February 2012
11 posts
jocelynseip:
djinndreaming:
jocelynseip replied to your post: I live in Australia and if Rick Santorum becomes…
time for an assassination
wow jocelyn don’t do anything by halves will you
i wont stand by while someone ruins my country
Hmm I wonder what the reaction to this joke would be if it were said around the time Obama was running for president…
Dolphins are 'people' say scientists →
Dolphins deserve to be treated as non-human “persons” whose rights to life and liberty should be respected, scientists meeting in Canada have been told.
A small group of experts in philosophy, conservation and dolphin behaviour were canvassing support for a “Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans”.
They believe dolphins - and their whale cousins - are sufficiently intelligent and self-aware to...
Jacket, Pocket.: In regards to the last part of... →
marxisforbros:
Has anyone else noticed that? It’s like the media thinks they’ve found some kind of magical loophole in the form of flamboyant homosexuals. Because you can’t have a heterosexual man saying that Anne Hathaway looks like a goth Miss Piggy after a long battle with heroin abuse, because people would call him misogynist and offensive. Likewise, you can’t have a female say it because...
Beyond Pelvic Politics →
womenaresociety:
I may not be as theologically sophisticated as American bishops, but I had thought that Jesus talked more about helping the poor than about banning contraceptives.
The debates about pelvic politics over the last week sometimes had a patronizing tone, as if birth control amounted to a chivalrous handout to women of dubious morals. On the contrary, few areas have more...
Greek lawmakers pass austerity bill as Athens... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Greece’s parliament approved a deeply unpopular austerity bill Monday to secure a second EU/IMF bailout and avoid national bankruptcy, as buildings burned across central Athens and violence spread around the country.
Cinemas, cafes, shops and banks were set ablaze in central Athens and black-masked protesters fought riot police outside parliament before lawmakers voted...
“I don’t remember people looking at John Howard and saying ‘Gee I wish he’d be...”
– Prime Minister Julia Gillard (via tu-sei-piccolina)
Prime minister Gillard invokes the shadowy spectre of sexism as a quick way of discrediting her critics. She’s a busy woman, she doesn’t have the time to actually debate her critics on issues of policy.
Though she really should have...
Paneoti's Workshop: The Republican Party →
underthemountainbunker:
“They masquerade their bullshit in the words of Jesus and the all-knowing free market, but it is transparent what motivates them. Not love for their fellow man, not love for their fellow citizen, not love for country – what motivates them is hate for the other. You….
People who oppose a free market, either don’t understand what a free market is, or they...
ali-escargot:
““The degree of relentless criticism on this Prime Minister, coming from male commentators, it is probably all subconscious, is sexist and quite ridiculous at times,””
— Senator Bob Brown, telling it like it is (via tangara)
Wrong. Conservatives probably criticise Sen. Bob Brown more and he is a man. And before you say they only criticise him because he is gay, in the last 12...
“What’s the worst thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re...”
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Full frontal feminism: a young women’s guide to why feminism matters
By Jessica Valenti
(via thehaoleone)
If you try to tell me that feminism doesn’t matter any more, I will punch you in the genitals. If you try to tell me that your gender identification, biological makeup or age makes you...