Gretchen Image: A black person’s hand and a white person’s handforming a heart. Someday somebody’s gonna ask you A question that you should say yes to Once in your life Maybe tonight I’ve got a question for you — “Question,” Old 97’s Control over your own life. Since we were old enough to recognize the concept, each one of us … Read more
This year’s Father’s Day card: (How I made it below the jump) I like to draw animals in clothes, and I found myself with a lot of patterned paper on hand, so of course I did what any person would do in such a situation– I made a father’s day card featuring animals* in clothes … Read more
Spotted on Facebook: Left side: Photo of Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine. Caption: “Pretending to be awoman: Must accept and approve of”Right side: Photo of Rachel Dolezal. Caption: “Pretending tobe black: Unacceptable!! We disapprove” The people I see most often making the equivocation/slippery slope argument between “acceptance” of transgenderism and “acceptance” … Read more
I was all set to write a post on TERFS, right before Caitlyn Jenner came out. I had several paragraphs written, comparing trans-exclusionary radical feminism to regular transphobia, explaining how regular transphobia tends to be rooted in religious belief and social conservatism, whereas TERFism comes more from a second wave feminist idea of a sisterhood … Read more
Dear Robin, Our only child is getting married soon. My husband and I love his fiancé and are fully supportive of this arrangement– last year, my husband and I committed to paying for the wedding. Here’s the problem: Turns out that both my son and his fiancé have different beliefs about religion than we do. … Read more
Dignity is a sort of agreement between people. A decision to grant that a person, or body of people, deserve respect. That they possess agency, the capacity and the right to make their own decisions. To determine their own lives. America has agreed, implicitly, that poor people have no dignity. If we as a nation … Read more
Sigh. Guys, Zarya is a character in a video game. Not a real person auditioning to be your girlfriend.
Today at PAX East, Blizzard revealed two new playable characters for its upcoming FPS game Overwatch, announced last November at BlizzCon. You can see a video of the entire presentation here. The two heroes announced are a futuristic outlaw gunslinger called McCree, and a Russian “tank” soldier called Zarya. Game director for Overwatch Jeff Kaplan … Read more
Last November during BlizzCon, I wrote a post critiquing the design of some of the female playable characters as compared to the male characters in the newly revealed but not yet released FPS game Overwatch. In it, I addressed the following comment made by Blizzard senior vice president Chris Metzen: Specifically for Overwatch over the … Read more
The BBC has a profile on Omar El-Hussein, the man who carried out Saturday’s killings in Copenhagen. He apparently was assisted by two other men, who have since been taken in police custody. They were charged with providing El-Hussein with weapons and helping him escape after the attacks. We know El-Hussein was not an immigrant– … Read more