Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-17-2011
The Representation of Women in Fantasy: What’s the Problem? - a guest post by author Juliet E McKenna | Bad Reputation
I really do not want my teenage sons unconsciously absorbing notions of male privilege and entitlement in stories where a woman’s importance is always defined by who she might choose to sleep with, or better yet, save her precious virginity for. Where women who transgress male authority are invariably punished by supposedly indifferent twists of fate. I don’t want my niece and god-daughters reading stories which imply that true happiness lies in meekness, submission and doing the cooking and mending to facilitate so much more valuable male heroics.
(tags: sf sexandsexualityandgender)
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: Ineffective Pick-Up Lines for the Modern Internet Persona.
McSweeney's pieces don't always work for me, but this one did.
(tags: sexandsexualityandgender internet)
Do as I say, not as I do: what I know about self-care « Francesca Elston
Wise advice from Frankie.
(tags: life)
The Things They Carried: The Plugged-in Foreign Minister - Interview by Britt Peterson | Foreign Policy
What's in Carl Bildt's suitcase?
(tags: sweden politics travel)
527 - The St. Michael Line: a Straight Story? | Strange Maps | Big Think
Looking into alignments.
(tags: maps)