We accept all girls in kindergarten through 12th grade as members. If a child identifies as a girl and the child’s family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout. If a child is living as a girl, that’s good enough for us. We don’t require any proof of gender.
—Rachelle Trujillo, vice president for communications of the Colorado Girl Scouts, responding to a story about a transgender girl who was allowed to join the Brownies.
Looks like I’ll be buying a ton of cookies this year.
(via Shakesville article on various bigoted attacks on the GSA by religious groups & the right-wing blogosphere; trigger warning on that for cissexist, misogynist bullshit)
Source: knitmeapony
neil degrasse tyson explains how the god of the gaps is an ever-receding pocket of lack of scientific knowledge. and points out that bill o’reilly was wrong about the tides - we can explain that…
Washington governor Chris Gregoire explaining with exquisite eloquence why she is introducing a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in her state. Bravo, Madame Governor. Bravo.
CLICK THE SQUARES.
THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS.
i played with this for like 30 minutes, seriously.
(via throughthetransit)
Source: mightygiggle
ruffus the dog’s christmas carol - happy holidays!
how sad is it that this lizard is most likely better at this video game than i would be?
still alive, a capella, by video game music choir. a triumph.
The TLC reality show All-American Muslim, which follows five families in Dearborn, Michigan, has a lot of points to make about the lives of average Muslim citizens in America, among them the lingering discrimination they face after 9/11… Last week, hardware big-box store Lowe’s pulled its advertising from All-American Muslim under pressure–and thereby proved the show’s point. Lowe’s pulled its ads following a protest campaign from the Florida Family Association, which objects to the show, in essence, because it portrays Muslims too positively. That is, it argues the show is “propaganda” because it portrays peaceful, ordinary Muslims without mentioning horrible things that other Muslims have done.
All-American Muslim Meets an Un-American Advertising Pullout | Entertainment | TIME.com
The Florida Family Association criticizes the show because it “hides the Islamic agenda’s clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values.” The organization’s mission statement is to “Educate people on what they can do to defend, protect and promote traditional, biblical values.” This is an organization that is clearly promoting hate and persecution of another group because of their religious affiliation. It is appalling that so many companies—not just Lowe—have pulled out their support for the show.
You can find a full list of companies who pulled their ads from All-American Muslim here. Appalling.
(via robot-heart-politics)
You have GOT to be kidding me.
This is the 21st century, right? Companies are still doing this fucking shit?
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Source: TIME
Basically we’re still stuck in the situation we were three years ago and we haven’t made any progress at all except that our problems are much worse because of political reasons, because we now have a crazy party in charge of one of the Houses of our Congress and they won’t allow anything to happen because it’s in their vested interest to make things worse. Plus they have a theory that is completely nuts…. I’m very depressed. […] The most we can hope for is that a complete crazy person like Newt Gingrich gets the Republican nomination, the Republicans lose so badly that they lose control of the House and don’t get control of the Senate and then maybe in a year we can finally talk about doing something rational. […]
