectively. It's all what you make up.
Whatever 'you' even is.
Basically what I'm trying to say is everything you see, think or do could be part of your or someone else's imagination and there's absolutely no way for you to ever discern the truth.
So the sooner you accept the crushing hopelessness of your situation the better.
That's therapeutic to hear, I think.
Fuck

Canada sucks

Fuck.

Why is writing femslash so damn awkward for me? I keep slipping into overwrought lyrical bonking territory.

Because you're a shit writer writing a shit subject.

On the upside, on the bus ride home this evening, I realised that I'm writing a negotiation heavy, spanking and  tickling fic, so there is that.

So you're a sex starved hambeast, got it.

Bliss borders on painful. I was expecting it to be soccer mom softcore, and I was even prepared for cheesy music, but they just suck on basic things like informed consent, even the most basic negotiation- like, don't drip hot wax on someone without their permission, if they tell you to stop dripping wax on them fucking STOP, always test wax on someone first etc. JFC. 

Yeah you better watch what you do with your fictional characters!
They need informed consent too!

There's also this would-be homoerotic tension between the pro-domme (who has roughly three expressions and a distracting Louise Brooks bob) and the main character, in all it's leather clad glory, but instead it's mostly just unconvincing and unintentionally funny. Really, how do you mess this up? Leather and spanking and disappointment oh my.

Yeah, give this one a miss.

I'll be sure not to read that thing I don't care about and had no idea existed.

Ever have that moment when you're reading a really hot fic and then the author uses the term fleshy, wet strokes, and you're like, AHHH Why?!!  WHY? And your naughty bits basically invert themselves in horror. 

... All the time!
Oh thank the fuck Christ I reached the end of this blog.
Well let's move on to the next one, then--
RAPID FIRE TIME NO TIME TO REDO THIS.
I can't find any blogs that aren't roleplaying or fanfiction.
Well time for Dear Annie, I guess.
This is fucking filler you can just skip this if you don't want to read.

Dear Annie: Why do women announcers who appear on the TV news and weather programs dress so trashy? They wear miniskirts up to their rears, bare arms and shoulders, and low necklines showing everything.
The men on these same programs always look professional, with nice suits or sport jackets. I've heard people say that a woman's knees are the ugliest part of the body, and yet they wear short skirts above the knees. Why don't their bosses stop all of this vulgar dress? — Not a Prude

Yes you are.

Dear Not: What makes you think the women are selecting this clothing? More likely, their bosses, the producers of the shows, encourage the women to dress this way because "sex sells." In all fairness, national news announcers, both male and female, tend to dress more professionally. But if your local news has the men in suits and the women in low-cut blouses and miniskirts, it is sexist, and you should write the station and say so.

How joyless is your life?
I mean what the fuck. Is your life so devoid of anger you have to make shit up to be angry about?

A few years ago, my wife went out of town for a conference. A month after she returned, I was on our computer and noticed that she hadn't logged out of her email. My curiosity got the best of me, and I saw that she had traded emails with an old boyfriend. I then discovered that the two of them had met while she was at the conference. One of her last emails to him said, "I still have feelings for you." 

Bitch is cheatin'.

Dear Annie: Could you please inform your female readers that we are tired of seeing their behinds because they refuse to buck a fashion trend that has been forced on them? I am talking about hideous low-cut jeans.
Unless you are model thin, it's hard to look good in these jeans. And if something hangs over, they're not for you, period. Do women have no sense anymore? It is disgusting to see someone's behind hanging out of their pants.
Young women have been misled to think that jeans that sit at the natural waist and don't show your assets are "mom jeans," which is supposed to make them sound undesirable. But listen up: It's a marketing ploy to sell more jeans. Women need to wake up and take a good, hard look at themselves. — Sick of Seeing It in Indy

Yeah.
Tell it.
Also if your size is in the double digits you should not own a pair of yoga pants.
What the fuck is the matter with you?
Holy shit this entry is not going anywhere and I am trying as hard as I can. This has my undivided.
What the fuck is wrong with everyone or me today?
Fuck it
song of the now
give it a minute it takes a minute to get going

Don't be sorry

Jesus Christ updating schedule all fucked up due to moving out and work and I don't even know what day it is anymore.
I'll get back on schedule.
Someone added this comment on the 3rd of this month (of this year):

In the alternate universe where Buddy Holly ended up the day the music died, the Crickets were better than the Beatles. I'm not sorry.

On an entry four years old so someone is digging through the archive.
The Scroll of Honor
The Lion Censorum.
 Anyway you don't gotta be sorry like that.
Everyone with any sense knows what The Beatles did for music would have happened anyway and they were just right place at the right time.
I like The Beatles, too, but goddamn people need to get over it.
Anyway fucking this person.

There really isn't much of anything better I can do to make myself feel as feminine as possible than for me to go to the gym and throw my body weight around. I mean that - I can clean and jerk a little more than half my bodyweight, snatch just under half, squat it, and deadlift slightly more. Pretty much anything I do that involves me picking up something heavy and moving it around leaves me tired, sweaty, and feeling like a duchess. It's something I'm actively trying to cultivate, especially on powerlifting days.

Are these words arranged in a coherent thought?
Makes you feel like a duchess, what?
What the fuck are you talking about?

I know a decent chunk of why is because it's pretty common for me to look around and realize I'm the only girl around - lifting freeweights, using a squat platform, on this whole floor of the gym. When I'm outnumbered like that, it's hard to forget about things like gender.

Literally no one is paying attention.

The simple proximity of finishing Bioshock and then going onto read some of the Vorkosigan saga made me realize two things: Jackson’s Whole is basically a planet-sized Rapture, and even though a crossover would be easy enough to pull off and amazing and fabulous and work to comment on aspects of both canons simultaneously, I don’t have the time right now.

Original thoughts?
HUH HUH NOPE NOT ME.

 One of the few side benefits of getting sick - again - is that it lessens any other bad news I get. Like not getting the job for which I interviewed last week. I'd mind more if I could breathe properly, or if I hadn't gotten almost nine hours of sleep last night. It's a bit of a protective cocoon. Much as I'd have loved the work, and much as I deeply hoped for it - it's hard to be torn up or deeply disappointed. At least I have that going for me today.

Jesus Christ.
I guess being sick does one thing for me--
SHELTERS ME FROM THE PAIN OF DISAPPOINTMENT ;_;
like fuck off seriously what's wrong with you?

Yesterday, as soon as I got back from the job interview, I placed an order at Adagio Tea. It'll arrive tomorrow, but I won't open it until after I hear about the end results of the interview.

I'd like to open it in celebration. If I have to open it in compensation, well, there's tea inside. And I'll make myself a cup, and resolve to keep going until I get to where I'd like to be.

Is there a douchier way to make a statement of resolve ever?
I mean goddamn.
Failing a mission in Dawn of War 2-- a video game-- has way more gravity than what you just wrote.
I'll just make tea and resolve myself to HURRRRR dry your cunt, Jesus.
In Dawn of War 2 you fail a mission and it says shit like YOUR BROTHERS DIE
SEE THAT THEIR DEATH IS NOT IN VAIN and you say "oh right then gotta step up my game then. Thanks, Space Marines."

