March 2012
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what the actual hell,
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4 Things The Hunger Games Can Teach Us About the... →
seriouslyamerica:
SPOILER ALERT for The Hunger Games and sequels.
By Jaclyn Friedman for Good Magazine; full text at the link.
The rules are set up to ensure we fail.
Don’t want to have sex with Rush Limbaugh? You’re a humorless feminazi. Want to use contraception while having sex? You’re a filthy slut. Have sex without contraception and find yourself pregnant? You’re an idiot. Need an...
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What is a nonbinary honorific? Similar to sir and...
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
genderbitch:
Mx is more similar to Mr, Miss, Ms and Mrs. So not sure if that would work for sir/ma’am zones
I also want to know this. And alos: is there a gender-neutral way to begin letters where one might traditionally use “Dear sir/madam”? “To whom it may concern” always sounds so cold and perfunctory to me.
there really needs to be something for this. I’m...
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These stories are also fairly obviously about class. Vampire novels are...
– The sexual politics of “The Hunger Games” - Salon.com (via becoming-wave)
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signed a lease and got a job transfer. woo!
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The overwhelming majority of people view language rules such as spelling and...
– Language, Power, Privilege and Discourse: Why Grammatical Prescriptivism Reasserts a Bigoted Status Quo (Via The Africana.com) by Muna Mire, University of Toronto student and opinions editor for The Strand. (via newmodelminority)
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