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“Imagine if your craft made someone you love feel judged and insecure. The change in me was instantaneous. I was already building up to it, but watching that interaction made me wonder why I wanted to be part of such a culture. The answer was, I didn’t.
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“We held certain truths to be self-evident, but those truths were that elves hate orcs and wizards can’t wear metal armor.—Austin Grossman, YOU: A Novel
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“I’m an atheist. Let’s get that out of the way here. I’m not an evangelical atheist. I am in the [null set] category of happy atheists, closer to the Douglas Adams absurdist club than the Richard Dawkins school of wandering into elementary schools, explaining that there is no Santa or God, and then tearing down the looped rings of red and green construction paper over the door.—Spencer Hall, “Tim Brando, Chris Broussard, and giving credit where credit is due”
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“Imagine that there was an organization that was run entirely by heterosexual males, with a mission statement that declared that its goal was to ‘cure’ and ‘prevent’ lesbianism. Imagine that this organization referred to lesbianism as a ‘disease’ and a ‘disorder.’ Imagine that they produced videos about what a devastating tragedy it is for a family to have a lesbian child. Now, imagine that this organization called itself ‘Lesbians Speak.’ How would you feel about people who supported this organization?—Nick Walker on Autism Speaks
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Got A Girl
CrushObsession On: The Forgotten Lumberjills of WWIILike the many other amazing heroines of their time, the ladies of the Women’s Timber Corps, aka the Lumberjills, stepped into unconventional britches in order to keep the industry, and country, moving while the men were off at war. Of course, there was also some major stereotypes being chopped down along the way:
They faced prejudice from the male forestry workers, as this was pure manual labor and they weren’t expected to be tough enough. Needless to say, they proved them wrong. Their hands became calloused, they developed strong muscular arms and legs - not traits of a “real lady” at the time, but they relished the freedom and fresh air even if it did cause many aches and pains! I can imagine that many were unwilling or uncomfortable to return to indoor-domestic lives IF their husbands returned. For those who joined when young, or if widowed and having to start afresh, I believe it gave them a strong core confidence, and the toughness to go on alone.
Seriously, though. When someone inevitably makes a movie out of this, will someone please get a hold of me? I need to raid the wardrobe (I also can throw a mean knife).
Read more about the Lumberjills here!
Lumberjills! Dang!
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