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
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?”
Also, a really depressing thing to think about: the Onion piece is from 2011, and KEEPS being horribly relevant, over and over.
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.
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.