Clash of the something something
Twitter right now is aflame with the news that Kevin Clash, the voice of Elmo, has resigned from Sesame Street after multiple allegations that he had sex with underaged boys. And, to be honest, some of...
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Peyton, over in John Seavey’s post about the Fake Geek Girl bullshit which I am glad he wrote because honestly at this point I just do not have the energy to engage with that bullshit for what feels...
View ArticleHooray for social justice
Torontoist does its yearly Heroes and Villains at the end of every year, and my hero was the Toronto Marlies, for their equality pledge. (My Villain is still forthcoming. Regulars can, uh, probably...
View ArticlePony up, all you progressive nerds
Further to John’s excellent post about Steubenville and rape culture over the weekend, my good friend Shannon is running an Indiegogo campaign to fund her creation of classroom materials designed to...
View ArticleAnsaz, the latest
Energy-Puking Boy (and others): Community Alignment Chart? I’m not going to do what somebody else already did perfectly well just for the sake of doing it with my particular chart design. You can...
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I went on a bit of a mini-rant yesterday on Twitter about assholes using the #falseflag hashtag immediately after the Boston Marathon bombing, mostly because people who scream “false flag” are almost...
View ArticleTropes vs. Women vs. DanimalCart vs. Predator
I’ve been watching Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, and have generally enjoyed it. You know who doesn’t? A Mister, um, DanimalCart on the Kotaku forums. To be fair, his complaint is...
View ArticleMastodon, Twitter, and you (or not you)
Mastodon has seen one of its periodic growth spurts over the last week as a bunch of left-leaning sorts finally decided they had had enough of Twitter’s awful moderation policies and the not-ignorable...
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