It's one of the rules of the universe that any day with bread in it is a day well spent. Last night, and the three before that, didn't involve any good sleep - last night did, but only after getting back up after lying there for almost forty minutes, spending some more time online, and sleeping in until ten, which in turn resulted in me not getting anything of value done until three. Going to the gym, and sending in a few applications, only went so far to make me think I'd done something with my day.

Hence, the bread. And by all measures, it's going to be good.

I need go get back to writing something soon, as well. Long-term projects are good for helping me stay on my feet and moving forward.

Hence, a book request.

HENCE A SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU BELLIGERENT CUNT.
Jesus Christ did you read that shit?
What the fuck was that about?
Oh a day with bread is a day well spent oh I'm so deep and pretentious.
There you have it. Bread, a paleolithic invention, makes the day good.
There hasn't been a bad day in over 20,000 years.

The only good thing to waking up at five in the morning on Sunday from absolutely vicious period cramps was realizing I had enough time to watch the fourth season of Arrested Development before any spoilers hit. The last twenty minutes of the last episode were the hardest in that regard. It's very much not a show I can watch casually - it's not designed that way, and in my case, it's the only way I can stomach a lot of it. The aggressive ignorance and willful blindness to reality gets under my skin and makes it hard to want to go back to watching, unless I'm trying to finish up the current season.

How about you don't fucking watch it, then?

It sounds like you don't like it.

I've seen and interacted with so many people online that outright, up-front, describe themselves as hostile, angry, annoying, spiteful, nasty, childish, spoiled, whiny, unpleasant to be around, generally pissed off, or some combination thereof, that when I see someone label themselves as insufferable or something similar, I won't know it's a joke. I'm too used to people being up-front about these things - with the internet being a reasonably safe space to mention it right off the bat - that I take it at face value, and immediately slot the person in as they've so labeled themselves.

You're pretty douchey, lady, do you mention that?

So I'm getting a tax return.

No one cares.
Fuck it I'm going to bed.

Things you're not allowed to say

So let's mix it up a little by going back to my old friend ONTD_Feminism.
Last update: July 12.
Feminism is hard ;_;
Da Roolz:

2. No personal attacks. There is a difference between calling an idea stupid and saying the same thing about a member. And you know it. 

Yeah but telling a Commie in EVE Online his build needs improvement maybe isn't quite the same as calling him a shit-eating pig farmer.

Something that is really being talked about in my state of Texas is the prevention of a bill that would restrict abortion. 

... Speaking of shit-eating pig farmers, what's going on in Texas?
That really was the perfect segue. I didn't even plan that.
I couldn't have planned that.

It was supposed to be voted on but what happened was that a state senator named Wendy Davis stopped the bill from being passed by filibustering for 11 hours straight. She wasn't allowed to sit down, lean, eat or go off topic when discussing the bill for 11 hours. The midnight deadline was narrowly avoided and Repbulicans tried multiple times to get her off the stand. 12 minutes before the deadline Republicans were to start voting but there was so much cheering and raucous from protesters that they didn't (couldn't?) vote.

The effect this had:
delayed the vote by 24 hours.
Goooood.

The endless parade of serial-killer dramas on TV today raises an uncomfortable question: What does it mean that we as a society seem to find violence against women endlessly entertaining?

Violence period is endlessly entertaining, apparently.
Why else would all this shit sell?
Since the 10,000s BC that shit has sold.
One of the first professions you could be that wasn't hunter-gatherer was storyteller.
Most of the stories told?
Heroes killing shit dead.
A man that produced nothing except entertainment was one of the first jobs to rise out of the agricultural revolution and the barter economy.
Think about it.
The two species most related to us are chimpanzees and bonobos. Our behavior is a perfect compromise between the two.
Chimps are violent
Bonobos bang everything
welcome to the species with STDs constantly at war.
People sure don't think a lot about shit.

 The show is not subtle in its embrace of feminist themes. It purposefully paints male characters as both limited and flat. The hollow men, the stupid men who think largely with their cocks, the men who delude themselves into thinking that somehow they are worth more or are just better than women, are shown not as fully sympathetic human beings, but as dumb, or violent, or impetuous men.

Feminism: we're fighting for our equality.
We're achieving this by making men seem like violent brutes.
But we want to be equal, honest!
It's different because we're oppressed! We're allowed to say bigoted things because that's just us giving power to our gender!

You are a slave to your desires, you have no control at all, you are weak, impotent, you think you are some kind of artist, but you are not… you try to dignify what you do, but it’s just misogyny, age-old male violence against women.

In this story I'm kinda working on probably the most sadistic and violent character is a woman.
It's partially that way just so I can gauge ONTD_Feminism's reaction afterwards.
The goal is absolute moral ambiguity.
The people she hurts are thugs and criminals but she's every bit as cold and malevolent as they are.
I'm a big fan of the theme. Becoming your enemy to beat them and at what point can you no longer justify actions like that?
How much collateral damage is too much?
See good stories start with a premise like that. They don't just say "hurrr muh freedms and muh sogyny."
I'm looking at you, Tom Clancy and ONTD_Feminism, respectively.
And that's just one lesser theme in a web of statements.
At no point will it even beat you over the head with it. It's all just a facet of a larger picture I'm painting.
You see the fact is this character could even be a male. The gender is incidental to the development of the character.
Real character development stems from what a character thinks and does. Not what they look like.
The character is female for a different reason. The story necessitates her being a woman.
That's another important thing to note: make sure you develop your characters in a way that they could be no other way. Most people aren't arbitrarily nice or an asshole. They're that way due to genetics and upbringing and shit.
If you just say "hurrr wahm character because feminism" then you're a shit author who needs to stop.
When developing characters don't ask "what are they like?" instead ask "why are they not another way?" and if you don't have an answer it's a detail you don't need to include or need to rethink.
Character development is less about you jerking yourself off and more of a torturous thought experiment into the true nature of man.
This is incidentally why fanfiction sucks.
Look at that question I just asked: "why are people not other ways?"
Do you have any idea the hours of research and debate that leads to?
That's why so many authors claim all of the story came in a sudden bolt of inspiration. That's just the pieces falling into place. More than likely all (good) stories have been a 10 year internal dialogue.

Yet, the show then runs into the same problem it creates for viewers. This argument forces the viewer to ask: If violence against women is nothing more than violence, plain and simple, then why is it at the center of this show? Isn’t it a bit hypocritical to send this message while entertaining us with violence against women?

That'd be a good question to ask if the show didn't clearly suck.
Kind of self defeating, too, because the only conclusion is "wow we are complete assholes."
I know what my first question would be: "why is violence against men normal but violence against women horrific?"

Creepshot is dedicated to posting pictures of women in stages of undress taken without their consent or knowledge, basically.

Don't undress when people are around.
Check your surroundings.
A post about the existential angst of multiculturalism causing misogyny-- (OH NO)--

This was inspired by a question on my Christianity & Sexuality exam about the detrimental effects of pornography on society.
Because pornography elevates the levels of the same chemicals also activated during drug use and falling in love, porn can become an addiction for those who use it. Addictions are harmful not only to those who suffer from them, but to the friends and families of the addicts as well. Addicts tend to isolate themselves, and curing addiction is a long, arduous, and often painful process - but it can be done. The viewing of pornography does have everlasting effects, however, and those who view pornography - both women and men - view women differently than those who have not used pornography.

