Wednesday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by apples.Suggested Reading through:Fall: The HAES® Files: On Ethics [Content Note: Body fat hate bullying.]Jorge: A Shateringly Ironic Day for Boy Whose Father Awaits DeportationLawrence: Huge Most of Wage Earners Will Work Harder, as well as for Very Little MoreAnnie-Rose: Missouri Bill Would Require All First Graders to consider NRA-Backed Gun ClassJenn: Reflecting around the Presidential Inaugurationkaroli: 15-Years Old Artist at Obama's Inaugural Wiped out by GunfireFMF News: Malala Yousafzai Approaching Final Surgical procedures [Content Note: Violence.]Lisa: Race, Rehab, and also the Private Prison IndustryAndy: Gay Marriage Enemies Deep indebted, Battling to satisfy Top Court CostsTaegan: Fox News Rankings PlummetLaura: Fly Me Away: Aircraft pilots and Volunteers Unite to Save AnimalsParks & Rec: The Manliest Blueberry You'll Ever See Leave your links and proposals in comments...

Feel the Hoosier Homomentum!

Here's marriage story that helped me smile: Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan is performing a marriage ceremony Thursday for over a dozen LGBT couples, inside a move designed to protest a suggested constitutional amendment that will prohibit same-sex marriage. The ceremony coincides using the tenth anniversary from the PRIDE LGBTQ Film Festival within the city, and can occur in the Buskirk-Chumley Theater at 10 p.m. following a opening evening from the festival. Together with Kruzan, six people of Bloomington's city council and 2 people of Monroe County Council are required to go to and pledge support, based on a news release. Local local clergy may also be in the ceremony. My better to Mayor Kruzan and also to the happy couples, for Thursday as well as for every single day.

Downton Abbey Open Thread

"Whoops."[Spoilers are telling secrets downstairs herein. And there is a large spoiler now, so continue but be careful!Welp, you actually whoopsed up this time around, The almighty Whoops! Even Lady Valium takes rage pills by having an I'd Rather Not Call At Your STUPID FACE chaser. Here's what happens as a fortunate, classist wanker who sanctimoniously demands that the fancy-pants city physician have to know much more about everything compared to humble village physician who's been dealing with your kids their whole lives: Your daughter dies. RIP Sybil.Despite the fact that I understand that ladies die in giving birth, which is essentially only a cleaning soap opera which will always mistreat its figures to create Points, I had been still angry in the show for killing Sybil mainly to underscore The almighty Whoops' already-apparent character defects and make more dramatic conflict. Actually, I had been so angry which i wasn't even particularly moved by her death—until they cut to Thomas crying.That actually got me—Thomas telling Mrs. Hughes that Sybil was among the couple of individuals who had ever treated him with kindness. The heartstrings! These were formally tugged.In other news, Anna met with Bates plus they determined how you can prove he's innocent of killing his ex-wife. Something something gaolmumble from a guard and inmate, who are likely to thwart the program, for reasons I haven't yet discern. I suppose existence will get pretty boring at Grey Gaol, and you will too ruin someone's existence to help keep yourself entertained!Ethyl began for Mrs. Crowley and burned the fuck out of a body organ meat soufflé. "Sorry, Mrs. Crowley! I had been trained in the Whoops Institute of Cooking at Whoopston Abbey!"—Ethyl.Matthew met by having an attorney about how exactly The almighty Whoops is garbage at running the estate. Mary got mad at him, because she needs to occupy the ass-covering slack on her father once the Dowager Countess is not around. Ladies, I have to professionally disagree along with you. It's his fault. He's a mismanager of epic proportions, and that he must retire for the night.And him the hell from Edith before he crushes what bit of self-esteem she handles to retain underneath the weight of his haughty contempt!Ugh this person.In a single vibrant place of excellent news: Matthew's dick is still effective!Talk about.[Please go to discuss everything Downton Abbey, only with the 4th episode of Season 3. Do not share things from later within the season, despite a spoiler warning, because I have reached mod the thread, which requires reading through everything. So be kind, if you are elsewhere on the planet in which the whole season has broadcast.]

