Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed.What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.
- 100 sci fi women #50: Rachael
- links for 2010-09-04
- Why so little concern about Ladies Night?
- Privilege and Perception
- Buffy is So Whiny…
– from Blade Runner (check out the rest)
– linkfest from Racialicious
– “… it’s often important to distinguish between when the patriarchy results in actual harm and when it’s just producing tastelessness. And ladies night is firmly in the latter category.”
– Selective attention test – go do it. Fascinating.
– “But usually, this whole “Buffy is whiny” nonsense comes with a whole mess of evidence that would get Batman a hug and another comic book spin off. (What? Your parents were gunned down in an alley? I bet that really hurt and gave you a lot of emotional stuff to work through!)(But NOOOO! Buffy! You can’t be upset about YOUR MOM DYING!) (Or YOU DYING!)”
Oh SO much applause for that Buffy article!!
Ouyang Dan strikes again!
Great Buffy article, good to see some support for the later seasons, which I actually think were better than the early seasons.
Me too Rebekka!
A friend wants to spread the word on Uprights behaving badly: Footpaths: footpath etiquette by a wheelchair user.