I'm making some reposts from Tumblr

 Written in response to this post about feminism.

My mother thinks Hillary Clinton is a bad person for not leaving Bill after he cheated on her. She said women whose husbands cheat on them feel powerless to leave because not even Hillary Clinton left. My brother was angry at the idea that one person, even such a public-facing person, should be expected to be a role model at the expense of the ability to make whatever choice is right for her personally.

 

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 Written in response to this post about torture porn.

I managed to publish a book once. I wanted it to feel like there were physical stakes in the fights, so both male and female characters got pretty well brutalized. Ear cut off, set on fire, run over by a forklift, etc.

I later found a callout post for the publisher. He served prison time for doing horrible things to a little girl. The post noted that he wrote and published an awful lot of stories about strong violence against young women and female children.

The violence isn’t one of the things I regret about that book. I feel like it served the story I was telling. But I can’t help but feel a little sickened when I think of what the publisher might have felt while he was reading.

From a Code Geass hentai doujin

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From an email at my workplace

“GE will not (or will NOT be allowed) to go down the tubes. It is deeply woven into the fabric of American business and society. Its products and services touch each one of our lives in some shape or form.”

In other words, General Electric is too big to fail. I don’t like this song; may we change the station?