Books On Being Bored by a Particular Kind of Male Narrator
Elizabeth Weinberg is fed up with a certain strain of male narrator who is infecting current fiction.
2014
Books 
Feminism Gal Science: Why Are There So Few Female Scientists?
Helen Klus examines the lack of female scientists in the UK and elsewhere, and does a rundown on the most likely suspects.
Video Games The Legend of Zelda’s Ocarina of Time: Giving The Gender Binary A Swift Roundhouse Kick To The Face
There is perhaps no queerer mainstream video game than the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and that's fantastic.
History “Filles du Roi”: Come Visit Scenic New France in the 17th Century
Lindsey Palka, on the hundreds of young women, known as "Filles du Roi," who traveled to New France to marry and make difficult new lives for themselves.
Beauty The Care and Keeping of One Woman’s Short Hair
R. Rea, on her ever-evolving purple pixie cut, and some general boostering for short hair.
Live Every Day
What you should live every day like.
Family Childless by Some Choice: Parenting and Mental Illness
Anna Andersen, on deciding to be childfree not because she doesn't want to be a mother, but because she believes it to be the best option for her.
Books Dirtbag Little Women
Little Women, with dirtbags.
Books Modernist Game of Thrones
Why, it's a selection of modernist poets and novelists talking about "Game of Thrones": William Carlos Williams: “So much depends upon the red wedding.”
Books The Adventures of Madeline
Madeline is a normal little girl.
LGBT Being Trans Online: Visibility and Imposition
Avery Dame on how the changing online visibility of trans men and women, as well as vlogs of transition, have been both empowering and overwhelming.
Link Roundup Link Roundup!
The Toast presents a selection of delightful information in the form of a link roundup.
“Like Wearing Pants to Church”: Mormon Feminists Testing the Waters
Daniel Gross on the Mormon feminists who are attempting to very slightly nudge the boundaries of their faith.
Meta Toast Points: The Week of April 4th
This week's Toast Points. Do not point Toast Points directly at eyes.
Cocktail Hour: Open Thread
The Toast's weekly Friday open thread, hosted by The Bartender.