Oh yeah I remember these debates in pussy sensitivity.
Also Christianity & Sexuality are you fucking kidding me?
There's a wasted tuition if I've ever seen it.

Simply put, pornography encourages the ongoing objectification of and violence toward women. Women in the sex industry are routinely viewed as sexual objects created for men’s pleasure. Real sex is devalued by the viewing of pornography, because no actual sex could live up to the air-brushed fantasies that porn presents as reality.
It’s not like being a porn-worthy bombshell is any better. Women from the sex industry are viewed as a lower from of life and degraded by both men and women for their perceived “choice” - although in many cases there is no alternative, or the alternatives are just as bad if not worse.  

Never mind the Youtube channel with literally millions of views devoted to talking to porno whores and how most of them agree it has been a positive experience for them.
I guess they're fucking liars or delusional because they don't agree with your petty gender politics.
I don't judge them.
Hell some of them are even college educated.
You get ahead however you can.
They're not traitors or cowards so I have no problem with them.

Men and women both not in the sex industry view it as their right to pass judgment on prostitutes, call girls, dominatrices, escorts, and porn stars. Apparently holding any one of these jobs means you have given up your right to be treated as a human being.
And yet the Madonna-Whore Complex is enforced, not just by pornography but by the media. One has only to look advertisements of any medium to realize that sex sells - and not just any sex, but female sexuality. Girls must not actually have sex, yet somehow be an expert on the subject in the bedroom. They must appear moral and innocent, yet have a kinky wild side.

Let me be the first to say: I don't give a shit what you do or think. Just shut up about it.

"Dead Island: Riptide is the sequel to Dead Island, the survival horror video game that has players stranded on a tropical island with a zombie outbreak. To promote the game, publishers Deep Silver are offering a special “Zombie Bait Edition” which includes the console game, artwork, a weapons pack, and a statue of a woman’s bikini-clad torso with her head and arms chopped off. And so help me god, they’re comparing it to the Venus de Milo. The graphic image is after the jump [at the source] and probably NSFW.

Zombies don't care about your feminism m8.

Why Are There No Women In Tolkien's World?  

Uhh.

I did not read The Hobbit or the The Lord of the Rings trilogy as a child, and I have always felt a bit alienated from the fandom surrounding them. Now I think I know why: Tolkien seems to have wiped women off the face of Middle-earth.

Uhh.
I do like how you say you haven't even read it and yet you're an expert on feminism and The Lord of the Rings.
Here's another important woman character.

I suppose it’s understandable that a story in which the primary activity seems to be chopping off each other’s body parts for no particular reason might be a little heavy on male characters —

>No reason
>prevent the conquering of Middle Earth by the devil
Yeah that's true no reason at all.

although it’s not as though Tolkien had to hew to historical accuracy when he created his fantastical world. The problem is one of biological accuracy. Tolkien’s characters defy the basics of reproduction: dwarf fathers beget dwarf sons, hobbit uncles pass rings down to hobbit nephews. If there are any mothers or daughters, aunts or nieces, they make no appearances.

Except Galadriel whose lineage the book spends a protracted amount of time describing.
She gives up her immortality when Gil-Galad dies?
It's kind of a pivotal moment in the story.
Your knowledge of this story really is breathtaking, though. I see you spent a lot of time studying this and didn't just say "I don't like it because muh sogyny."

Trolls and orcs especially seem to rely on asexual reproduction, breeding whole male populations, which of course come in handy when amassing an army to attack the dwarves and elves.

Trolls are, as I recall, depicted as reproducing through unknown means and possibly just split like amoebas.
Orc women are depicted as sex slaves and that's a large part of the reason Orcs are deemed evil and misguided.
Really you're on the same side if you'd stop being unreasonable for two seconds.
I found three women in a cast that is quite large but has relatively few major characters and all of them are fairly big players.
What the fuck more do you want?

Named /= significant character. In the movies, there's really only Eowyn, Arwen, and Galadriel. The only other one I can think of offhand is Goldberry. 

>Only three
>Number of important male protagonist (because if a woman had been evil they'd be crying harder so we won't count that): nine
3:1 ratio don't bitch.

Also it's one thing to name a female character and say she's important to the world. If they are never given lines to speak, it's hardly worth mentioniong. Also, tt's another thing to include 15 main characters in the Hobbit (13 dwarves, a hobbit and the wizard, basically) and 10 or so in the LOTR and NONE of them are female. That lack is keenly felt as a young female reader, let me tell you.

Apparently you haven't read it either because we just named 3.
KEEP UP WITH THE CONVERSATION.
That's it women aren't allowed to read books.
I am banishing you all to illiteracy and bare feet.
Deal with it.

Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women   

You say primitive barbarians I say forward thinkers.

21 THINGS TO STOP SAYING UNLESS YOU HATE FAT PEOPLE

I hate everyone.
Part of everyone is fat people.

1. Stating a specific size, shape, or weight that’s less okay.

Example: “Women who are a little bigger are more attractive, but 400 pounds? No.”

Example: ”It’s okay to be plus-size as long as you don’t have fat rolls.”

Nope.
A woman over 105 pounds is not a woman for me.
Can't possibly be under 105 because you're 6'0"?
Keep walking.

Fat acceptance is for all fat people. If you draw a line – 400 lbs, 500 lbs, “apple”-shaped, people with mobility issues, etc – and say that people on one side of the line are okay and people on the other side aren’t, you are part of the problem.

The line is drawn at over 5'3" and over 105.
Deal with it.

18. Focusing on (usually heterosexual) attractiveness in general.

Example: “At least being bigger means you have bigger boobs, too!”

Example: “It’s okay, honey, men like women with a few curves.”

Not me.
I have two words:
"fuck"
and "off".
Welcome to why I was popular in pussy sensitivity.

At a recent presentation, I asked all of the gay male students in the room to raise their hand if in the past week they touched a woman’s body without her consent. After a moment of hesitation, all of the hands of the gay men in the room went up. I then asked the same gay men to raise their hand if in the past week they offered a woman unsolicited advice about how to “improve” her body or her fashion. Once again, after a moment of hesitation, all of the hands in the room went up.

HOMOSEXUALS.

First there was the "Bic for Her" pen. Then there was the Fujitsu "Floral Kiss" lady-computer (complete with a built-in scrapbooking app and bedazzled keyboard!).

Honda just took things to the next level by producing the Honda Fit "She's" — a pink car made specifically for women that's marketed as "adult cute."


The $17,500 car, currently only being sold in Japan, has loads of lady-friendly features. 

Japan.
A nation with sense.

Apart from pink aesthetics and a dainty heart to replace the apostrophe in "She's," design features include: A windshield that helps prevent wrinkles, and a "plasmacluster" air conditioning system that Honda says will improve skin quality.

If you don't like the pink tone, don't worry. A Honda executive told Yomuri Shinbun newspaper that it's also in brown and white, to match the driver's eyeshadow.

