April 2011
25 posts
If Walmart Paid its 1.4 Million U.S. Workers a... →
A study released this week found that if the nation’s largest low-wage employer, Walmart, were to pay its 1.4 million U.S. workers a living wage of at least $12 per hour and pass every single pennyof the costs onto consumers, the average Walmart customer would pay just 46 cents more per shopping trip, or around $12 extra dollars each year.
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Paying a fair wage would only...
Body Language: Autism and Neurodiversity →
…the show itself strikes me as an example of how easily (even unintentionally) autism and other cognitive disabilities can be framed as tragedies to be mourned, and/or conditions that are unacceptable and need to be fixed. I’d rather see more public emphasis on neurodiversity, on changing our society so that we can accommodate and support as many different types of people as possible.
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Just A Smack On The Ass: A Tale Of Sexual Assault,... →
“Hey asshole!” He looked up. He was about 20. Clean-cut. Like he was on his way to school. He did not look crazy. I think he was surprised. I think he figured the five-foot-tall redhead in the sundress and Mary Janes would have just said “Oh my stars!” and scampered away. He does not know this five-foot-tall redhead.
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Sexual assault doesn’t always...
“The more limited our language is, the more limited we are; the more limited the...”
– Madeline L’Engle, (1988). Two-part invention: The story of a marriage (via thisnik)
(via swampgirlrunamok)
“I can say with 100 percent certainty that a mother painting her children’s...”
– Dr. Jack Drescher, a New York City psychiatrist
(Drescher, who wrote the 2010 paper, “Queer Diagnoses,” which was published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, serves on the American Psychiatric Association’s committee that is addressing sexual and gender identity disorder for...
Bad politics, worse prose →
Some choice excerpts from dictatorial literary exploits.
Yesterday a young boy was run over in that street, where he was playing. Last year a speeding vehicle hit a little girl crossing the street, tearing her body apart. They gathered up her limbs in her mother’s dress. Another child was kidnapped by professional criminals. After a few days, they released her in front of her home,...
J. Crew and a Boy with Toenails Painted Pink: A... →
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“This is a dramatic example of the way that our culture is being encouraged to abandon all trappings of gender identity,” psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow wrote about the ad in a FoxNews.com Health column.
And a woman from the Media Research Center agrees, calling the ad, “blatant propaganda celebrating transgendered children.”
Come again?
The Media Research Center woman further...
Cary Ann Hearst: Country Strong, with an Outlaw... →
omg! my charleston love incarnate.
“The overall tone of the song is pretty tough and kind of gritty,” she says. “I think that it’s also a little subversive. It’s been perceived as a drug addict fighting a drunk to see who comes out on top.” She adds, “I think the drug addict comes out on top, ‘cause he’s meaner.”
