I share a lot of links on Twitter and Facebook that I don’t blog about because I don’t have much to add. The reading list is a periodic feature where I share those links with my blog audience too. Of course, you’re still welcome to follow me on Twitter.
Around FtB
- The video game that would REALLY keep you up at night–“But what if I was to tell you the story of a video game that was literally designed to steal your ability to sleep… among other things? Sounds far-fetched, right? Read on, gentle reader.”
- Support Bread and Roses: We need your help–“Reaching our fundraising target of £15,000 will help us produce quality and timely programmes that will continue to bring free-thought to Iran and the region as well as the west where it is sorely needed for many years to come!”
- Apologizing For Others–“When you do that – when you try to explain – you are treating your friend/loved one AND your audience poorly; you are assuming an incompetence on one side or the other that likely doesn’t exist.”
- Introduction to “Redneckaissance: Honey Boo Boo, Tumblr, and the Stereotype of Poor White Trash”–“My first realization that Here Comes Honey Boo Boo had become a complex discursive phenomenon came with the appearance of an image from the show in my social media feeds.”
- How the Purity Myth Perpetuates Rape Culture–“A lot of people think they have abandoned the idea of female sexual purity simply because they are liberal and/or nonreligious. As a person who runs in liberal and nonreligious circles, I can tell you that this is not necessarily the case.”
The Wider Web
- Tell Your U.S. Senators to Oppose 20-Week Abortion Ban–“Reproductive health care laws should respect the autonomy of women and be based on reason and science, not sectarian religious beliefs or pseudoscience.”
- Resources for Male Survivors–“I posted last week asking people if they knew of some good resources for male victims of sexual assault. Here is the list people came up with.”
- Target exec says “truth hurts” in response to employee’s scathing criticism–“‘And while it was difficult for me to read this account for many reasons, the reality is that our team members speaking with honesty is a gift. Because much of what they are saying is true.'”
- Why Jill Abramson Was Fired–“Several weeks ago, I’m told, Abramson discovered that her pay and her pension benefits as both executive editor and, before that, as managing editor were considerably less than the pay and pension benefits of Bill Keller, the male editor whom she replaced in both jobs.”
- The Unbelievable Privilege of Being a Male Director–“They have no problem hiring men with no experience or promoting men from low budget films to the big leagues. It’s not about risk, it’s about gender.”
- Woman to be hanged for shunning Islam–“She was charged with apostasy as well as adultery for marrying a Christian man, something prohibited for Muslim women to do and which makes the marriage void.”
- How Watching Football is Like Going to Church…But Better–“As a humanist, I gotta ask, is it wrong to watch football?”
- ‘Miscarriage Management’: The Next Front in the Abortion Wars–“Minto can’t come right out and tell his patients to obtain the ulcer drug misoprostol—or its brand-name variant, Cytotec—but he doesn’t have to.”
- Reading Dialect in Celeste Rita Baker’s “Name Calling”–“To read is to take words into your brain and feel the landscape of your psyche be re-arranged, be shifted and manipulated according to the author of the words you’re reading.”
- Fed Up With Sexual Harassment: Power to Speak Up–“If you don’t know what this feels like, try to imagine setting up your office in a grim subway station where there’s an omnipresent threat of being mugged, beaten up, maybe left for dead, all the while having to publish interesting papers.”