Thursday, February 14, 2013  V-Day Pileup: On Silence and
Violence  The following has been cross-posted at NOLAFemmes.
More and more, I'm finding it cannot be avoided, no matter how
hard women try. We are still surrounded by people who would put
us in what they think is "our place," a position that tends to
be highly restrictive on any and all physical and mental levels.
Tell me I'm crazy. Go on and talk down to me, I dare you. Events
and discussions will occasionally converge that lead me to a
boiling point on this subject...  Why it's disgusting and
ignorant of you to imply that a woman caught large Mardi Gras
beads in a risque manner, for instance. Yeah, it's one of the
oldest, sexist, dumbest Carnival tropes, but it does get tiring
after a while. I caught huge, LSU-emblazoned beads just from
being at the start of the Thoth parade route. Next Carnival
season, I'm gonna ask the next guy I see with giant beads on
what he flashed for them.   The horrific news about the murder
of paraplegic Olympic sprinter