Hello children.
February already, is it? Dear lord, where does the time go?
Into the void, that's where. Into the void with all the PLANS we make and the PROMISES and the GOOD INTENTIONS and the LIES... Ahem.
I'm busy. I'm working away. On what? Different things. Some will see the light of day. Some will not. That's what happens. I've pretty much started the third and final Demon Road book, which is good, since my deadline is HILARIOUSLY close and I have an awful lot of work to do. But there are so many distractions! So many different projects to work on!
But I must focus. I must.
So, right now, my publishers are busy nailing down UK and Ireland tour dates for Desolation. First thing I have to tell you is that the release date has been changed, pushing it back a week to April 7th. Not that much of a big deal, and there are a load of external factors involved in the decision. It was explained to me but I zoned out. It's something to do with... something. Anyway, whatever, it's out on the 7th, although it will be available to buy a few days earlier at certain locations on my tour.
So, roughly, from April 3rd to the 7th, I'll be in Oxford, Manchester (don't know if it'll be available to buy early here, will check), Liverpool, Birmingham and London. Irish dates include Dublin and Kilkenny so far, from the 8th to the 10th.
As soon as these things become solid, I'll post them.
We're doing our best to have something cool happen in London, so keep your eyes peeled, ladies and germs. Awesomeness awaits. And possibly nightmares. Which is awesome in itself.
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(WiFi on a train. It's on a train! Something about it fills me with a simple joy.)
(Awww XD
I'm watching an anime called kamisama kiss and it's the cutest!!!)
(Hello Noelle ^.^)
*Very much appreciated Inky's understanding*
*And that trip remembered*
(How are you Noelle?)
Um.
Well, I was embarrassed in front of the whole school today.
its gonna be so cliche, but i was being silly, and there was a picture of me put on the school powerpoint and literally everyone-teachers, staff- saw it.
I was talking about the Bloods gang with my friend, and I was trying to do the word "blood" with my hands- and this girl, Lily, took my picture and it somehow got into the powerpoint.
At a catholic school
:/
and depression and ED stuff too
but this episode didnt help
sorry i dont mean to rant its just upsetting
(Really? What's cute? Actually I think I can guess.)
(Hey Adra.)
Golly. Lily sounds like a real pal.
(hi friend)
*hugs friend*
I don't know if it was her fault. She just takes a lot of pictures.. .but the administrator, mrs. matthews, asked for all of Lily's pictures..
Which leads me to believe that Mrs matthews may have stuck it in the powerpoint. Regardless of whether or not it was intentional, it was mortifying.
(I'm sorry to hear that Noelle...
Hmmmm I remember many a time of me getting embarrassed *thinks of the time baby brother pulled my top down infront of a boy I was going out with, exposing my chest* hmmmm)
I'm sorry. That sounds awful.
What is a 'school PowerPoint'?
It was a slide presentation of pictures taken throughout the week. It's a special volunteer/service week where we are let off from classes, but instead do volunteer work in our community as a class
and yeah.
..
I'm sorry, I'll be quieter now.
Sorry, I was just replying to your other things. That sounds really fun.
(sorry guys... I just don't know how to respond to some situations..)
(Haha, I can totally sympathise.)
(It's hard enough irl... Today we had to have a conversation in psychology with someone our lecturer picked out for us ... Someone we didn't normally talk to.. I had no idea)
TRIP!!!!!!!!!!! GOD ITS BEEN TOO LONG!!!!!!
(Hey Jack)
It has? This is rather bad timing, I'm about to get off the train. Anyway, OH MY BLUE BLAZES HOW ARE YOU?
(I can't wait to drive... Booked test... Hoping to pass first time...)
*is watching*
Hey Noelle
hi ed
How are you?
(Goddamn comments not working)
I'm still upset (see above)
You?
Anyway I can help?
I don't think so. That you for offering, though.
Right, tis ok
I upset Chloe, I feel awful...
she doesn't want to talk to me
Anyway, I'm off
Byes
:/ it's ok, Ed. I'm sorry you feel bad. Goodnight.
John, if you see this, you don't have to bot have a social life because of me. Play roblox, come on the blog...it hurts me to think i'm stopping you from doing that. Honestly, i miss talking to you. I only stopped because you knew that was as far as we were going to go and i understand that it hurts you. But you should still play bleach. I'm sory i was on legendary swords with keiron. I started playing it because heatie and blitz from Hunger games were playing it. I didn't know you still played roblox...
