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Pop Culture Criticism by Natalie Luhrs

March 21, 2014

Links: 03/21/14

A Movable Feast, Merlin Tuttle

A Movable Feast, Merlin Tuttle

Last week, Beth (who is wise and who might be a dinosaur) asked me why I called my work on these posts spam and I got to thinking and she’s right–this is work and I shouldn’t call it spam.

  • On consent and sensitivity.
  • The Gentrification of Online Safe Spaces.
  • Twitter, Rape, and Privacy on Social Media
  • Shit I cannot believe needs to be said: no platforming and censorship are different
  • The Iron Lung Story
  • Vera Nazarian is up to her old tricks again. This time it’s an attempt to get people to give her money to replace the money she stole from her authors.
  • Science Fiction as Scripture: Robert A. Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land and the Church of All Worlds I thought this was really interesting, if a bit dense.
  • The Book Smugglers review Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. It’s a wonderful review.
  • And relatedly: May I please just note that calling a problematic work “a product of its time” is by no means a +10 defensive shield against accusations of bigotry? 
  • We Don’t Need No Water, Or: Fandom Burning
  • First Boi In – Dressing Queer in the Corporate World
  • The Myth of the Non-Technical Startup Employee So very much yes to this.
  • Dissent Unheard Of
  • Words I hope to regret someday: “I’m glad that I didn’t give a technical talk.”
  • Pixel And Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In The Gig Economy
  • Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism And Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit
  • On GitHub and speaking out
  • We Got the Dune We Deserved: Jodorowsky’s Dune
  • Love ‘Dune’? Check out these five sci-fi reads Hey, look–another list of “important” SF novels which includes no women, no POC, and nothing written later than 1986. Glad to know that the last 28 years never happened.
  • What Happened to Experimental Writing?
  • “Showgirls” Is A Good Movie
  • My Night in Solitary
  • You can’t wish away the need to upgrade aging utility infrastructure
  • Who We Tell When We Watch Our Parents Die
  • A message from a dying patient
  • The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools
  • A Thing That Lives on Tears: Goodness and Clarice Starling
  • Teaching Children to Calm Themselves
  • It’s a Marvelous Day on the Internet
  • Behold the Most Perfectly Scathing Missed Connection of All Time
  • You Don’t Complete Me
  • Unprecedented images of Western people looking just like you and me
  • Tardigrade in Moss Tardigrades are awesome!
  • Sea anemone genetics are surprisingly plant-like
  • The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings
  • Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” Retooled as 1920s New Orleans Jazz
  • David Byrne sings Biz Markie’s “Just a Friend”
  • Fusion vs. Fission

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I'm a lifelong geek with a passion for books and social justice.

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  1. Tobias says

    March 23, 2014 at 8:32 pm

    I’d just like to thank you for pointing out “The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings.” I’m a big fan of that article, and it showcases just how unnatural certain areas of comic art became in the 90s.

  2. Natalie Luhrs says

    March 23, 2014 at 8:39 pm

    It’s funny, I saw that article a few weeks ago and the first thing I said was, “Holy shit, that’s why [high school friend]’s comic book drawings looked like that! I just thought he was a crappy drawer!”

  3. A. Nuran says

    March 26, 2014 at 10:57 am

    No, it isn’t a “+10 shield”. But if you can contextualize the repugnant in something you like you have to cut others the same slack. Privilege the standards of your time and place across the board or give everyone the same freedom you demand for yourself.

  4. A. Nuran says

    March 26, 2014 at 11:04 am

    @A. Nuran: I don’t mean “you personally” because you don’t fall into this trap. It’s directed at the sort of person whose standards are only flexible when it comes to things he or she supports

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