Showing posts with label wisely chosen battles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wisely chosen battles. Show all posts

Saturday, January 25, 2014

today in sexist dictionaries

So, I was reading through the dictionary sexistionary and discovered that "man" is listed before "woman."

Man is listed before woman.

MAN. IS. LISTED. BEFORE. WOMAN.

WTF. DIARRHEA TEARS your transparent sexism, misogynist alphabet! Words have meanings, and your alphabet affects people. This is why I started boycotting dictionaries before I even learned how to write.

I. JUST. CAN'T. EVEN.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Commenting Note

[CN: A.A. Milne's garbage stereotypes; honey bears getting their butts stuck in trees]

Willful ignorance of the habitats of honey bears will not be tolerated in this space. Today I posted the following on twitter, which I am going to reiterate here once more:



[Image description: A delicate cocktail fork appears adjacent to some profound insights encapsulated in one hundred and forty characters of nuanced prose.]

As I have previously pointed out here, here, here, here, here, and here, honey bears are MAMMALS.

STOP BEING A SELF-CENTERED NINCOMSHART, AND THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK.