After Trump’s victory of last week, as incidents of racial intimidation started to become more commonplace across the United States, some on the left began wearing safety pins as a sign of solidarity with members of those communities most at risk that. [This practice, for what it’s worth, was borrowed from British progressives, who began […]
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Does this safety pin make you feel unwelcome or unsafe?
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged #NotMyCampus, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim violence, Brexit, bullying, crime, Donald Trump, England, false equivalence, fascism, hate, hijab, Muslim, racial intimidation, safety pins, slashing, University of Michigan, violence, white nationalism | 107 Comments
Star parties elicit moral panic, Sex in the City 2 elicits desire to perform self-surgery
Do you remember the rainbow party hysteria of a few years ago? I can’t remember where it all started, but people from coast-to-coast became convinced that a tidal wave of children’s oral sex orgies was washing over America. Oprah, I believe, had a story about it. And someone wrote a young adult novel about the […]
Posted in Art and Culture | Also tagged a star, Andrea Dworkin, Anna Czarnocka, bad movie reviews, Burkas, Burkas and Birkins, Cynthia Nixon, emaciated goblin shoulders, entitled cunts, gay men playing with giant Barbie dolls, lubrication, Monica Lewinsky, moral panic, movie reviews, oral sex, Phyllis Schlafly, Poland, rainbow parties, rainbows, Ralph Nader, red, Samantha Jones, Sex in the City, Sex in the City 2, sexism, teen pregnancy, the sewing up of holes, the Stranger, the sun, United Arab Emirates, urban legends, vagina, vagina vitamins, violet, Vivian Salama, yams | 16 Comments