dreamer_easy: (feminist)
dreamer_easy ([personal profile] dreamer_easy) wrote2009-09-20 08:55 pm

Still inspiring

Found a printout of 1994 soc.feminism posting by Janis Cortese: "I KNOW we're in danger six ways from zero. I KNOW we're abused and raped and hated. But NO "Look how bad we have it" article in Ms. Magazine has EVER made me feel empowered like seeing Counselor Troi kick the hell out of the fellow who was trying to mentally rape her in Star Trek."

[identity profile] svilleficrecs.livejournal.com 2009-09-20 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
It's kinda freaky that someone born when that was originally published is almost old enough to vote now.

[identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com 2009-09-20 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
GAAAAH DON'T SAY THINGS LIKE THAT

[identity profile] pbristow.livejournal.com 2009-09-20 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I keep mis-calculating the number of decades between now and when stuff in my life happened... Including when TNG started airing on BBC2. =:o{

[DONATES ANOTHER 5p TO ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH]
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[identity profile] purrdence.livejournal.com 2009-09-20 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Some of my students do not know what a TARDIS is.

[identity profile] jvowles.livejournal.com 2009-09-20 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
In the 90s there was at least an excuse. Now? Not so much. :)
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[personal profile] sidravitale 2009-09-27 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
That's Janis!