It’s been a long time since I did a link round-up ’cause I ain’t been reading shit!

First, check out my new hair.

Then, check out White Liberal Bingo. While we’re playing games, check out Hoyden about Town’s Anti-Feminist Bingo and Anti-Feminist Bingo II. There’s also the Rape Apologism Bingo card (I found this very triggering and/or infuriating). Of course, I have to include Red3’s much prettier Fat Hate Bingo, which is also available on a t-shirt somewhere. (I gotta get in on that.)

I haven’t really mentioned it, but the campus police at Kansas City Kansas Community College (TINY ASS CAMPUS, KEEP THAT IN MIND) are huge drama llamas queens*. Several times a week I see them parked behind either the “visitor parking” or handicapped parking spaces (yes, parked behind 2-3 spaces in their big-ass SUV, blocking all these people in so they can “investigate” some minor violation) with THEIR LIGHTS ON. The flashy police lights. When they are BLOCKING IN whoever they are “investigating.” They’ve also acted like jackasses when “investigating” my use of (perfectly legal) handicapped placard, and ALMOST — just almost, but I think he sensed that I would sue his ass so fast his head would spin — said, “You don’t look handicapped.” What I’m getting at is, they are nothing compared to this guy. I’ll give you a recap, but watch the video: Kids are listening to their iPods and skateboarding around Baltimore. Cop tells one of them he can’t skateboard there, but kid doesn’t hear the first time due to iPod. When he realizes he’s being talked to he stops and says something like, “Sorry, man, I couldn’t hear you.” Cop FLIPS THE FUCK OUT about being called “dude” and “man” and being “disrespected.” He SHOVES THE KID DOWN and takes his skateboard. The kids look like they are ready to move on — they’ve had their trouble for the day — but the cop turns around, comes back, and SHOVES THE KID DOWN AGAIN while verbally berating him for minutes on end. The kid keeps saying “sorry” and that he didn’t realize he was doing anything wrong. Before it’s over, the cop has assaulted the kid 2-3 times while harrassing him and THREATENING TO KILL HIM (not to mention threatening to arrest him for, uh, no crime, and/or put him in juvie). This makes me even more nervous than I already was about cops and the abuse of their power. A year later, the police department got wind of the story and the officer has been suspended.

For a much more amusing video of someone completely insane screaming at other people, check this shit. I can’t decide my favorite part. Is it “You’ve peed on me before!!!”? Or perhaps “You are one, tresspassing. Two, illegal photographs. Three, you’re not allowed. Four, you’ve been yelled at!!!!!!!!!!” Or “You come every couple of years and take illegal photographs!!!!” Maybe it’s just that we covered the chapter on schizophrenia in Pysch, but this sounds like some pretty hardcore delusions of persecution, etc, which makes me feel bad for laughing.

Because it’s that time of the month again, I’d like to point you to Melissa’s post about periods: “If an issue comes up a lot during ‘that time of the month,’ that doesn’t mean she only cares about it once a month; it means she’s bothered by it all the time and lacks the capacity, once a month, to shove it down and bury it beneath six gulps of willful silence.”

Nine Deuce’s explanation of feminist anger gets me all, you know, angry. Of course it quickly spirals downhill with a perfect example of Anti-Feminist Bingo trollatry, then back on track with a short continued discussion of feminist anger, and then “BUTTKICKER 69″ sets shit straight in all caps. He relates to women very well because he has a large penis.

Another extremely triggering one: Cara writes about a woman being raped on stage in front of a full live audience with no repurcussions to the rapist and, in fact, a few glowing reviews. I read this early yesterday and was unable to say anything. I still can’t say anything. I can feel panic welling up in my throat just thinking about it. Thanks to Johnny Vegas and every other man out there who thinks anything about rape is ever funny all the way up to thinking actually raping someone is funny, I don’t want to leave my house ever again. I certainly won’t be wearing skirts.

*I feel like “drama queen” is a gendered term that carries a lot of it’s weight on implying that someone is a woman, or that women are dramatic or flightly or emotional or whatever, but I’m having trouble coming up with a term that properly describes what I’m talking about. Suggestion? Thanks, Sunflower and tigtog. I agree–the rhyming definitely does it. And llamas are particularly melodramatic looking creatures.