Bleach is back. There are only 2 captains and 3 Espada. I have been playing for 3 days. You should play again and try to surpass me. You always really wanted to old gen. Anyway, yeah. You should still comment on the blog and play roblox -nods-
Deleted comment? John?
Noelle?
Anyone? :-/
( -wasn't me- )
I guessed that. Althougu i did for a second think it was you saying "it's not your fault" or something...
( I missed them by seconds... like it almost loaded but page finished and poof ...
well it's not your fault that he can't talk to you without thinking about going out with you.... you just too dayum sexy :P )
Kinda is. Like all of it.
And not sexy -.-
And more important please don't try and cause arguments.
(nu-uh..... how is it your fault that you can't still talk without that? I get the other thing being your fault and I mean kinda? but still it's human to want interaction .... )
( * is not causing arguments....*
*is stating truths* if people can't handle them that aint my fault.
and you tots is the mostest sexiest :P )
I'm just, not going to say anything more.
At lvl 210 now so i'm actually going to go to bes now cause it has gotten a hell of a lot harder to lvl. I might be down to like 75/50 levels a day instead of 100 :-/ and then it might be reset tomorrow anyway but i have screenshots so i should get it back.
Omg someonr just joined my server keiron. How did yhey find it and you didnt
( there was only one....)
I wrote something- it was opening up.. I guess, about something personal. I saw that you were venting and didn't want to intrude, or seem like o was piggybacking
I'm actually going to bed now.
Ah. Sorry Noelle. Goodnight.
Carry on my wayward son, there'llbe peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest, don't you cry no more
Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high
Masquerading as a man with a reason,
My charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise man
It surely means I don't know
Carry on my wayward son, there'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest, don't you cry no more
Carry on
The version sung from the 200th episode of Supernatural....:) I love that song
John and Mary husband and wife
Bringing home a brand new life
His name is Sammy, I'm big brother Dean
The perfect family, or so it seemed
The demon's visits had begun
It believed Sam was the choosen one
It burned my mother, and it cursed my brother
Leaving us in tears
On the road so far, yeah the road so far
We are in Dad's car, on the road so far
Dad was driven, no turning back
He wouldn't stop without the payback
He trained us both to track and hunt and kill
He took away our own free will
So that's where we are, on the road so far
Saving people, hunting things
Family business back in swing
Driving down the road so far
Fuck the hell off. Why are you advertising on a public blog for a kids books? Idiot. Delete that comment.
@Gemma: They're not hurting you by advertising, are they? You can just . . . ignore them.
(Just ignore them Gem... As Star says... They aren't hurting anyone
And as I say 'and ye harm none, do as thou wilt')
*frowns at old English and tries to translate into Star speak :P*
(Basically do whatever you want as long as it hurts no one)
Ahhhhh okay. :) :) :) Yeah, that's my view on life, too. :) *glad I've found someone who came to the same conclusion*
Sorry, bit distant. Working on EPQ, or trying to.
(That's okay
It is the Wiccan rede... What wiccans go by ^.^)
Ah shit forgot I was here!
(Lunch happened)
:) Sounds cool.
(hilow)
(It's amazing, Ive always believed it and then i started gettin into Wicca and then found that out...
Hey K)
:) Hi Keiron.
@Chloe: :)
(Dog; *is bored *
*decides to pounce on Chloe*)
'Member the Onion Man?
(Helloooo *.^)
(*cuddles duggy*)
:) Hi, Jai and Dugglyn.
*cuddles back*
Hey, Awesome :))
Hi Chloe!
Purple Star!
(*watches the 700 club...*
*sighs*)
Soy, I can't really be here right now, I have to get ready for the mother-daughter brunch thingy
Hohoho, traveller, now you have retrieved the sceptre for me I shall reveal my true form! I am not in fact Goodius Gaius but in fact his evil twin separated at birth, Baddus Gaius! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *lightening cracks in the distance*
.
(Hello? )
Oh no! D:
D: D: D:
My mum had my phone for 2 years then gave it to me. I think i've had it for about a year too? so mine is 3 years old. No cracks. the sides are a little scratched i think but that's to be expected.
I smashed my previous phone after a week of having it. XD
(I cracked my phone within a week but it still works and that was a year and a bit ago.)
