Eh. Want sleep now.

Right, I don't have the time to make a real post. It's one in the morning and I'm tired. Have a summary of recent key events instead.

Recent Key Events:

-- Recording of conversation for Chinese project. Required time: 10 minutes. Actual time: 8.5 minutes. Fortunately, my tutor promised to tell my prof that he asked me the same questions as everyone else, I just talk a little faster than most students. Go me. Also, three cheers for my tutor, who doesn't give a shit whether I show up to tutorials or not.

-- Picked books for both English and archaeology reading assignments. Yay.

-- Drew a map of a school. A really poorly laid-out school, with only two classrooms. Meticulously labeled all rooms and all stick figures in them in Chinese. With luck, this will count as a good review tool.

-- ... it's a bad sign that every key event I can think of is in some way related to a class, right?

... Rar.

All right, Rice For Life. I am officially fed up with you.

You pissed me off when you plastered an anti-abortion quote from a (self-professed; I didn't recognize her name, don't know how prominent she might be) feminist all over campus with the caption "THIS IS WHAT A FEMINIST THINKS." Yes, that is what a feminist thinks. That feminist. Not all feminists. Feminism and abortions are two unrelated political issues, and the fact that some feminists are anti-abortion does not mean that all abortions are anti-feminist. Logical fallacy, go away.

You pissed me off some more when you started waving about that statistic that says that some (fairly high) percentage of abortions are not the woman's choice (coerced by boyfriends, husbands, etc.). Abortion should be banned because some people are coerced into it? Some people are coerced into marriage, too. I bet you're not going to suggest banning that. (Also, I'd like to know exactly how stringent their standards of "coercion" were. Is this the percentage of women who came into the clinic and said, "I wasn't sure what to do, but my boyfriend really wanted me to get an abortion"? The percentage who agreed to have an abortion, regretted it a few weeks later and blamed their husbands? The percentage who were forced at gunpoint? Because not every situation where a man has some say in the decision, or even where the woman regrets having had an abortion, is necessarily a situation of coercion.)

Now there are flyers up with quotes from Margaret Sanger's treatises on eugenics. Yes, Margaret Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood. Yes, Margaret Sanger was a nutjob who thought eugenics was a great idea. No, that doesn't mean that all people who support abortion rights do so because they think eugenics is a great idea, and it doesn't mean that Planned Parenthood is a eugenics-related organization.

How many members of Rice For Life are Catholic? You know, Catholics tortured people during the Inquisition. That must mean all Catholics are supporters of torture.

I'm going to the meeting advertised on the Margaret Sanger flyers. I'm going to find arguments made by Christians for whatever atrocious things I can find, and I'm going to point out exactly how ludicrous it is to suggest that every member of a group is perfectly representative of that group. And then I'm going to bite someone, although I haven't decided whom yet.