When I need to vent before I kick someone.
I’ve been known to bite, too.
When I am told about our national heritage or about “civilization,” I am shown that people of my color made it what it is. This. From White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh. Don’t get white privilege? You’re not alone. I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males […]
I’m going to address this to all of you, even though not all of you bag groceries, because maybe you can stop this dreadful incident from occurring again. Specifically, though, I want to talk to the baggers. To the bottom of the totem pole people, the ones stuck with all the worst jobs I’m sure.
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So many of my friends are so stressed right now, and I’m not sympathetic at all. I mean, I am, but I really wish I could convince them to stop it. If someone really want to go all out for Christmas, I say go for it. But if it’s making people miserable, stressing them out
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Rachelle Gardner commented on her blog about the age-old question of whether agents hate writers. The usual internet shit-storm erupted, of course, although most people who bother to read an agent’s blog are there to learn, and show respect. Some commenters, though, echoed a refrain I’ve heard so many times. And I’ve just got to
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Interrupting the NaNo-blogging to say: I just don’t get it. WTF, Maine? How did gays ever hurt you? WTH, California? Just try getting by without your gays! WTFBBQ!!!! to my own state, where we have a frakkin’ BAN, just to make damn sure. Traditional marriage is threatened by things like “How to Marry a Millionaire”
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I wrote this when I stumbled on it, and didn’t even think about it being Coming Out Day today. I’m certainly not in opposition to Coming Out Day–this is just another side of a complicated issue. We now rejoin our rant, already in progress– Besides being one of the bigger personalities in figure skating, Weir
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Ask yourself this: why do you call your work “m/m” instead of “gay”? Both are three keystrokes. Why is it you only refer to your work as “gay” when you want to get a Lambda nomination? The Lambdas are for LGBT writing, not LGBT-slash writing. via Queer and Loathing in America – Part of Your