The opposite of ablism

"Harrison Bergeron" is Kurt Vonnegut's Ayn Rand story, although we know it isn't really Rand because it doesn't end with the protagonist explaining at great length why he is right and everyone else is wrong. It is somewhere between heavy-handed satire and the experience many of us had in elementary school. One thing that gives it power is that Vonnegut himself, as we see from his later fiction, was strongly tempted by its egalitarian goals and distrustful of verbal intelligence and its divisive and manipulative aspects. (Like a fundamentalist with a large penis, he had good equipment for an activity he found immoral.) Tor.Com discusses.

The pink menace

American civilization ended in 2011, when J. Crew ran an ad showing a little boy painting his toenails pink, thus turning the U.S. into a nation of girly men unable to resist the virile Muslim hordes.

Or maybe not.

Thanx to Body Impolitic

For the children

A man did a video in which he sang a suggestive song, and spliced in pictures of children so it looked as if they were listening. For this act of abuse twice removed, he is going to jail.

Thanx to eatsoylentgreen