Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. (Long one today – check out the links after the cut!) Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.
- Pride and Twitterverse
- The High Cost of Poverty: Why the Poor Pay More – washingtonpost.com
- Friday Blogaround
- Girls Should Be “Easy”
- More
- On Being A Patient
- Once Again: Rape is NOT Your Personal Metaphor
- So You Think You Can Dance: Homophobia In Ballroom Dancing
- Bigotry As A Controlling Disability by Anthony McCarthy
- Just Shoot Me Now
- Imagine if those New York terror suspects had been white
- And God said, ‘let there be trash’ and lo, there was television
- Lady Looks Like a Dude
- Jesus fucking christ
- Yoga for the (Online) People
- You'll Have to Pry the Steering Wheel Out of George Will's Cold, Dead Hands
– I love knowing that there are people this witty in the world (she’s a librarian, natch)
– Bookmark this one for future reference
– from SKM at Shakesville
– More “eek” from Sociological Images
– What do we expect when we complain? We expect MORE than what we’re seeing, asshats.
– How even attack engineers don’t assert themselves to healthcare providers
– “Oh, well then, he meant no offense. And remember, folks, he hesitated. Clearly he’s not just some misogynistic asshole who randomly runs around throwing out hugely violent rape metaphors like it’s no big deal, irregardless of the huge portion of the female population that has been subjected to sexual violence! He thinks about it for a minute or two first. (And then decides to do it anyway.)”
– total lack of imagination
– “So, I’m not impressed with the PhD’d bigots that abound these days. I don’t look at their degrees or what faculty they sit on or their publications. You have to look at what they say and what they use to back it up. When they spout dumb crap, that’s what they’re spouting. When their ignorant fans repeat it, the quality of it doesn’t improve.”
– “If we don’t have enough evidence to charge someone with a crime, we don’t have enough evidence to hold them. Period.”
– double standards in media coverage and pursuit of justice, yet again
– Science moves beyond populism into full-fledged capitalism
– “Underneath the first level of explanation, there’s still a deeper problem. You can’t criticize Coulter or Obama for being “mannish,” for “not having much to flaunt,” or for failing at the game of being “pretty and feminine” without buying into the idea that you can and should grade people on these matters. For fuck’s sake, some of this “criticism” is about the shape of individual women’s skeletons: her jaw’s too square, she’s too tall and she shows off her arms! This is Feminism 101: the whole system of evaluation stinks to high heaven in the first place.”
– Bill Donohue outdoes himself
– Online yoga classes, free.
– Behaviour modification: conservatives are only against it when it promotes behaviour they can’t make money off
Categories: linkfest
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Hoyden About Town 
“Bigotry As A Controlling Disability”? There’s no mention of disability in the ensuing post. Is he saying what I think he’s saying?
I wasn’t sure about that either, but I thought that the rest of the post was interesting enough to link. I’m deducing that the rigidity of thinking as a cognitive disability is what he means, but I could very well be wrong.
tigtog: I think it’s completely fucked up to equate making the choice of being bigoted to having a disability. Check out the comments section; given an opportunity to clarify, expand, retract, or whatever, the dude who wrote it is just playing disability bingo instead.
And it’s not the first time.
@ Lauredhel:
Fair point – I missed the privilege on this one. Apologies.
In partial defence, at the time I linked it there were only two comments, so I hadn’t seen the behaviour you describe. I’ll be more wary.
Further thoughts on that clusterfuck of a response from the author to objections: wow, the quote that I pulled for the link in this post is heavily ironic now. Especially when he thinks being supported by m Andrea is a good sign.
I was unaware of his history to other objections as well – I don’t normally read the comments to his posts (indeed I often skip over them entirely, I wish I had with this one!). I have a pedantic streak myself, but that exhibition is one of an absolutely huge pedantic blind spot.
From the popped-into-my-in-tray-and-thought-immediately-of-this-blog file, WWDA’s policy paper from Australian Policy online. (Link is to the hosting page as the end product is a PDF)