July 21, 2012
"When I was in high school a friend of mine was killed in a car wreck. He was not wearing his seat belt and thrown from his vehicle. “God’s plan” language was used often at my high school that year. Claiming that the incident was divinely ordered helped people cope with their grief. It was easier than claiming the sad truth that, if my friend had buckled his seatbelt, he likely would have survived. Blaming the victim is never healthy, but blaming God for our own mistakes is no better."

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Rev. Adam J. Copeland (5 Reasons to Stop Calling Things ‘God’s Plan’)

This is an article in response to Geroge Zimmerman’s statement that what he done was in “God’s Plan”.

(via whatwhiteswillneverknow)

All day yesterday I was obsessed with this clip from the view, where Barbara Walters is talking about how she didn’t end up interviewing George Zimmerman because he made demands that she couldn’t grant (reports say he demanded money to pay his hotel bill).

Obviously at first it was disorienting for me to be watching people in modern clothing discussing contemporary issues because I mostly only watch old BBC shows, but once I got over that, I was really into Ms. Walters’s obvious anger at having missed out on the interview. Like you can see how pissed she is, she wanted it, knew it would be a big get, she even let him go on Hannity, when usually she holds out for an exclusive, she is SO MAD, and it is kind of cool to see her still nakedly ambitious and wanting to win.

However, she then goes on to lay out all kinds of pro-Zimmerman stuff that she should not be putting out there if she isn’t going to air an interview. Ohhh he is in hiding? POOR GEORGE ZIMMERMAN. Was the hour she spent with him on or off the record? Why is she talking about his (supposed) grandmother and repeating what his lawyers said about the FBI supposedly interviewing people who said Zimmerman is not a racist? That’s bullshit hearsay. “He mentored two black children.” REALLY?

But then the other ladies started talking and IS THAT ROSEANNE BARR? WHAT? And then I loved when Barbara quoted Zimmerman saying it was God’s will, and the lady in the red was all, “If you go to prison, well I guess that’s God’s will part two,” and then the other lady says, perfectly seriously, “Well that’s not God’s will, that’s Satan. Satan is alive and well!” AND THEY JUST KEEP TALKING LIKE THAT’S A TOTES NORMS THING TO SAY.

Is this something that happens on TV a lot? WTF? Satan! is alive!

(via cocothinkshefancy)

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June 1, 2012

seriously with this

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May 26, 2012
List of zines in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College

psychotropicpolitics:

mikkipedia:

I don’t get how they are defining “Girl Zines” because Beerframe, Glue, Cometbus, and Bunnyhop? All made by pals of mine but I wouldn’t call them girl-related in any sense, and yes category “girl” is problematic but still. Plus LA Weekly and MRR? Archive confusion.

However obviously points for having 2 issues of BiD.

I think this is a generational misunderstanding over what zines actually are. The collection has only just begun to be organized this way, rather than scattered about the archives like buttever, mom. I’ll work on it once I start working thurr.

Wait, what?? This actually just made me really pissed. “A generational misunderstanding over what zines are?” You have got to be fucking kidding me. It’s more like a general misunderstanding on what “Girls” are. There are several zines made by dudes, including a notoriously misogynistic one, in a collection called “Girl Zines.” That has nothing to do with what is and what isn’t a zine. If the library wants to use “Girl” as a category, which is problematic to begin with, why are they in this category? 

It is true that I am old. My work, and important parts of my life, are in this archive. These people are my friends. But seriously WTF. Aaron Cometbus is not and has never been a girl. I owe a lot of my career to Bunnyhop, but it was definitely not a Girl Zine in any way shape or form that I can imagine. The same is true of Glue and Beerframe.  Buttever.

(Source: roughguess, via roughguess)

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September 16, 2010
The New Blinderism

spiers:

Do I believe that sexism exists in modern workplace? Yes. But I don’t worry about it, because if someone actually decides they don’t want to work with me simply because I’m a woman, they’re saving me the trouble of working with an idiot. It’s an automatic moron screener. And in the long run, those people will find that their careers and their lives have suffered for never having worked with talented women.

But it won’t hurt me.

Now that I’ve found blinderism, I can also stop worrying about that extra $.33 on the dollar that men make! Or, say, racism—I mean if a manager doesn’t hire a candidate simply because that candidate is black, the manager is saving that person of the trouble of going to work at all! And that won’t hurt Elizabeth Spiers! Win-win.

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