10/10.
Would laugh again.
What's wrong with wanting a car that matches your eyeshadow?
That might be important to Japanese women.
An article on how awesome Dredd was (even feminists agree!)--
Ehh I think I'm done here.
I certainly don't miss Livejournal.

DEUS IMPERATOR

You people are seriously fucking retarded.
So What my little social justice warriors are up in arms about today is a suicidal man threatened his family and they (understandably) called the cops.
He then threatened the police and brandished a knife.
So they shot him in the center mass like you do.
ONTD_P's reaction?
Fuck the police.
Yes, fuck the police for shooting a guy charging you with a knife in the chest.
BUT THEY COULD HAVE TASED HIM! My little warriors argue.
Yeah fuck you that's a bullshit argument and you know it. Guy comes running at you with a fucking short sword and you do what comes instinctually.
Kill.

These incidents are very common, because police are rarely given any training (or adequate training) for dealing with people who are severely mentally ill or suicidal.

Argues one warrior.

Yeah I'm sure we can just talk the psycho running at us with a knife down.

I'd like to see you go in armed with nice thoughts.

Personally I wouldn't have gone in there without a pump action but that's just me.
"Look shit starts going down and I got your back. There won't be anything but a spray of red gore."
And it turns out none of the warriors on that story have a blog that I can review.
They just have accounts to stay apprised of the social justice situation.
Well sorry for the whinging then and let's move on to SHOULD FAT PEOPLE PAY MORE FOR AIRLINE TICKETS?
And the answer is yes.
The last time I was on a plane I had half a seat thanks to the fat ass next to me.
As I was sitting there waiting for the engineer to minister to the machine's spirit (it was having radio trouble) getting progressively angrier not at the airline or the engineer or the pilots but at the people around me several thoughts occurred to me:
1. what if I was as fat as this asshole? One of us would have to move seats.
2. this man is taking 50% of my seat. What if, say, instead of a fat ass it had been a bitchy woman who just put her purse in 50% of my seat? I could have had her thrown off the flight (midway through the flight even) for refusing to move it. Why does this dick get preferential treatment?
3. why is everyone so angry at the people just doing their job? The radio doesn't work. This has been stated at least 5 times that I'm aware of. Are you retards comfortable taking off without a functioning radio? Because I'm fucking not.
4. We're going from Atlanta to Greensboro on a Sunday. None of you on this flight are doing anything that pressing that you can whine about being late.
Oh right, blogs.
Sorry for all that.

Oh, for... ::facepalm::

I'm one of the people who'd benefit from this proposal, as I'm under 5 feet and 100 lbs, but NO.

You're practically a midget and you'd still have problems next to the lard ass I was sitting next to.

I'm not a large man myself (although infinitely attractive) and I still encountered problems in 50% of every flight I've ever been on.

I imagine you're no different, Lily.

Her name is Lily incidentally.

Also don't think my auspices escaped your wording on your weight. "under 100 pounds" if you're significantly under 5 feet you might still be overweight.

Don't think I'm not paying attention.

This proposal can't promote health when health has a tenuous correlation at best with weight/height and even less of one with 'raw' weight, and how would the logistics even work?

I don't give a shit if you lose weight. You've just monopolized 50% of something I paid for and I can't respond with force. You should swallow the cost difference.

It's not like you have trouble swallowing large quantities (HEH).

I just finished reading Michael Pollan's In Defense Of Food, and I'm finding myself a bit torn. 

He defines nutritionism as the idea that food is about providing nutrients, and that getting that right is a complex enough thing to require the involvement of scientists and other such experts. 

Over 10,000 years we've existed without knowing diddly dick about nutrition.

Granted the average life expectancy for most of recorded history was under 60 but I question your definition of "right".

Christ the Roman diet consisted mainly of chicken and honey and they conquered the entire fucking planet and gave birth to some of the greatest thinkers in history.

Their diet, by all accounts, would have appalled even Colonel Sanders.

I'm largely with him on this... I think it is overly reductive to say the health benefits of a particular food come from Vitamin X or mineral Y so we can just add it to highly processed foods and be fine, and I agree with his indictment of the 'eat less fat - no, wait, eat less carbs! - oh, no it's the ____!' craziness of nutrition guidelines.   Just eat real food.

The Greeks used to add eyes to the bottom of cops and the center of plates.

So when you finished eating there was just an eye staring at you.

REMEMBER NOT TO GORGE YOURSELF.

But then again this is a society where they still understood shame and would even personify their vices and shit so I dunno what I'm talking about.

Imagine adding an eye to the bottom of a cup with 0 explanation of its symbolic meaning.

HUH EYE AT THE BOTTOM OF MY CUP BETTER NOT THINK ABOUT THIS OR ANYTHING ELSE THE REST OF MY LIFE WONDER WHAT'S ON MTV?

What I can't seem to 'get' is his talk about the pleasures of savoring food, from the time you pick it out of your garden if you're lucky enough.  For me, food is fuel and while I certainly enjoy a tasty meal when I get it I still balk at the lengthy, uniformly tedious (to me) process of cooking the way he'd like.  Is that just how it is with me, I'm food-numb, or do I still need an attitude shift?

Do you need an attitude shift?

Only you can answer that.

You do realize his opinion is in no danger of monopolizing your own and you're free to make your own decisions about shit?

I also wish he'd have done more than just acknowledge that not everyone can afford to eat the way he suggests, but that's an issue for another time. 

And undermine his own thesis. Great.

"But there are poor people so just do whatever you want I guess."

I just read an article on CNN about some people criticizing the movie Avatar as anti-military, and really have to disagree.

Avatar was a bunch of schlock anyway. Who cares what its actual message was?

It could have been pro Nazi for all I care and it wouldn't have angered me one bit because it was fucking stupid.

My central reason can be elaborated on without significant spoilers.  The 'military' characters in the movie don't seem (from what I saw) to be part of a nation's military or some international force along the lines of the UN peacekeepers or some coalition force, but mercenaries.  They have military skills and use military tactics, but their explicit mission is defending a financial interest rather than defending their country and/or allies.  

Speaking of: I need DUST people to protect my space interest in EVE Online.

Only you can help me make nanite paste.

I'll send you guns and drugs or whatever you peasants need to die for me.

All I know is I could buy 500 of every item in DUST and still have 99% of my wealth in EVE.

You guys sure are poor, holy fuck.

I like to think the super high tech immortal mercenaries of DUST 514 displace some poor native people barely eking out an existence on some shitty backwater.

Mostly because I then like to imagine the year 25,000 version of me is laughing at the social justice warriors of his day.

Actually I'm not going to make nanite paste because I think every newbie is pushing to make nanite paste.

It's going to crash the market pretty hard.

I'm going to buy up all their assets when it does, wait 6 months when CCP changes something stupid driving the price right back up and then unloading my stock.

You know, like an evil space bastard would do.

That is significantly less defensible, and prone to attracting personalities that don't adhere to the moral code expected of conventional soldiers.

 Yeah. Really makes you think.

Makes me think why I can do this so easily in a game but can't do it at all in real life.

Maybe I could.

Maybe I'd be as awesome at gun running as Nicholas Cage was in that shitty movie.
What was it?
Lord of War or something?

But do I really want to find out?

