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Ob Twilight: Breaking Dawn Thread
Love it? Hate it? Meh? It’s a bit hard to totally ignore this week, just sayin’. (obviously, Spoilers Alert)
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Ahoy ye hoydens! on the good ship Menopause with Pirate Queen Roseanne
This is the illustration from her article, and the article is Even Better.
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Light a candle: Transgender Day of Remembrance
“Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it ”
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Sunday Cinema Trailer: Pixar’s Brave
…the courageous Merida confronts tradition, destiny and the fiercest of beasts.
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Ingroups bullying Outgroups: changing targets, consumerism and personal boundaries
In an age in which the traditional forms of ingroup hatred of outgroups (based on tribalism, race, nationality, religion, and so on) are no longer socially acceptable on a wide scale, are people seeking new outlets (albeit on a lower level) for the same old hatreds?
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Meme of the day: tealdeer
Love it. Apparently it’s been around for quite a while, which is why the animated gif exists, but I only read it for the first time today.
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Rape Culture Datapoint
Joe Paterno knowingly looked the other way when he could have gone to the police to get justice for raped children. Thousands of people are defending him.
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Dear Kindle Cloud Reader
Please to be fixing footnotes. It is utterly unacceptable to attempt reading Pratchett without them.
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The expulsion of #occupywallstreet
…acting on Mayor Bloomberg’s instructions the NYPD waited until the city was asleep to expel the #occupy protestors from Zucotti Park.
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Word
Feministe’s Caperton points out that a helpful chap’s effort to introduce women to a term he thought they might not have ever heard before could perhaps have been a bit better directed elsewhere.
Hoyden About Town 