Selfless Signal-Boosting (November)
Recommend someone else’s writings/events! Use this thread for ICYMI links and anything else you think other readers might find interesting.
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Open Thread with Halloween Chihuahua
Boo! Spooky three-headed chihuahua features for this week’s Open Thread for this week’s Open Thread. Please natter/chatter/vent/rant on anything* you like over this weekend and throughout the week.
* with a few netiquette exceptions
VLOGGING – Rape Culture in Gaming?
This is the 6th episode of Sex Positive Gamer, where we play popular videogames whilst answering your shagging questions. Now your male friends have no excuses for not knowing their sex education (unless they were too busy with Planned Parenthood volunteering or something). Our adviser is occasional Feministe contributor Echo Zen. Is rape culture a […]
...read moreYoung women: Less voting, more Tinder. It’s for the best.
Fox News’s “The Five” wants young women to know that you’re really too stupid right now to participate in public life. Not too stupid in general — someday, you’ll be old enough and conservative enough to vote or serve on juries. Just not right now. The Five discuss the age and gender gap as it could influence the midterm elections and then veers off to let young women know that right now, while you’re healthy and hot, you should just focus on Tinder and Match.com and let the grownups make the decisions.
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Spillover #22
Time for our twenty-second #spillover thread. Some reminders:
1. #spillover is part of our comment moderation system for keeping other threads on-topic by providing a separate constructive space for side-discussions.
2. Commentors are encouraged to respect the topic of each post and cheerfully volunteer to take off-topic side-discussions into #spillover.
“Fame-inism” for the rest of us
So. “Beyonce feminism.” Roxane Gay is against it. (Annie Lennox, too.)
...read moreUsing so many words to say so little…
What is the famous song “Strange Fruit,” by Abel Meeropol, a New York Jewish communist schoolteacher, and most famously performed by Billie Holiday, the immensely influential and important black singer, about? Lynching. It’s about lynching. It’s about whites lynching black people in the US South. See how easy that was? Very few words. Here’s what […]
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Open Thread with Meerkats
Meerkats feature for this week’s Open Thread. Please natter/chatter/vent/rant on anything* you like over this weekend and throughout the week.
* with a few netiquette exceptions
Don’t you get sick of those damned poor trick-or-treaters in your rich neighborhood?
This week, an actual win from advice columnist Dear Prudence:
...read moreI live in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the country, but on one of the more “modest” streets — mostly doctors and lawyers and family business owners. (A few blocks away are billionaires, families with famous last names, media moguls, etc.) I have noticed that on Halloween, what seems like 75 percent of the trick-or-treaters are clearly not from this neighborhood. … Should Halloween be a neighborhood activity, or is it legitimately a free-for-all in which people hunt down the best candy grounds for their kids?
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