I'd prefer not to get into details,. but it's been something of a tumultuous time at work.  I might wind up staying in the job I'm in, transferring to a brand-new company, or searching for another job in research.   Have I mentioned I really don't like this sort of tumult?  Not that anyone does, of course.

Teaching Latin tomorrow.

Taught Hebrew yesterday.

I don't know anything about Hebrew and I can at least pretend I know a little of Latin.

I like taking unusual jobs like that though because science gets boring.

Anyway, I'm just praying I make the right choice.

It's up to you to make the right choice, though.

Hoping and praying gets you nowhere.

There probably isn't even a right choice. Just focus on making  good choice you dumb cunt.

Our president reminded me why I have a bit of a geek-crush on him again today. 

He  was speaking at the National Academy of Sciences about his efforts to support science and math, and pointing out how far we've slipped in that regard since the post-WWII years.  I'm still fairly young, of course, but I'd say he's the most unabashedly intellectual president of my life time.

All right fellow intellectual.

I did some digging and I discovered this chart.

It shows that, barring the year of 2009, spending on science has been consistent since Obama took office.

Since Obama took office in late 2009 most of that spending and I'm guessing 100% of the policy that created that spending was under Bush's office.

I'd expect such a deep intellectual as yourself to not be bamboozled by the shallow promises and lies of politicians but then again I am talking about someone who posts on ONTD_P.

Imagine a country run 100% by economists, scientists and researchers.

He's not a fellow scientist, but he knows enough to value us (and say so publicly) and I appreciate that. 

Bush is the ultimate example of poor charisma.

I don't think he's different enough from Obama to warrant the insane difference in approval numbers they post. 

I know that the direct impact is minimal; it's one hour out of one day out of the year.  Last year though I participated and found it beneficial.  It reminded me of ways to entertain myself that don't involve electronics, and made me more aware of my energy use.

Caesar didn't get stabbed 43 times for us to live in the stone age again.  

I've had a smile on my face all day.

The election's over, certainly, but now it's actually happening... Barack Obama is being sworn in as our president.   It's not a particularly vivid dream.  I pray he and his wife and daughters have a safe four to eight years in the White House, and that he goes down in history as one of the best to hold the office.

This was 2009 so I'm going to cut her a little slack.

It's still douchey as fuck because being seduced by any snake is ridiculous but whatever.

I guess optimism is a luxury afforded the weak minded and the peasantry.

The Argument Against 'Conscience' Clauses

>Conscience

>progress

pick one.

So, do you approve or disapprove of them?
I strongly disapprove of them; health care professionals have a duty to give their patients the best care possible. Were I a doctor already it would be highly unethical for me, for example, to refuse to treat someone with delirium tremens because I think he/she brought it on themselves by being alcoholic.

I'm sure that's the common problem with conscience arguments.

No one wants to treat alcoholics.

One issue that didn't get a lot of attention in the mainstream press is science and science funding.  Our new President-Elect Obama is significantly more supportive, and that's wonderful news when the NIH budget has been basically flat through the Bush administration.  

And the Obama administration, too, as my chart demonstrates.

WHOOPS.

We've been dealing with a bit of a heat wave the last couple of days, and I haaate it. It should not be 80 degrees (80!) in my apartment before the sun even comes up.

Air conditioning.

I had a minor unpleasant experience a day or two ago,.

WHITE WOMAN HAD AN UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCE IN PUBLIC STOP THE PRESS.

I was at my local library and, when I was passing by one of the public terminals, saw that the man using it was viewing some rather *ahem* explicit stuff.  

WHITE WOMAN SAW PORNO CALL THE FUCKING COPS CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE CIS SCUM.

Seriously it was two fucking days ago. Get over it.

I've had genuinely bad things happen to me that I got over faster than that.

Where in the world is that acceptable behavior?  If you're going to view that crap, do so in private and without putting someone else's computer network at risk of viruses, etc.

And, if you want extra credit points, try not being the kind of skeevy bastard that would look at porn in public in the first place.
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Yeah you go girl he should check his privilege

Maybe he doesn't have internet at home because he's too poor to afford it?
Ever think of that you fucking bitch?
How's a guy going to get his rocks off if he doesn't have the cash, huh?
You need to check your privilege.

Anyway made it to the start of her blog I'm the best

WWWWWWWWWWWWWHAT

Get ready for this~
My body...
Is ready.
Err--
I don't actually know why I linked this blog, actually.
What am I doing with my life?
Please respond.
I found this post on ONTD_Political bitching about how much white people made (on average) versus anyone else-- and this woman suggested the solution was for white people to stop reproducing.
Or black people could stop reproducing too. That'd also work, wouldn't it?
But no, you can't say it like that or you get moderated.

A breaking story about how a kind, quiet man stepped in to help a new bride get back home.

Mary Menth Andersen was 31 years old at the time and had just married Norwegian Dag Andersen. She was looking forward to starting a new life in Åsgårdstrand in Vestfold with him. But first she had to get all of her belongings across to Norway. The date was November 2nd, 1988.

Breaking story about shit that happened in 1988.
Not too breaking, is it?
Or news moves slower than the speed of me giving a fuck.

At the airport in Miami things were hectic as usual, with long lines at the check-in counters. When it was finally Mary’s turn and she had placed her luggage on the baggage line, she got the message that would crush her bubbling feeling of happiness.

-You’ll have to pay a 103 dollar surcharge if you want to bring both those suitcases to Norway, the man behind the counter said.
Mary had no money. Her new husband had travelled ahead of her to Norway, and she had no one else to call.
-I was completely desperate and tried to think which of my things I could manage without. But I had already made such a careful selection of my most prized possessions, says Mary.

Although she explained the situation to the man behind the counter, he showed no signs of mercy.
-I started to cry, tears were pouring down my face and I had no idea what to do. Then I heard a gentle and friendly voice behind me saying, That’s OK, I’ll pay for her.

That poor man would probably lose his job if he made an exception. What is it with women thinking crying and whining will let the rules bend to their favor?
And it works. I did it just yesterday-- this cunt was bitching on the phone about a fruit basket.
Can you believe that shit? Woman, the rules state I need a 24 hour notice. Your 45 minute notice isn't quite the amount of time I need.
So I eventually agree after she goes from whiny to pissy and I know managers are going to be involved and it's just going to end the same way: with me making a fucking fruit basket.
So I make it.
Then she doesn't pick it up.
If there were any justice in the world I'll be able to shove it straight up her ass at some point in my life.

Mary turned around to see a tall man whom she had never seen before.
-He had a gentle and kind voice that was still firm and decisive. The first thing I thought was, Who is this man?

Adam Jensen from Deus Ex.

Although this happened 20 years ago, Mary still remembers the authority that radiated from the man.
-He was nicely dressed, fashionably dressed with brown leather shoes, a cotton shirt open at the throat and khaki pants, says Mary.
She was thrilled to be able to bring both her suitcases to Norway and assured the stranger that he would get his money back. The man wrote his name and address on a piece of paper that he gave to Mary. She thanked him repeatedly. When she finally walked off towards the security checkpoint, he waved goodbye to her.

Except Deus Ex takes place on the 2020s. 

