THIS. At today's CDC briefing, this was mentioned. Yesterdays mentioned that dealing with a ventilator and doing dialysis also is a risk (and again, the CDC called the shots).

Here's the thing: if you're that worried about Ebola and other diseases, demand better of your elected officials and vote every time you have…

Ebola is not an airborne pathogen. There is no need for respirators; the transmission route is contact with fluid/droplet. If health workers use cumbersome unnecessary PPE (such as respirators), the risk of contamination is actually greater, as workers are more likely to accidentally touch themselves with contaminated…

Really? The CDC doesn't recommend suits andrespirators? TThat's the dumbest shit I've heard in a long time. Now I'm depressed. I still hope like hell she makes it through. That would be the only silver lining here.

This is the falsest equivalence I've ever seen. Feminism does not support castration. I've literally never encountered a feminist who is for. Gamergate, on the other hand was started as a harassment campaign. One movement is for social justice, the other is about trying to silence people who care about social…

I think another reason why Animal Liberation Front has been accepted as domestic terrorism more broadly is because they are a threat to not just individuals of a certain group, but because they put businesses in danger of property damage and loss of profits.

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There's been a lot of work in social sciences that suggests that when the dominant group starts to see disadvantaged/underserved/underprivileged/etc. groups gaining ground toward equality, they feel like they're losing something. They actually feel like things are being taken away from them - it doesn't feel like…

It is political. Misogyny is very much a political issue and anti feminism is a political stance.

The anti-abortion people are especially apt comparison but because they're mostly white and Xtian (and serve male dominance) the definition doesn't get deployed against them.

A world in which their status as white males doesn't afford them the right to terrorize and harass women and people of color for the crime of being women and people of color without facing any consequences for it.

"A lot of these people complain about how they can't just enjoy games anymore."

Which is crazy, because why couldn't they just enjoy the fun aspects of the game while ignoring any socio-political messages it might have as they argue they've always done?

Tell that to any of the women they've driven from their homes with threats.

I don't think it's much at all. When their aim is to terrify anyone who says anything remotely contrary to their twisted world view out of the gaming industry, I'd say that's pretty fucking political. The threat these creeps pose for women in gaming is real and minimizing that does no one any good.

THAT IS WHAT I STILL CAN'T FIGURE OUT. I am a gamer, I play games all the fucking time. What is their deal? Wouldn't they want to counter the cliché that they are spotty, unsocialized, women-hating mouth breathers? Because they are doing a great job of reinforcing it with this gamergate shit.

A lot of things.

I'm 24 and I say hi to every single dog I see. And sometimes squirrels. I thought was a sign of being delightfully whimsical.

This was the worst out of all of them, I think. Okay, yeah, recycled bullshit stereotypes about "lulz wimmin and their feels" are stupid and annoying, but THIS, where it basically just says "If you let a guy touch you, he is neither expected nor able to stop himself from doing whatever he wants to from there, so it's…

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I read this, and saw the standard warning about "replies that are pending approval may contain graphic material" and I thought, DAMN RIGHT THEY MAY. THEY SHOULD. So many gifs of heads exploding at the end of Raiders, so many gifs of Honey Badgers devouring every living thing in their path, so many gifs of endless…