Obvious trigger warning is obvious The geek blogospheres blew up a little this past week when Glee basically ripped off Jonathan Coulton’s cover of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back”. This has a host of its own problems, which have been covered extensively elsewhere. (Seriously, did they just expect JoCo to be small enough that people wouldn’t notice the unoriginal cover... »
Don’t ask how but the other day I found myself in one of those ‘games for girls’ sites that apparently have existed without my previous knowledge for a while now. What I found was boring at best and insulting at worst, reducing their target audience to people for whom ‘games’ involve clicking to make the next thing happen continuously until [what is essentially a really shitty movie about someone ... »
I recently started blogging over at Hubpages, and as I explored the site, one of the first things I ran across was a poll entitled “Would you rather be a ‘sugar baby’ or an independent woman and why?”. Naturally I was slightly upset that this question even existed, much less that the poll numbers were skewed the way they were, and so I blogged about it! But I thought that you, dear ske... »
In the last post on this topic I covered three characters from the ‘Song of Ice & Fire’ series of books by George R. R. Martin (popularized by the brilliant Game of Thrones on HBO) and how their character arcs and personalities were affected by the patriarchy present in their fictional world (as well as its reflections on our own). This time I’ll focus on some of the more gla... »
There’s a lot to be said for fantasy novels. They allow us to explore our world through another, in ways that might not be possible in a modern setting, and by borrowing the patriarchal world of Medieval times, we can use these stories as a lens to examine how people in the real world are affected by a world that is still male-dominated. I’m going to take a look at three examples of ch... »
A couple weeks ago, Rebecca Watson (of Skepchick, duh) wrote a piece for Slate magazine recounting the enormous brouhaha that erupted after her comments on how to treat women at skeptical gatherings. Most of the readers here will probably be familiar with what happened, so I’m going to skip to the end of the article, when she describes how this sudden eruption of misogyny in the skeptical co... »
Fat. What a nasty word. It has all sorts of negative connotations and so much baggage, but it certainly gets a point across. I am fat. No, I’m not skinny and think I’m fat. I’m fat. In May 2012 I was at my heaviest… 289 lbs. At 5’4” this is fat (obese, even) by anyone’s standard. I weighed this much because I had a certain type of eating disorder. Yes, “had”. I beat this eating disorder… by develo... »
When the idea of a series of posts about eating disorders came up, I was pretty excited. I am diagnosed with EDNOS, depression, and anxiety. I’ve experienced them all in very different ways at different times, and so I have a lot to say about my experiences of them. This post comes with a HUGE TRIGGER WARNING for depression, eating disorders, anxiety and perfectionism. »
