Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please add interesting links of your own in the comments.

• TAX SLUG!!!1!

– different ways of viewing slugs

• Community Blog Round-up: Male feminists

– some discussions from Feministing

• Monday Blogaround

– Links from Erica at Shakesville

• What Should a 20-year-old Proto-Feminist Guy Be Reading?

– Go add your suggestions!

• Northern Territory Legislates Consensual Teen Sex

– Quote: “No, we’re talking about the possibility of two consenting 15-year-olds facing jail time for “raping” each other. Way to trivialize actual fucking rape.”

• I would make a terrible superhero girlfriend.

– more RaceFail

• Reproducing Gender And Race Stereotypes in RuneScape

– Quote: “If you follow the players’ logic, that means it’s more believable to have talking cats than to have a person of color dressed nicely in a city. That’s just messed up.”

• Quote of the day

– one of my pet peeves

• What do all those examples have in common, Paul?

– Jo Tamar takes on Paul Sheehan’s latest meandering without a point

• Missouri Abortion Restriction Bill Only Worsens Effects of Intimate Partner Violence

– Quote: “Instead of dealing with this problem, the General Assembly wants to further disempower women by taking from them the decision to refuse to give an abuser another victim.”

• Exodus

– sobering reading

• Weekly Feminist Reader: Mother's Day Edition

– Lots and lots of reading about motherhood

• STAR TREK and Breaking the Rules – SPOILERS

– Quote: “And now, below a very large SPOILER GAP, a discussion of how what will be the most successful movie of the summer kicks conventional screenwriting “rules” in the junk.”

• The End of Mothers Day

– Quote: “The reason mothers day is still such a big day is that motherhood is not valued for the rest of the year.”

Categories: linkfest

Tags: blogging, Read-ems