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The Origins of the Modern Republican Party
“It did not start with Donald Trump, he is the symptom not the cause.” Barack Obama September 7, 2018 As a naval aviator, one of the first things that they teach you is that catastrophic mishaps do not occur in a vacuum. There is almost always a long chain of human failures leading up to…
Runaway Wealth Inequality Is the Death of Democracy
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald During the 2016 Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders ran on a platform of calling out economic inequality and student loan debt forgiveness. His target audience was primarily millennials, and it resonated well. A primary that was supposed…
An Easy Guide to Why Littman’s ROGD Research is Junk
TERFs and the religious right cannot seem to grasp why transgender people, and even other academics, have called out Lisa Littman’s study on “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria” (ROGD) as junk science that proves nothing. I’d like to illustrate why with a series of ihypothetical conversations that show…
‘Feminists’ Who Exclude Trans Women Aren’t Feminists At All
TERFs and their transphobic message have become pawns of American right-wing groups.
Ryan Anderson’s Book is Harmful Pseudo-Science
(Note: Page numbers in this review refer to the advanced reader copy of the book that I acquired.) I have written elsewhere on how to detect and debunk anti-transgender propaganda in science and the media previously. I described fifteen tests, and Anderson’s book fails at every level. I cannot address all of the issues in this…
We Must Protect Our History From White Supremacists
As long as there is the perception that medievalism is somehow linked with racism, it affects all of us in the hobby.
Warrior Women Are The Role Models We Need
We need them, because they give us hope. This summer “Wonder Woman” was the top grossing film of the season and second highest of the year, beating out “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2.” No small feat. It’s also the highest-grossing action film ever directed by a woman. This success came despite Warner Brothers studios greatly under-promoting the film in…
10 Reasons Why This Week Was Even Worse than You Thought
During the first week of the Trump administration, a lot has happened. So much so that most progressives are outraged over everything, and unable to focus on what the really scary stuff is. The really scary things are the ones that lead us down deeper, darker, crazier places than any other Republican would have. On…
Choose Your Own Dystopia
Democracy is probably dead. Got it. But what will fill the power vacuum? There are all sorts of forces fighting now to feast on the carcass. A number of factors, particularly SCOTUS decisions, will ultimately decide who ends up standing on the bloated remnants, gorging themselves on it while the other contenders get only scraps….
Eight Reasons Why Democracy in America is Probably Done
After the election we’ve learned a lot of things. Most of them have only served to illustrate why we, as a country, are probably done as a functional democracy. Any one of them might be enough on their own, but taken together, the odds of an American resurgence looks to be almost nil. We’re a…