Socialism is Anti-Choice and Anti-Life
There are many other ways to help poor families in America aside from the pro-corporate-pseudo-socialism Democrats peddle.
Author: Kristin Devine
Kristin has humbly retired as Ordinary Times' friendly neighborhood political whipping girl to focus on culture and gender issues. She lives in a wildlife refuge in rural Washington state with too many children and way too many animals. There's also a blog which most people would very much disapprove of https://atomicfeminist.com/
Government By Performativeness is a Failure
It’s not an accident, it’s a tactic. Performativeness over performance. Because performativeness is not only loud and distracting, it’s easy
Here Comes the Groom(ing)
To claim that this is about misusing the word “grooming” is an attempt to hijack a very necessary conversation that we all should be having
American Sandwich Project: Love, Porktually, Part 1
How on earth pork can be romantic. Let’s start off by visiting the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, to find out more.
The First Wives Snub
When it comes to thoughtless jerks insulting their first wives, Hollywood has no shortage of examples to choose from.
Shut Up, Boomer!
When it comes to vaccines, Baby Boomers are the most hypocritical hypocrites who ever hypocrite-ed
The Real Lesson of Siskel and Ebert
We need Siskel and Ebert. If I had a giant Batsignal featuring a thumbs up sign in lieu of a bat, I’d totally use it to call them back to us
American Sandwich Project: The Progressive Triumph of the Latke
Originally latkes were not American, but that’s the thing…send us your downtrodden and in exchange we’ll help ourselves to their recipes.
Game of Thrones: The Subversiveness of Liking Sansa Stark
April 17 being the 10th anniversary of Game of Thrones, I’ll seize this opportunity to write about my favorite character ever, Sansa Stark.
The Hunger Games: I Volunteer As Conscript
It’s pretty unfair to say, “but The Hunger Games characters had their agency removed!” I mean, yeah, duh, that was kind of the point.
A Letter to the Editors: Freddie deBoer and Writing About Forgiveness
This was not some high-falutin’ celeb or windbag politician. Freddie deBoer was a friend. Maybe a friend we haven’t seen for a while, but still.
Pepe Le Pew Is Not A Role Model
But at least Pepe Le Pew lays the issue of rape culture where it belongs, at the feet of men, rather than telling women it’s THEIR fault
Ramona Quimby Is Not A Role Model
I keep bumping up against the same theme. “Ramona Quimby is iconic because she’s so NAUGHTY!” these articles crow breathlessly.
Game of Thrones: GRRM, Fan Fiction, and the Pearls of Irritated Oysters
In my eyes, Game of Thrones & George RR Martin have done but one unforgivable thing, and that unforgivable thing is dissing fan fiction
Game of Thrones: Everyone in Westeros is Gonna Die
The Night King may be gone, the war may be over, but the forces of death have only just begun to stalk Westeros.
Game of Thrones: Ready, Willing, and Ableism
The eyeroller disdainfully says “Game of Thrones is just show!” But problematic beliefs like ableism are like belly buttons, we all got em.
Game of Thrones: The Awesomization of Sam Tarly
Samwell Tarly is an intelligent, kind, but cowardly and physically inept young man…until his TV Game of Thrones awesomization
Game of Thrones: Bad Romance
Game of Thrones has lots of coitus and very little of what leads into it, except when it’s rapey, in which case we see it in exacting detail
Game of Thrones Rewatch: She Schtups to Conquer
Let’s drop the “Daenerys Targaryen is SUCH a Mary Sue because too many men desired her.” That is misogyny wrapped up in an Internet meme.
Game of Thrones Rewatch: Redemption Song
I decided to look at the concept of fictional redemption arcs in Game of Thrones. In the GoT TV show, there are three main redemptive arcs.
