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
- Repeat After Me–“As I said, I’ve been listening to Christian radio. I found it offensive–not because of my atheism, but because of my aesthetic commitment to proper rhyming verse.”
- And the mansplainer brigade rushes in–“Do you think that it is inherently rude for women to point out to men that their romantic/ sexual advances are unwanted, and that it’s sexist to focus their attention to women entirely on our appearance?”
- Salon and Jezebel: Honey Boo Boo and 8 reasons you should be ashamed of yourselves–“So when I see articles posted that use the word “monster” to describe a real little kid, I find it upsetting. When those articles purport to be doing it because they care about the girl and come from sources that I generally find reasonable and feminist minded, I become slightly apoplectic.”
- ELLIOT RODGER: MADMAN vs. MISOGYNIST (a response to JaclynGlenn) (video)
- Youtube Misogyny: Glenn and Rad on “Rodger Madman or Misogynist”?–“While we are on agenda, why would it be a bad thing to draw attention to misogyny culture provided you aren’t glossing over the real motive?”
The Wider Web
- Fellow Atheists: Quit Bragging About Our Prison Underrepresentation.–“Atheism is hardly the cause of white middle-to-upper-class people’s underrepresentation in the prison population, injustice in the criminal justice system is.”
- Women Remember: A Roundtable Interview–“I guess we caused some real destruction to the male notion that SF, like a good deal else, was theirs, all theirs, and only theirs. But I wonder if that notion is in fact destructible.”
- Twitter Unblocks Blasphemous Accounts–“Twitter announced it is working with Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, which is an organization that works to protect online activity.”
- Rape victims say Bob Jones University told them to repent–“After she shared her story, she said Berg asked whether she’d been drinking or smoking pot and if she’d been ‘impure.’ When he brought up her ‘root sin,’ she said she raced out of the building.”
- Video Games Need More Than Damsels and Dames–“But to understand business survival in the face of moral decisions is not to immediately accede to the business. We are still allowed to question why businesses make decisions that appear wrong, from a moral or social perspective. “
- Vasectomies Should Not Be Used as Punishment–“While it may not seem that forcing women to have children has all that much in common with trying to force a man not to have children, both are rooted in this unsavory ideal that the basic right to bodily autonomy should be abandoned in the face of other people’s disapproval of your sexual choices.”
- Editor’s note: Michael Gerson replaces George Will–“The change has been under consideration for several months, but a column published June 5, in which Mr. Will suggested that sexual assault victims on college campuses enjoy a privileged status, made the decision easier.”
- Free speech is a bad excuse for online creeps to threaten rape and murder–“The US supreme court announced on Monday that it will hear arguments in a case – Elonis v United States – about whether threats made on social media are protected by free speech.”
- The Missionary Movement to ‘Save’ Black Babies–“Clearly, however, Griffin didn’t seek welcome from the existing infrastructure of black and women’s health organizations in the neighborhood.”
- Man who lied about Apple’s working conditions will now explain the subjugation of women–“Daisey tells The Verge his show is not ‘explaining anything,’ it’s only his own experience. He also says the show is also ‘created extemporaneously’ and ‘that’s the main reason I didn’t go into great detail’ about what the monologue is about.”
- Sri Lanka moderate monk critical of anti-Muslim violence beaten–“For the past couple of years, Sinhalese Buddhist revivalist groups have been staging demonstrations heavily laden with anti-Muslim rhetoric, usually led by monks.”
- Why You Need to Close Your Open Offices Now–“Open offices were an extreme solution to begin with, and the data is in, folks: they don’t work. So cut your losses and close your offices before your embattled employees find a company that will.”
- On Valuing Women and Others – thoughts in progress–“We may not read books or stories or watch movies or plays or view art by other women, LGBT or Q people, people of color, anyone different from ourselves. Or we may read those stories or see that art once in a blue moon but we do not celebrate those works, those voices.”
- I swear–“Those rules about who swears and when? I find them kind of weird and interesting.”
- Stop Being So Sensitive, Penn Jillette.–“It’s rare to see someone shout, “Be Civil!” at the privileged majority (and certainly not at atheist heroes that major organizations like American Atheists want to cozy up to).”
- This Ex-Muslim Started a Tumblr for Women Who Have Abandoned the Hijab–“This is probably the strongest motivator for me—it is healing to have a space where we can talk about this, where we can have fun and take joy and pride in our bodies, reclaim them as ours, ours, and only ours.”
- Coverage of Women on SFF Blogs (2013)–“Our data for this year doesn’t support our thesis quite as strongly as in previous years, but the data still shows that unfortunately, women writers are not being reviewed at the same rate as men.”
- The Gender Gap in Tech Could Shrink If Google’s “Made With Code” Initiative Has Anything to Say About It–“‘She understands technology. And she likes using technology. But, she never expressed any interest in creating it herself.'”
- Welcome to griefbeyondbelief.org…–“You may just need a resource, or something to listen to or read. Or you may want to stay a while. It’s up to you how you use this space.”
- Wis. Gov. Scott Walker Accused Of Illegal Fundraising–“‘The scope of the criminal scheme under investigation is expansive,’ lead investigator Francis Schmitz wrote in the Dec. 9 court filing. ‘It includes criminal violations of multiple elections laws’ including filing false campaign reports, he wrote, according to the AP.”
- How to Read and Understand a Scientific Paper: A Step-by-Step Guide for Non-Scientists–“Reading a single paper may take you a very long time at first, but be patient with yourself. The process will go much faster as you gain experience.”
- A Fresh Cry Of Pain: Fat-Shaming In Science–“She told me that her team did a lot of collaborative work in this lab, and she didn’t need someone who was going to ‘eat more than their fair share of the pizza, if you know what I mean.'”
- WTF *happened* to the Arab World?–“I mean, not only did she shed her hijab and transcend emboldened stigma and ostracization for it–she became a fucking *idol*.”
- State finds illegal sterilizations of female inmates–“Of the 144 tubal ligations performed on inmates from fiscal years 2005-06 to 2012-13, auditors found, more than a quarter were done without lawful consent, according to the report by State Auditor Elaine Howle.”