Otter Box case on my from day 1
Yeah, after I smashed my phone it kept working for a year before starting to break . . . and when I started to break I git so frustrated with it that I bit it and thus cracked it further. The accidentally smashed it again by dropping it a week later.
*shrugs*
(So since school are letting us dress up as book characters on Thursday both me and my friend are going as Skulduggery. Hes going as Skully with a facade, I'm hoping to make a mask.)
@Jai: :) :) Good luck! Hope you have fun. :)
We have an iPhone 4 that has been passed down since it came out (first my mom had because she got it through work, then my dad, then me, and soon my brother (my parents don't trust him with a smart phone yet XD and I mean, i didn't get one until freshman year and he has two years until freshman year sooo) and somehow, beside the home button not working and it just being kinda old, it has no cracks and it works.
Oooh, that's awesome!!!! Hope the mask making goes well!!
I had a 4s I got in 10th grade, I had a crap phone that I got in 8th grade that wasn't smart
The 4s lived until last summer when we just decided to upgrade to the 6. So I got a 6 my dad got my 4s and my mom went to a 6 as well we may give my brother the 4s she had, but that's a very big MAY.
*shrugs* Never broke an iPhone. I got a brand nee Otter Box case both times because my mom agreed that the money for the case was well worth it because the money to fix the phone if something happened could be spent avoiding the break.
(Does anyone else like Celtic music ?)
How do you not have many case options with a 5C . . . ? Until the 6S came out like half the people in my year (and all four of my friends) had a 5C. Whereas I have a Samsung Galaxy A3 and let me tell you it is bloody hard to find cases for that. Half inclined to switch to Apple just so I can get cases.
@Chloe: It's not something I'm into.
Apple isn't bad Star. At least it's easier to use in my opinion.
We got Apple Music which is great but I had to buy 3 songs
Carry On Wayward Son (Cover for 200th Supernatural Episode)
A Single Man Tear (200th episode song)
The Road So Far (200th episode song)
Those three from Supernatural oddly enough like to vanish off my playlist. All the time I have to re add them.
Now I have Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas and that stays on my phone....
@chloe as a Scot, I'm more or less obliged to. (kind of our thing) but I get the feeling you're referring to bands like Omnia and Faun. in which case, also yes. Am I on the money, or way off?
(I was just asking in general
I think it's pretty.. I've been looking on YouTube )
@chloe (omnia and Faun are both Wiccan/indiepagan bands from Germany. only fauns sings in German though. you'd probably like them.
(if its the more traditional scots/irish stuff, songs like "suil a ruin" and "dulaman" are old songs in the Gaelic)
(Awesome ^.^ WICCA!!)
I have almost 1000 songs on Google Play . . .
. . . On second thoughts, I'm sticking with android because of that. XD
Either way, I've had my phone less than a year so I'm not getting a new one any time soon.
(I had like ... 700 songs on my iPhone... But I now have a new phone with smaller storage so I can't have them all on there... So my solution is Spotify)
:D
I got my prom dress yesterday. I'm shocked I got a gown because of my small size.....
I mean we got one though I just need it hemmed because of my height.
congrats!
(Awesome zaffy!)
:D
It looks like a Cinderella dress according to everyone including myself
So we decided to do my jelwery around that idea so I have a tiara that I never thought would end up used again until I got married for something blue. We used it when I went to Disney and ate breakfast at Cinderella's castle. My parents wouldn't let me dress up in a gown and I was too old to do it at the park anyway. But by some miracle the tiara matches
That's what it looks like ---------->
Then that's what the top looks like up close- the back is all open
(Pretty!)
(looks lovely)
I like Irish music!!
Which is good because I just spent 3 hours listening to it! XD
(I think I have pictures on my Facebook ^,^)
Also it's so pretty Zaf!
(only irish? i'm hurt... Alba an fo bhron.)
(got an instrumental preference? i play bodrahn m'self.)
(Remember welsh people are Celtic too ^.^
Awesome Bru!)
Well, I do Irish dance so it's really all I hear sooo...!
It's not that I don't like other Celtic music, I just don't really hear it.
(I want to go back to Irish dance...)
Thanks :D
You should!!! It's awesone!! I had a feis (competition) today in Canada so now we're driving home.
