February 2012
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Netflix is being a fucker. I seriously only have thirty minutes left of this film and it won’t let me watch it as;dglkjqwlgeiuhofdsj.
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How can our country, with a President who knows discrimination in his core, how...
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Vermont resident Frances Herbert • Discussing the issues her wife, Takaka Ueda, is facing. Herbert is legally married to Ueda — a native of Japan and her partner of 13 years — and in shock, after the Department of Homeland Security sent a letter denying Ueda’s request to stay in the country. Ueda...
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Utah “Ag Gag” Bill Passes House — Urgent Action... →
Imagine any other industry. If people filmed a sweatshop and exposed its abuse, would they arrest the person who filmed it? If an auto factory was using environmentally unsound practices and someone caught that on camera? Whether you believe in animal rights or not, this is fundamentally wrong.
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The Bechdel Test
I’m going to start tacking on to my “Just watched” movies an assessment about whether or not I think they pass the Bechdel test, which means the movie
a) Has two women characters (named, if anyone is named), b) They talk to each other, and c) They don’t talk about a man.
Just because it’s interesting to think about.
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Maryland is about to become the eighth state to... →
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A bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland was approved by the state Senate, which advanced a measure that narrowly cleared the House of Delegates last week.
The final vote by the state Senate ended a yearlong drama in Annapolis over the legislation, and marked the first time an East Coast state south of the Mason-Dixon line has supported gay nuptials.
With the...
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BREAKING NEWS
Common sense reveals that there is no correlation between self-respect and whether or not you show your tits on the internet or how many people you sleep with.
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Virginia governor no longer fully supports... →
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jessicavalenti:
Props to all the pro-choice activists in VA!
Oh, this is the best news I’ve heard all week. Of course, it’s kind of disheartening that I am relieved after hearing that the governor of my state “no longer fully supports” state rape. But I’ll take what I can get, right?
I guess this is good, but he’s only not supporting it because he wants to be the vice...
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