Wanderer. Worldbuilder. Wordsmith.
As promised, an update! This time regarding D&D.
Last post, I mentioned that I am running a one-shot session at a convention for some fellow Critters (Critical Role fans). Below the read more is a homebrew race I created as a result of this: the Moggy.
11 on the d20. -1, because my Dexterity is terrible. 10 even.
…OK, good enough.
All right. So. I haven’t blogged in over three years. That’s a long time, even by my standards.
Feminism. It’s always been a controversial ideology, particularly among those who identify as male, but we have recently seen a surge in women who say they are against feminist ideals. From Shailene Woodley telling TIME magazine in May that she’s not a feminist because:
“I love men, and I think the idea of ‘raise women to power, take the men away from the power’ is never going to work out because you need balance.”
to the hashtag #WomenAgainstFeminism that has been flooding social media sites like Twitter and Tumblr over the past couple of weeks, accompanying posts by women saying they don’t need feminism or are “anti-feminist” because of X, Y, and Z, it’s clear that…well, people don’t really know what feminism means.
So here are two open letters, one to the women who call themselves “anti-feminist”, and one to everyone who thinks feminism is a bad thing.
I was going to post about learning disabilities and diagnosis bias, focusing on gender and race bias…and then Tuesday happened. On Tuesday morning, my mother and I got into a discussion about race and racism, which happens from time to time, and to say it ended poorly is…something of an understatement. But it made me think about how racism is perceived by society at large, so I decided to examine the ideas of racism and racial prejudice, and look at an example of casual racism in popular media.