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[phinnia]

twenty-nine days to go. No one has died yet although there have been moments. It's Way Too Freaking Hot in here.

Best Feministe Post EVER WRITTEN:

"Often, when someone learns that another person lives with some sort of medical condition, slight or severe, their first reaction is to suggest to that person some way they could make their condition better.

On behalf of all those persons, let me say: Stop."

Seriously. Required reading for LIFE, or it should be.

From the most awesome hitchhiker: An excellent post on female characters in fiction.

Very nifty: Rare 'devil's cigar' fungus found in Nara.

Comments

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing that first link. You rock, woman!!

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Your icon is making me laugh SO MUCH right now. <3

[the-new-perfect.livejournal.com]

I loved it, too. It's a good reminder for me.

[thedeadparrot.livejournal.com]

Man, that checklist is scarily relevant. I really wish more male writers would read it.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

i'm collecting examples, if you have any to suggest

[teyla]

Hi, sorry for spamming your post with random comments; I just noticed that you'd friended me. :D Awesome, new friends are shiny. I hope we'll be getting along!

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Hi! ah, people saying hello are never spammy! *clears you off a chunk of internet to sit down on* welcome!

[dolphingirl.livejournal.com]

ZOMG YES to that first link. The next person that tells me I'm lactose intolerant is getting thrown through a plate glass window. Silly me...I've endured 15+ years of digestive disturbance, lost more than one job (and a number of so-called friends) because of it, and fought to get on disability, when all I had to do was stop eating cheese! And don't even get me started on people's pontifications on depression and anxiety >:(

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

oh GOD YES. "you just need to cheer up/calm down/ it's all in your head/blah blah blah." been there. want to smack people.

[karjack.livejournal.com]

AMEN! I'm going to link that first one to my LJ. Graaaah! YES!

Ahem. Thank you. :)

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Welcome. <3 (your reaction was pretty much identical to mine when I read it.) <3

[dreamingcrow.livejournal.com]

Oh, fuck yeah, to that first one.

Best one evah was the boys' principal years ago: "Oh! I have arthritis too and it makes it hard for me to sleep at night. Have you tried Tylenol PM? I take one at bed time and I feel better in the morning!"

Um, hey, lady?