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ETA – lots today! Read them after the cut:

• Don’t be this boring, ever

– “Dear inhabitants of planet Earth: If you need a special class to make you like the fit of your jeans, YOU ARE WEARING THE WRONG JEANS.”

• Attention New York Times and the Entire Rest of the World: Asperger's IS Autism?

– “Back then they still believed the refrigerator mom stuff, see? Tagging a kid with that label was like saying to a mother, “You are such a fuckup.” And even after that theory was largely discarded, the perception of autism was that it was this horrible beast-monster that ate your child’s brain and ruined your entire life and busted up your marriage and by the way, your haircut’s ugly too.”

• Righties compare Kenneth Gladney to Neda; ask for donations for his "medical bills"

– “There’s just one tiny problem. Kenneth Gladney works for the St. Louis Police Department as a Crisis Intervention Office. He has health care. Isn’t this fraud, to attempt to get peoples’ money by misrepresentation? Isn’t this against some kind of code of conduct for police officers?”

• Violent Misogyny as Entertainment: Discussion Thread

– “Between receiving this email, Deeky’s earlier post about Weeds, and the million-and-one (or so) posts I feel like I’ve written recently about rape/stalking/domestic violence as entertainment, I thought I’d open a discussion thread with the question: What’s the most egregious example of violent (or borderline violent) misogyny you’ve seen in a television show or film lately?”

• Who's afraid of the big, bad Clinton?

– “Instead of taking her response as evidence that she has the gravitas, the cojones to be secretary of state and deal with foreign leaders who think less of her because she’s a woman, it’s being trumpeted as a sign of emotional weakness.”

• Chris Rock takes on black hair pathology in the documentary 'Good Hair'

– Pam takes a look at the new Chris Rock doco

• Paranoid or Dead: The modern woman’s dilemma.

– “Rape Prevention Tips From Rapists: Stay Inside Or Die A Horrible Death”

• Put That Patriarchy Bashing Hammer Down Ladies We Are in the US!

– “We profess to being shocked at one or another of these outlandish crimes, but the shock wears off quickly in an environment in which the rape, murder and humiliation of females is not only a staple of the news, but an important cornerstone of the nation’s entertainment.”

• Epic battle of Nice Guys® vs. common sense at Penny Arcade

– “Look, it’s all bullshit. There’s plenty of advice for the loveless and the lonely. But men that are attracted to the seduction community don’t want to hear it, period. Because it, and I can’t repeat this enough, tells them what they don’t want to hear, which is that the way to get good at dating is to start by believing women are people, and respecting and even coming to enjoy them in all their diversity. “

• Put away your sneakers, ladies. "Beauty race" is a myth

– “It’s a good reminder that even science can’t get in the way of the old lies the media is so fond of telling us.”

• No wonder their support is fading

– the dinosarus are still bleating against same-sex marriages

• Markets as a solution to climate change: Epic Fail

– short and sweet

• o filthy grandeur!: Race and Gender in Coraline

– some thoughts on the film

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