- Shining Light on Cutoff Culture and this fantastic response: Entitlement much?
- ‘Christian’ Homeschool Dads Get Girl Kicked Out of Prom Because They Can’t Stop Lusting After Her and “Fuck the Patriarchy” and An update on Clare
- Causes and Consequences of the Duckface
- Some things to consider when writing fat characters.
- Louis C.K. Gives Fat Women a Voice Okay, I know that the headline was probably not written by the article’s author, but holy fucking shit are you fucking kidding me? Are women’s voices too high-pitched for men to hear without assistance or something? Fat women have been talking about this for years and years and I am, frankly, surprised and annoyed that the article’s author–a self-described fat woman–didn’t bother doing any research before writing her article. Because again: holy fucking shit are you fucking kidding me? Way to erase all the people who have been talking about this very issue, Flavorwire.
- On Being Brushed Aside This isn’t why I don’t play a whole lot of video games, but I definitely understand the brushed aside feeling and the discouragement that comes along with it.
- Why Jill Abramson Was Fired and Jill Abramson’s Firing And The New York Times’ Chaotic Future and Le Monde managing editor Natalie Nougayrede resigns
- Twitter-splained
- The Year I Grew Wildly, While Men Looked On My 8th grade English teacher used to snap our bra straps.
- I continue to love The Toast’s series on trans* people and their lives. The most recent installment is written by an ally–a trans man’s wife: Notes On Surgery
- The Inhumanity of the Death Penalty Oof. Yes.
- Laurie Penny: no, Boris, being called a racist is nothing like dealing with Boko Haram
- You are black, baby
- I was recently invoked by The Abyss and Apex, and would like to talk to you about me, dialect, and Caribbean stories
- NYC Pride Harmful to Bisexuals
- Best Buy’s ROWE experiment: Can results-only work environments actually be successful?
- We May Have Solved the Mystery of the Dying Bees
- An important note for Hugo voting. …I think this is what one needs to do if one wants to be sure their vote doesn’t go to any particular individual?
- ‘Lord of the Rings’ Animation Supervisor Randall William Cook Speaks Out On Andy Serkis
- Game of phones: how Verizon is playing the FCC and its customers
- Detroit: the bankrupt city turned corporate luxury brand
- $2 Undecillion Lawsuit
- On ‘The John Green Effect,’ Contemporary Realism, and Form as a Political Act Fan-fucking-tastic.
- Navy sailors get an e-reader called ‘NeRD’ This is awesome.
- Rush Limbaugh’s Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims What is this I don’t even did he write a book basically with himself as the main character? I have a confuse about this whole thing.
- Is This Burn Out? Or taking care of what I have…
Links: Inverted Pyramids, Knitting, and Burning Out
Three random-ish links, some art, and photos of the concert I went to last weekend.