I haven't really had anything interesting to post lately, but I figured I should write something, given that apparently today is Women's Equality Day and all. Also, I finished reading Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions today, which reminded me to be annoyed that even now the ERA hasn't been passed. I find that rather frightening. This is kind of unrelated, but I'm posting a Gloria Steinem quote (from the book I just finished): "Women have always worked. If all the productive work of human maintenance that women do in the home were valued at its replacement cost, the gross national product of the United States would go up by 26 percent." I guess I'll just post some links relating to the occasion.
From Empowher
From The White House (the only thing that annoys me about this is that it acts like Women's Equality Day didn't used to exist until this year, which isn't true)
A new White House sub-website
From About
From the NWHP
From Wikipedia
From Jezebel
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
PETA
I really, really hate PETA. It has nothing to do with being unsympathetic to animal rights: I am going vegan, after all! No, it is because of their advertising strategies. Basically, these consist of in one way or another cruelty towards anyone who commonly gets discriminated against. Except for animal rights people. It's completely counterproductive. All it does is make people hate PETA. And sometimes that leads to rebellion, which results in more animal abuse! PETA's REALLY not helping ANYONE! PETA's really having problems when someone going vegan hates them. And I'm not the only one, either. (See the following links)
Vegan Hope
Feministe
And some more generally anti-PETA, but not necessarily anti-animal rights links:
Calorie Lab
And there's much more if you care to look for it.
Vegan Hope
Feministe
And some more generally anti-PETA, but not necessarily anti-animal rights links:
Calorie Lab
And there's much more if you care to look for it.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Mark Twain Quotes
I don't know why, but reading quotes is really fun.
"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."
"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know."
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat."
"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
"It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions."
"Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it."
"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."
"What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself."
"When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not."
"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."
"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."
"The report of my death was an exaggeration."
"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."
"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know."
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat."
"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
"It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions."
"Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it."
"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."
"What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself."
"When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not."
"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."
"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."
"The report of my death was an exaggeration."
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Gloria Steinem Quotes
I know I just barely posted something, but it just occurred to me that I should do something like this. Such ideas always come to me when I'm supposed to be doing other things (...like packing...). These are some of my favorite Gloria Steinem quotes.
"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. "
"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"
"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. "
"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. "
"A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. "
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. " (I really like that one.)
"I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine. "
"The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary."
Not, of course, that Gloria Steinem doesn't have her own problems.
Actually, now I feel like posting some more quotes. These are from Elizabeth Cady Stanton:
"Woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own."
"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."
"I shall not grow conservative with age."
"The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion."
...This shouldn't be so fun. Now for Susan B. Anthony quotes...
"Independence is happiness."
"Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less."
"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union."
"The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it."
"The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God."
"I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows."
"Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman."
I think that's more than enough for today.
"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. "
"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"
"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. "
"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. "
"A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. "
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. " (I really like that one.)
"I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine. "
"The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary."
Not, of course, that Gloria Steinem doesn't have her own problems.
Actually, now I feel like posting some more quotes. These are from Elizabeth Cady Stanton:
"Woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own."
"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."
"I shall not grow conservative with age."
"The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion."
...This shouldn't be so fun. Now for Susan B. Anthony quotes...
"Independence is happiness."
"Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less."
"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union."
"The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it."
"The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God."
"I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows."
"Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman."
I think that's more than enough for today.
Monday, August 3, 2009
MSNBC
Some of you may know that one of the few TV shows/ stations I've been willing to watch is MSNBC. Well, I've discovered some unfortunate news on that front. Basically, the parent companies of MSNBC and Fox have made a deal to make Olbermann and O'Reilly stop complaining about each other. This is chiefly bad because large corporations are influencing what news is presented to the public. Also, I hate Fox and think it deserves to be criticized. Secondly, Richard Wolffe, MSNBC's political analyst (whatever that means- mostly Olbermann just has him on Countdown a lot) is apparently very involved with big business. I must admit that last bit surprised me because I actually had a favorable impression of him. So much for that. Luckily, I haven't heard any unfortunate news about Rachel Maddow. That would have truly been awful.
Also, there are far too many forms to fill out upon getting a job. Mandalay's begging me for attention (well, her version is sitting on my desk as I go on the computer, but it's the same thing essentially).
Edit: Look at this. I always did have a good impression of Quakers.
Also, there are far too many forms to fill out upon getting a job. Mandalay's begging me for attention (well, her version is sitting on my desk as I go on the computer, but it's the same thing essentially).
Edit: Look at this. I always did have a good impression of Quakers.
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