massive link dump...

[supremegoddess1]

1) Woman builds incredible dollhouse replica of Bag End.

2) The Price of Sexual Silence. About the need for comprehensive sex education for Texas students, deaf and otherwise.

3) You've gotta love the Onion...


VH1 Reality Show Bus Crashes In California Causing Major Slut Spill

4) Every celiac's worst nightmare.5) Just because I love Pink

Comments

[furryfairy]

Good stuff. There were some sexy librarians in that gaga video, and it was funnier than usual for nerdy parody as well. Win all around. :)

[seattlejo]

That's my new department in the Librarian video! :-) The Glee porn parody was kind of hilarious.

[xiphias]

Did you hear that a new piece of news just came out today about the celiac case?

Paul Seelig, in an attempt to get his felony charges reduced, attempted to plea-bargan, saying that he had information about a murder case. He implicated a co-worker of his who had absolutely no connection to anything. He's now facing an additional felony charge of false accusation of murder.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/08/520350/man-invents-killer-to-avoid-food.html

[supremegoddess1]

this story just gets more and more bizarre....

[xiphias]

At this point, I'm really wondering if he doesn't deserve an insanity defense. It's possible that the guy really, genuinely is out of touch with reality, and ought to be locked up in an institution for life, to keep him out of trouble. Rather than in jail for a limited period of time.

My opinion of the Ebert column

[tamago23]

I was discussing that column with Frolic a few days ago. My feelings on it, as someone engaged in the anti-racist movement:

[Some quick acronyms - WP is white person/people, BP is black person/people, BW is black woman, WM is white man, PoC is person/people of color, etc.]

While the column is interesting, it also fails in some ways. Primarily because:
1. As we often do, he makes it about the WP rather than about the real victims in this scenario; while there's a few times when he attempts to empathize with the BP (although usually not without a heavy dose of ass-covering), then there's three paragraphs discussing the white people in this "it must be so awful to be racist, those poor people". It's reframing it to be about the aggressors rather than the victims, and showing pity to the aggressors. It's interesting timing, because the current Stuff White People Do is about a similar subject: SWPD: rush to the aid of crying white instigators2. He's ignoring systemized racism and using "racism" to mean "only overt racism". Only overt

Re: My opinion of the Ebert column

[tamago23]

[continued from previous]

3. He's assuming that how he views the world as a WP is the same as how a BP would view it. Such things as, "There are many people in this world today who remain enigmas to me, and some who are offensive. But that is not because of their race. It is usually because of their beliefs." show that he feels that his viewpoint is adequate enough to allow him to appropriately assume the feelings, thoughts, and motivations of PoC, simply by imagining how he'd feel/think in their situation. But the viewpoint of BP is often a profoundly different viewpoint, because although they've been raised alongside us, they've been raised on the other side of race privilege. For example, it could be argued that being a woman myself, I'd be able to imagine the viewpoint of a BW easier than a WM could. But I continually find that I miss things that should have been obvious. For example, on the SWPD that I linked to above, someone asked when the cartoon depicted became racist. One of the commenters, who is a BW, said, "The moment

[joeymichaels]

Thank you for the plug! I was sure that one would get a whole lot more response than it did. That's what I get for sacrificing. :P