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Some of these are very old, although the top two are ones I found yesterday.
Second Opinion Ready Player One: The Worst Thing Nerd Culture Ever Produced (the book; not necessarily the movie)
Dutch ReviewCrazy Guy Attacks School In Netherlands; Nobody Gets Hurt Because This Isn't The US: OW and FUCKING OW.
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Vulture Sexual Harassment: It says 'in publishing' but the kicker for me is the relationship with her (now-ex) boyfriend and these words towards the end of the article.
Guardian US Alt-right are violent, anti-fascists opposing them adopt defensive tactics. This is not accurately portrayed. But we already knew that, didn't we?
Guardian UK It's not actually about the tattoo: there was a lot of palaver over the woman who was 'devo' about her son getting a tattoo six years ago. I didn't get it myself, exactly, but saved the link because I wanted to think about it. I just re-read it, and it's less about the tattoo and more about the severing of apron strings and the unwillingness of his mother to let go.
Which I at once get and don't get. Because my own 'tattoo' moment was when I came home on my 18th birthday with my ears pierced. My mother had forbidden me to get my ears pierced for years - I'd swear that she told me I could when I was 16, and then she moved the goalposts to 18. But I waited. Her argument that I was a child and she was my mother and got the say in it felt valid to me, and it wasn't a point that I cared to push. But the day I turned 18 - legally an adult, my own woman - I and a bunch of friends walked out of school at lunchtime (seniors were allowed out of school grounds), down to the local hairdresser-come-piercing place, and I got my ears pierced.
When I went home, my mother looked at my ears, sighed, and said, "I guess I should be glad you waited until you were 18."
I understand the article woman's distress - she kind of touches on how it's not about the tattoo but about her son severing apron strings - but I'm also a bit disgusted. Not by her issue with the tattoos, but by her inability to let go of her son. My mother recognised that while I would always be her baby, I was going to make choices that she disagreed with. This is something that should have been dealt with a long time ago - the letting go of children - and the mother writing the article didn't.
Then again, I'm a daughter rather than a son, and my mother was a social worker trained in dealing with family and relational dysfunctions. She didn't just help me fledge my wings, she encouraged me to fly, but - and this is important, too - she was also there to pick me up when I was down on the ground, too. She still is.
I don't have children of my own, so this isn't a decision, a choice, a course of action that I will ever have to take; I just...I guess it's sad that this woman didn't prepare herself to let go of her son, and because she didn't, then the relationship got strained.
I wonder a little now, how she and her son are going. If they are.
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NPR American Evangelicals: goes into the intersection of religion and race. For instance, white self-identifying Evangelicals generally vote Republican. But black self-identifying Evangelicals generally vote Democrat.
I don't think there's a tickybox for 'Evangelicals' in the Australian Census. The closest is probably 'Anglican' (13.5% in 2016).
Daily Kos Let's talk about race and religion... This is a really good, in-depth article about the label 'Evangelicals', which also talks about race and black evangelicals and how they have been, are, and will be changing the faith landscape of the US. (Also, a point: the exit polls that talk about 'evangelicals' only allow white people to identify as 'evangelical' which means when media talk about "the exit polls say evangelicals..." they mean specifically and exclusively white ones.
HBR In the workplace, men and women do the same thing, but women are penalised for it. The conclusion is "well, duh" but the numbers help for argument's sake.
Guardian If everything is a circus, who cares about bread? (Aug 17)
When Our Deputy PM (basically the VP) found out he was actually a dual citizen, which isn't allowed under our constitution, there was much amusement: Barnaby Joyce, as a fellow Kwassie, I feel a cultural responsibility to you....
Of course, he's since followed that up with cheating on his wife after bleating about the sanctity of traditional marriage. As is par for the course for conservative politicians around here.
The Great Debate is two theologians writing out their thoughts on Marriage Equality:
one for and the other against, both from biblical perspectives (as in, reading from the generally accepted text in Christian circles).
