you may not know this, fabric of reality, but....

[seperis]

Dear Universe,

Dystopias are not meant to reflect the actual future.

Fiction: 1984. Not Fiction: School Administrators, Webcams, and Students at Home: Do I Need to Draw a Picture of How FUBAR This Is?

Fiction: The Handmaid's Tale. Not Fiction: Miscarriages Are Always a Criminal Offense By Women: Come on, Convince Me to Join the Republican Party Now, I Fucking Dare You

Not Fiction: Coward Who Kills People With Plane Heroic: So It's Okay to be a White Terrorist, Really? That's the Lesson? - also, note from an Austinite. Fuck yourself, apologists.

Not Fiction: Anti-Semitism Alive and Well in Fandom: Summarizing This Will Require Projective Vomiting, Read at Your Own Risk

Dystopias are not meant to reflect the present, either. Just a note in case this can still be fixed. Thanks.

Love,
Seperis

Comments

[cookie57.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Sometimes it feels safer to stay tucked away in fandom.

[jamesinboots.livejournal.com]

All of this makes me hate the world so hard. D: D: D:

[trobadora]

Reality makes me sick.

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Didn't know about the first one but how they could even think it was appropriate is beyond me. Knew about the second. Some people are just plain insane. Same with the third.
I didn't get the 4th one. Didn't know which one you were referring to.

However, it does seem society is going crazy these days or maybe it always was and it's just easier to find out now.

[tienriu.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. I've taken to not reading the newspaper or reddit/r/atheism during working hours because the amount of anger and face-smacking was becoming noticeable.

[yellowvalley.livejournal.com]

Wow. You warned me, and I know I shouldn't have read even though I knew about all but the 2nd and 4th ones, but now I'm crying all over my keyboard from being so heartsick. I honestly don't understand how people can think these things are OK.

It makes me want to work harder for the other side, that's for damn sure. Give me a few days to get my rage on, though. I need to cry in the corner some more before I'm ready.

[ithiliana.livejournal.com]

I agree totally, but I think it's too late--ever since I heard about the Bush and Cheney administration thinking that 24 was some sort of instruction manual for how to deal with "terrorism" (by brown skinned people by their definition), it's been too late.

[vehrec.livejournal.com]

The fourth one really makes me angryface, because it is perfectly possible (http://www.stardestroyer.net/Mike/RantMode/MiddleEast.html) to object to the state policies and goals of the nation of Israel without hating on unwilling conscripts. People and nations are separate things, but apparently the poster there doesn't have enough 'monkeyspace' in his brain to consider anyone in the IDF as a separate individual. So I'm not mad at his Israel hate, I'm angered that he doesn't have a more nuanced and complex opinion to articulate.

[boji.livejournal.com]

Your link to the webcam insanity is the stuff of rabid nightmares. *Shudders*

On macbooks the webcam light comes on when the webcam is active, so I wonder how people didn't know it was on. The comments on JF refer to Undercover (http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/21/undercover-software-helps-recover-your-stolen-macbook/) but that piece of sofware apparently locks the user out of the machine one a photo of the thief is taken (this is you've installed the software and registered your macbook) so either that's been circumnavigated somehow - in this horrible case - or there's more spyware out there.

[moojja.livejournal.com]

The second one pisses me off. Especially since all the female senators voted for it. We are not incubators!

[welfycat.livejournal.com]

This seriously broke my brain/made me absolutely livid.

And I live in Utah! (the state where the miscarriage law was passed), which, while I have no intention of being pregnant, scares the hell out of me. Sometimes, being a woman in this state is not a comforting thing to be.

We're studying Kafka, and the beginning of WWII and all around that time period in several of my classes right now, and sometimes the legislation and things that happen now are way too eerily reminiscent of the things we're reading and talking about.

TL;DR: the world is a scary place to be.

[amireal.livejournal.com]

Guess which one I had not seen today? Wow. So much wrong there.

[eponymousanon.livejournal.com]

That Utah law seriously makes me sick.

[azdaja-dafema.livejournal.com]

Oh...

*starts collecting tea in a bunker*

[iteari.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm going to go off to a corner and be all kinds of depressed now.

[tricksterquinn.livejournal.com]

...well, that didn't shut my dystopia bunny up at all. *glares*

[ariadne83]

I'd already seen most of these, so I thought I was braced against the rage.

Not so much.

[lurkerlynne.livejournal.com]

Icon states the polite version of my thoughts on these topics.

[dragojustine.livejournal.com]

That second one makes me SO ANGRY I can't even be articulate about it.

[fyrdrakken]

Found the Utah miscarriage law link on Facebook and passed it along there -- really should include it in today's LJ post, too, but I got distracted by this one on a related women-as-incubators note: Nicaraguan Groups Call on International Community for Help in Case of Pregnant Woman Denied Cancer Treatment.

I am paranoid of course

[porntestpilot.livejournal.com]

Fiction: The Handmaid's Tale. Not Fiction: Miscarriages Are Always a Criminal Offense By Women: Come on, Convince Me to Join the Republican Party Now, I Fucking Dare You

I had not seen this before but interesting this is a route of circular pattern attacking. Birth control is more difficult to get, Plan B hard to find, people with belief patterns opposed to it can opt out forcing women into larger and larger searches for it, or out-right failure to procure it, insurance companies making it harder to get, blah blah.

It's getting more difficult in several places for women to get their tubes tied or get sterilized [because of legal reasons - fear of being sued, actually this is not part of my worry pattern in the same way but related still.]

In the news media, more and more, women are being shown waving their children around as some kind of CHOOSE LIFE gimmick of show. I've been noticing it in magazines at check-out aisles, a lot of it seems to be related to Sarah Palin, but there's other stuff as well. They keep attacking outright in flashy ways but they're doing all the careful levering work as well, and I don't think people are noticing. Why do we keep getting these pointless shows about people with multiple children?

Also: Worry less about the Republicans and keep an eye on the groups they're going to splinter into. They're the ones that go into local government and meddle.