Friday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by designs.Suggested Reading through:Lyle: President's Appointment Energy CurbedAviva: CNN Anchor Methods Opponent of ladies in Combat to Endorse Racial Segregation [Content Note for misogyny and racism.]Erica: VictoryPaul: Obama's Second Chance: The Reelected Leader Has Gun Law as well as Global Warming in the Sights [Note: Should you read completely towards the very finish, you will notice a familiar title waxing repetitive about Obama as being a more powerful ally on reproductive privileges. GEE WHO Can It Be?!Pleased Place: If Downton Abbey Happened Positioned on Facebook: Season 3, Episode 3 [Content Note for the similar biases based in the episode.]And from Flyover Feminism's Roe Week [content note for fight against agency for the below posts]:Nicole Clark: Keeping the Belief within the Professional Choice MovementRobin Marty and Jessica Mason Pieklo: Kansas: "Notify Your Conscience Become Your Guide"Lily Bolourian: Roe v. Wade Anniversary: Why I'm Not Satisfied After 40 YearsAlicia Walters: Regulating Black Motherhood of all the AngleARROW: An Overview from the Condition of Abortion Over the Asian RegionLeave your links and proposals in comments...

Friday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by designs.Suggested Reading through:Lyle: President's Appointment Energy CurbedAviva: CNN Anchor Methods Opponent of ladies in Combat to Endorse Racial Segregation [Content Note for misogyny and racism.]Erica: VictoryPaul: Obama's Second Chance: The Reelected Leader Has Gun Law as well as Global Warming in the Sights [Note: Should you read completely towards the very finish, you will notice a familiar title waxing repetitive about Obama as being a more powerful ally on reproductive privileges. GEE WHO Can It Be?!Pleased Place: If Downton Abbey Happened Positioned on Facebook: Season 3, Episode 3 [Content Note for the similar biases based in the episode.]And from Flyover Feminism's Roe Week [content note for fight against agency for the below posts]:Nicole Clark: Keeping the Belief within the Professional Choice MovementRobin Marty and Jessica Mason Pieklo: Kansas: "Notify Your Conscience Become Your Guide"Lily Bolourian: Roe v. Wade Anniversary: Why I'm Not Satisfied After 40 YearsAlicia Walters: Regulating Black Motherhood of all the AngleARROW: An Overview from the Condition of Abortion Over the Asian RegionLeave your links and proposals in comments...

Open Thread

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Obama and Clinton to Appear on 60 Minutes Together

This really is making me all verklempt: Leader Obama and Secretary of Condition Hillary Clinton can look together within their first joint interview a few days ago.The leader and Clinton, who's likely to leave the Condition Department within days, will tape the job interview Friday in the Whitened House with "an hourInch anchor Steve Kroft. It will likely be the president's first dual interview with anybody apart from first lady Michelle Obama.Have I pointed out I am likely to miss seeing both of these together? A couple of times? Millions of occasions? I am likely to miss them together.

Mods Get to See the Darnedest Things

[Content Note: Rape culture.]Left in reaction to Aphra's publish about rape culture and campus security:Rubbish, consider the amounts of false rape allegationsThat's it. The entire comment.I'll always be amused by colossal dipshits nobody think they have "got us" by shedding a mention of the "false rape accusations" into comments," as though we may have unsuccessful to see that "false rape accusations" (that are frequently not really really false) tend to be more infrequent than false reviews of vehicle thievery, that is itself rare—and the number of "false rape accusations" is dependant on reported rapes. If nonreported rapes were incorporated, the proportion of "false rape accusations" could be even more compact.Consider the amounts of false rape accusations. I've, mister. Perhaps you have?

