Poverty consumes mental resources, making people worse at everything.

"Put another way, the condition of poverty imposed a mental burden akin to losing 13 IQ points, or comparable to the cognitive difference that’s been observed between chronic alcoholics and normal adults."


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In no particular order, things that are important or useful or fun.

The Omniscient Breasts, Kate Elliott

YOU CAN WRITE FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A FEMALE CHARACTER AND STILL BE WRITING WITH THE MALE GAZE ( Read more... )

Oh, Holly, you so awesome.

Why do you care what other people think?

Isn't it just paranoia to be upset when people don't acknowledge the existence of people like me? Isn't it just attention-seeking to demand that everyone approve of my lifestyle? Can't I just do my thing and not worry about what other people think ( Read more... )

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Before I get to work tonight, a roundup of open tabs!

Sex-Pozzie is a stellar Pervocracy post in which Holly discusses what sex-positive feminism is and is not.

It's not the giggling, hair-twirling exclamation of "it's feminist to be sexayyy!" It's really not. I'm not going to defend that strawman ( Read more... )

So fucking awesome I just took SAN loss.

Hand-painted glass eyes, wire-wrapped.


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I'm closing the shit out of these tabs.

A useful rape analogy. Short, sharp, to the point. The truest thing you'll read today, almost guaranteed. It is, however, a picture, so I'll put the full text under the cut.

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Hey!

First, and most briefly, we're rolling stuff out on the Kindle, finally. We're trying it out on Hour of the Gryphon first.


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In the "there's actually a word for that" category, we have:

ghost word
fictitious entry
mondegreen
kadigan aka placeholder name

These four things alone are responsible for so much of my literary sense of humor.

Also:

petrichor aka the smell of rain
geosmin aka the chemical responsible for the smell of turned earth ( Read more... )

I am preparing a links post for all sorts of things (ALL the links!) but right now I want you to go read this.

Holly at The Pervocracy: "Why does she stay with that jerk?"

Spoiler:

The one thing that isn't on the list, anywhere, is "the victim is just weak and stupid."
Go. Read it now. Link to it. Send it to as many people as you can. Holly' ( Read more... )