The Blood is The Life 28-03-2012

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• Hapless MPs defend faith healers
  Martin Robbins: Fisker extraordinaire
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• Church HIV prayer cure claims 'cause three deaths'
  And this is what happens if we don't point out the facts to Christians who say prayer can heal: people DIE. I'm not saying, and never have, that Christians shouldn't be allowed to say that prayer can heal: I'm just saying that being allowed to say something does not mean you are immune from others, INCLUDING OTHER CHRISTIANS, refuting your claims, especially if your claims are harmful bollocks.
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• Christian MPs urged to prove it isn’t the Flying Spaghetti Monster healing people
  As usual, NewsThump says it so much better than me.
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• BBC News - Stamp prices: First-class stamps to cost 60p
  I don't think that putting the price of stamps up is going to encourage more people to buy them.
  (tags: dying industry )
  
  
• Female Crash Test Dummies Don't Survive The Crash?
  This is why feminism is important - in some cases it is literally life or death. I've emailed EuroNCAP to see if the situation is the same over here as it is in the US, and if it is, I shall try to do something about it.
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• Heart Attack Symptoms in Women
  Women's heart attack symptoms can be very different from men's. The classic shortness of breath and pain in the left arm? Not there for girls. We get jaw and back pain, and anxiety. Did any of you know that women have different heart attack symptoms to men? Cos I didn't till I saw about it on a feminist forum. Another reasons why feminism can be, quite literally, life or death.
  (tags: feminism )
  
  
• Heart attacks in women: A silent killer - Health News - The Independent
  She felt tired, under the weather, a bit uncomfortable. There was no shooting pain down her left arm – it was her right arm that was sore – and no vice-like grip around her chest to bring her to her knees. And yet the facts are sobering. Each year, 103,000 women in Britain have heart attacks, while at least 47,000 die from coronary heart disease. The illness kills nearly 10 times more women a year than breast cancer and, in Europe, it kills more women than men. Standard cardiac treatments, such as aspirin and by-pass surgery, are designed for men and there is no solid evidence that traditional drugs used to treat coronary heart disease are as effective in women as in men.
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• 'The Hunger Games' Brings Out the Worst In Everyone
  I really really am not sure what to think about this film.
  (tags: film )
  
  
• We need more real women on TV | Radio Times
  Stop the presses. Alison Graham has written something I don't vehemently disagree with!
  (tags: feminism )
  
  
• Watch Woman Get Attacked By Wolves (With Kisses)
  Oh Cthulhu I would LOVE to do this.
  (tags: animals )
  
  
• Why We Oppose Votes For Men
  Even in 1915 feminists had a sense of humour. Can we stop the humourless feminazi meme now, pls? ... No, thought not...
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• you know what they call The Hunger Games in Paris?
  I LOLed
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• More "bloke does feminism". I approve of this trend.
  "If sexual harassment is such an intrinsic part of your community that it can’t be taken out without “turning it into something that it’s not,” then just as a rule of thumb, it probably should be turned into something that it’s not. If your community can’t introduce a baseline of respect for another human being without being destroyed, then your community should probably be burned to the ground and have salt spread on the ashes so that it’ll never come back."
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• You’re not like the rest, and that is okay.
  MOAR awesome lady scientists pls!
  (tags: feminism science )
  
  

Comments

[ginasketch]

Re: Hunger Games.

I don't think it's the film that is the problem, I think it's racist and sexist little twerps projecting their own prejudices onto the film/book.

I just finished the book out of curiosity and found it gripping, though I realize it may not be everyone's cup of tea.

And yeah, it's mentioned more than once that Rue is black.

[bagfish]

Totally agree with you. It's very clear in the book that Rue and Thresh are black.

I spent some time reading a Tumblr which documents racefail Hunger Games tweets (http://hungergamestweets.tumblr.com/) which is really interesting. I think that this whole furore has actually brought the whole "default white" casting thing out in the open which is good as it's actually being discussed and the "default whiters" are being challenged which can only be a good thing.

I loved the book btw, and thought the film was fantastic.