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merely talk

rantings and ravings with little cohesion and plenty of pretension

 

I can barely type I'm so pissed off

Hey look at what the Tories did!

So first they cut the funding to Status of Women in Canada. Then they removed the word "equality" from their mandate. 'Cause women are in fact equal in Canadian society, even though there's this fun thing called the "wage gap" (meaning that when matched for jobs and education level women are still only making 71 cents to every man's dollar), sexual assault and rape are the only violent crimes on the rise, and more and more women live in poverty...but we are equal guys! The Tories said so!

And now this. They are well on their way to abolishing the Status of Women in Canada all together. Well done! Sounds great! We are equal after all. No need to have this department at all.

I think the one office in Edmonton that is going to be serving all of Manitoba, Saskachewan, Alberta and British Columbia, is enough.

Don't you?

I AM SO ANGRY... and depressed. I'm so scared of all the damage this government is going to do the country I love.

The absolute worst thing however is the fact that we have this lobby group to blame. When most feminist or women's rights activist groups were unable to get time in to see Bev Oda (the federal minister responsible for the Status of Women in Canada), this group got ample time to present their case and make suggestions. And is it any wonder. Their motto is "Women's rights but not at the sake of Human rights" and their objectives are as follows:

1.To reaffirm that the family is society’s most important unit, since the nurturing of its members is best accomplished in the family setting.
2.To promote the equality, advancement and well being of women, recognizing them as interdependent members of society, whether in the family, workplace or community.
3.To promote, secure and defend legislation which upholds the Judeo-Christian understanding of marriage and family life.
4.To support government and social policies that make homemaking possible for women who, out of necessity, would otherwise have to take employment outside the home.
5.To support the right to life of all innocent individuals from conception to natural death.

I think #3 and #5 are my favourites. Is this who should be making decisons?

I don't even know what to think right now. I'm so disheartened. I can't believe this is real.

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A little bit of stupidity in this time of great seriousness...


You are The Lovers


Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse.


The Lovers represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made.


Originally, this card was called just LOVE. And that's actually more apt than "Lovers." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that the you have or will come across a person, career, challenge or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.


What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

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Buttons for Everyone!


So for the last few months I have been working with some lovely ladies on a little project to raise awareness about consent laws and sexual assault. On Wednesday we showed off all our hard work.
We made six different types of buttons that advocated for consent, which was so much fun my dears. I desperately want a button making machine now (Aprig was kind enough to let us borrow theirs for free). One of our group members navigated through all the red tape to get us a table in the SUB and once there we gave out our lovely buttons to all who wanted them. We even collected donations for the Campus Sexual Assault Centre.
I was so impressed about the feedback we got from the general campus community. I feel very spoiled in my Women's Studies classes, but it was fantastic to get so much support from other students. What's even better is seeing people I don't know wearing our buttons as I wonder around campus or in my classes.
This little project was for one of my classes. One of the best parts of the Women's Studies program here at the U of A is the component of activism required of us. Ten percent of my mark in this class is due to raising awarness. I love that they not only teach us about what's wrong with society, but they expect us to do something to fix it.
Seriously. I think this activism thing may be my calling. Does it pay well?

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Dear Edmontonians:

Please stop stabbing one another.

Love,
Tessa

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Posting under the influence

Never a good idea, but I'm doing it anyway. So any grammatical errors are due to the large amount of alcohol I've consumed since I got off work 5 and a half hours ago.


I had something I wanted to say....


But it's gone.


Oh wait.

I left my cell phone at home today, and when I got home there were no messages. This made me feel sad and unloved.

People should call me.

Also, beer is fun, even though it makes you flirt when you shouldn't. Especially with people that you shouldn't. And thank god I didn't have my cell phone or else I would have drunk dialed someone I shouldn't.


Of course if I drunkenly post this, is that any better....


Also isn't it fabulous that the Black Dog doesn't ID me? Cause I had no ID today, but I'm still drunk....so something worked out there.

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Eeeeeeekkkkk!