@Zaf: My family have a Supernatural chat on WhatsApp, which we basically use to say "Are we watching Super?" and "Come down now" etc., and the picture we have for the chat is the same as the one you had for your profile picture just there. :)
I'm glad you're happy about your prom outfit. :) :) :)
*doesn't know Celtic music*
(its all pretty similar. the Irish stuff seems a little more upbeat, though. Most of Scotland's music tends to be about killing each other or killing the English, or fishing. Brittany in France is celtic too. The Irish are just the best at marketing themselves.)
(I would but in less than a year of be off to uni... In a different part of the country... I wouldn't be able to commit)
ah
*nods at music information*
Oh :/ yeah that makes sense
(Welsh songs are quite up beat... Like sis an face)
(that probably sounded a little sanctimonious, sorry. How was Canada?)
*sosban fach
(hell, gotta go. Bye!)
Pfft, that's fine. Didn't cross my mind at all XD
good!! We got good Indian food which was awesome (at the last feis in Portland Oregon we got bad Indian food and it was really sad) and I qualified one dance for Champs (I got first!) and got fourth in another one (I'd already qualified that one) but I didn't move my novice dance up to prizewinner and it's my last one in novice (the rest are in prizewinner and I've qualified 4 of 7 dances already) so that was disappointing. But there's another feis in Seattle next weekend!
Can't say I've heard Welsh Songs before!
Bye Bruadar!
Haha that's funny! I am all caught up on Supernatural so I just keep on waiting
March 23rd
Oh! We were having a funny debate. I wanna go to a con and meet Jared (Plays Sam) and he's 6'4 and so I'm like well I'm so small I think I'd be so scared everyone is so tall compared to me. Then someone reminded me Ruby was small and I'm like but Ruby is a demon!
Then I said knowing me I'd be too stunned to know what to even say. :P apparently everyone says Jared is an energetic puppy
Huh. First. I gotta ded.
I dedicate this page to....to....*flips coin* Damn it I can't pick one!
I dedicate to Jared, Jensen, Misha, Mark (Crowley) and Mark (Lucifer)
You guys are amazing and honestly I doubt they'll ever see this but hey. They all deserve a mention especially Jared and Jensen....those two have kept me sane whenever crap went down here. Seeing them together on screen made me realize things get rough, you can't see a sibling but the moment you get through the moment is bittersweet.
(Tbh Dug, I haven't heard many
But I know the national anthem, hymns and arias, sosban fach an the music I used to do Welsh folk dancing to)
(*hugs sis if she's till here before going to bed*)
(who doesn't love pulling alll nighters just for homework then procrastinating anyway ? )
Leo won his oscar!!!!!!!!!!! so fucking happy. Wanted to stay up and watch it but i was way too tired. struggling to stay away in my lectures although it is accounting and 21st century business, the most boring subjects like ever.
He totally deserved it!
:/
I upset trip because he realized that I have an ED
i dont know what to do.
.....You're a girl right? ...with a vagina.... right? how does one get ED with a vagina? there ain't nothing hard there...
*looks awfully confused at about 100% of that*
*shrugs and offers sympathetic thoughts anyway* *:/ :/ :/*
On an unrelated topic
I got to burn some feminists today :D
( ED as far as i'm aware the only thing it stands for is Erectile dysfunction ....
and that's cool, did you rip em a new one? were they feminazis ?)
(*coughs*EatingDisorderkeiron*cough*)
(ah. well.... all i'm saying is look up ED disease you do not get eating disorder,,,, )
If you look up "ed" you get education and Ed (short for Edward) and then further down you get eretile dysfunction.
Actually your Google results will vary from individual to individual depending on your Internet history. I've very rarely Googled eating disorders so it makes sense it didn't come up.
*still doesn't understand the context on Trip's upsetness so is still pretty in the dark but y'know*
(Jesus K XD )
In fairness though people who rarely think about eating disorders will struggle to make the leap from "ed" to "eating disorder" and if they go to Google for help it's not going to come up bevause they rarely go on the eating disorder parts of the Internet.
I was completely in the dark. Now I'm about 40% in the dark.
( shh..... I'm running on no sleep and about the limitless knowledge of google )
(danke Holly :D I've never googled eating disorders... I'm more likely to google the actual one like bulimia or anorexia etc)
*nods* I'm pretty sure I've only googled it once or twice, myself . . .
(I remember when we learned about them in school and they said that the disorders are rampant a and then I started to worry cause I was such a picky eater)
((Awwwh
We learnt about them for about an hour . . .))
