Monthly Archives: April 2011

Speaking of entitled interrupting, I was telling a friend of mine  about the Naomi Wolf / Julian Assa

Speaking of entitled interrupting, I was telling a friend of mine  about the Naomi Wolf / Julian Assange shitstorm that erupted not so long ago and I was reminded of how bad-ass  Jaclyn is.   There’s a transcript and a link to the second part of this debate here.

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Interrupting male privilege

It seems like basic politeness – and common knowledge – that you don’t interrupt people. Especially when they’re giving a speech or presentation. So you can imagine my shock (ok, red hot stabby anger) when during a talk I gave recently a young man would not stop interrupting me. In a standard speaking event, I’ll [...]

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Margaret Cho (via heyfatchick)

If you don’t have self-esteem, you will hesitate to do anything in your life. You will hesitate to report a rape. You will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against because of your race, your sexuality, your size, your gender. You will hesitate to vote; you will hesitate to dream. For us to [...]

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