About Steff
This is my interstellar craft of truth and wit. Buckle up. If you want celebrity gossip, this is not the blog for you. If you want comfortable postings that’ll fill you with happy fuzzy thoughts about the world at large, or self-help guru shit, this is not the blog for you.
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Category Archives: Battle of the Comments
An anonymous snivelling little loser troll decided to pick on me tonight and I decided I would pick back, just for the heck of it. Personally, I think reading my reply is pretty good for a giggle, and think it’d be a crime if I didn’t hyperlink to it from here. So, read the Pride post, and [...]
Jul
27
2010
Hate Lives Here
Yesterday a local Vancouver paper asked a question on its Facebook page: “Do you think more could be done to combat homophobia?” In the ensuing comments, a White Pride freak — who I’m really fucking wanting to identify by name here but don’t feel like dealing with the legal hassle as a little blogger girl [...]
Also posted in blogging, censorship, Crime, Current Events, Dimestore Philosophy, Ethics, Facebook, Gay or Straight?, internet, keeping it real, Life 101, Lifestyle, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Society, Specifically Steff Tagged bad people, changing the world, fighting hate, hate, hate speech, homophobia, homophobic, prejudism, racism, reality, reality check, skinheads, what not to do, what's going on, white power, white pride 6 Comments
Come morning, everything always changes. New. Nice. No fuck-ups yet. Yesterday’s badness has fallen away, but it’s left me in thought — not surprising, given I dig thinkin’. And here’s the thinkin’ it produced on humanity in general. Sometimes we get unfortunate reminders of just how far-ranging humanity is. Good people, bad people. Ugly-ass people. [...]
Also posted in Autobiographical, Being me, Best of Steff, blogging, Current Events, Dimestore Philosophy, internet, Journalling, keeping it real, Life 101, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Psychology & Moods, relationships, Society, Specifically Steff Tagged baddies, best friends, betrayals, dead bodies, false friends, friendship, internet trolls, kindness, mean people, meanies, people, real friends, real life, stupid people, trolls, true friends, trust, truth 3 Comments
Jun
30
2010
The Dishonour of Honour Killings
Recently, here in the Great White North, a murder trial ended and the accused were sentenced to life. A father and his son killed his daughter, all because she was too progressive to be a good little Islamic girl. Muhammad Parvez and Waqas, his son, murdered Aqsa Parvez on December 10, 2007, in the guise of [...]
Also posted in Current Events, Dating, Dimestore Philosophy, feminism, freedom, keeping it real, Laws, Modern Feminism, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Religion, sexuality, Society, Specifically Steff, Women's Department Tagged aqsa parvez, burkas, burqas, Crime, culture clash, fundamentalism, hijab, honour killings, immigration, islam, life sentence, muhammad parvez, murder, muslims, pakistan, parvez family killing, pierre elliott trudeau, saudi arabia, traditionalism, trudeau, waqas parvez 4 Comments
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