Downton Abbey Open Thread

Dear Bates: How's gaol? Everything still grey? Love, Anna.[Spoilers are telling secrets downstairs herein.]Oh the goings-on at Downton now! And also at Grey Gaol! ("Grey Gaol—where things are grey and also the gruel is grey-flavored!") Anna is sad because Bates is not writing her. And Bates is sad because Anna is not writing him. Immediately, I think that Thomas is in some way intercepting their letters and taking advantage of them as smoking papers, however it works out there's some non-Thomas-related gaol intrigue which i don't totally understand because I am not fluent in gaolmumble. Something something shiv inside a loofah, and also the letters start flowing again. Yay!Meanwhile, back at Downton, The almighty Whoops thinks that Matthew should have a look at Downton's finances, because Matthew "may have good quality ideas." Maybe! Like: Don't invest all of your money in one location! Or: Mayhaps we do not ALL have to put on gemstone-encrusted tiaras to dinner! Matthew is lucky there is a violent revolutionary in the household, so his dirty red-colored communism is just a blushing pink in comparison!Talking about: Tom Branson turns up at Downton's door seeking refuge after he assisted burn lower a castle in Ireland, however got sad as he recognized it had been really someone's home. Appears like we have had a solid contender for that title of The almighty Whoops once old Robert kicks the gold-plated bucket (also is filled with rubies and normally)! Everybody is mad that T-Bone left Sybil, who's an expectant LADY, to look after herself in their flat and then suggest her long ago to Downton by herself. There's a lot yelling about how exactly shitty T-Bone would be to abandon Sybil that everybody does not remember to yell at him to be a hypocrite who seeks refuge within the privilege and influence of Downton to safeguard him from being delivered to O'Gray Gaol for strongly revolutioning against privilege and influence. This person. Ugh.The only real factor worse than violent revolutionaries is electric toaster ovens, amirite? Something something Ethyl. I apologize, Ethyl! Your story is extremely sad, however i are only able to be committed to a lot of sub-plots, and that i spent my energy on Daisy and her surrogate father!Because Carson's precious toaster-disliking time has been adopted with responsibilities which are beneath him, The almighty Whoops, towards the seem of Matthew's grinding teeth, consents to allow Carson employ a new footman, who definitely are competing against Alfred inside a nail-biting round of Footmen: Beyond Thunderdome! to determine who will get first footman. The brand new guy is extremely handsome, and Alfred can't identify a bouillon spoon. Seriously, ALFRED! This is the simplest of all of the SPOONS!If Carson requested me to recognize all individuals spoons, I would have checked out him with wide eyes along with a stoic face and stated: "There's no spoon." And that he would have stated, "Nice Matrix reference, dipshit. That movie will not emerge for seven decades."ANYWAY.Finally, Lady Edith wants the election, and she or he pens a stern letter towards the editor about this, that is clearly an enormous scandal, because The almighty Whoops is tedious. But Matthew is happy with her, and she or he is certainly happy with herself, making me so happy! And she or he will get great advice in the Dowager Countess, who clearly had like 200 great sassy lines within this episode: "Edith, you are a lady having a brain and reasonable ability. Stop whining and discover something to complete!InchAnd that is when Lady Edith invented blogging! Discuss.[Please go to discuss everything Downton Abbey, only with the third episode of Season 3. Do not share things from later within the season, despite a spoiler warning, because I have reached mod the thread, which requires reading through everything. So be kind, if you are elsewhere on the planet in which the whole season has broadcast.]

