So last year about this time I went back to working in film. I had tried this once before 20 years ago and was the only woman in my province working in my department of choice. The fact that it has been really busy and there are more women now, and I'm in a different province, convinced me to...
I live in a neighbourhood that is mostly populated by Asian people, so most of the shops are Chinese.
So I'm off to pick up some veggies for tonight's dinner when I pass a group of four or five people murdering an acoustic guitar and having some kind of off-pitch singalong, which was...
I loved this. Yes, yes and yes.
Announcement: Readers who feel threatened by equality no longer welcome | games.on.net
I don't know if you have been following Gamergate. It's an outpouring of misogynistic whining directed at any reviewer, critic, developer or reporter who dares to suggest that...
"Fast, vicious and strong, all creatures of nature fear the blood-sucking man-bat."
Does this sentence convey that the creatures or nature are fast, vicious and strong, or that the blood-sucking man-bat is?
I think it's the former.
I think we do.
LANGUAGE WARNING.
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I literally peed myself. This was shared on my Facebook wall by my Iranian Canadian friend, who is nothing if not funny.
(Hi, Poeticus. :punk:)
So I've stumbled upon these nifty little games - implicit association tests. They're so cool. Think you're "fair and balanced"? Prove it: take a test and share your result.
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
I've taken two. I have a slight preference for light skinned people over dark...
I found an old interview where Chomsky describes more or less the same ideal model of society I personally subscribe to.
The Relevance of Anarcho-syndicalism, Noam Chomsky interviewed by Peter Jay
I've actually already got my eye on a couple of BC communities that already function along these...
This question has been raised a few times in various threads. I think it deserves a thread of its own. So here are the top three reasons I believe liberals don't bother taking to the streets to protest against non-state violent actors in general, and Islamic militants in particular.
1. Hamas...
Found this gallery through a Facebook friend. I really love these pictures. I think this is my favourite. She reminds me of my grandmother, 94 and stubborn as a mule. I can't see her taking up arms to defend her home, but the picture captures something fundamentally non-compliant. I hope to be...
My husband made a comment on Reddit that was mildly supportive of feminism. A few days later he noticed he had a PM.
It was a torrent of angry abuse from some random guy.
He sent a non-abusive reply, then got another message saying "Oh, after checking your message history, I see that...
I often hear ID proponents insist there is no evidence for evolution, an old earth, the impossibility of a global flood, abiogenesis, the big bang, and all sorts of other concepts rooted in an empirical naturalist world view.
Here's your chance, folks! Ask me about any conclusion we have drawn...
There's been some question of whether it's "sexist" for women to consider the sexual assault threat level of any strange men who approach them. I don't want to argue about that, I just want to share some of my own experiences that have caused me to exercise caution with men who approach me, and...
Open discussion. I don't personally believe in God, but I was raised with a particular idea of what God is, for those who believe in it.
My understanding is that we are not to judge one another, because judgment is God's domain.
We are only to care for one another.
Nevertheless, a vast...
I'm getting busy with endless 60 hour film weeks, and I'm tired of playing with my phone between setups when it's quiet. I'm going to start bringing books to work instead.
Also, the cumulative sleep deprivation has really eroded my patience. It's getting more and more difficult for me to find...
I really love my job. It's taken a while to get to that point, in that I've tried a LOT of other jobs, so I appreciate this one all the more. Good pay, free food, beautiful locations, new challenges every day - there's not much to not like about it.
Anybody else happy with their work? What do...
So I'm looking for work at the moment - really basic stuff to pay the bills. It seems to be harder now than it ever has been. When I was younger, it never took me more than a few days. One day to be assessed by a temp agency, one day for them to process my test scores, and one day for them to...
This is a cool story -
Della Wolf is B.C.'s 1st child with 3 parents on birth certificate - British Columbia - CBC News
The gist of it is that a lesbian couple wanted the father of their child to be more than just a donor - they wanted his ongoing involvement in the child's life. After...
So I'm boiling a chicken carcass with what's left of the gravy from last night's dinner. I've never made a chicken soup before, but I'm just gonna start throwing stuff in about an hour from now. Any suggestions?