Really late tonight. Had to attend to a teething toddler who woke up screaming. He's sleeping soundly again now.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Poor bb :o( Though I refuse to believe he's a toddler already!
- Melly #FForever
Hard for us to believe, too. Max is one tough little nugget. All muscular for a one year old. And moving faster every day. His balance keeps getting better.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
The Logic of Stupid Poor People | tressiemc - Slightly misleading title, and hard to summarize, but this essay touches on something important that I've never been able to articulate myself. "Stupid Poor People" should be in quotes to get the point across better. - http://tressiemc.com/2013...
"I have about a half dozen other stories like this. What is remarkable is not that this happened. There is empirical evidence that women and people of color are judged by appearances differently and more harshly than are white men. What is remarkable is that these gatekeepers told me the story. They wanted me to know how I had properly signaled that I was not a typical black or a typical woman, two identities that in combination are almost always conflated with being poor."
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Just disgusting - Boy Scout leaders jubilantly knock over 170m-year-old rock formation in Utah | World news | theguardian.com - http://www.theguardian.com/world...
"The two scout leaders told the Deseret News they toppled the boulder because they thought it posed a danger to children who might be walking by – an explanation that the state parks director greeted with some scepticism." BULL. SHIT. Exactly.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
"Hayes said park rangers walked through the valley daily and had never considered the boulder to be a danger, noting that it took considerable effort for Taylor to shove it over."
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
"Danger to children?" They are so full of shit! The entire park is filled with rocks just like that one and yet this particular one was a danger?!? Please! Idiots!
- Elena
I know that there are much worse problems out there when it comes to gender divisions, but I just happened to see this at Meijer earlier today and it annoyed me. Since when does art need to be separated by sex? Just like special pink building sets for girls! Giant robots are for boys! Ponies are for girls! So stupid. Obviously just trying to sell more crap. They won't stop as long as it keeps working. Goes way back to before having 5 colors of iMac or 50 choices of any other consumer product. When did all of that start?
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)