Today in Guns

[Content Note: Guns violence.]Saturday was the very first annual National Gun Appreciation Day. It went great, clearly.MSNBC: 5 accidentally shot at gun shows in New York, Ohio, Indiana.Five everyone was wounded in accidents at gun shows in New York, Ohio and Indiana on Saturday, based on government bodies.In Raleigh, N.C., government bodies stated three everyone was wounded whenever a loaded shotgun accidentally released in the Dixie Gun and Knife Show in the N.C. Condition Fairgrounds. ...The 3 sufferers, Jesse Hoover, Linwood Hester and Mike Alderman, were hit, correspondingly, within the right torso, left hands and right hands, WNCN reported. These were come to a healthcare facility for non-existence threatening injuries....In Medina, Ohio, an exhibitor in a local gun show was opening a box that contains a gun once the weapon discontinued, striking his partner, who had been sitting alongside him, NBC station WKYC of Cleveland reported. The victim experienced non-existence threatening injuries within the arm and leg and was come to a healthcare facility....In Indiana, condition police stated a 54-year-old guy was loading his .45 quality semi-automatic gun as he shot themself within the hands, The Connected Press reported. In other news: * A 15-year-old in Boise State Broncos is within custody of the children because the primary suspect within the murder of his parents and three more youthful brothers and sisters, who have been "fatally shot multiple occasions having a 'military-style' assault rifle along with other weapons."* A 14-year-old in Georgia "inadvertently shot and wiped out his 15-year-old brother early 'life was imple' while having fun with his mother's gun, based on police."* A guy in Texas shot and wiped out his estranged wife after which wiped out themself in their 16-year-old daughter's birthday celebration.That's not really a complete list. It is simply the tales I became of read.The NRA argues it's not guns that kill people, but people. Which in accidental shootings, it isn't the guns, but irresponsible gun possession.Yet, regardless of the proof of numerous harmful and irresponsible gun proprietors, the NRA won't support reform that produces greater obstacles to gun possession. What reason can there be to won't support compulsory training, certification, registration, and periodic inspections, much like there's to purchase and run an automobile, should you really provide a shit about keeping guns from harmful and irresponsible proprietors?

Open Thread

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Prepare the Fainting Couches

[Content Note: Terrorism violence.]Hayes Brown at Think Progress—New Study Highlights Threat from Far Right-Wing Groups within the U . s . States:New research from the think tank attached to the West Point Military Academy highlights the threat of violent far-right actions within the U . s . States, resulting in the final outcome that, while diverse in within their causes, they're similar within their utilization of violence to attain their aims.West Point's Combatting Terrorism Center began as a direct consequence from the Sept. 11 attacks, and it has mainly focused its research on worldwide terrorist risks. Entitled "Competitors in the Sidelines: Understanding America's Violent Far-Right," this new report rather appears to be the danger that domestic groups pose towards the U.S. Wearing down such groups into three groups — the Racist/Whitened Supremacy Movement, the Anti-Federalist Movement, and also the Christian Fundamentalist Movement — enables the research to look at the backdrop ideologies and techniques of every subset completely, in opposition to lumping them altogether since many research has.Each one of the types within the study represent competing ideological sights, without them prone to cooperate in achieving their aims. The probabilities that all these groups uses violence also varies. The things they share, however, is really a utilization of violence against their selected targets — whether it is minority races or abortion treatment centers — to highlight and stress their given ideology. Naturally, conservatives happen to be refuting the research with great comebacks like: "The $64,000 dollar real question is when will the Combating Terrorism Center publish their study real left-wing terrorists such as the Animal Liberation Front, Earth Liberation Front, and also the Weather Subterranean?"That rhetorical is nearly TOO perfect.I'm not sure what else I'm able to say about rightwing eliminationist violence which i haven't already stated fully a million occasions. Deficiencies in empathy permitted to fester unchallenged will in the end be a violent urge. We can't indulge this toxic intolerance with stories of "each side get their extremists" as it were more.

Open Thread

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Promoted from Comments

Marketed towards the primary page from comments within the Manti Te'o thread, with Shakesville Mod aforalpha's permission:[content note: victim accusing]I have heard victim-blamers say: well, she should not happen to be putting on that. she should not happen to be drunk. she should not happen to be out alone. that which was a lady doing in a party like this anyway?I have lengthy wondered just what a lady must do in order to get common sympathy and empathy when she's in danger. And now we all know.She must not exist.

Daily Dose of Cute

Goofiest. Dog. Ever.Olivia: Professional Photobombing Genius.

Mail

I recieve a lot garbage within the mail. Catalogs. Flyers. Postcards announcing which i have won FREE THIS if perhaps I spend cash on THAT. Offers for charge cards. Adverts.Most likely 72 hours each week, I literally carry exactly what was shipped to my mailbox in to the house and set the whole lot into the bin.

