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2 words… 2 words and what was once known as a pound sign lit up the internet, was stoked by celebrities and ignited the world into discussing a topic that once was too taboo to even speak behind closed doors. Though this movement has proven to make major waves in the world of the celebrity - with the big name arrests of Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein - what is happening for everyone else? What about the everyday woman without the money, power, and influence behind her?The first time I was attacked, I was 18. And when I say first time, I do mean first as it certainly wasn’t the last. As a woman living on my own, off at college far away from home… I knew what I was supposed to do to keep myself safe and to avoid almost anything that went bump in the night. I was a born and bred city kid, that was the only life I knew. But no matter how prepared you are for the what if’s and the maybes, when someone comes at you in broad daylight… the fear that clouded my mind was unbearable. I was…

Maybe Socialism works after all… As you've all probably guessed by now, I'm a Star Trek geek amongst my myriad fandoms. But up until now, there's been one aspect of Star Trek that I have shaken my head at, thinking it was too unrealistic. Well, OK, besides the transporters, warp speed space travel, and Kirk is getting lucky with all those green-skinned space babes. Beyond the advanced technology, which justifiably may or may not happen someday - never say never! - the one aspect of the Star Trek universe that always nagged at me is the economy of Starfleet. See, thanks to technology like the replicator, humans in this future exist in a post-scarcity utopia, wanting for nothing, and hence not motivated by money. So why work? Libertarian Capitalists have seizures at this thought. The answer, we get explained to us, is that Starfleet members are all volunteers, just motivated to join for the pure idealism. Which is the part that loses me when I think of all those red-shirts who beamed down…

#MeToo: Did Anything Change?

Trashtag - The Day Social Media Became Self-Aware