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unfunny stuff
Friday, 18 June 2010 12:15
Wow, there is an awful lot of fail going around at the moment. Here are some links/signal boosts:
- (Trigger warning) The Onion thinks rape is hilarious; is wrong.
- (TRIGGER WARNING) Really horrifying stuff going on at Cornell University: FGM, child abuse, just awful.
- Incredibly comprehensive roundup of posts about a fic that uses the Haiti earthquake as a backdrop.
- AQA are developing gender specific alternatives to GCSEs. Holy gender normativity, Batman! I am all for structuring assessment in such a way that it doesn't privilege only people who do well with traditional exams, but this... is not the way to do it. It'll only reinforce stereotypical ideas of what men and women are like, not least because girls and boys will probably end up being taught differently to help them succeed in whatever type of assessment AQA has deemed appropriate for their gender presentation. And it assumes that everyone is cisgendered; fail there, too. SIGH.
- (Trigger warning) The Onion thinks rape is hilarious; is wrong.
- (TRIGGER WARNING) Really horrifying stuff going on at Cornell University: FGM, child abuse, just awful.
- Incredibly comprehensive roundup of posts about a fic that uses the Haiti earthquake as a backdrop.
- AQA are developing gender specific alternatives to GCSEs. Holy gender normativity, Batman! I am all for structuring assessment in such a way that it doesn't privilege only people who do well with traditional exams, but this... is not the way to do it. It'll only reinforce stereotypical ideas of what men and women are like, not least because girls and boys will probably end up being taught differently to help them succeed in whatever type of assessment AQA has deemed appropriate for their gender presentation. And it assumes that everyone is cisgendered; fail there, too. SIGH.