Second Opinion Ready Player One: The Worst Thing Nerd Culture Ever Produced (the book; not necessarily the movie)
Dutch ReviewCrazy Guy Attacks School In Netherlands; Nobody Gets Hurt Because This Isn't The US: OW and FUCKING OW.
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Vulture Sexual Harassment: It says 'in publishing' but the kicker for me is the relationship with her (now-ex) boyfriend and these words towards the end of the article.
It’s like teaching someone how to play a game and then punishing them when they follow the rules; women would act differently if we believed there was any other way to escape unharmed from the whims of men.
Guardian US Alt-right are violent, anti-fascists opposing them adopt defensive tactics. This is not accurately portrayed. But we already knew that, didn't we?
Guardian UK It's not actually about the tattoo: there was a lot of palaver over the woman who was 'devo' about her son getting a tattoo six years ago. I didn't get it myself, exactly, but saved the link because I wanted to think about it. I just re-read it, and it's less about the tattoo and more about the severing of apron strings and the unwillingness of his mother to let go.
Which I at once get and don't get. Because my own 'tattoo' moment was when I came home on my 18th birthday with my ears pierced. My mother had forbidden me to get my ears pierced for years - I'd swear that she told me I could when I was 16, and then she moved the goalposts to 18. But I waited. Her argument that I was a child and she was my mother and got the say in it felt valid to me, and it wasn't a point that I cared to push. But the day I turned 18 - legally an adult, my own woman - I and a bunch of friends walked out of school at lunchtime (seniors were allowed out of school grounds), down to the local hairdresser-come-piercing place, and I got my ears pierced.
When I went home, my mother looked at my ears, sighed, and said, "I guess I should be glad you waited until you were 18."
I understand the article woman's distress - she kind of touches on how it's not about the tattoo but about her son severing apron strings - but I'm also a bit disgusted. Not by her issue with the tattoos, but by her inability to let go of her son. My mother recognised that while I would always be her baby, I was going to make choices that she disagreed with. This is something that should have been dealt with a long time ago - the letting go of children - and the mother writing the article didn't.
Then again, I'm a daughter rather than a son, and my mother was a social worker trained in dealing with family and relational dysfunctions. She didn't just help me fledge my wings, she encouraged me to fly, but - and this is important, too - she was also there to pick me up when I was down on the ground, too. She still is.
I don't have children of my own, so this isn't a decision, a choice, a course of action that I will ever have to take; I just...I guess it's sad that this woman didn't prepare herself to let go of her son, and because she didn't, then the relationship got strained.
I wonder a little now, how she and her son are going. If they are.
--
NPR American Evangelicals: goes into the intersection of religion and race. For instance, white self-identifying Evangelicals generally vote Republican. But black self-identifying Evangelicals generally vote Democrat.
I don't think there's a tickybox for 'Evangelicals' in the Australian Census. The closest is probably 'Anglican' (13.5% in 2016).
Daily Kos Let's talk about race and religion... This is a really good, in-depth article about the label 'Evangelicals', which also talks about race and black evangelicals and how they have been, are, and will be changing the faith landscape of the US. (Also, a point: the exit polls that talk about 'evangelicals' only allow white people to identify as 'evangelical' which means when media talk about "the exit polls say evangelicals..." they mean specifically and exclusively white ones.
HBR In the workplace, men and women do the same thing, but women are penalised for it. The conclusion is "well, duh" but the numbers help for argument's sake.
Guardian If everything is a circus, who cares about bread? (Aug 17)
When Our Deputy PM (basically the VP) found out he was actually a dual citizen, which isn't allowed under our constitution, there was much amusement: Barnaby Joyce, as a fellow Kwassie, I feel a cultural responsibility to you....
Of course, he's since followed that up with cheating on his wife after bleating about the sanctity of traditional marriage. As is par for the course for conservative politicians around here.
The Great Debate is two theologians writing out their thoughts on Marriage Equality:
one for and the other against, both from biblical perspectives (as in, reading from the generally accepted text in Christian circles).
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