A Usable Past

From The New Gay.

Let’s put this shit to bed right now: Women don’t lose their minds when they have period-related irritability. It doesn’t lower their ability to reason; it lowers their patience and, hence, tolerance for bullshit.

Read it at Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog.

British underground street graffiti artist Banksy has come to rock New York.

From Gothamist and Resources For Life.

From Stuff White People Do, Chauncey DeVega (cross-posted at We Are Respectable Negroes) wrote a hilarious (and frightening) revisioning of American history, as would be brought to us by the fools folks who are rewriting the history curriculum in Texas and Arizona.

Some gems:

The Essential Dates and Events of U.S. History
as Approved by the States of Arizona and Texas

1860s-1900s–The Gilded Age of prosperity. American capitalism provides opportunities for all people to grow wealthy, secure, and happy. Liberals and Progressives begin working against American freedom and capitalism by forming unions, demanding unfair compensation from their employers, limiting the rights of children to work in factories, and imposing restrictive regulations for the “safety” of employees. Many brave men die fighting Communist-influenced unions as they riot in America’s cities.

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1906–Using the Antiquities Act, Theodore Roosevelt establishes the National Park System. In one bold stroke Roosevelt establishes Socialist policies that steal land from the American people.

1913–More Socialism and class warfare ushered into the U.S. with the federal income tax system.

1917–America enters and wins World War 1 singlehandedly because the French are cowards.

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1955-1968–George Wallace and Martin Luther King Jr. lead a Civil Rights Movement to ensure that all Americans are judged by “the content of their character and not the color of their skin.”

That last one cracks my history-lovin’ self UP.

Check the rest of the post out here.

h/t Feministing and WebUrbanist.

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Thanks Stacy!

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