The Insane Clown Posse in the song “Miracles
Well Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope this is how they fucking work.
A friendly reminder that science will always set you in your place.
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Magnets How Do They Work?
My Plan to End Street Harassment
I have a plan to end street harassment and if I understood how Tumblr worked I would have used their tool to promote a post I came across today “My plan to end street harassment forever”. I have a much less violent way to stop street harassment of women.* There are way too many corners or construction sites in our cities that many women avoid because of the regular harassment and catcalling, which are really one in the same.
My solution is code named “OPERATION URSA MAJOR.” The plan is to gather a bunch of bears and have them hang out at the aforementioned spots. They would then whistle and catcall at the people who are usually harassing women. My guess is after a week or so the harassers would get the point.
As a reminder to the general public the only time a catcall is ever acceptable is at a wet t-shirt contest, but if you are at a wet t-shirt contest you, as a participant or viewer, should probably question your life decisions.
via Flickr user Hope Abrams
*I haven’t posted this earlier because I felt it reeked of a patriarchal tone of “how to protect the women from evil men”
Category: bad at life, DCDan, Frustration, How My Mind Works, politics, Rant |
Tags: bears, catcalling
Before Google Image Search
Before the WWW people had to guess as to what animals looked like.
This Makes No Sense
Can someone who has a connection at Travelocity or Ebay explain how it could possibly take 5 to 10 days to remove someone from an email list? I cannot imagine a technical reason.
I can get a car rental in seconds but to get off an email list takes at least 5 days.
Ebay apparently also has an a very dated system.
Category: bad at life, DCDan, Frustration, Rant |
Tags: Airline, ebay, email, Orbitz, PNR, spam, Travelocity
Privilege and Gender Politics
Recently on Facebook a friend posted this article from the Washington Post Funny how gender never came up during Bernanke’s nomination. Or Greenspan’s. Or Volcker’s.
My comment was something to the effect of:
My career in software development has exposed me to more of this bullshit than anyone should have to bear. I’ve been fortunate enough to work with some super smart people and I learned tons from them. Unfortunately I’ve also been in the room (and few times when they weren’t in the room) where I saw first hand how since “they were a girl” they didn’t get the respect they deserved. S’s comment really resonates because very early in my career I didn’t understand how privilege worked. Luckily I grew up and was educated alongside many smart and talented people and at the end of the day I don’t care what chromosomes you have as long as you kick ass.
To borrow a quote from Roosevelt Franklin
Does anybody even notice? Does anybody even care? I think I’m way too smart to fall for this bullshit, but I realized I’m way too dumb to figure out how to stop it. One day I’ll figure it out, man, it’s like something’s gotta give.
From jezebel.com
Category: bad at life, DCDan, Frustration, Hip Hop, How My Mind Works, Motivational Quotes, music, politics, Rant |
Tags: Facebook, gender, glass ceiling, politics, roosevelt franklin, sigh
