SRS Huff Post: LGBT feminist blog about womens rights for teenage girls | fbomb Just saw this on Facebook: actually said "whoa" out loud : TrollXChromosomes The Hawkeye Initiative WATCH: President Obama says Boy Scouts should accept gay members In a pre-Super Bowl interview today, President Obama reaffirmed his opposition to the Boy Scouts' ban on gay scouts and leaders. The Boy Scouts Board of Directors is expected to vote on a resolution that would end the national policy barring gay participants next week. Contact the Boy Scouts and tell them to end the ban here. When asked if the Boy Scouts should be open to gay members, the president replied, "Yes." "I think that my attitude is that gays and lesbians should have access and opportunity the same way everybody else does in every institution and walk of life," he continued. "President Obama echoes the voice of millions of Americans, who have already spoken out against the Boy Scouts' outdated and discriminatory policy," said GLAAD President Herndon Graddick. This marks the second time President Obama has spoken out against the Boy Scouts' anti-gay ban. More than 1 million people have joined Change.org petition campaigns since Tyrrell launched her first petition.
Bustle Frontier Hearts • nerdycurvyboundandflirty: polks: aratoamin: ... How to Fail at Being an Ally As I wrote last week, people who do not identify as allies cause undue and often unintentional distress in marginalized groups. Some of them might be indifferent, some might not. Either way, in their case, it’s a simple lack of awareness. Wait, do I hear a mass eye-rolling from Internet-land? Indeed, if you know anything about the matter and/or have engaged in enough social justice-related activism or even just dialogue, you know that half-baked “allies” are often worse than the simply ignorant.One problem that allies can have is not checking their own privilege. Unpack your own knapsack, first. Once, at a conference, I met a man who, upon hearing I wrote for this site, remarked that he knows how much we deal with and proceeded to apologize for his penis. “How dare you brand me a racist? The panel was comprised of two women and the man, the latter of whom served as moderator. Being a good ally means realizing that you are the reinforcements, not the primary corps.