The piece of paper said ‘Barack Obama’ and his address in Kansas, which is the state where his mother comes from. Mary carried the slip of paper around in her wallet for years, before it was thrown out.
-He was my knight in shining armor, says Mary, smiling.

Ohhhh wow he's still a mediocre president.

Okay, I'm done being political for the week. Oh, and I just want to finish this post by saying that the way Barack rolls up his sleeves just gets me so hot inside. 

But that's okay, according to my pussy sensitivity class, that's just a woman being empowered and breaking down race barriers.
But if I take a liking to Asian girls I'm an imperialist bastard.
No, that's great, really.
Here's a quiz she took that called her 80% liberal.
It only called me 55% liberal, so clearly someone here is an asshole.

Thanksgiving is my least favorite holiday.

I don't like Turkey. I don't like stuffing. Overall, I dislike sitting down for big "feast" meals.

Plus, more than any other holiday, (except for Columbus Day) it irks me that this holiday commemorates all the foul treatment of Native American Indians. It'd be nice if perhaps donations were made for Reservations because I am sure there are some Native Americans on reservations without much food to eat today.  

It is a bullshit holiday but whatever.
I still remember how insufferable my Native American Literature class became around Thanksgiving.
Holy shit.

In any case, I'm not a holiday person. Especially superficial holidays like this. I like the 4th of July only because it falls in the middle of the summer and it's a good excuse to spend the day at a park or have a barbeque and watch fireworks. I like Halloween because at least you can dress up in costumes and eat tons of chocolate (much better than turkey). But Thanksgiving... never liked it. I'd even go to work today if I had the choice. 

I hate superficial holidays...
But all of the holidays I like I like them for superficial reasons.
March 15 should be a holiday I think.
THE DEATH OF CASESAR
TRULY A DAY TO ME MOURNED
Anyway this blog is zzzz boring so I'm leaving.
Possibly forever.
Fuck blogs
fuck people with blogs
fuck everthing

K

K
K
K
PUSSY SENSITIVITY TIME
This is racism 101. A group of people with white guilty on the internet!

So. I know the classic racist cliche is "all those people look alike." And the inability to distinguish people of another ethnicity from each other is a fairly standard marker of prejudice.

That's because all people of a given ethnic group are likely to look alike.
There are only so many standard deviations a face can have, you know.

I have moderate to severe difficulty telling faces apart in general; I tend to run with context, haircuts, and broad categories, and if those change or are too close to someone else's, I can't tell people apart without a lot of familiarity. (I've occasionally mistaken my sisters for each other, or not recognized them immediately, after not seeing them for more than a year. I only have two.) And this difficulty gets worse with PoC, especially if my brain keeps categorizing hairstyles I'm less familiar with as roughly the same thing.

"Oh shit I'm sorry."
Problem solved.
You've admitted this is a problem you have with people in general.

I do not want to be the person doing the "all you people look alike!" thing to PoC. Even if I'm not phrasing it like that. Even if it's true for white folks too.

Does anyone know a way I can fix this, or work around it better? "I'm terrible at recognizing faces and remembering names" may well be the simple truth, but if there's a way to fix this, I'd really rather do so, rather than keep assuring PoC that, hey, it's not my fault I'm confusing them with other PoC.

Only have one friend of a given ethnic group.
Problem solved.

The police brutality you are just now noticing is what we call business as usual.


Signed,

People of color

K.
I've never been brutalized by the police.
And I try to keep it that way.

Dear White People:

When a person of color critiques a problematic statement by a White person, the thing NOT to do is respond by explaining its literal meaning or historical source, particularly if nobody asked. When you do this, you are not adding a necessary perspective.

THAT'S THEIR WORD
All right I get it, fuck.

This is in response to some claims I've seen - that the white mainstream is appropriating from geek culture, that metrosexuals are appropriating the markers of gay culture. I'll comment/edit with specific examples as I find them.

How do you all feel about these claims?

I can see how it can be argued that calling "mainstreaming" of subcultural markers "appropriation" can actually trivialize the experience of appropriation when people of minority cultures attempt to discuss the matter, so I can see how it would be silencing. But I'm white, so I'm taking a wild stab in the dark.

GEEK HIS CHIC
TEE HEE
If I see another one of you high school sluts in a Mario shirt and big nerd glasses trying to be cute--
PREPARE FOR A VIDEO GAME QUIZ MADE BY ME.

Can anyone point me towards some resources on respecting people of color in romantic or sexual contexts?

Are you fucking kidding me?
You date a brown girl so you don't have to do research in how not to offend her.
Might as well date a white bitch at this point.
Also offending people in sexual contexts?
How?
Why?
Might want to keep your sex slave fantasy a secret until you're sure she's cool with that kind of shit but I'm pretty sure that applies regardless of color.
Or gender, really.

I have been googling and looking at the tags of various LJ communities, but so far I have not found any resources written from the anti-oppression stance. I would be elated to find something aimed at queer women, but I will appreciate all suggestions.

What?

Hello, white girl here. One of my old friends from college is Chinese. Occasionally, she would say things about Chinese people and Asians in general which struck me as...not right. As a white person, I didn't feel like I had the right to tell her she was wrong, but what she said made me feel uncomfortable. She said that all Chinese people had two basic personality types--they were either obedient nerds who did nothing except study, or they were rebelling against the obedient nerd type.

Sounds like a cool chick.
Why are you bitching about her?

This, she said, was because of how they were raised. She said that this was why she didn't really like Chinese people, and why she definitely won't date any.

Heck yeah.

I'm aware that there are culturally ingrained parenting techniques Chinese parents tend to follow, but I find it hard to believe that there are no exceptions. I also find it hard to believe that there are only two ways that these methods can be responded to.

Surely someone with enough personality to distinguish between stereotypes doesn't fully conform to one.
Have you ever heard of something called a joke?
I'm pretty sure when people say shit like that they aren't being serious.
Or, if they are being serious, they're not totally serious.

If I heard a white person saying these things it would be very easy for me to call them out on it, because it's stereotyping. But it's her culture. I went to high school with a lot of Chinese people and observed a variety of different personality types which contradicted her statement. Her personality contradicted it!

Who
Cares
 What I want to know is--was that the right response?
I've had black people and Asian people do this shit to me and I tell them straight out:
"no matter what I say here I'll look like a racist honky so I'm just not going to say anything at all."
Then they laugh and we all lighten up.

I feel guilty about agreeing with her that all Chinese people are basically the same--it feels like I'm dehumanizing a enormous and varied group of people.

All people are basically the same.
Calling all Chinese people the same isn't racist, then. It's a subset of the above logic which is colorblind by definition.

I've been talking with some POC buddies who are active with online social justice circles, and we shared similar observations and frustrations when it comes to White people in social justice, especially when compared to POCs in social justice.

I am prepared to bring the Emperor's Justice to everyone.
I don't think anyone on this planet is fully prepared for it.
It will be sweeping
It will be swift
It will be characteristically brutal.

Right now I'm tutoring at an ESL school where most of the students are Korean and Japanese. Often in conversation I'm complimented by students on my looks - my blonde hair, blue eyes, large eyes, large breasts, tall, whatnot. When I was in Japan I got compliments like that all the time - which I usually don't mind that much, but one day I had a conversation with my host mother about makeup - I said I never bothered to wear makeup, and she said that's fine because I didn't need it - Japanese women need makeup to make their faces more contoured, but white people already have that. 

