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October 18, 2013

Linkspam, 10/18/13 Edition

A Painful Pot, by Johnson Tsang

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.

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  1. Miss Bates says

    October 18, 2013 at 10:00 am

    I like Simone Weil’s elliptical, “Every separation is a link.”

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