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[gwydion]

* As of this writing, 18 were dead in the fighting in Kiev, but the number is steadily rising and both sides are reporting different things, so that number is tentative and likely to go up. The fighting continues to escalate and people have started talking about whether or not this is the start of a Civil War. How did this happen overnight? There had been negotiations in recent weeks and things looked like they might resolve, but while a delegation was negotiating better terms from the EU with Angela Merkel, Putin upped his offer. People were seeing an end to their chance to align with the West at the same time the government's hand was strengthened. The gloves came off and all out fighting broke out. Parts of Kiev are on fire and people are fighting street to street. My best wishes to the rebels in Kiev and my thoughts are with the survivors of the dead.

* I know the report on North Korean Human Rights abuses may feel a bit dog bites man, but it actually does help to have it officially acknowledged internationally and for there to be such a wealth of evidence to back it up.

* "White Men’s Freedoms and Black Men’s Lives :" http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/02/16/white-mens-freedoms-and-black-mens-lives/

* "Stand Your Ground is simply an invitation to more killing, not less crime:" http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/stand-your-ground-is-simply-invitation.html

* "It's the guns:" http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/its-guns.html

* "A Bitter Valentine's Day:" http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/shaker-aamer/shaker-aamer-guantanamo-bay_b_4781575.html

* "The Plot to Kill Ed Koch:" http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/ed-koch-assassination-103603.html#.UwRdXIWwLdh

* "You Don't Wanna Talk About Race, That's On You:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/02/you-dont-wanna-talk-about-race-thats-on.html

* "Not Everyone Is Happy About This Louisville Billboard:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/02/not-everyone-is-happy-about-this.html

* "It is not my job to pave your road to redemption:" http://sparkindarkness.livejournal.com/513895.html

* Monday was #terfmonday, a twiiter protest against radical feminist exclusion of folks who aren’t able bodied white cis women. I don’t tweet, but I have friends who do and I think some really important things were said.

I believe strongly that feminism needs to be intersexual and inclusive. It so often doesn’t live up to that to my fury and sorry. Feminists need to be better than this.

We need to be better than this.

* "Regional grey matter structure differences between transsexuals and healthy controls-:" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24391851

* "The microstructure of white matter in male to female transsexuals before cross-sex hormonal treatment. A DTI study:" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022395610003250

* "A Sex Difference in the Human Brain and its Relation to Transsexuality:" http://faculty.bennington.edu/~sherman/sex/TRANSGENDER.pdf

* A real hero has died. "Jaci Adams (1957-2014):" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/02/jaci-adams-1957-2014.html

* "Adam Hunter, Chill With The Unfunny, Transmisogynistic Jokes:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/02/adam-hunter-chill-with-unfunny.html

* I am always wary of people who can not tell the difference between consensual sex and rape. Just saying. "The TERF brigade changes the meaning of consent:" http://www.insufferableintolerance.com/terf-brigade-changes-meaning-consent/

* I did manage my errands despite my lungs and Hector stealing most of the sleep. There was also housework and more box tetris as I move boxes around to places they need to be for unpacking.

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[tibicina]

On the corrective rape thing, you have to remember these are the same people who claim that there /can not ever be/ consent for penis-in-vagina sex. Because women are too conditioned by society to give in to men so there is always and forever too much of a power differential for women to ever really consent. As you can tell because no woman would ever consent to something that would damage her like that. (or something, I don't know, the arguments make my head hurt and want me to scream at them to get their hands the f*** off my body and let me make decisions for myself.)