Fatsronauts 101

Fatsronauts 101 is really a series by which I address presumptions and stereotypes about body fat people who treat us like a monolith and are utilized to dehumanize and marginalize us. If there's a stereotype you would like me to deal with, message me.[Content Note: Body fat prejudice bullying.]#16: You're helping body fat people by shaming them.No.-------------------------Formerly:#15: Body fat people hate getting their pictures taken.#14: All body fat individuals are unhealthy.#13: Body fat people looooooooooove Twinkies!#12: Body fat individuals don't like/need to see media representations of themselves.#11: Nobody wants to become body fat.#10: Body fat people need intervene within their lives. #9: Body fat individuals don't understand how they appear.Number8: Body fat individuals don't deserve anything nice.#7: Body fat individuals are permission slips for thin individuals to eat what they need.Number6: Any body fat person eating a salad or working out is attempting to slim down.#5: Body fat is axiomatically ugly.#4: Body fat people eat large numbers of food.#3: Body fat individuals are jolly/mean, and body fat individuals are shy/noisy.#2: I will tell how one eats constantly, due to the way they eat around me.#1: Everybody who's body fat is body fat for the similar reason.

Quote of the Day

[Content Note: Rape apologia misogyny.]"In Missouri, Todd Akin…was requested with a local news source about rape and that he stated, 'Look, inside a legitimate rape situation'—and what he meant by legitimate rape only agreed to be look, someone know I had been raped: a scared-to-dying 15-year-old that becomes heavy-laden by her boyfriend after which needs to let her know parents, that's pretty tough and can on some occasion say, 'Hey, I had been raped.' That is what he meant as he stated legitimate rape versus non-legitimate rape. I do not find anything so horrible about this. However he continued and stated that in times of rape, of the legitimate rape, a ladies body has a method of shutting lower therefore the pregnancy wouldn't occur. He’s partially directly on that… I have shipped plenty of babies, and that i learn about this stuff. It is a fact. We tell infertile couples constantly which are getting trouble getting pregnant due to the lady not ovulation, 'Just relax. Drink a glass of vino. And do not be so tense and uptight because everything adrenaline may cause explore to ovulate.' So he was partly right wasn't he?"—Phil Gingrey, a Republican Congressman from Georgia. [Via Chloe.]Santorum. Akin. Walsh. Mourdock. Koster. And today Gingery. Exactly what a awesome club filled with awesome dudes!You realize, I have heard many people make use of the whole "a scared teenage girl will get pregnant and informs her parents it had been rape" chestnut, and that i just actually want to call major bullshit on that. I've known scared pregnant teenage women, buddies and family people, and none of them of these stated they were raped—because they wanted the fathers of the children to stay in their as well as their children's lives.I am not to imply it's rarely happened within the history around the globe, because Large PLANET, however the routine assertion that's a typical scenario just does not pass the smell test. No girl or lady who desires the participation of her child's father will say she was raped. And when she's saying she was raped, well, maybe that is because she was.

Dog School

Proper care of Shaker Sammyx, this is a video of the six-month-old lab mix save teaching the household's eight-week-old promote puppy how you can do stairs. All of the blubs ensue.Video Description: A small puppy (Daisy) stands towards the top of a brief interior staircase. She whimpers as she attempts to learn how to get lower the steps. A mature puppy (Simon) runs in the stairs toward Daisy. Offscreen, someone states, "It's okay! Simon will highlight how to get it done.Inch Simon runs lower the steps. Daisy moves dubiously on top step. "Simon, go demonstrate to her again." Simon runs support and circles around Daisy, guiding her towards the stairs' edge. As she puts her front feet on the initial step lower, Simon will the same, then keeps going, searching at her to inspire her. Daisy whimpers. "You almost first got it!" Simon runs support and attempts to corral her lower the steps underneath him. Daisy goes out and Simon goes after her. He dates back towards the stairs and begins lower them, then looks back at her. "Seriously, seriously.Inch Daisy sits towards the top of the steps and whimpers. "Oh, sweetie." Simon runs support and mouths her mind lightly. "Simon's gotcha." She begins lower the steps, and Simon meets her midway, lightly mouthing her mind and guiding her lower securely. "Good girl! Yay! Good job!"

