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Is It Torture Now? ISIS Apparently A Fan Of CIA's Waterboarding Techniques

Women Listening To Men In Western Art History

Dignified Debate: The United Kingdom shows the rest of the world how to have a wise, honest, eloquent discussion about assisted suicide.

Indefensible: Why Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s lawyer is leaving the defense team—and the Army.

Labor Intensive: In Defense of Sex Work
Sex work is not a liability. It is a form of labor and art; its participants don't deserve violence or stigma.

What Wellesley learned when it stopped giving out so many A's

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Death Penalty and Race: Race of Homicide Victims in Cases Resulting in an Execution since 1976

Economic harassment and the Ferguson crisis

Why I Don’t Call the Police: Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Debra Harrell. And that’s just the latest.

White Privilege: An Insidious Virus that’s Eating America from Within

What I've Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings

What Militarization Has Done to Our Police Departments: A few facts you might have missed about the flow of military equipment and tactics to local law enforcement.

Whitewashing and the Problem With the Ice Bucket Challenge

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Things I'm reading and contemplating this week. Also, Christian Bale IS Patrick Bateman. That is all.

THE TROUBLED BIRTH OF AMERICAN PSYCHO

America Is Not For Black People

Line By Line: "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

Robin Williams and the Myth of “Battling” Depression

Despicable Memes: How “miracle” jokes and inspiration porn demean disabled people.

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I think about racism alot because it happens alot.

Preview: No Selves to Defend – Marissa Alexander & A Legacy of Criminalizing Women of Color for Self-Defense

The Science of Your Racist Brain: Neuroscientist David Amodio on subconscious racial prejudice and why we're still responsible for our actions.

How LBJ Saved the Civil Rights Act: Fifty years later, new accounts of its fraught passage reveal the era's real hero—and it isn’t the Supreme Court.

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'X-Men's' Ellen Page on Life After Coming Out, the Bryan Singer Case and Her Battle With Depression

All My Exes Live in Texts: Why the Social Media Generation Never Really Breaks Up

The Congresswoman Whose Husband Called Her Home

A Kinder Way to Kill

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Did Scientists Just Solve the Bee Collapse Mystery?

After 85 Years, First Gremlin Found Alive

The Supreme Court’s city council prayer decision

18 Empowering Illustrations to Remind Everyone Who's Really in Charge of Women's Bodies

Adding Monsters to Thrift Store Paintings

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Nudes in Classical Paintings Replaced with Camgirls 

Are You a Slut? That Depends. Are You Rich?

29 Insane Life Hacks With… Sex Toys

On Rihanna Teaching Me to Say No to Modesty Culture

THE GREAT IVY LEAGUE NUDE POSTURE PHOTO SCANDAL

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The Heavy Metal Subculture of Botswana, Africa

An Afghan Village Of Drug Addicts, From Ages 10 To 60

Apple Cores Are A Myth

There Is No Such Thing As a ‘Typical’ Low-Wage Worker

Nigeria's Stolen Girls

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Dear Murka, I love you so.


You'll Never Believe What Font They Use: An Interview with the Westboro Baptists

Dear America, I Saw You Naked: Listening to a TSA Agent

Arizona Town's Stray Chihuahuas Are Creating a Public Health Threat

Hummus Is Conquering America!

10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America (A Post on Perspective)

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Because I am a giant feminist.

Hollywood and the N-Word

The Unbearable Whiteness of Breaking Things: Privilege in action, yo.

Where White Supremacists Breed Online

The trouble with virginity: What America’s sexual language leaves out

The Life and Death of Enslaved Human Zoo Captive Ota Benga

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When “Life Hacking” Is Really White Privilege: Personal Development gurus can get away with whatever they want, so why can’t you?

Birth Control Sabotage as Domestic Violence: A Legal Response

Why Is the NYPL Hosting Convicted Rapist Mike Tyson? Or, Why the fuck is anyone paying any attention whatsofuckingever to rapist Mike Tyson? This article clearly outlines my thoughts.

CDC Data WTF? On Number of Sexual Partners
Median number of female sexual partners in lifetime, for men 25-44 years of age, 2006-2008: 6.1
Median number of male sexual partners in lifetime, for women 25-44 years of age, 2006-2008: 3.6

Okay, so the average man sleeps with 6 women and the average woman sleeps with 4 men. In their entire life. What? Okay, maybe I'm just a big slut. Whatever. It's cool; I'm sex-positive, haha.

Finally, when I read articles, websites generally suggest articles. Here's one such list of suggestions:

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After reading all about Miley Cyrus tweaking at the VMAs, I have some things to say about Robin Thicke. First, I originally thought he was Justin Timberlake. No really. The video for Blurred Lines kept coming on Mexican TV at Aranda's while I was at work, and I remembering thinking that JT had kinda let himself go because marriage, haha. Anyway, I later learned he was Alan Thicke's kid and was married and had children of his own and then I was just really confused. Now I'm hearing all about Miley and this is what I'm thinking about. Last, sometime soon, I'm gonna karaoke Blurred Lines at the Railhead but sing the feminist parody version and it will be awesome. Anyway.