(Yellow??)
(Tim curry is awesome!)
(He is, this is true.)
(Hey ^.^ I love rocky horror!)
(i first found him when he was the voice of Slagar the slaver in Redwall when i was wee. He's got a superbly refined evil in his diction)
(Awesome ^.^)
(gotta dash. byee!)
(Hi.
So I was playing Elite: Dangerous today (blame that game for me not being here for days) and I met a guy called Dexter Vex :O
I told him to come here if he'd like to chat about the series (which he recently re-read!)
Anyways, how are you guys doing?)
(Kassy! *glomps* How is you?
Byii Bru)
(I'm fine, Chloe!
*is glomped*
What about you? How've you been?)
(Elite: Dangerous has gotten to me. It features a 1:1 scale reproduction of our galaxy. Complete with 1:1 scale planets, stars, solar systems. Oh, yeah, and there's 400 million stars. And there's other people. Most of them aren't dicks..
Anyways... I should head to sleep soon(ish?))
(*is a fan of sci-fi*)
God i love roblox...
Saw on the news about a high school shooting in Ohio and I imediatley thought of Noelle....it didn't appear the students were from a Catholic school. Still I hope Noelle is alright I hope it wasn't her school.
It's not Noelle's school.
Good. I didn't think it was like I said, but still....
No, but my dance coach was on lockdown for a while. Luckily, no one was hurt.
ED definitely is an acronym for eating disorder. It is one of the many phrases that has "ED" as an acronym. As a female, i think it is obvious that what I meant wasn't erectile dysfunction.
And also, just, as a reference, even though I disagree with so-called "feminazis", it isn't really nice to call people that- even if they're extremists. Here's a little life lesson: Feminism was begun by women and was for women- because when it truly started off (around 1870?), women were horribly mistreated and unequal. However, as women's rights have improved over the last century, the cause has begun to encompass the LGBTQ(etc) community, gender issues, sex issues, racism, and many more social movements. Don't be alarmed- just because the name has "fem" as a root word, doesn't mean that it is full of mysoginistic people. By believing that all Feminists are "man haters", you're about as ignorant as those who say that all Muslims are terrorists.
Feminism stands for across the board equality, regardless of race, sex, gender, orientation, lifestyle, or what have you. Actually, if there are people here on this blog who don't classify themselves as a Feminist, I'm a little surprised. People get so caught up with the word- like, good grief, it's like refusing to use the word "mankind" to refer to the human race, because it has the word 'man' in it. No one throws a fit about that, so why should having the root 'fem' be such a touchy thing? It's just historical context. It's the same as having arachnophobia: the root word, Greek for "spider", is just a root word.
It is just.
A
Word.
Now, if the issue isn't the word, but what the movement believes in (equality of all people), then please never talk to me again.
A true feminist doesn't put other people down. They don't hate on men- they don't hate on women. They do not discriminate, and their honest goal is to raise humanity up to a higher standard of existence.
and if anyone replies with anything OTHER to the definition above- such as "feminists hate men", well I can tell you to please never speak to me ever again in the existence of this god forsaken universe.
I can't tell you guys how frustrated it makes me when people get so picky about Feminism. It's not a scary word. It's just. A. Word. Focus on what it stands for instead.
So yeah.
Please don't call extremist Feminists "feminazis". They may be wrong in representing the cause, but no one deserves to be called a nazi.
(Ps: Derek Landy, Meryl Streep, Misha Collins, Mark Ruffalo, Ellen Page, (ok, Barack Obama ok), Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Emma Watson, Ashley Judd, Will Smith, Patrick Stewart (this man is a blessing), frickin Prince Harry, Ian Somerhalder, the Pope, the Dalai Lama-
What I'm getting at
Is that these famous people are role models, and are setting an example. (Notice how a lot above are genetically male)
Be like them.
Don't be afraid of the F-word :). ))
I'm glad no one was hurt, and I agree with most of what you just said.
@Noelle YES
I was actually just thinking about this today after seeing a post on tumblr that made me angry.
First of all - I'm not familiar with eating disorders. I do not have this knowledge. I'm not trying to deny that it doesn't stand for earing disorder, I'm just pointing out that my brain would never make that leap. Sorry. :(
Secondly - I never said I believed feminism was hating men. The thing is, feminism is meant to be about equality for all genders, but you don't need that word to say you believe in equality. You can avoid that word entirely without creating an issue. And I don't think I need to use the word "feminist" to describe myself - I don't think it would benefit me to use that label.
