Interesting Links for 19-03-2015

[andrewducker]

• New genetic map of Britain shows successive waves of immigration going back 10,000 years
  (tags: genetics UK history )
• Why it makes sense to cast a native Hawiian as Aquaman
  (tags: comics movies race )
• The lessons given to US doctors on how to spot bad drug studies contain advertising...
  (tags: advertising drugs healthcare usa )
• Batman: The Killing

Comments

ROAR - one of the most disaster-plagued film shoots of all time.

[cartesiandaemon]

Wow. I think I might add that to my list of article titles I was sure would be completely misleading but weren't[1].

Although I guess, for a story that starts with "they began covertly adopting and breeding lions in their lush Beverly Glenn home" I'm amazed there wasn't MORE disaster.

I also feel like "be mauled by a pride of lions you keep in your house 69 time, shame on them; be mauled by a pride of lions 70 times, shame on you"...

[1] So far, "Why taking a ceramics class would be good for your procrastination problems" and "I replaced 99% of my DNA with that of a hunter gatherer".

Re: ROAR - one of the most disaster-plagued film shoots of all time.

[bart_calendar]

I want to know how you get insurance to spend five years filming a bunch of lions you've raised in your home.

Re: ROAR - one of the most disaster-plagued film shoots of all time.

[skington]

Pretty sure that was part of "the finance dried up".

[ckd]

It's a shame the AU/NZ/CA/UK proposal is so heavily Commonwealth-themed, since that implicitly leaves the Irish out of the picture even if it were expanded. Of course, Irish citizens can already live in the UK quite easily, but adding the other three as options would be so very nice for me....

[wildeabandon]

http://abigailbrady.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/are-clitoral-piercings-illegal-probably.html?m=1

[bart_calendar]

One of the main plot points of "American Mary" - one of the best feminist films ever made - is a woman who has to go to the underground marketplace for cosmetic vaginal surgery she desperately wants because legally it would be classified as FGM.

The character (who essentially wants her vagina to look like the genitial of a Barbie doll) says to Mary “a doll can be naked and never feel shy or sexualized or degraded.”

It's an interesting point of view. If you are a sane adult and want to modify your vagina because you are trying to eliminate male gaze from your life, should you have the right to do so or not?

[andrewducker]

Cheers!

Sounds like it's largely a grey area, until a judge rules on one. I wish I shared their confidence that a judge would rule in a sane way.

[simont]

Good Lord - this virus is like something out of a zombie movie!

Good grief. That is so exactly like a zombie plague that my first thought was to check if it was a 1st April article!

[andrewducker]

Oh yes. If something similar happened to humans it would be terrifying!

[bart_calendar]

The writer uses a lot of words to say "Allan Moore has issues with women."

[andrewducker]

Well, kinda. I know that rape turns up in Alan Moore's stories a lot because he saw it being airbrushed out of things a lot when he was younger, and felt that it was something that was never talked about, despite happening a lot. And he's tried to deal with that from good intentions - but I don't think he always succeeds.

[bart_calendar]

I think Moore is very well intentioned.

I also think he's insane and doesn't realize he has a lot of innate mysongyny going on in his subconscious.

[andrewducker]

What innate misogyny are you referring to?