I've read these before, and have had cause to link to them but couldn't find them again, so I'm putting them here so I can (trigger warning: sexual assault, no graphic descriptions):

Mythcommunication: It’s Not That They Don’t Understand, They Just Don’t Like The Answer

Meet the Predators

Whenever fail like the Readercon debacle occurs, there are always posts and links that speak well beyond that particular fail. Here are the ones I've seen from this round (updated as more are found ( Read more... )

If I never see another poorly designed survey about non-mainstream sexuality posted by someone without research cred who claims to not understand how LJ works technically (let alone the social etiquette here), it will be too damn soon.

( trigger warning, NSFW )

Via bikergeek, Amanda Palmer (as in Dresden Dolls and Neil Gaiman's fiancee) has jumped the hipster shark (warning: photos of graphic real-life violence). (For those who are unfamiliar with the phenomenon being enacted here, see hipster racism)

Not convinced this isn't simply a Twit moment[1]? See an explanation of her response to people being distressed ( Read more... )

I must share this trainwreck because on the one hand it is the funniest damn thing I have seen all day and on the other hand when the writers of the Old Testament gave more personage to women than you do[1], you are officially made of fail.

[1] Not Stealing is a different commandment than Not Coveting Someone's Wife for a reason y'all.

It's MLK Day, which makes this particularly poignant. At Arisia, the Musical Guest of Honor sung a song about a raccoon under her porch. Apparently what you heard from the song and its intro patter differ widely: PoC fen perspective vs. guilty white fen perspective. I think I'll take karnythia and her friends' PoV on this over a white fen who can only see ( Read more... )

So there's some moron somewhere on the Internet who whined about how Science Fiction is a man's genre (as demonstrated by classic scifi books/shows where Men Do Things(tm) and there isn't any of that icky Relationship stuff) and the wimmins and gayzors need to Get Out. Which prompted me to create my first ever macro:


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If you're going to go through the effort of drawing 4-5 comics about the end of the Battle of the Sexes, the very least you can do is have your characters check their male privilege at the door after that point, particularly when they're referring to said event. At least with the characters who aren't foreign savages like the African lions or the ( Read more... )

There have actually been some things to come out of Surveyfail that would be interesting to people who couldn't care less that some asshole "researchers" were poking fandom with a stick (again). At the very least, as someone whose BA is in Psych and Neuroscience, I find this examination of cognitive neuroscience (here's more of that examination ( Read more... )