I have been afraid.
“Does it scare you not to think of yourself as the norm?”
Yes.
“Does it scare you that you aren’t representative of all women?”
Yes.
“Does it scare you that you are lacking?”
Yes.
“Does it scare you not to know what to do, not to have the right answer all the time?”
Yes.
“Does it scare you that even […]

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Allecto’s got some great things up at Gorgon Poisons lately, especially:
Open Letter from Nicaraguan Feminists
The work of Vednita Carter

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Whitely people generally consider themselves to be benevolent and good-willed, fair, honest and ethical. The judge, preacher, peacemaker, martyr, socialist, professional, moral majority, liberal, radical, conservative, working men and women–nobody admits to being prejudiced, everybody has earned every cent they ever had, doesn’t take sides, doesn’t hate anybody, and always votes for the person they […]

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Some of what follows was written many months ago, as part of a longer piece, which I then decided not to publish due to struggling with false and divided loyalties. Unfortunately, online feminists haven’t seemed to make any headway in resolving things; if anything, the climate has become more characterized by privilege-serving reactionism and […]

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This post is in honor of a friend’s coworker. She has demonstrated a need for some vocabulary to describe things she doesn’t like which, as opposed to her current favorites, “retarded” and “gay”, does not put down entire groups of people.
bad
ill
untoward
dreadful
horrid
horrible
rank
rotten
putrid
cheesy
lousy
hurtful
harmful
baneful
baleful
detrimental
pernicious
malefic (that one’s for mAndrea)
malignant
noxious
nocuous
noisome
unlucky
sinister
obnoxious
inauspicious
oppressive
burdensome
onerous
malign
malevolent
virulent
venomous
corrosive
poisonous
toxic
mean
paltry
unsatisfactory
indifferent
imperfect
ill-contrived
wretched
abysmal
pitiful
pathetic
sad
grievous
deplorable
lamentable
pitiable
unfortunate
evil
wrong
depraved
vile
base
flagrant
nefarious
reprehensible
heinous
hateful
wicked
Isn’t this fun? It’s just amazing what a thesaurus […]

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The Fury, Australian Radical Feminism

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My Abortion Made Me Impotent:

But I’m sure these testimonials aren’t just cynical histrionics designed to restore mens’ traditional property rights over the uterus and its contents. And to prove it, I’m willing to make this offer: I will happily accept that we have abortions if, whenever a woman dies in childbirth, the father is immediately […]

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Starfish
miss Andrea’s
I’ll have something original up in a couple days, probably.

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