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14 years ago @ Womanist Musings - People of Color Speak ... · 1 reply · +1 points

I live in Victoria. The main reasons that are being whispered about Occupy Victoria being closed is that city officials are worried about how it will impact Christmas/holiday tourism. That speaks multitudes about their priorities being out of order.

14 years ago @ Womanist Musings - Safety For The Rich · 0 replies · +1 points

Gott en Himmel!
I carried mace myself in Montana, after my uncle was murdered and I was worried his murderer (Who hated my family) would find out I was living there and come after me. I borrowed it from a friend, but I also would have had the option of buying it (in the form of bear spray) without any of these steps.
I'm so sorry they're making it so difficult. It's amazing people have the gall to victim blame when defending ourselves is needlessly difficult.

14 years ago @ Womanist Musings - Should Sesame Street L... · 0 replies · +1 points

When I was a little kid, I always assumed that Bert and Ernie were siblings, with Bert being the older brother and Ernie being the younger one.
But it someone told me "No, they're married just like your mom and dad" I wouldn't have had any trouble understanding that. Kids are wonderful like that.

14 years ago @ Womanist Musings - What is Stimming? · 0 replies · +1 points

She's right on the money. Stimming is a relief mechanism for when you get overwhelmed.
I also do it sometimes when I become fascinated with an object, and want to experience it wholly, such as a comfortable chair, or a floor with a nice texture, or a piece of fabric. That's stimming as well.

14 years ago @ Womanist Musings - Lonerism: the Misunder... · 1 reply · +1 points

Believe me, as an aspie, I know where you are coming from. :-) Solitude is highly underrated, and it is treasured by those of us who need time alone after a day of sensory and emotional overload from interacting with the world.

14 years ago @ Womanist Musings - How Genocide Portrayal... · 1 reply · +4 points

Another genocide that gets little mention in Canada and the U.S is the massacre and systemic rape of Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 90s. We never discussed it in school, even when it was happening right then and there. As an adult, I wrote a short story related to it, dedicated to a friend who survived, and none of my peers in the workshop knew about it; they said they'd assumed I'd been talking about Iraq because the main characters were stated to be Muslims.
The argument I usually use when talking about the importance of talking about genocide is that it still has implications today. How are we to understand modern events without knowing about the tragedies which triggered them? Remind people where and when this started, and it will not only shake them out of their amnesia, but it will give them a better understanding of how these events are working out now. It's not just a history, it's a continuing reality.

14 years ago @ Womanist Musings - PeTA and Racial Approp... · 1 reply · +6 points

Between this and Morrissey comparing the Norway massacre to fast food, today must have been declared "open season" by animal rights fauxgressives.

14 years ago @ Womanist Musings - My First Vibrator · 0 replies · +2 points

The Hitachi was my first too! It was an eighteenth birthday present to myself. :D Lordy, I don't know how I would have survived college without it, that thing is magic.
Right now, I'm saving up to get some LELO ones as well. My girlfriend and I are going to have a lot of fun with them.

14 years ago @ Womanist Musings - Marriage Eh? · 0 replies · +8 points

I'm planning my wedding to my transgender girlfriend right now! And I'm having the same musings about these issues. I'm getting married because I'm madly in love, and because I believe in showing how queer Jews belong under the chuppah just as much as our non-queer counterparts, but... I also have this niggling fear in the back of my mind of being denied access to the hospital room while my beloved recovers from her surgeries because we're not married. I shouldn't have that damn fear at all, really, she should be entitled to see whomever she damn wants to see, "family" or not, after surgery. But I can't deny that that fear is playing a part in my desire to get married, because I want to be there for her and hold her hand.
When I read the text of the Ketubah (marriage contract) we're picked though, I get tears in my eyes and admit there's so much more I can't explain with words about why we are getting married.

14 years ago @ http://womenseyeonmedi... - My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding · 0 replies · +2 points

I have to admit, I've been watching it purely out of boredom and because my own wedding plans are in motion now, so I am developing a taste for wedding-related TV. One of the things which bothered me the most was making a big deal about how young they marry, without explaining that travellers and romani in the UK have a tragically short life expectancy, owing to poor access to healthcare and other factors, which probably contribute to wanting to marry younger than most others in the UK. Context, TLC! Not sensationalism!

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