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Getting To Sorry: Why Apologies Matter When Someone Says Something Bigoted
February 25, 2013 By erintothemax 2 Comments
Last night, while you were either watching the Oscars or sleeping, The Onion tweeted the following about a nine year-old girl up for Best Actress: “Everyone else seems afraid to say it, but that Quvenzhané Wallis is kind of a cunt, right? #Oscars2013″ Later that night, the tweet was deleted without comment. Today Steve Hannah, [...]
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NRA President David Keene’s Rape Joke Isn’t Funny
February 22, 2013 By erintothemax 1 Comment
“We [the NRA] could be serial rapists and have a higher favorable rating than Congress.” David Keene, NRA President When will the rape jokes stop? Wednesday, National Rifle Association (NRA) President David Keene spoke at Harvard and popped a rape joke in defense of his increasingly indefensible organization. Why doesn’t he compare their favorability rating [...]
Nobody Told Me L. Ron Hubbard Was Obsessed With Abortion!
February 21, 2013 By erintothemax Leave a Comment
I recently read L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics. Like so many of my dear readers, I follow the life progression of Tom Cruise with interest and enjoy, from time to time, reading a good piece on Scientology. So I thought it would be instructive to go to the source and see how this all got started. Dianetics is [...]
Fate Of Feminism Doesn’t Depend On Whether You Get Married Or Change Your Name
February 14, 2013 By erintothemax 3 Comments
Girl meets boy, girl falls in love, girl gets married, girl changes her name. This is a feminist perspective on why it’s okay to do the last two things and not be some kind of feminist failure. Before we get started, let’s acknowledge the boundaries of this discussion: many people can’t get married because the state [...]
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Your Activism Guide
Time Management: Activism Without Losing Your Mind
February 5, 2013 By erintothemax 7 Comments
Want to save the world, and get promoted at work, and feel like you have enough time for friends and family, and exercise, and reading, and hobbies? Lots of people do, and many of them feel like crap. Most of the activists I know feel like they’re auditioning for the part of Frankenstein’s wife — [...]
Introduce Yourself To Your Members of Congress
January 31, 2013 By erintothemax 2 Comments
This is the first in what will be a regular series, Your Activism Guide, designed to make feminist activism more accessible and help you take the power you deserve. Purpose: Introduce yourself to your members of Congress. Process: Set up meetings now to drop by local offices (even if you don’t have a specific request, even [...]
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It Is Extremely Important To Believe In Yourself
Never Doubt You Can Make Change
September 27, 2012 by erintothemax · 6 Comments
I believe in you. I believe in you so much. Shit, woman, it doesn’t matter: You can make change whether or not your parents think you’ll amount to anything, your boss treats you like a pile of dirt, your teacher or professor thinks you are the second coming of some debunked mental health condition, your boyfriend (oh, God, your boyfriend) wants to be supportive but just doesn’t get it, your girlfriend believes in you against the wishes of everyone else, anything or everything or nothing at all, … [Keep Reading ...]