Um

[Content Note: Guns violence terrorism.]James Yeager, Boss of Tactical Response and fucking terrorist, whose frightening tirade was yesterday's Quote during the day, has launched another video by which he clarifies he will not murder anybody unless of course it's "necessary.""I don't condone anybody carrying out any type of crimes up to any irritated assaults or killings, unless of course it's a necessity,Inch Yeager stated within the second video. "At this time there is no need.InchInchI've attracted my line within the sand: Not just one more inch," he stated.Yeager opened up the most recent video stating that he "most likely permitted my mouth to overrun my logic," and introduced he'd edted a few of the more heated comments from his previous video and reposted it. He then added: "However I don't, I do not retract any one of my claims."Yeager ongoing to obtain upset within the Obama administration's "tyranny" and spoken advised individuals to pack backpacks, get healthy, and cargo their guns. He stated that his first video had "accidentally put together an military … a quite formidable military." Swell.

I Don't Even

[Content Note: Guns violence terrorism.]Males equipped with rifles walk-through Tigard to 'educate':Two males transporting assault rifles lying on their backs stated these were simply working out their Second Amendment right, but police stated they scared lots of people. Calls began arriving to 911 dispatchers shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday. Phone callers stated two males with guns shackled by their backs were walking with the section of Southeast Seventh Avenue and Spokane Street in Portland's Sellwood neighborhood.Officials showed up in the region and approached both 22-year-old males. These were transporting rifles freely lying on their backs and were valid hidden hand gun license holders in Or.The males told officials these were wishing to teach the general public about gun privileges.Officials described that they are prone to continue producing 911 calls from alarmed people in the region, which may need a police response. Officials reported neither guy appeared thinking about individuals concerns. "Educational."Warren stated he wished people would approach them and speak with them, rather than calling police."The things they should do is take notice of the person to find out when the individual is aggressive," he stated of seeing someone having a gun in public places. "We are not doing anything threatening to anybody."The huge levels of privilege it should delicately assert that individuals shouldn't be scared of males walking lower the pavement with assault rifles is astounding.And That I discover the admonishment not to sense danger by actual and offer deadly weaponry particularly gross originating from individuals who own that deadly weaponry simply because they sense danger by bullshit dreams of peril.They invent risks, or suppose encroachments on their own undeserved privilege really are a threat that warrants deadly defense, after which possess the fucking gall to pretend their paranoia about needing to live a existence with no precious inoculations of privilege is equivalent to the actual existential risks faced by oppressed peoples.

Open Thread

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The Washington National Cathedral Will Start Marrying Same-Sex Couples

Exactly what a lovely story:Same-sex couples are now able to get married in the Washington National Cathedral, based on an e-mail sent through the dean from the cathedral along with a later report in the Connected Press....The AP spoken with the dean, the Rev. Gary Hall:[Hall] stated carrying out same-sex partnerships is definitely an chance to interrupt lower obstacles and make a far more inclusive community "that reflects the variety of God's world. "I just read the Bible as seriously as fundamentalists do. And my reading through from the Bible leads me to do since i think it's being faithful towards the type of community that Jesus might have us be. "Like a type of tall-steeple, public chapel within the nation's capital, by saying we are likely to bless same-sex partnerships, conduct same-sex partnerships, we're really trying to accept next thing for marriage equality in america as well as in the culture. "For all of us to have the ability to say we embrace same-sex marriage like a tool for faithful individuals to live their lives as Christian people, for all of us to have the ability to state that in a moment when a lot of other obstacles toward full equality and full inclusion for lgbt individuals are falling, It is a vital symbolic moment."The Washington Cathedral is definitely an Episcopal chapel, a part of a denomination that has been on your journey to stretching the rite of marriage to same-sex couples for a while.Congratulations, WashCat![H/T to @jamisonfoser.]