Not because I don't wish to be labeled as a man hater, but mostly because I don't believe in feminist theory and I don't believe that feminism is needed in my country in this day and age and yeah, maybe I could take up the word and reclaim it, but I could also just support equality whilst not referring to myself as a feminist.
The other week me and Catherine were having a little antifeminist conversation and this ft monist overhead us and started arguing in an annoyed way, but we quickly established that none of us disagree with anyone else in principle so it was all okay.
(Catherine literally doesn't believe in equality for the genders either because she doesn't believe equality is ever achieveable, so one can be a decent person whilst definitely not being a feminist. Not that I'm implying you doubted that. And that wasn't sarcasm. Ugh social interaction why must you be so hard.)
And what I was referring to is - I go to a debating club every Monday day, and today the motion was "Gender quotas are good for equality."
I am not a fan of gender quotas. I am very against gender quotas. I have to admit after researching the other side of does have some good points for it, but no, I'm against gender quotas.
And yeah, so me and Cat turned up to completely BURN the For side. And at first we were real worried that we weren't gonna get any feminists to burn, but then two of them turned up. And like, they walked in and wrre like "what's the motion? Which side's the feminist side?"
And so yeah they got pitted against us and we had a debate and DUDE you should have seen this girl's face as she tried to come to terms with people who didn't agree with feminist theory. She was just like "but women have been oppressed by men for hundreds of years -" and Catherine was like "yes, but that's in the PAST" and her face was just like "but but but -"
Then at one point she proper yelled "FEMINISM IS EQUALITY FOR THE GENDERS!" and I just yelled back "THEN WHY ARE YOU NOT ON OUR SIDE?"
Ugh fun times mate fun times.
So yeah. When I say "burn feminists" I mran "argue against people who treat feminism like a religion and who don't seem to put critical thought into what they're actually arguing for and Cam occasionally take their quest for quality too far and try to implement gender quotas."
Have to admit, me and Cat were researching for this debate before it occurred, and I was like "ugh feminism" and she said "There's nothing wrong with being a feminist" and I said "No of course not, but there is an issue with stupid feminism. If you're a feminist and you're not stupid, it's okay."
(Bear in mind that's a private conversation. If I was speaking to someone on here I would phrase it more politely.)
And so I have no issue with individual feminists until I know what they're like, just loke i hAve no isue with your average human until i know what theyRe like. But I'm not a fan of the majority of the movement I see nowadays. And it's not the "MEN SHOULD DIE" part I'm seeing.
But either way I support equality so really do long as you dont take issue witu me in another way there should be no issue, right?
And now I must rush for school so I apologise about how unedited that was.
(Grrrr my biology lecturer better be in first lecture... Otherwise I will hit the roof!
I could've had a lie in!)
I'd just like to point out
feminism is the name of a movement. Thus is describes a movement. It's a lot more complicated than wotds that simply describe a group of people without them chooding to be in that group of people, such as "humankind" or "woman." Although those can be made much more complex as well, come to think of it. Point is, a human is just something you are. A feminist is more of am identity. It's different.
( the only reason I dislike feminism is because of said extremists... the ones that re looking to be better than men not equal, in my own little bubble I don't give a fuck who you are..... wht you look like what you believe in or who you want to fuck. I treat everyone the same, piss me off I will dislike you try to be my friend and do it well I will like you... as long as no one I like is being hurt by you then we cool....
I like to think of my self as a humanitarian.... or equalitatian... and in this little thing of it's own, I am not pc for a good reason. I believe we are not equal until you can make fun of everyone for anything without anyone being offended, like with your best friend. If we're all too busy trying not to stand on anyone's feet what's the point? )
(Um... Can you hate an entire... Group just because of a minority's of extremists?)
( yeh coz it sends a bad view of the entire group...
lets flip that on its head.... can you like a group just because a minority of good people lets say I dunno kkk , what if there are good people in that ? have their own families etc just are a bit out of date? )
(Then that's stereotyping and that can be horrible.... I don't know many feminists by I'm sure that they are nice on the most nice..
