A Painful Pot, by Johnson Tsang

I’m thinking about renaming these weekly posts from linkspam to…something else. Suggestions welcome!

• IBM’s Plea for Gender Parity … in an Ad From 1985 Hey, sound familiar?  That sound is my palm hitting my face. Repeatedly.
• My Two Cents on Feminism and Miley Cyrus This is really interesting in that it talks about something called the “patriarchal bargain”, which is a great shorthand for choices that women sometimes have no choice but to make.
• Charlotte Church talks women in music at RadFest13.
• 8 Inventions by Women That Dudes Got Credit For. As you do.
• Nightmare in Maryville: Teens’ sexual encounter ignites a firestorm against family Infuriating. Also possibly upsetting, so content warning!
• Because it needs to be said Content warning here, too–graphic descriptions of sexual assault at a tech conference.
• Stop Tech Feminism Jesus wept. Seriously, He did.
• This, Right Here, Is The Problem Foz and a recent Penny Arcade strip. The comments are illuminating. There’s also one about a vagina exorcism which is 1) bizarre as all get out, and 2) made me think of this.
• Call for Submissions — The Power of Harassment This looks like it could be interesting, especially since most of what I see on Medium is written by a privileged dudebros.
• The view that computers are technology but sewing isn’t is a sexist stitch-up
• Humanity or gtfo More sexism in tech…
• Man Banter, Big Cans, and Harassment at New York Comic Con
• The Long Feminist Summer I really love that The Toast is publishing such a diverse array of voices.
• Another great piece from The Toast: To Kill A Mockingbird In Blackface
• Sarah Silverwood’s The Nowhere Chronicles: A Biased Response to Textual Bias
• How The “Redskins” Debate Goes Over On An Actual Indian Reservation This is a really important and thought-provoking perspective.
• Kanye West Knows You Think He Sounded Nuts on Kimmel
• Endia Beal: “Can I Touch It?” explores gender, race, and generational gaps in the corporate environment. Absolutely fascinating.
• Marvel Was Happy to Answer Diversity Questions at NYCC. DC Was Not.
• The stupid, it burns Burn a cross on your lawn and get injured? As long as you do it in the vicinity fo some HAlloween decorations, it’s all cool.
• We might have a working government again here in the US, but these pieces are still worth reading anyhow: Reign Of Morons: Apotheosis (I’ve said it before and I”ll say it again: Charlie Pierce is a national treasure) and The Paranoid Style in American Stenography (Ta-Nehesi Coates is also a national treasure although The Atlantic did something to their RSS feed which strips out paragraph breaks and his posts are now giant blocks of text that I find hard to read).
• Scott Walker Creates Phantom Jobs To Boost Aides’ Pay
• Bodies Double as Cash Machines With U.S. Income Lagging
• The Conflicted Existence of the Female Porn Writer: Column 16: How Far We’ve… Super-interesting and thoughtful but contains explicit descriptions of porn movies, so may not be suitable for work.
• The Do’s And Dont’s Of Writing Erotic Fiction
• Pegasus Pulp e-books not currently available at W.H. Smith, Kobo and Whitcoulls
• What Is ‘Evil’ to Google?
• How to Not Ruin Polyamory for Everybody in 6 Easy Steps
• You Won’t Believe What This Web Site Does to The Liberal Left! Great analysis of Upworthy which, I admit, I do like on Facebook and which I do occasionally look at.
• A Maryland Hill’s Prehistoric Secret and Skull Fossil Suggests Simpler Human Lineage
• This is a bit old, but it’s good advice nonetheless! Do’s and Don’ts of Self-Promotion for Writers by Catherine Lundoff
• Six Reasons Why I Won’t Finish R. Lee Smith’s The Last Hour of Gann
• Kathleen Eagle and Native American Characters in Contemporary Romance
• Review of The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
• Abortion in Romance: A Closer Look
• Observations Upon Weeding: What My Teens Aren’t Reading I love reading posts about the nuts and bolts of librarianship, I really do.
• I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss.
• The List: Art museums and the public domain
• Spring-Heeled Jack One of the most bizarre things ever.
• The Big Book of Online Trolling and Other PSAs About Online Behavior Presented as Book Covers Some of these are funny, a couple aren’t.
• This looks like it could be a useful collection of book-related links. If a bit hard to navigate what with the having to scan for new items through the whole page.

I know this was totally staged but I don’t care. It made me smile.