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if they’re anonymous how do you KNOW? i know i always ask on anon b/c your answers are usually on the mean side and i doubt i’m alone.
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also my answers don’t get less “mean” if the asker is anonymous. If anything it’s the opposite.
She’s asking you, since you seem smart and usually helpful, to explain it to her. Googling something complex doesn’t always help — it just brings up more stuff that’s difficult to understand. If you have no desire to be helpful, say so.
No, they (i don’t know their gender and unless you know something i don’t, you don’t either—why assume a woman is writing to me?) are deliberately trying to annoy and harass me. As i just said. I know it’s the same person writing to me.
alltheplanets asked: Not that you care apparently, but that was kind of an asshole response.
I’ve been getting piles of inane questions from the same person for the last few days. They’re the same person who wrote the horse question and the personal blog question and a whole host of other irrelevant, persistently and deliberately annoying questions.
So, assholish was the point.
Anonymous asked: Hi could you explain what the term 'the personal is political' means, I've heard it be used in different ways and would like a bit of clarity :-)
I’m not an authority. Have i even used that phrase on this blog? If i have, it hasn’t been in the last year—bet you a quid. Here:
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=the+personal+is+political&safe=active
Although seriously maybe you should get a hobby? A hobby that isn’t asking me bizarre or annoying questions, i mean. Manchester has loads to offer!
Reposting this again, just thought I should post for people who don’t know/would like to know more
(via lipstick-feminists)
A female rebel describes how the ex-president left her with nothing and how she fought back by becoming a soldier
Anonymous asked: Hi do you think that in order to increase understanding and tolerance of 'feminine' hygiene products by men we should encourage them to use tampons as ear plugs?
Do you think you should stop sending me these ridiculous questions? There’s plenty of other shit you could be doing in Manchester besides bothering me.
trigger warning: sexual violence
“A female solider in Iraq is more likely to be attacked by a fellow soldier than killed by military fire,” declared a piece on rape in the US military in the Guardian last December. As if the details of ensuing isolation, lack of psychological support and risk of homelessness weren’t enough, one travesty was left out: unless life is at risk, military medical insurance does not fund abortion for women who are left pregnant after such attacks. Period.
Even if a woman can afford to pay for her own termination, military hospitals are currently outlawed from performing the procedure.
In conjunction with the LGBT Consortium, Gendered Intelligence has produced a ‘A guide for parents and family members of trans people in the UK’. We hope that this might offer parents and family members some information about what it means to be trans, how it might feel as a parent or family member of a young trans person, and perhaps most importantly, a bit of advice on how to move forward after a young person has shared their trans identity with their family.
This booklet was compiled through a series of focus groups with parents and family members of young trans people.
It is available online here, or you can order hard copies on our website.
Gendered Intelligence also runs ‘SOFFA’ youth group sessions every quarter, which are for significant others, family, friends and allies to come along with trans young people, meet other families of trans people and gain support. More details of our next SOFFA session will be posted soon on our tumblr.
(via lozintheory)
Anonymous asked: Would you ever put glasses on a horse?
Never say never. Sometimes i put glasses on my dog. She looks well smart.