Monday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by cheese.Suggested Reading through:Marcy: The Seduction of John Brennan's "Moral Rectitude"Paul Krugman: The Outdoors ManIndian Housewife: Father Wants the planet to understand Her Real Title [Content Note: The publish only at that link consists of discussion of sexual violence.]Diana: Notre Dame Football Gamers Rape Cover-up: What's in news reports and just what Is not [Content Note: The publish only at that link consists of discussion of sexual violence, rape culture, and self-harm.]FMF News: CA Rape Conviction Overturned Because Victim was Unmarried [Content Note: The publish only at that link consists of an account from the incident of sexual violence in the center from the situation.]Ken: How Doctors DieJessica: Earning Money from Tragedy: Gun Show Attendance Is UpFannie: Still Searching For That "Feminist Echo Chamber" Andy: The Advocate Print Edition revisit Newsstands After Two-Year AbsenceRagen: Let's say I am Uncomfortable With My Weight [Content Note: The publish only at that link consists of discussion of body image and diet.]crunkadelic: Django Unchained and Why Context MattersJorge: Django Unchained Figures Leading to Much More ControversyMy many thanks to Anna for including me within the Feministing Five this year! Great and humbling company. Go read all of them!Depart your links and proposals in comments...

RIP Gerda Lerner

Gerda Lerner, who assisted found the discipline of women's history within the U . s . States, died. She was 92. Within the mid-sixties, equipped with a doctoral ever from Columbia College along with a dissertation on two abolitionist siblings from Sc, Dr. Lerner joined an academic world by which women’s history scarcely been around. The amount of historians thinking about the topic, she told The Brand New You are able to Occasions in 1973, “could have squeeze into a mobile phone booth.” “In my courses, the instructors explained in regards to a world by which on the face one-half the people does everything significant and also the partner doesn’t exist,” Dr. Lerner told The Chicago Tribune in 1993. “I requested myself how this checked against my very own existence experience. ‘This is garbage this isn't the planet in which i've resided,’ I stated.” That picture transformed quickly, mainly due to her efforts while teaching at Sarah Lawrence College in early seventies. In developing a graduate program there, Dr. Lerner go about attempting to establish women’s history like a respected academic discipline and also to raising the status of ladies within the historic profession. She also started gathering and posting the main source material — journals, letters, speeches and so forth — that will allow historians to rebuild the lives of ladies. “She managed to get happen,” stated Alice Kessler-Harris, a brief history professor at Columbia. “She established women’s history as not only a valid but a central section of scholarship. Should you take a look at any library today, you will notice 100s of books about them.” Lerner's contributions when it comes to posting archival sources like Black Women in Whitened America: A Documentary History (1972) was immense. Also was her readiness, like a whitened feminist historian, to confront the "sisterhood myth" of historic relations between black ladies and whitened women. Upon finding there is "more proof of tension than of sisterhood"(Most Finds Its Past, 1979), she abandoned that myth looking for an intellectual framework that incorporated the variety of women's history as impacted by race, class, ethnicity, along with other encounters. As the road towards true inclusiveness and intersectional awareness in women's historiography continues to have a methods to go, Lerner performed a huge role in placing it on that path. Hat tip to Shaker BlueRidge for that NYT obit. [Note: If you will find less flattering items to be stated about Lerner, they've been excluded since i am not aware of these, not because of any deliberate intent to whitewash her existence. Please feel thanks for visiting discuss the whole of her work and existence within this thread.]

Number of the Day

51%: The proportion from the national popular election taken by Leader Obama both in of his effective presidential campaigns, confirmed through the modified final tally from the November 6, 2012 election, that's postponed by Superstorm Sandy.Obama's the very first leader to offer the 51 percent mark in 2 elections since Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, who made it happen in 1952 and 1956, and also the first Democrat to do this since Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four consecutive Whitened House races.Wow.

