Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.
- Guest Blogger Starling: Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced
- Would it kill you to be civil?
- But I don’t want to be sexy!!!
- Judge Refers to Convicted Rapist’s Actions as “Rough Play”
- Facing up to climate change
- Great-grandmother Margo Bates dedicates gold to radio broadcaster Alan Jones | The Australian
- The milk of human kindness | Inside Story
– 2/2 of the mammoth threads on Shapely Prose about rape culture and how it affects women’s responses to men
– 1/2 of the mammoth threads on Shapely Prose about rape culture and how it affects women’s responses to men
– “A sexy school girl witch? Are you fucking kidding me? So, what? Now we’re just mashing our heterosexual male fantasies together? Maybe I’ll dress as a slave princess kitten pirate. With wings.
So anyway, my fiance and I were at the mall yesterday looking at costumes to kill time. After having my fill of the above, and similar ilk, I moved on to the men’s side. That’s when I saw the Edward Scissorhands costume, and I immediately got all excited and said that’s what I wanted to be. My fiance’s response: that’s weird. “
– “Rough play, as can logically be deduced, is a term that can be used to describe sex play which is rough, whether to a lesser or greater degree. It’s something that is enjoyed by a fair amount of people. It’s also something entered into consensually and safely. And Judge Rideout compared such consensual activity to rape, and rape to such consensual sexual activity.”
– “Upload your photo at a href=”http://www.faceup.org.au”www.faceup.org.au/a to take a stand for climate action that counts. We will take the photos and messages from your electorate and personally deliver them to your local MP and the Prime Minister as a greeting card and CD.”
– 99 year old wins gold at the Master’s Games, gets rewarded(?) by an invitation to go see Andre Rieu
– An essay from an Australian in London regarding different attitudes to breastfeeding there and what it means for child health and mothers’ freedoms
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The 109th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up! 
The 105th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up! 
Hoyden About Town 
Schrodinger’s Rapist: it’s just a tower of awesome!
How did the author know…?
I’m still digging through the 1000+ comments on that post, DEM! I loved this comment from Marcella of abyss2hope:
It was an amazing post.
This was another comment, from the OP (Starling) that I thought was very appropriate for some of the WATM commentors who find the idea that women engage in risk analysis about men who are nearby horribly offensive and unfair:
That Masters swimming champ woman, so awesome, yet even though she dedicated her gold medal to Alan Jones (yes, misguided, but anyway), he STILL had to make some remark on her appearance (“Don’t wear that swimsuit”). It seems we’re never too old to escape rude comments on our beauty2K compliance.
D’oh, I meant, never old enough to escape rude comments etc.
I would hazard that “rewarding” the poor woman with seeing Andre Rieu is actually a backhanded attempt to intimidate women out of competing. *deadpan*