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Egads
Today I baked cookies
Cookies of evil
For I killed a unicorn
And ground up its horn
Into the batter I showered it in
And added some spit to add to the sin
I baked them in hell, those cookies of mine
To serve them to you... AND SEVER YOUR SPINE!!
This contribution to the world of literature was brought to you by our useless poetry contest. A new theme is published each week, and everyone is invited to join in the fun or vote for your favorite!
This month I am happy to present our first official Spacefem.com etsy artist feature! You all know I've been sort of dangerously addicted to Etsy for YEARS, and have run into so many awesome shop owners there I decided to share the love.
This month we're featuring "The Untamed Rose", which is run by California-based navy veteran, feminist and incredibly talented glass artist Breanna Daughtridge. I asked her about herself and her shop (you're going to LOVE this interview!) and if you like her shop and enter our contest, you can win a handmade glass heart, just in time for Valentine's Day! It's almost enough to make me like Valentine's Day!
Her shop is at http://www.etsy.com/shop/untamedrose or you can check her out on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Theuntamedrose
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A bit of news. The Susan G Komen foundation has decided to withdraw their support for planned parenthood. They say it's not political but no one believes them. So, here's a fun one I was recently alerted to. Newsweek decided to rank colleges not by their usual system, or by how hard they are to get into, to create a list of the most academically rigorous colleges in the US. This piqued my interest, because I went to a very academically rigorous college, but Ivy League types tended to turn up their nose at us, because we were easier to get into. Never mind there are a lot of reasons for this that have nothing to do with our academics, and everything to do with name recognition. Also, we produce hippies, and that impacts the student base that applies. This is inspired by the Girl Scout thread in Feminism and some of the responses to it about Scouting in general - I decided to make a separate topic since this is going on a tangent from the original topic. I read a 400 page book about the Holocaust. Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany by John Weiss. "Math isn't about how smart you are but how long you are willing to feel dumb without giving up." I have this conversation way too often: An editorial was published in this month's issue of Plus Model magazine highlighting some statistics about the modeling industry. Specifically, the contrasting sizes of "normal" and "plus-sized" models and the average American woman.
Meanwhile, some cool people are doing stuff about it.
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[ view 14 replies ]Academic rigor, baby.
ANYWAY. The list: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/f ... s.all.html
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[ view 9 replies ]Helping kids have positive Scouting experiences
A lot of people posted about their personal experiences with Scouting, and they varied a lot - some positive, some not so much. I think it's important to realize that all of these individual experiences are representative of the particular situations they occurred in, rather than the entire Girl Scout organization.
Personally, my experience with Girl Scouts was, for the most part, very positive. We had a co-op troop, so every girl's mom was a leader, and they took turns (usually in pairs of two, I think) leading the meetings and activities. We did a wide range of things: arts-and-craftsy projects, sewing, cooking, camping, camp cooking, rock climbing, caving, whitewater rafting, and more. We also had a pretty big focus on volunteering and leadership activities. As we got older, more of the planning and decision-making and responsibilities fell on us, the girls, rather than our moms, so eventually we were the ones who chose the direction that our troop went.
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[ view 4 replies ]Book Summary: Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened
My goal was to figure out how people can let ~12 million of their neighbors be murdered. I've read first-person books about the Holocaust... Diary of Anne Frank, Night, Man's Search for Meaning. They are striking and emotional accounts. But I felt like I was missing part of the story, that to really understand how this happened I'd have to get above it, drop the emotion and be analytical about it. Less disturbing, more thinking. It didn't really work out like I'd planned.
When you talk about the Holocaust people automatically go to Adolf Hitler. In fact I've been in plenty of discussions about "great & influential leaders" and the name of Hitler comes up, there's always someone saying "Hey maybe he was evil but he got so many people to do what he wanted them to!" We get this picture in our heads of this lone maniacal psychopath, combined with amazing leadership and speaking skills, brainwashing part of the population while another part sits in ignorant bliss, only to be shocked later when the death camps are revealed.
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[ view 7 replies ]Something encouraging my calculus teacher said
I googled this out of curiosity but found nothing, so I'm giving him the credit for the quote.
I like this.
I've always felt dumb in math classes, even though I never thought I wasn't smart enough to do it, and it made me think there was still something wrong with me. But at least now I know I'm probably on the right track!
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[ view 7 replies ]what makes a human rights issue a "feminist issue"?
Someone: Why do we need feminism? If you want to make the world better for everyone, why not just equalism, or everyoneism, or
Me: Because horrible things are happening to women. Disproportionate rape and domestic violence and blatantly unfair laws in other counties... I could go on.
Someone: Well that's obvious. But those aren't feminist issues, they're human issues.
So it begs the question, when is something a feminist issue, and why do we need this label? I feel like way too often we want to define "feminist issue" as "something only women care about". And that's why we think we don't need feminism... because I can't think of anything
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[ view 7 replies ]What's wrong with our bodies anyway?
I knew things were getting to be ridiculous, and, quite frankly, disparaging for a lot of women I have spoken to, but I had no idea what the statistics actually were. This article was an eye-opener for me.
Here:
There's a link at the bottom of that summary to the original post, which I cannot access from this particular computer, or I would post that.
A few of these statistics really struck me.
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