violence
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
~Mahatma Gandhi
“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”
~Jim Morrison
“There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.”
~Napoleon Bonaparte
This week in Game of Thrones: Theon Greyjoy is horrid and horrider
Lots of other things are horrid too. Have a general snarking on Westeros thread.
SPOILERS FOLLOW
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My rant on The Hunger Games
Here be SPOILERS!!!
I’m interested in addressing it as an instance of popular culture that again has kids tearing through books, hungry for more, at the controversy and ‘moral panic’ that it seems to be creating, and in looking at the elements of what, for me, made it something out of the league of the ‘Twilights’ of the world.
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Look what I found: a picture of mass murderer Breivik that doesn’t play to his script
Why can’t you do better than all those fist-salute photos, media? Why are you publishing the shot that he wants people to see?
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Sunday Singalong: M.I.A.
To prove that I am not just about the 90′s, here’s M.I.A. for Sunday Singalong. M.I.A. is the thrillingly clever Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam: a British musician, painter, and director of Sri Lankan descent. She readily incorporates politics into her music and interviews, with her most frequent causes being that of refugees and anti-racism, but she [...]
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False media narratives: why don’t we talk about “white on white” crime?
White Americans are just as likely to be killed by other whites as Black Americans are likely to be killed by other blacks. In fact, all races in the USA share similar ratios. As the largest racial group, whites commit the majority of crimes in America. In particular, whites are responsible for the vast majority of violent crimes.
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Sunday Poet: Adrienne Rich
These are the words that made me love Adrienne Rich’s work: This is what living with children could be – without school hours, fixed routines, naps, the conflict of being both mother and wife with no room for being simply, myself. Driving home once, after midnight, from a late drive-in movie… with three sleeping children [...]
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Quick Hit: Project Unbreakable [Trigger Warning]
This post and the link it takes you to comes with a big trigger warning for use of the words of sexual attackers.
Late last year, Grace Brown started an art project called Project Unbreakable. It involves photographing men and women holding posters which contain something that their attacker/s said to them immediately before, during, or after their attack.
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Hashtag Of the Day: #ididnotreport (trigger warning #rapeculture #webelieveyou)
The headline basically says it all for the benefit of our HaT tweetbot; here’s the link to the #ididnotreport hashtag on Twitter if you want to read.
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Sobering thoughts on the eve of International Women’s Day
Sobering thoughts on the eve of International Women’s Day. Trigger warning for descriptions of violence against women and children.
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Quicklink: These jokes aren’t benign
With them, the president is normalizing a patriarchal, sexist, adversarial take on parenthood — and on fathering daughters specifically.
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Things that add to tigtog’s misanthropy #8725606
Any sapient meteors planning on committing suicide in the earth’s atmosphere in the near future? Please consider targeting this dipshit as your final gesture? PLEASE.
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Very, very tired
So tired. Even more tired than Chris Brown is of being reminded of things he’d rather we all forgot about.
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Hating Australia Day from afar
Today is the second Australia Day since I moved to the United States. One of the most surprising things for me to experience out of Australia was people saying–even in the American South!–Australia’s really racist, isn’t it? And personally, I hate that. I hate that there is such a strong implicit idea of who an Australian “is,” and how racist and dependent on assimilation that is. I hate the way that is enforced with violence and ugly rhetoric, and I hate the policies that our country mobilises against Aboriginal communities and refugees.
And yet. For all that I hate what Australia Day represents, I am more homesick than usual today.
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