A Feminist Parody of Blurred Lines:



Dear son, don’t let Robin Thicke be a lesson to you

The Blurred Lines Of Real Manhood (Robin Thicke, I’m Looking In Your Direction)

Robin Thicke Calls ‘Blurred Lines’ a ‘Feminist Movement Within Itself’

A Feminist Takedown of Robin Thicke, And Anyone Who Thinks There's Something "Blurry" About Sexism

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This week, I'm thinking about privilege. Okay well really, I'm always thinking about privilege but this week I'm linking about privilege. Haha.
 
On Privilege

The Distress of the Privileged

THE ETHICS OF LIVING JIM CROW: An Autobiographical Sketch

Whites Believe They Are Victims of Racism More Often Than Blacks: In Zero Sum Game, "Reverse Racism" Seen as Bigger Problem than Anti-Black Racism

Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

Facts are Cool: In Support of Straight White Male

What We Aren’t Talking About When We Talk About ‘White Privilege’

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So this week, I'm thinking of Christianity and feminism and the Bible. But first! A story. A long time ago, my friend Amanda and I were at work and she was freaking out because she'd been asked to teach Sunday school the next morning on an emergency basis and didn't know any Bible stories, aside from the one with the Disney movie. She asked me if I knew any Bible stories and I said that I did, after which I told her a few, including the zombies and stuff that a seriously-but-rightfully pissed-off God sent between the crucifixion of His kid and the rise of Jesus, also a zombie, three days later and the least gory of which was the one with Elisha and the Good News Bears, in which some kids made fun of His prophet's bald head, after which He sends forty-two bears to rend those children into bits. She told me I was never allowed to tell her children Bible stories, haha.


This first link tries to explain away and justify the story of Elisha, but no.

Yo. The Bible has mixed messages on sexuality, but none of them says that homosexuality is a sin. Surprise!

"I don't hate gay people! But I am a good Christian!": Why You Are Wrong

What I Learned About the Gospel from Drag Queens

Jesus was a feminist and so am I.

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So this week, I'm thinking of Christianity and feminism and the Bible. But first! A story. A long time ago, my friend Amanda and I were at work and she was freaking out because she'd been asked to teach Sunday school the next morning on an emergency basis and didn't know any Bible stories, aside from the one with the Disney movie. She asked me if I knew any Bible stories and I said that I did, after which I told her a few, including the zombies and stuff that a seriously-but-rightfully pissed-off God sent between the crucifixion of His kid and the rise of Jesus, also a zombie, three days later and the least gory of which was the one with Elisha and the Good News Bears, in which some kids made fun of His prophet's bald head, after which He sends forty-two bears to rend those children into bits. She told me I was never allowed to tell her children Bible stories, haha.


This first link tries to explain away and justify the story of Elisha, but no.

Yo. The Bible has mixed messages on sexuality, but none of them says that homosexuality is a sin. Surprise!

"I don't hate gay people! But I am a good Christian!": Why You Are Wrong

What I Learned About the Gospel from Drag Queens

Jesus was a feminist and so am I.

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This week, I'm thinking about abortion. If you only read one of these, read the first one.

The Last Abortion Doctor

My Abortion: One in three women has an abortion by the age of 45. How many ever talk about it? New laws, old stigmas. 26 stories.

The Violinist: A Thought Experiment

My miscarriage, my abortion.

I wish my mother had aborted me: This is no 'I wish I'd never been born' howl of angst. I love my mother, and having an abortion would have given her a better life.

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This week I bring you a list of lists. Some of these are inherently interesting to me, while others are astounding simply because of the time and energy expended to compile them. Some are pedantic, while others are heart-wrenching. Either way, enjoy!

People who have been in the band Slipknot, complete with a graphical timeline.

List of films by gory death scene.

List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-related films by storyline.

Women In Refrigerators: Not every woman in comics has been killed, raped, depowered, crippled, turned evil, maimed, tortured, contracted a disease or had other life-derailing tragedies befall her, but it's hard to think up exceptions.

List of English words containing Q not followed by U

List of U.S. state constitutional amendments banning same-sex unions by type

List of countries without armed forces.

TSA v. Feminist Critical Thought

To the TSA, a thick book on feminist critical thought in the bottom of my borrowed luggage looks like a bomb. Unfortunately, this attitude is not uncommon.

Two Things

Two things:

1. Fuck Columbus Day.
2. Kashi Indigo Morning cereal is boss.

That is all.

"Vell, Mitt's just zis guy, you know?"*

Dressage. Really. Although I have friends whom are avid riders, I had to search to see for the definition of 'dressage'. Apparently, it's horse ballet**, and is also known as the highest expression of horse training. Regular folks - folks who work and pay taxes and worry about a mortgage - don't own dressage horses. We also don't declare a tax loss of $77,000 for the care and feeding of a dressage horse that qualifies for the next Olympics. An interesting parallel is that in 2010, the same year in which they declared that loss, the mean yearly per capita income was less than $28,000.

But, hey, he totally represents me as a citizen!***

*Zaphod is equally well-suited to be our President, and for exactly the same reasons.

**I'm not being sarcastic. That's really what it's called!

***I am totally being sarcastic.