I share a lot of links on Twitter and Facebook that I don’t blog about because I don’t have much to add. The reading list is a periodic feature where I share those links with my blog audience too. Of course, you’re still welcome to follow me on Twitter.

Around FtB

• Unsex me here! Gender, Julie Bindel and Gia Milinovich–“‘We are angry with ourselves’, Suzanne Moore of New Humanist and other zines wrote this time last year of women, ‘for not being happier, not being loved properly and not having the ideal body shape – that of a Brazilian transsexual.’ The article, on female rage, was well received barring this line; friends recommending the piece bristled at it, if only as a caveat.”
• Some Helpful Illustrations for the Willfully Obtuse–“It seems that despite many patient and helpful explanations over the years, some fanchildren in our community (and others) are still quite confused. They keep mistaking our social media spaces for courtrooms and discussions for trials.”
• I Don’t Demand Respect Because I’m Upset; I Demand Respect Because I Deserve It–“At some point in my life, probably in college, I decided that I was going to (mostly; when I’m not too scared to speak up; when I can think of the words to say, etc.) stop taking shit from people.”
• [Sunday Assembly Chicago] Talk Notes, Citations, Oddments–“Good morning! I’m Kate Donovan, and in about two sentences, I’m going to stop talking. I’m going to smile (see?) and stare pleasantly back at you, but I won’t speak for thirty seconds.”
• On mocking people’s physical appearance & the ethics of humour–“I wrote a post, for Big Think, about why we should be hesitant about mocking other people’s physical appearance. I’m uncertain whether we should never do it: I think that, maybe, we do it too much or don’t reflect before doing it enough.”
• How Rapists Manipulate Their Victims–“(Content note: contains numerous quotes from rapists, taken from Project Unbreakable.) I’ve been following Project Unbreakable (tumblr, facebook) for almost two years now.”

The Wider Web

• The Sochi Games: Fury and Futility–“I have been avoiding writing about the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics: my feelings are too fierce and conflicted, and I cannot find precision. Yet I feel I cannot stay silent, so I prevail upon you, my reader, to grant me a space to speak openly and honestly on an issue which is full of complexity and tangle.”
• HOWTO design a code of conduct for your community–“Now that we know it is possible to go to conferences and not be insulted or harassed, people are starting to wonder: Why can’t we have the same thing on mailing lists and wikis?”
• @UrsulaV and @MCAHogarth play with Honey Badgers–“Ursula Vernon drew Honey Badgers. Hilarity ensued.”
• Comics Alliance Presents ‘Kate Or Die’ In ‘Merch Ado’–“In this episode, Kate tackles the subject of the comics industry weirdly cutting itself off from the enormous amounts of money women spend on comics-related fashion and other gear from high end retailers like Black Milk and Forever 21.”
• I love Science at SkepchickCon–“I love science. I mean it, I really do.”
• Save Secular Organizations for Sobriety–“Saving the lives of secular alcoholics, addicts and compulsive overeaters all over the world since 1972.”
• How US Evangelicals Helped Create Russia’s Anti-Gay Movement–“In November 2010, Russia’s Sanctity of Motherhood organization kicked off its first-ever national conference. The theme, according to its organizers, was urgent: solving “the crisis of traditional family values” in a modernizing Russia.”
• A letter from UMN SDS to the University of MN Police Department and the Vice Pres. of University Services–“We are writing to you on behalf of Students for a Democratic Society because a disturbing incident has come to our attention.”
• White House to Honor STEM Diversity and Access “Champions of Change”–‘I’ve been on the road and I finally show up in Ithaca, to join the rest of my lab group at Cornell and the first thing I say to my boss is: “So, ummm….I’m going to the White House this week.”’
• How To Misreport A Rape Prevalence Study, National Review Style–“That would be a problem. Maybe the researchers should have put that question into some sort of context, making it clear what they were referring to?”
• “I Give Up”: Battle Cry of the Privileged–“Yesterday, February 23, 2014, was the greatest day ever. It was the greatest day of all time because both Piers Morgan and Alec Baldwin, the Lords of white male privilege, took a major step back from public life.”
• From the Daily: A better balance–“Robert Trivers, an evolutionary biologist, sociobiologist and professor of anthropology and biological sciences at Rutgers University, was suspended from the school for admitting to his students that he was unfamiliar with the subject of their course.”