MeerderWörter’s Comments (group member since Jan 08, 2016)

MeerderWörter’s comments from the Our Shared Shelf group.

Ester wrote: "MeerderWörter wrote: "I know, the last book of the year has already been announced, and this is about the first book of the year. But today I scrolled through my bookmarks and I came across this li..."

Yes I think so. There are other variations where a girl can be born without a uterus, but as far as I know MRKH is the only variation where both the vagina and uterus are absent.

XOXY
MeerderWörter

Pam wrote: "Winston wrote: Strictly speaking, global literacy rates for women are lower than men, a difference of 7% from Wikipedia so, I'm not sure she's speaking from anything scientific. But I'm down to be ..."

I might be able to help out with this - give me a few days to ask around a bit and I'll come back with an answer.

In Graz the Uhrturm was illumined in orange, and the Burgtheater in Vienna as well.
http://www.unwomen-nc.at/news/burgthe...
I couldn't find any pictures of the Uhrturm illumined, but this is what it looks like normally:
https://www.pinterest.de/pin/62023017...

Sascha wrote: "Hey folks, for those of you who understand german language, here is a commentary which I think is quite interesting. The authors adress the recent decision of the high court in Germany concerning t..."

Danke:)
Thank you.
It's been a lot in the news, not used to that:)

Adam wrote: "The Guardian: Susan Sarandon: "I thought Hillary (Clinton) was very dangerous. If she had won, we would be at war"

FTA: Now, of course, no one in Sarandon’s industry would get caught dead having a..."

I will never understand how you cannot fight against both - against pipelines AND sexism. I see how the pipelines are highly problematic, but so is the sexism in Hollywood.

Keith wrote: "My review of:

Lakota Woman – Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this auto-biography, having never really taken a huge amount of notice of the issues faced by the i..."

The one quote that always gets me is this one:
"Buddy received his honorable discharge
from the Marine Corps just about the time a government
bullet killed him. He is buried on the hill by the ditch ,
joining the ghosts of all the other Sioux killed at Wounded
Knee. His headstone says: "Two thousand came to
Wounded Knee in 197 3 . One stayed. ""

Today I was very busy on Twitter, very, very busy:
https://twitter.com/Emma_Adorer/statu...

Hm, I love reading non-fiction and fiction alike. It depends on the subject sometimes.
Maybe your "sample size", so to speak, was not the biggest?
I have no idea if it's really man=non-fiction and woman=fiction, or more complex.
But I think that OSS is the perfect place to find out.

Thanks for sharing - I am listening to it right now.

Pam wrote: "Great topic. Thanks for adding Meerder.

Keith wrote: "We Sioux have always believed that a person is free to be what he or she wants to be."."
I want to also touch on this as the concept of two s..."

I deemed it necessary:)

I think English is slowly catching up - Delores Schilling said it is difficult for her to talk about it (she is not Two-Spirit), because there are so many words in each Native language and English only has transgender. (As you said, that is slowly changing, but who outside of the respective communities really knows what they mean, given they even have heard it)
@DelSchilling
A wonderful episode with a Two-Spirit person:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nativetr...

Okay, a story about murder and it was deemed important enough by the settlers to celebrate a "thanksgiving" (for the murder of Native Americans, remind you)

http://www.economist.com/blogs/econom...

https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicole...
I might come up with any more information later, when I do my daily NativeAmericanHeritageMonth thread. Let's see what NativeTwitter talks about today.

Everyone,

November is NativeAmericanHeritageMonth!
Did you know there are 565 federally recognized tribes in the US? That almost half of them are in Alaska?
That they are allowed to vote since 1962 in all States and are citizens of the US since 1924 (and that after Wounded Knee, 1890, where 300 Lakota, Dakota and Nakota men, women and children were killed).
https://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroo...

We have a responsibility to learn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJnwU...
https://www.unicornriot.ninja/black-s...
Lakota Woman (movie and book); Mary Crow Dog (also known as Mary Brave Bird and Mary Brave Woman Olguin, and yes, they did give her the name "Brave Woman" for a reason)

It is really horrible, and what I think is really bad is how the judge won't accept social media messages as evidence.
Because now that he doesn't, a part of the truth can't be taken into account.
And while presumptio of innocence should ALWAYS be a given, it is definitely not okay to not accept evidence.
Also, the media has to be impartial - but as I see it the news report was impartial - they have informed of what both sides have done and what their views are.

Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog.
This book really lifts me up in some way. If you want to read a book about a woman that went to to extreme lenghts in her life, read it.

She did get the name "Brave Woman" for a reason.

Sarah wrote: "I'm trying to get the word out (Our Shared Shelf) to my members and other organizations we parter with, hopefully I can get some people to meet up and I can basically throw an Our Shared Shelf part..."

If you get to throw that OSS party you need to tell us how it was;)

Sarah wrote: "Hi everyone!

I absolutely love Our Share Shelf and I would love to make connections on the local level. I'm Vice Chair of Portland's National Organization for Women and I would love to hear everyo..."

:) Wow, that is a cool job.

Keith wrote: "Pam wrote: "I'm curious if as these more aggressive girls age that they will increase their paces and not "play it smart" so to speak or if the trend remains"

This is another interesting thought. ..."

estrogen heavy office;)

Rosechimera wrote: "I never check in on the comments, just use this group for ideas of what to read next, but I happened to see this comment, and really appreciate and love it."

Wow, you get an awful lot of recommendations;)

Due to technical issues, we have rescheduled the OSS CHAT from October 21st to this coming saturday, November 18th.

We would love to see you there, you can join us via this link:
https://join.skype.com/eduyrh3Dfwmq

The topics have remained the same, so I think it is not necessary to repost them.
Go back to message 183 to see the topics.

See you there,
OSS CHAT

Wow, the discussion is flowing here... well, with such an important topic, there needs to be a discussion about it:)