[links] Link salad yawns

[jaylake]

Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter, Shreck and The Persuaders and adapting globalized pop culture to local tastes - International fan fic.

Boys with babies and women with knives: Rethinking gender assumptionist power structures - Kameron Hurley is smart. (Via Marta Murvosh.)

How one man spent his 22nd birthday. - This is sweet. (Via

Comments

[joycemocha]

I'm sorry, but Kameron Hurley set my teeth on edge. Too much with the mansplaining. He had some valid points but--they got buried in other stuff. Maybe if he hadn't kept bringing up LeGuin whilst subtly getting the philosophy off. Not a huge off, but just enough askance.

(And also--anyone of the human male variant who wants to go off on female hierarchical structures not being hardwired had damned well better spend some time around dominant females of other species. Alpha females do structure differently and it's tied to bearing young. That doesn't mean they're all lovey-dovey--as anyone who has encountered a protective alpha mare with a newborn foal will tell you.)

[jaylake]

Just FYI, Kameron Hurley is female.

[joycemocha]

Ah. Younger feminist (and watch me embarrass myself with the assumption). Still doesn't overcome the tooth-jarring aspect.

[shelly_rae]

Heh, you missed the headline I ran the other day.
Nazis stole Buddist artifact from outer space
That ought to make the pages of the enquirer.
Be well.
Anon

[fledgist]

Nazis made of meteorite?