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So we took Ruby in to meet Magellan (whose name will be changed), they didn't play but they were both good. So we've adopted him. He'll come home on Tuesday after being neutered/getting shots/etc. If I hadn't been feeling terrible because having ice cream was apparently not a good idea, it would have been a great day. Oh, and if it hadn't been so fucking HOT.

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I am in THE WORST FUCKING MOOD now. I got on the computer to make a memorial picture for my friend Aaron (scroll to the bottom of my userinfo to see it) and 1. PaintShop decides to be a bitch 2. Mum wants me to enter the damn codes for the mycokerewards. Fine, I try to multitask, the computer says fuck that. After a lot of snarling (not helped by the fact mum was being noisy) I get those things done and get online. AOL shuts down before I can up the pic, then the SECOND I get back on, Dad wakes up and has to make a phone call. And then my userinfo decides to be bitchy. Damn it. *sigh*I wanna rp, I need to be somewhere else for awhile.

Another rant already? Yep

But this one's different. Not personal, exactly. All right, doing research for the project I'm going to start with Bri, trying to look up some stuff on battered men. You all know how adament I am about protection for rape/abuse survivors. THOSE INCLUDE MEN. I have never, NEVER denied the fact that women abuse, or that men can be survivors of abuse commited by other men. So seeing some stuff is making me sick, like the use of the phrase 'so-called battered men'. That's like saying 'supposed rape' in my mind. I mean...how can you deny these people have been injured? Yeah, he stabbed himself in the back. Bull SHIT. And one thing asking 'why don't battered men leave?' same reason battered WOMEN don't leave, and then some. Women are more likely to be believed about abuse, men are given even worse crap than women survivors. Fuck, this is why Tori (and I, and many other women) will NOT take on the feminist label: feminism is, supposedly, equated with man hating. Yeah, I've got some hang ups with men. But most of them are good, and they CAN be abuse survivors, even if they are bigger and stronger and all that shit.

Just had to get it out. Heh.