Boehner Reelected as Speaker

With nine defections by GOP House people who chosen for another person, along with a couple of other non-voters who have been most likely too busy pooping their pants in petulant protest, Republican Speaker of the home John Boehner continues to be reelected to his position. Exactly what a great day for all of us all, I am sure.Y'all, we ought to all nick in and purchase him a congratulatory present. I am thinking a soul. Or perhaps a convenience of empathy. Or perhaps a functional feeling of decency. I dunno. Perhaps a vestment.

Daily Dose of Cute

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In The News

[Content note: Rape, murder, sexual violence, rape culture, racism, terrorism, body fat-hate]Wednesday News:Indian government bodies added murder charges for suspects within the brutal gang rape that brought towards the dying of the 23-year-old lady.Dr. Oz's miraculous weight loss supplement is bullshit. Whoops!Numerous gay couples required benefit of Maryland's marriage equality law after it required effect at night time on Tuesday. Yay!Governor with no soul intends to sue the NCAA over Penn Condition sanctions.Patti Page, probably the most effective recording artists ever, died yesterday.Mosque arsonist informs court: "I can just learn things i hear on Fox News." Nothing states history just like a "souvenir squash": Bloodstream owned by Louis XVI might have been present in a gourd. Bobby Womack has revealed he's struggling with brain disorder Alzheimer's disease. A married relationship equality bill is going to be introduced within the Rhode Island legislature tomorrow.Del­e­gates introduced intends to intro­duce three gun-related bills within the Mary­land condition leg­is­la­ture, such as the "Gun-Owner Pri­vacy Act." Not sure on once the "Right To Not Be Shot Act" is originating.

Slàinte mhor a h-uile là a chi 's nach fhaic!

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So the NRA Gave a Press Conference...

[Content Note: Guns violence disablism.]Igor's had a good review of it here. A complete transcript is here now. Spoiler Alert: The answer is much more guns!My personal favorite part was their recommendation to help keep a national database of people that are psychologically ill. PERFECT. That's only a perfect concept that will certainly not further stigmatize individuals with mental disabilities and discourage care-seeking, identify, and treatment.Just in case I am not lounging it on thick enough, which was sarcasm. It's a terrible idea.A stand-out terrible idea inside a press conference entirely composed of terrible ideas, actually.Anyhow, here are a few tweets concerning the NRA presser that virtually conclude:Evidently the NRA is giving a press conference. Whooooooops I do not provide a fuck exactly what the NRA needs to say about anything any longer.&mdash Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) December 21, 2012THIS Isn't The DAY TO POLITICIZE THE NRA'S PRESS CONFERENCE.&mdash Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) December 21, 2012"This is actually the oncoming of a significant conversation. We will not be taking any queries today."&mdash daveweigel (@daveweigel) December 21, 2012Surreal: LaPierre requires a national database from the psychologically ill. No similar require a national database of each and every single gun owner.&mdash Solange U (@dcGisenyi) December 21, 2012#nra's response to this tragedy is to locate methods to create more profits for that gun industry.&mdash Renee (@zetablu) December 21, 2012Conservatism truly is damaged.&mdash davidfrum (@davidfrum) December 21, 2012For a business that states be protecting freedom, the NRA is super excited to place their children inside a police condition.&mdash allisonkilkenny (@allisonkilkenny) December 21, 2012Remember when all of the #NRA men stated that Travon Martin would be alive if he'd were built with a hidden 9mm?Me neither.&mdash John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) December 21, 2012And FYI, the NRA has not been quiet so far. They simply weren't speaking to all of us. Plus they were not speaking to all of us in the presser either.&mdash SharkFu (@SharkFu) December 21, 2012The NRA has rickrolled the entire country into watching yet another standard Wayne LaPierre stump speech saying we want more guns.&mdash Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) December 21, 2012This is exactly what they went quiet for any week to state. THIS. A database from the psychologically ill and guns in each and every school. Wow. #NRA&mdash Sophistication (@graceishuman) December 21, 2012The NRA wants a database from the psychologically ill? LOL okay. Put me onto it. Mix-reference with "list of subscribers who prioritize lives over guns."&mdash Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) December 21, 2012Discuss.