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Kickass Dad of the Day: When Stuart Chaifetz learned that his 10-year-old son, Akian, was being violent and disruptive in class, he was puzzled. He knew Akian, who has autism, to be mild-mannered and sensitive, and had a hunch that something more was going on. But after several meetings with a team of school officials created to help special-needs students, nothing changed. So Chaifetz did what any concerned parent would do.
On the morning of Friday, February 17, 2012, I wired my son and sent him to school. That night, when I listened to the audio my life changed forever. I heard my son being bullied by his teacher and aide. The six and a half hours of audio I had proved that my son wasn’t hitting the teacher because there was something wrong with him — he was lashing out because he was being mocked, mistreated and humiliated. His outbursts were his way of expressing that he was being emotionally hurt at school.
The New Jersey father has since launched a website full of damning evidence and aFacebook page, and he is petitioning the state to change legislation so that teachers who bully children are immediately fired. The aide has been fired, but the rest of the staff have merely been relocated.
“I seek a full and public apology from all those adults who were in my son’s class for what they did to him,” Chaifetz says. “It is also far past time that these issues are allowed to be hidden from public view.”
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“There are the occasions that men—intellectual men, clever men, engaged men—insist on playing devil’s advocate, desirous of a debate on some aspect of feminist theory or reproductive rights or some other subject generally filed under the heading: Women’s Issues. These intellectual, clever, engaged men want to endlessly probe my argument for weaknesses, want to wrestle over details, want to argue just for fun—and they wonder, these intellectual, clever, engaged men, why my voice keeps raising and why my face is flushed and why, after an hour of fighting my corner, hot tears burn the corners of my eyes. Why do you have to take this stuff so personally? ask the intellectual, clever, and engaged men, who have never considered that the content of the abstract exercise that’s so much fun for them is the stuff of my life.”
— Melissa McEwan, of course, on the terrible bargain. (via hello-amber)
(Source: sanitywatchers, via neonfuneral)
Activate the Mechanism!: N.C. County Kills Family-Planning Funds
From the Star-News:
Chairman Ted Davis said he thought it was a sad day when “taxpayers are asked to pay money for contraceptives” for women having sex without planning responsibly.“If these young women are being responsible and didn’t have the sex to begin with, we wouldn’t have this problem…
Help put a child killer behind bars…
Why does this have so little notes? Where are all the White Saviors™ jumping up and crocodile tearing over this? Is it because the person committing the crime isn’t black? Is it because this piece of shit person says more about the nature of white mentality in America? Because this doesn’t make you feel good and can’t be “solved” by wearing a bracelet? Is it because Trayvon Martin is one person who’s life can not be “saved”? Is it because Trayvon Martin is one human being and not a country or a continent?
The irony is the similarities between the poster above and some of the “stop Kony” ones.
OHHHHH LOOK YOU GUYS, LOOK UP THERE^^ LOOK AT THE TRUTH! Reblogging again for this fucking glorious commentary.
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Above, a video by Rosebell Kagumire, a Ugandan multimedia journalist who works on ”media, women, peace and conflict issues.” She writes, “This is me talking about the danger of portraying people with one single story and using old footage to cause hysteria when it could have been possible to get to DRC and other affected countries get a fresh perspective and also include other actors.”
(more responses here)
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Fuck the OP for not linking to wherever she got these gorgeous pictures.
Photographer: Signe Vilstrup
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Michael Fassbender by Caitlin Cronenberg in L’Uomo Vogue January 2012 [1 x MQ + 5 x HQ] [Copy/full size *here*] [Download PDF file *here*, *here* or *here*]