OH BOY LET ME GO TO A COUNTRY I UNDERSTAND NOTHING AT ALL ABOUT
It's a manners thing. Ego is a big deal in Japan so they'll never say YEAH I'M FUCKING HOT AS FUCK they'll call themselves ugly.
Here we'd call it false modesty but it's a big deal there.
After that conversation I became really uncomfortable getting compliments on things that basically boil down to racial traits.
"No I'm not pretty, I'm really ugly."
They won't know how to handle that shit.
They don't expect you to know their bizarre system of manners so it's like this weird double down thing.

And sometimes I want to pull out my hair talking to Korean girls - so many beautiful girls want to get plastic surgery, especially eyelid surgery so they can get double-eyelids. On the one hand I recognize that they don't see eyelid surgery as being racially loaded - it's just something that loads of people do in Korea (look at Korean celebrities; 95% of them, men and women, have done it).  

I'll agree that is a sick practice and should stop immediately.
Unless they're ugly.
Speaking of Asian girls with big eyes, have you ever seen Anna Tsuchiya?

How should I respond to compliments like this? I just usually change the topic or avoid answering. I always tell Korean girls "you're beautiful the way you are, you don't need surgery" but I don't know if I'm just being patronizing.

Fuck it, man.
You do realize Asians are on par with white people in terms of ease of offending, right?
They don't really offend.
Well they might, but it will be over stuff besides racism.

At the end of the day I'm the only one reading racial politics into it; Asians in Asia (as opposed to immigrants, that's another can of worms) don't seem to see this stuff as racially related at all.

That's because it isn't.
You're making this about you and it isn't about you.
People are genetically attracted to things that are different yet familiar.
Blue eyes are different for a country that is almost 100% brown eyes.
But I tell you guys who actually have the most luck in Asia are guys with dark eyes and hair because they have similar coloration (at least in passing) but their faces look different.

So should I say anything, or should I just suck it up and stfu?

You should definitely shut the fuck up.

Is anyone aware of any good resources about whites teaching in primarily minority schools? I come from a pretty homogeneously white area. I'm hoping that the summer training will go in-depth into cultural and racial sensitivity, but I don't want to depend on them to provide all the necessary training and support. 

God
You are so many levels of fucked.

I want to prepare myself as best as I can to be as sensitive and aware as possible of the issues my underprivileged students will be facing. I've been collecting journal articles and related book lists, and the fellowship program has provided me with a list of possible resources, but you folks are so great and helpful that I thought you might have suggestions too. 

All right let me break this down for you.
I'm willing to go through this as many times as you need to understand this but I will not accept any whining or whinging because this is the honest fucking truth and I will not have you puss out on me.
So basically 80% of the kids there will refuse to learn.
5% will try but are so fucked they kinda give up
10% will try sometimes but then they'll not try other times. These are your problem students because only rarely do they acknowledge this is of their own doing and they'll try to blame you for why they're failing.
3% don't belong in your class. They belong in a special needs class but either are completely undiagnosed or are technically of average intelligence but are borderline illiterate they just seem to have a learning disability.
1% have a diagnosed learning disability but are being mainstreamed.
1% are actually there, trying, and will succeed.
HAPPY TEACHING~

Anyone have any advice? I know I'm going to make a lot of mistakes, probably multiple times a day, but I want to do right by these kids, to the best of my ability.

Save yourself.
In a parenting debate community, someone just brought up Huck Finn and the original version versus the censored version (where the n-word has been completely replaced with "slave").

Should classic works of literature that have racial slurs be changed for school reading?

Are you out of your fucking mind?
Of course it should be uncensored.

Does it matter the age of the students (middle school versus high school)? Should those books just not be read in schools? Should a teacher avoid reading the book out loud - 

Is it less offensive written than it is spoken?
Also yes you should avoid reading anything out loud. You read at home so we don't have to do it in class.

First, do I, as a white woman, have the right to butt in when I hear one minority making what I interpret to be a racist comment about another minority? I have one experience where an acquaintance (who is Latino) made a disparaging remark about blacks; I didn't say anything, but was silent and visibly uncomfortable. He replied with "It's okay, I'm Latino, I"m allowed to say that." I had no idea how to reply.

What, is it just white people who aren't allowed to say racist things?
Fuck.

This guy at the place I volunteer seems to have a real vendetta against Chinese people - he's gone off multiple times, but "dirty and rude" about sums up what he usually says. I'm not sure where he's from, though I know he's Asian but not Chinese.

Shit, he could be anything. Asians sure hate other Asians.
He might be Chinese, actually.

I know I can't really know a lot of what goes on in relations between different Asians (and I've known people before who resent China for pretty valid political reasons) and I don't know whether it's my business to say anything or not, not to mention I think he's spent time in China, while I haven't, so I haven't got a leg to stand on even if I did counter him.

Soooo shut the fuck up.

The second one is a bit easier - I keep hearing people say that Chinese drivers suck, and I really have no way to yea or nay this through personal experience as I don't drive myself, but it smacks of a racist stereotype to me. Does anyone have some statistics that can shed some light on it? I've searched but had no luck.

In the US if you hold a valid license from another country (except one) you can get a temporary license in the US if you're a tourist.
That one country is China.

Sometimes, the presenters can be pretty condescending to a majority-Latino class. Little things that add up -- instead of counting "one, two, three", they'll say, "uno, dos, tres"; when calling on a student, they'll call him "senor". The sort of thing that you can be easily dismissed for overreacting about when you call 'em out on it, but which amounts to something more significant when it happens over and over again, and -- most importantly -- which the students in the class are certainly picking up on. 

Finding cultural common ground?
Fuck that shit.
YOU SHOULD BE AS UNRELATABLE  AND ALIEN AS POSSIBLE.

Now, when it's the white presenters doing this stuff, my wife has no problem pulling 'em aside to talk about how it's unacceptable. But it's not just the white presenters who do it. The challenge is -- how does a white lady talk to a person of color about how he or she is marginalizing people based on race in a way that's effective? Obviously every presenter of color she works with has more firsthand experience with racism than she does, but that doesn't mean that they're not also capable of acting in a discriminatory fashion. 

Why the fuck do white people have to police everyone about racism?
I kind of liked it when an angry black woman was calling me a racist, actually. At least then I knew what was what.
Now I don't even know what the shit. White women are calling black women racist over comments about Hispanics--
The only thing I can think of now is a cleansing conflagration that will purge the world.

i everyone,

So, I am thinking of going to Paintball with my work colleagues and a friend. It sounds like massive fun, and a great sport to play.

But.

At Action Paintball, there are battlefields named after countries (granted, not all of them are). But it bothers me that they're named after real life countries / battlefields (Like Long Tan, Cambodia, La Drang. There's even one called Gallipoli, as well. Which seems to trivialise the sascrifices made by brave soldiers at Gallipoli). Would you consider this to be racist/an example of cultural appropriation? 

