Link Dump: "Hellz Yes!" edition

A Few Basic Truths; What I Think About “Concern Trolling”

• I don’t give two shits what a “normal” healthful body supposedly looks like – STEP OFF OF MY BODY. I don’t care if people don’t think I’m healthy – because it isn’t any of their business anyway. I am FED TO THE TEETH of the idea that shaming me for my own damn good will accomplish anything other than miserable people leading miserable lives.

BGG (Black Girl Gamer)–LFG, PST!

• While several gamers are fighting for the right to game with all the controversy surrounding the community as of late, there are a few of us women gamers waging another kind of war in our own respective communities. It’s not just the standard girl gamer war, where there is incessant name calling, references to genitalia or even the normal male chauvinist crap. The battle is having to defend why we are even playing games, in the first place. Why would “we” be playing games, because black women don’t play games.

Consider own deeds before asking Muslims to condemn terrorism

• Jesus made the right-wing religionists of his era unhappy because his heart was big enough to reach not only to Jews of other parties but to Samaritans and Gentiles. He was smarter than some of his followers. He knew he could not even talk with those he wanted to win over by insulting them and demeaning the things they held sacred.