All of these other links seemed more important before Canada won the gold medal in women’s hockey in overtime. Huzzah! Marie-Philip Poulin! Huzzah. Watch Canadians lose their MINDS. I also like seeing men celebrate women winning shit, incidentally.
If there is any chance you missed our interview with Maria Bamford, FIX THAT NONSENSE.
And then, oh, God, read this WHOLE THING by Mary Beard on “The Public Voice of Women”:
My aim here – and I acknowledge the irony of my being given the space to address the subject – is to take a long view, a very long view, on the culturally awkward relationship between the voice of women and the public sphere of speech-making, debate and comment: politics in its widest sense, from office committees to the floor of the House. I’m hoping that the long view will help us get beyond the simple diagnosis of ‘misogyny’ that we tend a bit lazily to fall back on. To be sure, ‘misogyny’ is one way of describing of what’s going on. (If you go on a television discussion programme and then receive a load of tweets comparing your genitalia to a variety of unpleasantly rotting vegetables, it’s hard to find a more apt word.) But if we want to understand – and do something about – the fact that women, even when they are not silenced, still have to pay a very high price for being heard, we have to recognise that it is a bit more complicated and that there’s a long back-story.
Let’s take it down-market for a minute. Showgirls is on HBO Go, did you know that? How many of your friends are sharing the same HBO Go password?
White transmen and Audre Lorde.
Before and after pictures of animals growing UP.
The Archdiocese of Newark should hire that PR woman the Bluths used.
Mallory sent me this gifset two minutes before I had to leave the house and I was mad at her for hours.
WHERE IS YOUR DEMAND FOR BIBLICAL ACCURACY NOW, people? Mallory’s sister is gonna straighten you out.
The failure of child protection in Los Angeles. This one is last so you can take your time with it.
