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

• My Raging Narcissism: Now Including 51% of the Earth's Population!

– Sady beats down another meme discounting women’s opinions and experiences.

• Loud and Clear

– elle writes a classic slapdown of racist condescension on Shakesville in response to some fuckneck implying that African Americans just don’t “listen” to Republicans

• Actually, attacking women is hurting women.

– A must-read from Jill Filipovic

• Sex Drives and Eating Disorders.

– food for thought

• Why Aren’t Women To Blame For Domestic Violence In Saudi Arabia?

– Renee notes how our media routinely blames women for being victims everywhere except where they can demonise Muslims as wifebeaters and thus Islam as inherently violent – what fuels the violence for all the other wifebeaters on the planet?

• This Breaks My Heart

– DADT still insane

• Wanda Sykes Takes It To Rush Limbaugh

– And uses pejorative language about addiction to do so – quote: “The most difficult thing about convictions is putting them into action when they apply to people that we despise.”

• Shopping for computers is tough!

– Echoing Sarah Hepola: Ugggh.

• regarding the difference between embracing and exploiting geek culture

– co-opting – it never gets old

• IR Shuttle

– click through to the photo in this one

• Study: Why CuteOverload is Critical to Your Work

– Ha! Take that, people who are pejorative about bloggers posting photos of their cats!

• Quoth Elsevier: "Whoops, I did it again." (Six times, actually)

– Elsevier astroturfs for Big Pharma with a fake peer reviewed journals six times since 2000 – allegedly only in Australia. We’ll see.

• Atheists Caused Religion!

– interesting hypothesis

• The whitewashing of Indigenous Australian characters?

– How does our entertainment media handle indigenous characters?

• Report: Obama can stop the discharge of openly gay and lesbian service members now

– but he’s not doing it

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