This is digital art–isn’t it incredible? I just can’t even with the detail on this. Glorious. (Although I do wish she had a head.)
- The 35-Year-Long Hunt to Find a Fantasy Author’s Hidden Treasure
- They’re Not There: The True Story Of The Fake Zombies, Rock’s Strangest Con In Rock
- The Clique Imaginary Look! Another way female friendships are pathologized!
- The Art of Reading Russian Obituaries Oof.
- 360 million reasons to destroy all passwords
- Unless You’re Oprah, ‘Be Yourself’ Is Terrible Advice Let me tell you about the time I had a run in with a lady who was a big fan of radical honesty.
- With fat patients, too often doctors can’t see past weight I had to change the headline because I completely loathe the word that they actually used. Fat is a much better word.
- Tea, Pride, Mystery: For One Family That Fled The Nazis, A Tin Canister Held It All No, you’re crying. My eyes are just leaking.
- Bob Costas To Muhammad Ali—”Well Actually…” Looks like we’ll be getting starting on our Olympic year chorus of “Shut up, Bob Costas” a little sooner than anticipated.
- The Brown, Queer, And Poor Are Not The Ones Holding The Left Back
- Awesome and hypnotic map of commuters in the US using Census data
- Jamie Lee Curtis cosplays at Warcraft premiere, yells ‘Leeroy Jenkins’
- CUNY Student Paralyzed by Gunshot Wins $7K for Sewing Machine Invention
- The Others: The Disabled and United Airlines This is horrible and to be honest, based on the description, is not a safe way to work. Someone’s going to get hurt.
- My Parents Did NOT Take Me Overseas and Force Me To Be a Teenage Bride
- Hillary Clinton’s Remarkable Comeback
- I’ve a couple of links from Lilysea again:
- Fat Yoga! Yoga is great and I need to add it into my body practice soon.
- The Women Behind the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- He said, they said content warning: discussion of sexual violence
- My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend, His Fraternity Brothers, and Me content warning: discussion of an abusive relationship
- And the rest of the links this week also have discussions of sexual violence in them:
- The letter that the Stanford rape victim read to her rapist, Brock Turner.
- This is rape culture: “20 minutes of action”
- When Peak White Privilege And Peak Rape Culture Create The Perfect Fuckshit Soufflé
- His Potential, Her Everything
- In Their Words: The Swedish Heroes Who Caught The Stanford Attacker
- Joe Biden Writes An Open Letter To Stanford Survivor
- Brock Turner is a rapist.
- College Basketball Star Heroically Overcomes Tragic Rape He Committed
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I got really turned off the “Unless you’re Oprah” piece when he defined “self-monitoring” as “constantly scanning your environment for social cues and adjusting accordingly,” and then went on to say that women were more likely to be low self-mointors, perhaps because women face stronger cultural pressures to express their feelings.” Like, isn’t “expressing feelings because there are cultural pressures to do so,” a perfect example of “adjusting behavior to suit social expectations?”
Yeah, that part made no sense to me either. I was more interested in the idea that we make a lot of noise about authenticity. I get multiple newsletters each week which exhort me to be my authentic self. No one wants me without filters, truly.
Also, a really depressing thing to think about: the Onion piece is from 2011, and KEEPS being horribly relevant, over and over.
Yeah, in my experience, the people who praise “authenticity” in their interactions overlap a lot with people who pride themselves on hurting other people in the name of “being honest.”
Yep. And if you think Oprah’s public persona is her authentic self, I’ve a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you…
My spinal reflex is not my most authentic self.