So, as some people may or may not be aware, Elizabeth (Sent Without Subject) and I will be leaving on our trip to Namibia and Zambia in less than one week! So before I go, I wanted to give you lot a few links that I've been saving up.
My first category is best described as RANDOM:
This first article about Norway's Grassy Roofs at BoingBoing is just cool. Cool houses in a cool place with cool things happening.
Next we have You Fail Logic Forever thanks to TV Tropes. A related link: Common Misconceptions at Wikipedia. Go read and get smarter, pls.
This article makes the claim that Upper Class People Have Trouble Recognizing Others' Emotions. Which, honestly, sounds kind of familiar.
The final random link is this article about North American English Dialects. According to this, I speak the "lowest common denominator" version of English in which "cot" and "caught" are pronounced the same. Yay me! I have about 14 vowels in my repertoire, according to this guy, which kind of sounds about right. Also, I love Japanese.
THE NEXT SECTION OF LINKS has to do with consent and rape. So this is a [Trigger Warning]. Some of these links are intense.
I burst into tears reading this article, Aftershocks: Welcome to Haiti's Reconstruction Hell. It's honestly staggering. And at the same time, I have no idea what can be done to make things better. Besides, you know, if people would just stop being awful to each other, and corrupt, and apathetic. And at the same time, as is described in the article, there is a bit of hypocrisy in my huge emotions for the turmoil in Haiti.
And there's this article, Scroedinger's Rapist, which gets deep into the sort of sad mentality that living in a Rape Culture can bring on. The sad truth is that most rapes are perpetrated by someone the survivor knows. Many of those rapists are people the survivor SHOULD have been able to trust. So how, exactly, do women know who will rape them and who will not? Well, we don't, which is unfortunate since we've got around a 1 in four chance of being raped in our lifetimes.
Here's It Takes Two, an article about Enthusiastic Consent.
And as a follow-up, The (Nonexistent) No Good Very Bad Consequences Of Enthusiastic Consent.
HERE'S The In-Pop-Culture Portion:
Here's a great website cataloging what movie do or don't pass The Bechdel Test, also known as the mo Movie Measure, among other things. The test, which is Not About Passing so much as it is about how bad it is that so many films just don't pass, and is an effort to get you to think about why they don't pass.
In addition to the Bechdel Test, there is also The Johnson Test, which tests 1. Are there at least two PoC who have names who 2. talk to each other 3. about something other than a white person. Unsurprisingly, most Hollywood films fail this even worse than the Mo Movie Measure. And quite frankly that's troubling.
Here's The Controlled Multiple Personalities of Writers. I don't really like this article, but it's interesting to think about. Just to be clear, though, no. Writing is not the same as have any form of mental disease. It's demeaning to those who live with mental disorders to compare them with someone writing about things.
I may have linked to this (among other things here) before, but Creating The Innocent Killer was one of the great articles which made me rethink how much I truly enjoyed Ender's Game. On the one hand, when I read the books, I truly loved them, and loved Ender, and felt so much pain for him. But rethinking the series, I just find more and more things I hated about them and what I felt about them.
NOW FOR MY REQUISITE ATHEISM SECTION!
We'll kick it off with God Is Imaginary. Because yeah, yeah he is.
Next we head over to Daylight Atheism for Little Known Bible Verses. Because the Bible has some incredibly odd things in it that make me not trust the people who believe in it.
Here's a reminder that Religion isn't necessary for morals.
The rest of my links today are from a single source, Greta Christina's blog. She discusses man topics, but a major one is atheism.
I will just list them in an order I think is good by title.
A Self-Referential Game Of Twister: What Religion Looks Like From The Outside
An Open Letter To Concerned Believers
Atheism and the "Shut Up, That's Why" Arguments
How Dare Atheists make Their Case! Part One
How Dare Atheists make Their Case! Part Two
How Dare You Atheists Exist?
How Atheists Can't Win
Are Atheists Open Minded?
Eleven Myths And Truths About Atheism
Atheism, Openness, and Caring About Reality: Or, Why What We Don't Believe Matters
Do You Care Whether Or Not The Things You Believe Are True?
The True Faith: Liberal And Conservative Christiaity
Why Are You Still Catholic?
Eternal Fire: What Jesus Says In The Gospels About Hell
Atheists And Anger
Atheists and Anger: A Reply To The Hurricane
The End! I have a kittypants laying across half my keyboard. So CUTE!!!
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