Posts by Danielle
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"Sativex"? Really?
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This post is probably my favourite thing that has ever happened.
Also, this:
All Magic 8 Balls are liars.
Gave me an earworm (and that's the truth).
(Awesomely, I just realised that it contains an ahead-of-its-time Rickroll.)
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I don't think having kids in care is necessarily worse than being at home fulltime provided the care is good and the children benefit.
Fear not! The Hand Mirror linked to a study which basically proved this, quite recently (does anyone have that link, she asks lazily?). At the moment I'm home full time with our little dude because I can work from home (privilege!) but I often think that some external care would give him some useful variety of experience - different books, different toys, different people? Anyway.
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I don't know about you lot, but I would vote for a person named 'Young Boozer' in a heartbeat.
(I am not a 'self-hating southerner', whatever that means in this instance: just lamenting that most of my American relatives and in-laws aren't even on the same planet with me politically. There are, of course, plenty of southerners who are Democrats.)
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Well, even though I don't know anyone in Kentucky, I'm afraid that these people are partly *my* tribalists. Sigh...
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Yep, Rand Paul is off to the Senate.
Oh, please let those who voted for him be Andre's tribalists, rather than 'the Civil Rights Act is harshing my racist mellow' people...
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a tone Jeremy was accused of just one page ago
Actually, that's not quite what I said. I said he was using those tactics, but FWIW, I think quite unwittingly.
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Megan, my very favourite part of that comic is the 'group hug' panel with the very tiny 'no homo' on it. Heh!
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OK. Let's be a bit more straightforward. As I see it, your point seems to be based on this weird thing that a rightwing woman isn't actually doing the feminist cause any good, because really women in politics/media should make everything so much better with their delightful nurturing and whatnot. And everyone else is saying 'dude, assuming that women are going to be delightfully nurturing is, in its own way, just as essentialist and sexist as saying that they shouldn't be in public life at all'.
You are compounding the problem by using discussion tactics that Feminists on the Internet have deconstructed as silencing and patronising ('calm down', etc).
Hence, here we are in whatever this is.
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You didn't just... tell a woman to 'calm down'... in a discussion about feminism, did you?
Heh.