This was one of those weeks where I was in the “should be enviable but actually just depressing” position of having an overabundance of things to write about. But the thought of actually writing about any of them made me really upset. So instead I’m just going to share with you all the things that are currently making me angry.
I don’t make much of a secret of the fact that I’m from Wyoming, and I also don’t make much of a secret of the fact that I detest my federal level representatives with a hate that I normally reserve for internet trolls and people who don’t turn off their turn signal for five miles.
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Larry Nassar is going to jail for a long, long time: 40-175 years to be exact. Which, if he were to miraculously stay alive long enough to fulfill his own sentence, would be roughly one year for every woman and girl he sexually abused. Somehow, that doesn’t seem long enough.
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There are a lot of things that we can mock about Trump: his complete ignorance, his poor policies, his inability to go a day without tweeting something that directly contradicts something else he has previously said, the fragility of his toxic masculinity. Pick one, they all work. We don’t have to stoop to body-shaming, and we shouldn’t.
So I probably should be writing about the Golden Globes, and allyship, and how Patty Jenkins and Daniel Kaluuya were robbed, and fake allyship, and James Franco being a predatory dick. Instead, I’m going to emphasize the fact that feminism is a process, not just a practice.
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Traditionally, I’m not really one for New Year’s Resolutions. This year, however, I’m going to share my resolutions with all of you. Because we could all use a Feminist New Year.
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Sometimes, being a feminist blogger feels like living through Groundhog Day. Only instead of learning how to play the piano or stalking a woman, you’re having the same arguments over, and over, and over again. This week’s argument on repeat? Being criticized for being a woman is different from being criticized while being a woman. I have literally written about this four times already.
But now I get to write about it again, because Susan Collins.
When I was in high school, I took economics and political science. Those classes taught me that people behave in a logical fashion according to their wants and needs, and that they choose candidates whose values and opinions most closely resemble their own. Then I took those same classes in college and learned “lolololol the f*** they do.”
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[Content warning: Sexual assault: Brock Turner case. Again. I was totally hoping to talk about something more pleasant this week, and then this dumbass had to go and get in the paper yet again. If talking about sexual assault is (understandably) not something you wanna do with your Friday then please join me next week where I will, I hope, be getting to talk about something less awful.]
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[Content warning: Cyntoia Brown. This article discusses pretty graphic sexual and physical abuse. If that is (understandably) not your cup of tea, rejoin me next week when I’ll hopefully be talking about something more pleasant.]
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