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.
- No True Scotsman
- How not to raise a rapist
- Pathological misogynist on a mission to explain how stupid women are
- The Rage Is Not About Health Care
- Douchebag attends feminist conference, with predictable result
- The peer reviewed literature has spoken
- Australia Aboriginal youths 28 times more likely to end up in jail / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com
- Links of Great Interest: We have an email address now! 😀
- Don’t expect much of yourself, sweetie
- JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT STUDIES DEPARTMENT: The Boys of Summer
– “t was not surprising that the group recently arrested and charged with plotting to kill police officers, then those mourning at their funeral using IEDs have nowhere in the mainstream media been referred to as “terrorists” or even “terror suspects”. After all, they aren’t Muslims. But, that’s not enough for the political right. Apparently, on the “No True Scotsman” principle, it’s also unfair to refer them as “Christians“.”
– “Former FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood says this in Dark Dreams: A Legendary FBI Profiler Examines Homicide and the Criminal Mind:
My research on serial rape supports the view that a large number of sexual criminals have been childhood victims of physical, sexual or psychological abuse.
Keep in mind that “psychological abuse” entails neglect and headgames, a type of abuse that many people still aren’t schooled in recognizing. So when I say “don’t abuse your kids” I’m also saying “don’t strategically withhold affection to make your child unnaturally dependent on your approval, which you dangle like a carrot, so that he or she gets the idea all people of your gender are evil and should be punished.””
– “Given that he’s clearly a dedicated misogynist going to much trouble to twist facts and fiction to “mansplain” to the whole world how men are superior to women without having the slightest clue how to talk to people, he’s probably a narcissist who figures everyone should just go wide-eyed at his brilliance the moment they come in contact with his words.”
– “If Obama’s first legislative priority had been immigration or financial reform or climate change, we would have seen the same trajectory.”
– “Paul Sheehan’s had a busy week of Feminism! He’s had an unfunny email forward (yes, we all know about them), read a new feminist book, and attended the Feminism Matters symposium at the university of Sydney. And he can’t wait to mansplain tell us all about how, of course, we’re Doing it Wrong!”
– “It is not censorship to put an end to pronouncements based on a botched figure that splices together two discordant temperature series without correction.
It is quality control.”
– “The AHRC’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, says: “One of the biggest problems we have in this country is denial of racism. I keep saying to people: Come and live in my world for a while and you might change your opinion.””
– lotsa links from the Hathor legacy
– “Any suggestion of advantage based on sex affects results, the research shows, even where there is no cultural stereotype.”
– “So the verdict, in case you were wondering, is that if girls fall for boys, and those boys don’t fall for them, they are clingy bitches. And if girls don’t fall for boys, and those boys DO fall for them, they are heartless bitches. No matter how this situation goes, if there turns out to be an inequality of desire, you’re getting called a bitch.”
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Hoyden About Town 
The legislation passed in the US is not a “health care” bill/law, it’s an “insurance reform” law and pretty bad. Not a whole lot of criticism from the Left (where I am) online or in print, but I can recommend two websites, with some good points about how bad the bill/law is. First, know that Obama immediately signed an executive order, in addition to the law, that limits abortion choice for women.
http://www.Zcommunications.org//health-reform-theirs-and-ours-by-paul-street It’s Znet. The other is a critical one on the “fake fight between the Democrats and the Tea Party” by Bruce A. Dixon on Black Agenda Report http://www.blackagendareport.com It mentions the groups still leading the fight for single payer- Medicare for All, also called universal health care.
Distinction noted, Sanda. I’ve read quite a lot of Left-leaning criticism of the bill online because it does nothing towards a single-payer model (including a lot of MSM-ignored reporting that a sizable subset of the people indicating they were against the Obamacare plan in opinion polls were actually against it because it doesn’t go far enough).
The major point of that particular post though is that whatever legislation Obama tries to push through Congress, the reaction is going to be the same from the teabagger set and those who are feeding them FUD rhetoric about Obama – that it’s all a great big socialist plot to steal
our precious bodily fluidstheir liberty. I agree with the author on that.Having a e-pal in England, who also has ME (called CFS/ME here in US), who has NHS and reading the Guardian online daily, I get the distinct impression that people in the UK who have universal health care and know its flaws, have NO IDEA of what the US system = mess is like. And the other thing is that the US media is deliberately making it “Obama passed a good start….” which is false. The media then makes it a “duel” between Obama loyalists and the teabaggers/Tea Party, which Bruce A. Dixon proves it’s not on http://www.blackagendareport.com. I can’t summarize the Left, of course, because I don’t know all the websites on the Left, etc. My point has been, since Obama’s election, that Obama gives the Republicans everything they want – some writers on the Left, one at least, has called it a Republican bill, as have his previous legislations. As to the Tea Bag fringe, they get more coverage than anything else.