If there's a Khe Sanh I'm so there.
There isn't.
FUCK THIS NOT DOING IT
NO BATTLE OF THE BULGE
NO KHE SANH
WHY BOTHER

(Note: Originally posted at ONTD_feminism, but it quickly got buried under a lot of more recent posts. But if you're a member of that LJ comm, it would be great if you posted there too.) 

Wait, stop. They're giving me targets to review now.
These guys are clearly allies.
Anyway, LOOK FORWARD TO FRIDAY.

GREAT

Oh boy bitches whining.

What cutting edge entertainment.

"Well I don't have anything against gay people - "
"Oh, that's good - "
"I mean, some of them are just born that way and can't help it, you have to feel bad for them. Others of them are just hedonists."
"...huh - "
"I don't like bisexual people, though. Bisexuals are dirty."

Nope don't care.
Anyway TERA literally is the best game ever I found out after I switched servers and made a new character.

vent vent vent right anyway so

vacation week off work! yaaay

What other game lets you make a loli waifu who rides a lion?

Forgive the shitty screenshot I didn't feel like grappling with the camera and waiting for both parties to not have their eyes closed.
TERA has a very 3rd person shooter camera.
Open PVP sure is fun with Edie, too.
300 pound snake men want to rape her?
SHOULD HAVE RUN
WHEN THEY HAD THE CHANCE.
Also I picked mystic because I just can't stay away from the shitty support roles.
What's wrong with me?
Oh that's right she shoots fire out of her hands and has a move called teleporting jaunt that instantly warps her halfway across the fucking planet. No one can lock on.

then my godworshipping cousin and aunt from hong kong arrive! suddenly. with precisely one day of warning beforehand, thanks mom. I'm expected to entertain, so I do, and supposedly they are just staying here the one night then leaving. ok. I can do this. even though i really dislike them both - there is some odd backstory here,

I'm sure I care about this.

my cousin used to be a sleazy asshole attention whore that i disliked utterly then she FOUND GOD and became a stepford wife who tries to convert people and now she creeps me out hard but at least it's just one day and they're gon -

No I was kidding.

and jesus fuck don't start with 'impolite,' if I were in HK and my plans to stay with a friend fell out ID GO TO A HOTEL or something not to a relative's house where there ARE OTHER PEOPLE (unless I absolutely had to, and REMEMBER THESE PEOPLE ARE MILLIONAIRES.) because goddammit its not just 'sleep in a bed' when its family, you are OBLIGATING THEM TO ENTERTAIN YOU to be polite according to asian rules anyway and you KNOW it, even asking to stay is obligation-forming and being impolite. how the hell is it polite to invite people over without warning the other people who already live with you anyway? how the hell is it polite to force us to entertain them?

Them America Born Chinese girls, man.
Nope.

went to the dmv today

took a couple of hours to renew my license

an old guy died waiting in line

literally

just kind of keeled over waiting to get a new license for the next 4 years he didn't have

Jesus Christ what an awful thought.
-- Going to the DMV, that is.

can feel myself detaching from life again, goddamn

i hate when this happens, all the vague emotiony things kind of just go away and it sucks. it'd be easier if i were actually sad, this is more like being "meh" and uninterested in everything and bored and restless and pacing around in mental circles

i just want except i don't know what or where or how, and inb4 so ronery/forever alone because it's not another PERSON or even companionship or anything, it's - inspiration. or an idea. or an interest, or something to pour my mind into, something to care about that isn't frustrating and stupid and depressing to think about, something

Can someone please record themselves reading this because I can't bring myself to focus long enough to read this.
Just go to Vocaroo.com and record it please.

restless forever, can't sleep for more than two hours at a time because my mind is working too hard, i just lie there and think and can't remember what i was thinking about when i give up and get up. not sleeping makes it just get worse, i have all this vague nervous energy and i don't know what to do with it but i'm tired all the time, i'm burning myself up and haven't eaten properly in a week but there's no appetite or interest there, i just don't care

times when i need to be making something creating something working on something but i don't know what

come on, life, give something i can feel more than shallow and distant about

Blah blah blah existential whining blah blah why me blah blah bitching about parents
You're my age for Christ's sake. Shouldn't you have a job or something you can be moaning about?

Is a paid professional killer better, worse, or exactly the same, to you, as a murderer/serial killer who kills for personal reasons? 

Both are exactly the same.
What kind of question is this?

How about a paid professional torturer/abuser/etc etc vs someone who does it for personal reasons (or at least, not as a profession)?

A paid professional who doesn't do this as a profession-- what?
So like revenge?
Depends on the reason for revenge but I'd say generally that's better.

Obviously neither are GOOD PEOPLE but is one worse than the other?

I never root for a character more than when the driving goal is justified vengeance.
See: The Count of Monte Cristo.

1) the basic: you have to kill 1 innocent person (they would not have died without your interference) to save 5 innocent people, or let 5 innocent people die (through inaction). what do you do?

No such thing as innocence.

Next question.
2) the less basic: you have to kill 4 innocent people (they would not have died without your interference) to save 5 innocent people, or let 5 innocent people die (through inaction). what do you do?

That's not less basic. The crux is whether murdering to save lives is morally agreeable so ultimately the number of people saved versus killed shouldn't matter as long as the net gain is positive.

Really we're just arguing whether utilitarianism is moral or not.

3) the even less basic: you have to kill 1 person you love (they would not have died without your interference) to save 5 innocent people, or let 5 innocent people die (through inaction). what do you do? 

Let 5 innocent people die.
Are you even trying to give me a moral dilemma here?

4) if you answered kill the person you love for question #3, what if it's 2 people you love? 3? 4?

I didn't, so next fucking question.

5) who do you respect more, the person who sacrifices their loved one to save random strangers, or the person who sacrifices random strangers to save their loved ones? how would you rather have your own loved ones act, if it were YOU in danger? how would you rather have your own loved ones act, if it were THEM in danger? 

The person who sacrifices random strangers, of course. Why do I have to respect idiots with martyr complexes, especially when they're martyring others?

6) who do you respect more, the person who actively makes a choice or the person who lets time run out/things take their course/whatever without actively making a decision to do nothing? (does it depend on the choice they make?)

Considering the basis of all great cultural heroes in the entire world is they're men of action who take their destinies into their own hands (however futile the attempt may be) I think we can all agree people who make choices are far more respected and respectable than people who just sit back and wait.
I mean rationally if something good happens to you just by chance that doesn't really show a triumph of strength or moral integrity or wit or whatever.

Assume there's no legal interference or any like, GOING TO JAIL FOR MURDER even though you did it to save people etc etc this is just a question of morals

Question of morals for fucking 6 year olds.
The only part of this that approaches a moral dilemma is the first part when everyone involved was strangers but you removed all possible dimensions of morality from that when you said they were innocent.
So, yes, saving 5 Mother Theresas is better than saving only 1.
Now if the question is, say, do you save 1 known upstanding, tax paying father of 3 or do you save a bus full of kids who are effectively untested in life (one could be the next Hitler, who knows?) you might have more of a debate on your hands.
And the rest of this crap is copied IM conversations she had with other people.
What kind of monstrous egotist do you have to be to think anyone would want to read this?
YES YOUR BORING IMs THIS IS TOTALLY A SUBSTITUTE FOR CONTENT.