I think that flippant, holier-than-thou statement about so-called “radfems” and how they “started it” was what so turned me off to this whole post. Guess what? No one “started it” except the women and girls who have told their stories. The whole thing was so dismissive. Whether the majority of women and girls are trafficked, [...]

You know, I’m a fairly radical feminist and a former sex worker. Sorry, but the reasons 90% of the women were in that industry wasn’t for “fun”. It was because we were all drug addicts at the time. Maybe another 5% were there because they had no other way to support the kids their former lovers [...]

Will people ever understand that “gender” and “sex” are not the same thing? The IAAF is policing sex, not gender. They are different. “Gender” is a set of behaviors that are supposedly based upon sex. They are social in nature. Sex is biological. I know, I know, politics before science.

Is it okay that I work in tech and didn’t cry when Steve Jobs died. He was a great marketer. Fan boys (and girls) who write hagiographies of the guy are really, really ignorant, though. Most of the people in charge at my employer are female. The difference? I work in public ed, not in [...]

Born, raised and still trapped in Arizona, and,yes, “because it’s Arizona” is an absolutely accurate explanation of this.

If you think this won’t pass, you haven’t spent much time in Arizona. Stupidity is treasured in this state.