And how does the kkk get into this?! There may have been decent people but you forget the purpose of that group and it was wrong. I don't think there would be people in that group who I'd like because their motives were evil
I don't Know how they come into this debate)
I think feminists are a bit like people on benefits.
Everyone knows there are some lazy people on benefits who cheat the system, but everyone also knows there are also many people who are on benefits because . . . well, for reasons other than "lazy and cheating system." And like, most people will know of someone who is getting more money by not working. But most people should also know that someone's benefits are necessary. So when you meet someone on benefits it's only sensible to withhold judgement until you know why they're on benefits, instead of assuming that all people on benefits are lazy buggers or that all people on benefits have 100% good intentions.
So yeah, I will say "ugh feminism," but when meeting individual feminists I'll wait and see whether they'Re the stupid kind or not before making judgement.
And I don't think the feminists that piss me off are necessarily "extremist." I think they mostly just try to fix things which aren't issues or try so hard to reach the x axis they go over the other side and get into negative numbers . . . oh did I not mention that metaphor?
I believe equality is like an exponential graph. The x axis is equality. And rhe line can be varying distances away from zero, and if you try very hard you can get very close, but you will never rwsvh there. The difference between me and Catherine is that I believe it's worth trying to get closer.
(Hey Star ^.^)
(Oops! Better get to psychology
Ciao!)
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I can't believe this place. This is very insulting.
Actually I'm more likely to stand up for people on benefits as they have less choice about their position. If someone takes up the label of "feminist" they choose to take up all the connotations with it.
@Noelle: Sorry. :(
Like. I am sorry. But I'm not going to have one opinion here and one opinion in real life and this is my opinion so there you go. Hate me if you want.
Hey Keiron, let's broaden the metaphor a bit, because really, hating a whole group because of a few extremists is, like Noelle mentioned, more like hating all Muslims because of ISIS.
Which is wrong on so many levels.
Sorry Noelle...
*offers hugs*
And actually, I think the opposite. This place is far less insulting than what I'm used to . . . it stresses me out. :P
@Dugglyn: Haha nice one :)
(Hello, I'm done for the day)
(That is a good point duggy ^.^)
Using Keiron's logic for a bit.
I now hate all white people because of the KKK, all religious groups because some of them believe I don't have the right to get married if I happen to fall in love with someone my own gender, all Americans because some of them are voting for Trump, all humans because some of them are bad and/or stupid.
Keiron, you just weakened your own argument there rather than strengthening it. It's hella narrow-minded to hate a group because of a small minority of extremists, and it's hella narrow-minded to like a hate group because some of the members might have good parenting skills.
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I feel like saying "oh I'm not a feminist, I'm an equalist" is a bit like saying "forget black lives matter, all lives matter." Yes, people of both genders should have the same rights and opportunities. Yes, police should avoid unnecessarily using lethal force on anyone. However, choosing a broader label can undermine the experiences of the group that's facing discrimination.
You don't have to agree with me on every single thing, but please don't use a word with the word "Nazi" in it to describe a movement that's helping to reduce sexual assault and sexual harassment on my college campus, to name but one positive effect of feminism.
Talk about a word that has connotations...
(*applauds fabulous*)
I do agree, Lantern, with all of it, but personally, I don't think we need a narrow focus on gender equality in thus country, and personally I don't do mode for equal gender rights than yell at a few feminists about gender quotas on occasion. Hence, I don't think I'm a feminist.
Plus "I believe in gender equality" is no more wordy than "I believe in racial equality" and we don't have a specific word for that.
I do not need this word. :P
(I just don't get how you can hate someone because of a small minority of extremists ..)
@Chloe SAME
like, how do you not realize it? I just don't really understand
Also, I got 104% on my math test! It didn't change my grade because it wasn't worth very many points but the lowest quiz score will get dropped so then my math grade should go back up to 100-101% range.
(Well done Dug!
It's like... To use an analogy that relates to me.. People say wiccans which are often associated with witchcraft... Saying they will all hex you and they eat babies... So not true XD )
Keiron never said he hated PEOPLE, just FEMINISM. For example, it's easy to hate organised religion and yet be friends with individual Christians.
(Although there's still an issue with hating a group because of a minority of extremists. I'm not a fan of the majority of feminists because the /majority/ of feminists I meet piss me off.)
@Dugglyn: :) :) :)
@Chloe: Huh. I thought Wiccan was witchcraft. Sorry.
(Blame Lizzie. XD)
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