1980 Sears Wishbook

• Five Stages of Reading the Novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• For The Bloodiest Tales In American Music, A Revenge-Themed Sequel I love this.
• Stanford historian re-examines practice of racial ‘passing’ “I’m not as interested in what people gained by being white, but rather in what they lost by not being black.”
• Black Bodies, Black Holes: Regarding Eve Ensler’s Colonialist and Messianic Fantasies
• Read the “Stomach-Churning” Sexual Assault Accusations Against R. Kelly in Full “The saddest fact I’ve learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.”
• This Year in Bad Cops
• Today is the feast day of William Lloyd Garrison
• Superhero cartoon execs don’t want largely female audiences
• Lobotomy For World War II Veterans: Psychiatric Care by U.S. Government
• Saving Mr. Banks Is a Corporate, Borderline-Sexist Spoonful of Lies
• Climate change expert’s fraud was ‘crime of massive proportion,’ say feds Holy SHIT.
• Damsels In Distress: Why Do So Many Contemporary Women Read Old-Fashioned Romance Novels? or,  [Clickbait Headline About Romance Novels and Ladies]
• I Was Sexually Harassed Onstage At a Comic Convention Panel I am super-bothered by the people in comments trying to figure out who the harassing dude was.  If someone doesn’t want to identify their harasser, we need to respect that.
• I Spent a Month Living in a Romanian Sexcam Studio
• Wake up to North Korea’s horror camps
• When “Life Hacking” Is Really White Privilege Seriously. Ser.i.ous.ly.
• I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System
• Ayn Rand-loving CEO destroys his empire
• Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
• An Open Letter to Caitlin Moran and mildredandbobbin writes eloquently about the entire situation. And I can’t stop thinking about what Caitlin Moran did…
• Mary Robinette Kowal’s thought on fanfic
•  Let’s Talk About Reviews How about we not?
• Simultaneous Interpreting This is really really interesting.
• Portraits of Mothers with Their One-Day-Old Babies I thought these portraits were really beautiful.
• Zoinks! Tracing The History Of ‘Zombie’ From Haiti To The CDC
• Lots of awesome Frozen fan art.  I probably won’t go see this, but I love all these interpretations.
• Waistcoat Ripper: When Heroines Rape the Hero in Romance
• Crowdfunded Anthologies: Concerns For Writers
• Gender Parity and Cover Art
• A week into house arrest, Ed Kramer requesting more freedom GROSS.
• Taking A Magnifying Glass To The Brown Faces In Medieval Art
• Sex, lies and the Internet: The tale of Lena Chen
• Literary Feuds of 2013 and 2013 Juice Box Awards: Odd Author Interaction of the Year
• Patriarchy’s Magic Trick: How Anything Perceived As Women’s Work Immediately Sheds Its Value
• Reading Every Book
• Ainu’s women’s tattooed lips On the one hand: this is really interesting. On the other: there’s something about the way this is written that feels really voyeuristic/exploitative.
• Susannah Breslin discloses how much she was paid for various freelance writing gigs.
• Bee portraits like you’ve never seen before

This happened, too–not linking because I don’t want to give this jackass any traffic but man. I am so very proud.  And I’m in some fantastic company. Stupidosphere is just about the right word for it.

FYI: I’m only jittery because I drink too much coffee.  And I’m going to get a coffee mug that proudly proclaims that I am all that is wrong in SFF today.