If you follow me on Twitter, you may have already seen these items of interest encountered recently in my feed-reader or via twitter (please consider following some of the bloggers/tweeters). What did I miss? (I missed a lot this week – very busy with family stuff) Leave your own interesting links or pithy observations in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!
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Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg on boys’ tshirts reading: ”Smart Like Daddy”, while the girls’ say ”Pretty like Mommy” http://www.dailylife.com.au/business/facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-slams-gender-stereotypes-20130128-2dfoi.html …
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#cratesandribbons | Why the Default Male is Not Just Annoying, But Also Harmful http://bit.ly/VeIo0F -
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#almostdiamonds | When Denial Is Progress http://bit.ly/111kSdm#chillyclimate#chillingeffect -
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@TheMarySue | Why Did Hillary Clinton’s State Department Team Edit Bindi Irwin’s Essay On Overpopulation? http://bit.ly/14olQhK -
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@skepchicks | Glee: Baby Got Back. And then got Raped. http://bit.ly/122rebX -
Can men and women be friends? An essay and a website launch. http://bit.ly/VeGEV4
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#YouKnowYoureAussieWhen you celebrate the day some guys showed up here on a boat but hate anyone who tries it now -
Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi Testimony and the Men Who Fear Her http://bit.ly/WvLzzi
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Women in Tech and Empathy Work http://bit.ly/WAB3rx
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what dOEs ThIS sOuNd like? http://bit.ly/VeCY5H
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“Imagine if we’d resisted, suffered & died in defence of our land & then were told in history books that we had given up without a fight”
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Nicholas Stern: ‘I got it wrong on climate change – it’s far, far worse’ http://gu.com/p/3dc29/tw via
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Geoffrey Robertson QC says US Grand Jury is a “medieval procedure that would indict a ham sandwich”.
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#reelgirl Who has courage to gender flip a classic hero: Rolling Stone or Disney? http://bit.ly/SUefVB -
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@skepchicks blog | Breaking News: Organized Secularism Different for Women http://bit.ly/VYfpiJ -
Casual Racism: Straya, Dick Smith, and Racist Jokes http://bit.ly/14jFSuZ
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Uh, yes, Franca Sozzani, racism is a problem in fashion http://bit.ly/WF4BnV / by
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Geek Feminism Blog | Quick hit: “Microsoft’s ‘Chuck Norris’” thinks trans people are liars http://bit.ly/X1xOI0
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Ms Magazine Blog | The 18,437 Perpetrators of Steubenville http://bit.ly/VEJeUo
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Shakesville | GOP Caught Off Guard by Clinton’s Integrity; Responds Predictably with Misogyny http://bit.ly/WR18CC
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Top Ten Republican Myths on Benghazi that Justify Hillary Clinton’s Anger | Alternet http://www.alternet.org/world/top-ten-republican-myths-benghazi-justify-hillary-clintons-anger …
Other people’s linkfests:
- The Lady Garden shares the link love
- bluebec’s linkspams
- Geek Feminism Linkspams
- Limited News weekly Long Reads collation
- Feminaust does a Weekly RoundUp
- The Early Bird Catches The Worm does regular On The Net linkdumps and weekly On (The Rest of) The Net RoundUps.
- Racialicious does regular link roundups and entertainment roundups
- Muslimah Media Watch: Friday Links
- Melissa’s Blogarounds at Shakesville
- Feministing‘s What We Missed linkfest
Categories: linkfest
julia baird ?
Chris Kennett ?
ASRC ?
M Nash ?
Padbrit ?
The 109th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!
The 105th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!
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I was going to post this on my facebook page with the header “Why can’t they just leave Kochy alone? One more article about those whiny feminists insisting that straight dudes stop with the standards of decency that don’t apply to them.”, for all of the time it took me to think, “No way, I’m burnt out on that one.”
http://misrule.com.au/wordpress/?p=688
Judith Ridge on racism in children’s books.