Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed-reader. What did I miss? Please share what you’ve been reading (and writing!) in the comments.
- 5 reasons why I can’t date muggles
- Oh, Snap!
- Britain’s tempest in a breast pump
- Keeping “Intimidating” People Out of Downtown Columbus
- Don’t you hate it when…
- The Bunker Mentality
- Surely you can’t be serous? Part Two – Posetti et al
- Link Salad
– #geekworldproblems
– brillo
– “The British government has made a baby step — no, make that a mere tummy-scooch — toward supporting working moms, and the response in some vocal corners has been outrage.”
– “Translation: People who buy things want to be protected from knowing about and interacting with people who are too poor to buy things.”
– Just a sample of the stream of consciousness goodies: “awkwardly cramming [his irrelevant anecdote] inside the conversation in a way that makes you realize he must be terrible in bed, since he seems much more interested in going through this performance than in whether you actually give a shit…”
– #twitdef – “But aside from his bullying behaviour, this [Posetti] case also showed News Ltd’s tendency to circle the wagons and use its news pages to push its agenda, even in nominally ‘straight’ news reports.”
– #twitdef - Grog’s Gamut dissects and eviscerates the kerfuffle – admire the precision!
– an enormous serve of yummy links
Categories: linkfest
The 109th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up! 
The 105th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up! 
Hoyden About Town 
Still Life with Cat has a fine skewering of one of the most wretchedly common double standards we have to deal with daily. Sometimes it’s great to have a concrete example to point to.
Ben Pobjie riffs on that antifeminist flamelinkbait post from the Punch:
The New Scientist commentary on new book, Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality. I can’t H/T the person I got it from b/c I can’t remember who tweeted th elink – sorry!
Jack Schafer at Slate (via @ggreenwald on Twitter):
orlando @ 1 – actually Foley has copped quite a bit of criticism on ABC radio (among other places) in Adelaide over his judgement for walking alone at night a 3am. And the opposition leader although clearly stating that everyone should have the right to walk around at night and not get assaulted seemed to me to deliberately leave open the question of whether the incident demonstrated that he lacked good judgement.
@ Chris – in some ways that is worse I think. It suggests that we should just accept that there are thugs out there and everything is at our own risk. There seems to be no understanding that it doesn’t have to be like that.
Mindy – I don’t think that believing that walking around around alone at night at 3am when you don’t need to is an indicator of poor judgement because its much riskier than other times and at the same time wanting and working towards a situation where that is not the case are inconsistent viewpoints. There’s the world we live in and the one we work towards.
I used to be someone who would walk around Adelaide with no to little thought to personal safety. And then one day I got assaulted in the Adelaide CBD when I was wandering through an area with very few people around and not paying attention to what was going on around me. Since then I’m more cautious about where/when I go and don’t let my mind wander as much keeping myself aware of what is going on around me.
I realise its a very fine line between saying risky behavior can lead to bad outcomes and victim blaming. But at the same time I know I’ve avoided problems when travelling overseas because of my change in behavior. Its not that sort of thing that boys are warned about when growing up, but perhaps it should be.
Great review of the Deathly Hallows by That’s So Pants:
Read the whole thing here.