Barbaric?
Go Daddy, the well-known domain registrar and hosting company, has a rather controversial CEO, Bob Parsons. He’s already disliked by a lot of people for using demeaning ads for his company and now he’s shown just the sort of character he is by indulging in the ancient Great White Hunter sport of killing elephants. Elephants [...]
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Yes, you read that properly. Please, don’t bother checking the calendar, I already did: We’re still in the 21st Century! Unbelievably, Texan right-wingers are trying to oust the Speaker of the Texas State House because he’s not a Christian. I never thought I’d see something like this in my lifetime… I thought this sort of [...]
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Transgender Day of Remembrance We live in a sick society in a lot of ways. It allows racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia… The list goes on! However, today is the day when we remember a segment of society which our culture views as disposable. Trans people. Per capita, there is no other group of people with [...]
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Today I feel very sad indeed. But why should I when I have the girlfriend of my dreams, a wonderfully supportive family, a job where my employers and colleagues have been so amazingly understanding, and great friends who did not desert me in my transition? The why is because Andrea Waddell was killed sometime over [...]
The new president of the United Nations General Assembly, Ali Abdussalam Treki, has called homosexuality ‘unacceptable’. When asked about his views on the UN resolution decriminalising homosexuality, he replied: That matter is very sensitive, very touchy. As a Muslim, I am not in favour of it . . . it is not accepted by the [...]
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MedIndia is reporting that Caster Semenya is on suicide watch thanks to the trauma of discovering she is intersexed. I can’t imagine how horrible this must be for her, first of all having to accept that her body is not as she felt it was, with huge implications for her career and her future life, [...]
Humans show the most amazing arrogance. We treat the plants and animals who share this planet with us as if they were our property, to mistreat as we wish. One of the most shocking examples of this is US hospitals using cats to train staff on intubation (placing a tube into the throat to keep [...]
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On 17th July, 2008, a vivacious young woman called Angie Zapata was viciously murdered by a man called Allen Andrade, who beat her in the head multiple times with a fire extinguisher. That’s horrible enough, but the story doesn’t end there. It continues with a trial where a cold-blooded murderer and an equally cold-blooded defence [...]
Imagine your boyfriend finding something out about you which made him angry. He breaks into your home and beats you with such force with a glass ashtray that it tears one of your lips off. Imagine that this happens because the police tell your boyfriend something about your past, something you shared with them only [...]
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I have a real problem with wearing fur… You will not see me with it on, ever. The level of cruelty is just horrible and I just don’t see the need to wear fur in a modern society. Yes, I’ve heard the argument from my Russian and Scandinavian friends and they may be right, it [...]