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
- Equality for–“What a fascinating once-in-a-lifetime coincidence. Isn’t life exciting.”
- The Worst Thing Written About Isla Vista Shootings–“Renounce these horrors now. It is a decent thing to do. It will make you healthy and sane again. It will make the world healthy and sane again…”
- Guest post by Leo Igwe: Stopping Witch Burning in Kenya?–“Very often, whenever there is a case of witch killing, the police respond and make some arrests. But afterwards nothing is heard about the case again. The matter just dies away.”
- Guest post by Marwa Berro: Not a tool to be used to bolster anti-feminism–“Those who hold such opinions, Dawkins included, can kindly fuck off.”
- Why are YOU here?–“I can’t help but think that anyone supporting this behaviour and enabling it by attacking those damn PC feminists is not someone with whom I’m willing to cohabitate in any-sized tent.”
- “Who cares, Granny? Pipe down.” “are u a dude or a gurl?”–“It’s really striking when Lewis’ Law — ‘Comments on any article about feminism justify feminism’ — get demonstrated so blatantly.”
- I’m Not Dead! Just Sleeping Like It…–“I think I figured out where my new medications put my anxiety: it transferred it to all of you!”
The Wider Web
- My mistake of silence–“The thing is, in all the years since 2008, I’ve had a stream of women coming to me saying, ‘Me too,’ and sometimes they say, ‘Me too, only it was worse and no one intervened.'”
- The Price of Silence–“We have enough crap to deal with in our professional lives. We work our butts off to bring science to everyone. Who needs to waste time on this? Well, apparently, we do.”
- Why We Must Teach Ethics Along With Programming–“Programming is often portrayed as apolitical–progress in tech is good in and of itself, and should never be impeded. But a post-Aaron Swartz world should know better, according to Brian Knappenberger.”
- Triumph of Reform: Last Public School in New Orleans Closes–“Almost all the fired teachers were African American. They were replaced mostly by white Teach for America recruits. The fired teachers won a lawsuit for wrongful termination and are owed $1 billion.”
- We need to recognize Elliot Rodger for what he was—a terrorist–“When Khan claimed other-worldly motivations and prayed for rewards in Heaven, plenty insisted (and fairly) that no amount of personal twistedness and no motive but the one he gave could explain what he did. Can’t the same now be said of Rodger?”
- Choosing Your Attitude–“This is of course never easy, and is made harder when dealing with something like depression, but it’s a far more concrete action to take than simply trying to choose to be happy or positive.”
- WisCon 38’s Massive Fail (and My Own)–“So, back to this year’s WisCon, I found out at my first panel that the harasser in question was back. I didn’t understand. I knew another woman had been harassed last year by the same man and she had very publicly told her story of reporting the incident.”
- WisCon Wins & Fails–“And several of the authors Lemberg has mentored and championed, who could contribute valuable new voices to WisCon, do not feel safe attending, either. What a trade-off we have made!”
- WisCon and Harassment–“What about the rights of those who have been harassed?”
- Statement on Harassment–“Until we can consult an attorney, we are not going to make public comments on particular people or incidents. We are in the process of arranging that consultation now.”
- To Jaclyn Glenn On Elliot Rodger [YouTube]–“While I don’t have a problem with the spirit of her criticism, I found a lot of inaccuracies in her statements that I felt compelled to respond to.”
- Medium: CENSORED comments on “Alpha Male” Elliot Rodger’s Retribution–“Is he the ventriloquist or is he the dummy? Does it make any difference?”
- Events this weekend mark anniversary of 1921 Tulsa Race Riot–“‘So many people are frequenting businesses located on land that should be historically sacred. This event is for them, so that they are no longer comfortable in ignorance of the massacre that happened in 1921.'”
- The Issue of Gender in Genre Fiction: A Detailed Analysis–“What I’m trying to do is make available some facts, as far as I can discern them. What is the situation regarding gender representation in science fiction?”
- “We Have Always Fought”: Essays on Craft, Fiction & Fandom–“We are a small community, all told, but the stories we write, the worlds we create, upstream often to major media channels – to movies, to comics, to TV – and various Comic-Cons have grown so large as to become forces of nature.” [Free download of Kameron Hurley’s new collection.]
- An Atheist and Agnostic Group For Women–“I have watched dozens of my friends silently walk away from organized skepticism, this network, and movement atheism because of the hostile environment they have witnessed.”
- When is a priest not a priest? When he’s molesting a child, diocese says in defense of lawsuit–“‘Well,’ replied the diocese lawyer, ‘you can determine a priest is not on duty when he is molesting a child, for example. … A priest abusing a child is absolutely contrary to the pursuit of his master’s business, to the work of a diocese.'”
- Bad Chart Thursday: Not Misogyny–“Obviously, interpreting my list that way completely ignores men’s footwear choices. It’s almost as if you believe men do not have the right to choose what they wear on their feet.”
- 5 Things I Learned After My Partner Was Sexually Battered at an Atheist Conference–“Men are no less harmed by non-consensual sexual touch than women are.”
- Why Have Female Hurricanes Killed More People Than Male Ones?–“The team argues that splitting the data meant there weren’t enough hurricanes in each subset to provide enough statistical power. But that only means we can’t rule out a connection between gender and damage; we can’t soundly confirm one either.”
- The latest fad in anti-choice law is a lie–“So abortion providers – who almost never transfer patients to hospitals – may not be able to get privileges precisely because abortions are so safe.”
- Bodies of 800 babies, long-dead, found in septic tank at former Irish home for unwed mothers–“They remember how, as one local told the Irish Central, they were ‘usually gone by school age — either adopted or dead.'”