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Satanic Donuts
Who will eat them all?
These free donuts sitting here
They are from satan!
This contribution to the world of literature was brought to you by our useless poetry contest. A new theme is published each week, and everyone is invited to join in the fun or vote for your favorite!
"Math isn't about how smart you are but how long you are willing to feel dumb without giving up."
I googled this out of curiosity but found nothing, so I'm giving him the credit for the quote.
I like this.
I've always felt dumb in math classes, even though I never thought I wasn't smart enough to do it, and it made me think there was still something wrong with me. But at least now I know I'm probably on the right track!
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I have this conversation way too often:
Someone: Why do we need feminism? If you want to make the world better for everyone, why not just equalism, or everyoneism, or
Me: Because horrible things are happening to women. Disproportionate rape and domestic violence and blatantly unfair laws in other counties... I could go on.
Someone: Well that's obvious. But those aren't feminist issues, they're human issues.
So it begs the question, when is something a feminist issue, and why do we need this label? I feel like way too often we want to define "feminist issue" as "something only women care about". And that's why we think we don't need feminism... because I can't think of anything
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An editorial was published in this month's issue of Plus Model magazine highlighting some statistics about the modeling industry. Specifically, the contrasting sizes of "normal" and "plus-sized" models and the average American woman.
I knew things were getting to be ridiculous, and, quite frankly, disparaging for a lot of women I have spoken to, but I had no idea what the statistics actually were. This article was an eye-opener for me.
Here:
There's a link at the bottom of that summary to the original post, which I cannot access from this particular computer, or I would post that.
A few of these statistics really struck me.
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Flippin' through the boob tube last night, I came across a documentary on Logo about an MtF transgendered woman (Michelle something) competing on a women's mountain biking competition circuit, and it got me thinking.
First of all, let me say this -- I've never understood gender-segregating
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Okay guys, I've bitched and moaned about this game for the longest time because Lucasfilm decided that, rather than give us a single player RPG of Knights of the Old Republic 3, it would be much better to release a MMO that takes place 300 years later, and write a really crappy bridge novel to cover what KOTOR 3 ought to have covered. I wasn't even sure I was going to want to buy it.
Then the opportunity happened that I was able to get a free copy (basically, I was a costumed volunteer at EA Los Angeles' release day employee party wearing my KOTOR costume, and we were paid in free video games). For the price of free, I had to at least try it, right?
I can't help it. I am
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So, Skyrim was released almost two months ago, to the noise and fanfare of glorious dragon shouts. Its coming was much heralded and much celebrated. There was even a thread here about it, where many enthused and a few This year, Egyptian officials admitted to forcing virginity tests to women taken into custody after protests. And by "virginity tests" I mean sexual assault, plain and simple. It's an annual tradition - celebrate our high posters, topic starters, bright newbies, annoying trolls... you name it. The annual forum awards!
1. Gameplay, or "I like the part where I behead that monster with a mace, and the part where I marry next" 
So, you run around in either first or third person. You can talk to people and have conversations enabled through clickable responses, learn about quests or build relationships through these responses, you can interact with objects to pick them up or lift them around, you can pickpocket people, and so on. You can have combat with a weapon (ranged or melee), a shield, or magic. It is all controlled the same way, with left or right clicks (on a PC).
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Fox News' @gretawire invents the feminist agenda
According to Greta Van Susteren, "feminists" have totally overlooked this because we're so self-absorbed we barely know there is an Egypt, and so politically correct we love Muslim extremists more than women's rights:
http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/201 ... portunity/
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2011 Spacefem Forum Posting Awards
For the second year in a row Monk was our top poster. For the first time ever there was an exact TIE for second, which is freaking weird:
# Username Posts
1 monk 1032
2 rowan 781
3 Sonic# 781
4 helium 628
5 cwbyrvr 624
6 Xinzang 547
7 Rainbow Dolphins 533
8 Meperidine 451
9 kelsa 426
10 Storage and Disposal 405
And I posted more topics than any of you hippies.
Topics
# Username Posts
1 spacefem 123
2 monk 58
3 kelsa 46
4 edit the sad parts 41
5 lizpoona 38
6 Xinzang 36
7 Neko 35
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