Gender stupidity

* Batman vs. Superman is like that because of toxic masculinity.

* Venture capitalists aren’t interested in women’s sexual health.

* The feminist cupcake sale that led to death and rape threats

All thanx to emceeaich

Making Tax Day Less Painful

If the state is going to take tax money from us (as it must), the least it can do is not make us do all the work (or hire corrupt corporations). Elizabeth Warren has a better idea.

Thanx to Metafilter

Mathiness

Economics vs. astrology

Thanx to Metafilter

Triggered by trigger warnings

Stephen Fry is a were-asshole. He’s a brilliant writer (“Latin, or Tobacco and Boys” is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read) and a compassionate thinker on issues like gayness and bipolarity, but every so often he says something really stupid, like the bit about trigger warnings or his idea that women don’t really like sex all that much. Laurie Penny has some perceptive things to say about him.

Thanx to Metafilter

Scary words

Back in the day, “Communists” were the ones who wanted to use big guys with guns and clubs to make everybody equal, and “Socialists” were those nice Scandinavian countries where they had living wages and single-payer health care, while the Right attempted to tell us that the Socialists were really Communists in drag. Communism brought itself into such disrepute that the people who want to use big guys with guns and clubs to make everybody equal are now calling themselves Socialists and insisting that Bernie Sanders isn’t a real one. Those guys are what the Republicans and Big Media want us to believe Bernie Sanders is like, and I don’t.