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

• BBC NEWS | Health | Women 'fight off disease better'

– Female immune systems are more robust, leading to possibility of giving men treatments derived from oestrogen to boost their immune system (and possibly extend life expectancy?) – how many men would be willing to take female hormones for better health?

• Who Takes Responsibility for the Responsibility-Takers? Hint: Not Linda Hirshman

– Sady takes on the rhetoric against feminists refusing to be victims: they are accused of “playing the victim”

• Patenting Parts of People

– About time – this is possibly the most important lawsuit for a generation

• Quick Hit: The Trouble with Double X According to Ann

– QUOTE: “When publishers create separate sites dedicated to women or to black people, they are signaling that they don’t see a need to have their main site serve these people as core readers. They are, in essence, saying, “We want the ad revenue associated with your readership, but we don’t create our homepage with you in mind.” “

• Sully: A 'sickeningly familiar feeling' Obama's team wants LGBTs and our issues to go away

– Quote: “The fact they cannot deny is that he’s not only not doing anything, he doesn’t want to even discuss the matter. “

• In Hollywood, Good = White

– further reinforcing my undesire to see the Hollywood adaptation of Airbender

• The Pink Memory Hole

– What have we forgotten that we ever knew?

• Indigenous Women Are Not Being Given Mammograms

– I bet this is happening all around the world

• Excluding Blacks From The National Collective

– skewing statistics on a racial basis – still happening in “post-racial” USA

• New Zealand Needs its Own Lilly Ledbetter!

– Virtually uncovered in the news in NZ or anywhere else, the Nationals govt has dumped pay equity protections

• Not Oprah's Book Club: The Double-Daring Book for Girls

– ooh, this book sounds great

• The Culture of Football, The Culture of Rape

– Footballers having rape treated as a “character issue” rather than as a criminal act happens in the US too

• Your Thursday round-up!

– linkfest from the F-word

• Rape victims to be asked for views on justice system.

– A welcome sign that the UK is finally taking reform of rape laws seriously?

• Race-baiting Rush needs to get his Klan garb out of the cleaners

– One more for the wingnuts-losing-their-shit-over-black-president files

• Gratitude. We has it.

– a perfect post on the importance of generous gestures

• deanna zandt » A non-fanatical beginner's guide to Twitter

– for anyone who’s been put off by the fanatical evangelists but is curious about giving it a go

• Bad-ass high school students get misogynist songs banned from prom

– yay for the hoydens of Arcadia High

• Linda Hirshman: Misogyny pays her bills

– another great post on SlutShame09

• "Timeouts" for grown women

– gumming up the works

Categories: linkfest

Tags: blogging, LGBTQI+, Read-ems