No Smugness Like Brand New Advocate Smugness
LOL, my inner dialogue nearly every time some netizen who likely didn’t even exist when I began my advocacy career in the early 1990s just MUST ‘splain my own areas of expertise to me...
Category: Blog, Commentary and Articles
Local Politics Wins for Democrats
The NRCC tried really hard with crazy rhetoric and some outright lies, but they lost to Jennifer Wexton. Captain Commander Scare Tactics Barbara Comstock is out on her ass. Her MS13 ads were clearly...
Revisiting My Digital Library (or Stop Being Threatened By Other People’s Reading Choices)
I’ve been tending to my digital housekeeping this weekend and thought about my digital library (books, newsletters, magazines, etc.). I’ve been using Calibre to manage my large ebooks library for several years. Rather than reinvent the...
Victim Blaming Hall of Shame – Part One
Taking back some power by calling out victim-blamers and shamers I’ve personally encountered over the years. Obviously, this will be a triggering and upsetting collection. Feel free to share. People still say this doesn’t...
Stop Being Surprised by Female Perpetrators, ‘kay?
Kim Severson, writing for The New York Times, on Asia Argento, Who Accused Weinstein, Made a Deal With Her Own Accuser: …last October, Ms. Argento quietly arranged to pay $380,000 to her own accuser: Jimmy...
Discussion Is Good and Agreement Is Awesome – But Getting Stuff Done Is The Goal
Monica Torres, writing for Ladders, on “Why ‘agreeing to disagree’ is a bad management tactic“: When you are a good leader, you know that “agreeing to disagree” is not enough to move goals forward....
No One Cared, Kenny
While cleaning up some old emails, I came across this gem from homophobic assclown Sailor-boy Kenny Golden. While he is probably still a homophobic asshole, he never did make it to Congress, or City...
Don’t Be Such A Cry-Baby (or Toxic Masculinity Is Only Part of the Picture)
June Gruber, Jessica L. Borelli for Scientific American on “The Importance of Fostering Emotional Diversity in Boys“: As early as infancy, boys’ and girls’ emotional landscape differs. One study reported that when watching an infant being...
Ally Competency 101
If your first response to hearing a male survivor’s public story is, “he won’t get asked what he is wearing”, you are not an ally. You’re an abusive asshole with a severe empathy deficit....