Link Roundup! -The Toast

I wrote the best thing on the internet yesterday, so read that first.

Novels about bein’ trans, written by trans women! Casey Plett compiled this list after writing a piece which was critical of novels about trans people written by cis people:

Each protagonist is a chosen one, a lone wolf plodding on against adversity. They do no wrong; they remain gentle and stoic in the face of difficulty. Whatever imperfections they show are forgiven, usually by dint of gender trouble. “I felt unusually brave that day, a soldier alone in the trenches,” Sydney says, describing a cold trudge to the clinic for chest-reconstruction surgery. This might make for inspiring reading, but it’s odd to spend a few hundred pages with someone who goes through hell and emerges with all the flaws of a Disney hero. The reader scarcely knows anything about the characters’ inner lives.

“Revisiting the Russian cartoons of my childhood” (you know I love Russian cartoons):

Another woman was more specific: “The difference between Tom and Jerry and Ну, погоди! can probably be best seen in the antagonist wolf. In the American cartoon, Tom chases Jerry around for a while. It is aggressive, it is fun, but it is meaningless. This is not a bad thing, but beyond a psychological examination of ‘wants and needs,’ Tom doesn’t stand for anything, he does not represent anything cultural. The wolf, on the other hand, is a reflection of the rebellious Russian youth. He is a hooligan, quite literally. He smokes, wears bell-bottom jeans (very Western), is uneducated, and clever but stupid.”

One year after the destruction of Susan Cahill’s clinic:

Though she is giving up performing abortions, Cahill said she would still like to get back to her practice, to engage with her patients again at a personal level and get to work healing again.

But even that is proving difficult; according to Cahill, two building owners, one of them a personal friend of hers, have declined to rent her a space, saying she’s too much of a liability.

“I’m totally in limbo at the moment,” she said. “I don’t think I’m going to stop looking for a place, but I also realize that I’m going to be confronted with this problem, big time. If close friends think I’m a liability, that’s saying a lot.”

The cathedral in San Francisco which is dousing sleeping homeless people and their belongings with water.

FREAKNIK:

Freaknik evolved from picnic to party to long weekend of concerts and cruising through Atlanta’s dogwood-shaded streets. Buzz rippled through the campuses of historically black colleges and universities, luring students who road-tripped to Atlanta for all the reasons college students congregate anywhere: music, dancing, drinking, love, lust, and the chance to just hang out. In Atlanta—with its black political and business leaders and rich history—they found a welcoming environment. “Growing up in a place like the San Francisco Bay Area, where mainstream white middle-class culture pervades, the only understanding you had of college spring break came through a white filter,” recalls Ayanna Brown, who attended Tuskegee University in the early 1990s. An April pilgrimage to Atlanta proved “you could be black and academic and have fun—but it happened not at the beach but smack dab in the middle of the city,” says Brown, now a professor of education at Elmhurst College in Chicago. As Freaknik grew, weekend events spilled out from Piedmont Park and into clubs and concert venues around town, attracting performers and promoters. But for most attendees, the attraction was not so much going to events as getting there.

DID you watch Justified this week?

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— Jessica Misener (@jessmisener) March 18, 2015

Nicole is an Editor of The Toast.

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houblonchouffe 123p · 524 weeks ago

HOW much for a regular coffee though

what

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renegadeoboe 138p · 524 weeks ago

Re: smoothie / ice cream:

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celery · 524 weeks ago

"We do the best we can, and supporting the dignity of each person. But there is only so much you can do.”

But apparently one of those things you could afford to do was INSTALL AN AUTOMATED SYSTEM specifically designed to deprive homeless people of dignity, comfort, sleep...

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ToastiewithCheese 120p · 524 weeks ago

True Christian charity, that.

ETA: The usual warning applies - don't ever read the comments on any website except the Toast.

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Ethylbenzene 119p · 524 weeks ago

No stop putting butter in your coffee stop that

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aqwaplop 143p · 524 weeks ago

Coffee grounds and ice. That will be $20 please.

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annecara 125p · 524 weeks ago

Oh well if the smoothie's got grass-fed Ghee in it, then that's ok. I couldn't possibly drink a smoothie that had grain-fed Ghee.

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aravisthequeen 134p · 524 weeks ago

I don't recognize half the ingredients in that smoothie. Tocos?

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grumblyqueer 139p · 524 weeks ago

I can't wait for Pope Francis to hear about this hosing-the-homeless initiative and loudly disapprove. For all the dude's many failings, he's at least a bastion of Catholic charity.
The cathedral has since issued a BS apology.

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lobsterhug 86p · 524 weeks ago

How do we feel about a new Little Women movie <a href="http://:http://www.vulture.com/2015/03/polley-and-pascal-will-remake-little-women.html?mid=facebook_vulture" target="_blank">:http://www.vulture.com/2015/03/polley-and-pascal-will-remake-little-women.html?mid=facebook_vulture?

I am conflicted because what can possibly top Christain Bale and Winona Ryder's spittle kiss?

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doc_dk 100p · 524 weeks ago

What in hell is grass fed ghee? Why on earth would anyone mix ghee and ice?? Please don't do that, you're wasting ice and ghee. Gah. I happen to be inhaling some really nice ghee based food right now and the thought of taking that and mixing it with ICE is just WRONG. THESE PEOPLE MUST BE STOPPED.

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tragicallyludicrous 115p · 524 weeks ago

Endut! Hoch hech!

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ramina 119p · 524 weeks ago

For those of us with really juvenile senses of humor, apparently someone on a British Airways flight took such a catastrophic shit that the flight turned around half an hour into its journey. I can't stop laughing.

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SallyRides100Tampons 102p · 524 weeks ago

I know this isn't an open post but I keep missing them and I really want to know who else is playing "Life Is Strange". It's like if Ghost World and Fallout had a baby! A serialized baby.

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littlehuntingcreek 135p · 524 weeks ago

The previous Archbishop of San Francisco was the childhood BFF of my late FIL. He was fond of quoting "whatsoever you do to the least of you, you have done unto me." whenever someone was uncharitable in his presence.

May the current Archbishop and all those who knew about this at the Cathedral remember this while they spend hell being doused with icy water and never sleeping for all eternity.

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mikelywhiplash 135p · 524 weeks ago

Ну, погоди is no "Worker and Parasite" I'll say that much.

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deleted5647547 126p · 524 weeks ago

I would pay that price for a coffee smoothie if it did, in fact, make me bulletproof. As I could then recoup the cash by doing crimes! Wait, this is how supervillians start.

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GruntledDave 115p · 524 weeks ago

One thing I know about bulletproof coffee from friends who have tried it: it makes you extraordinarily over-regular. As in, don't do a squat or deadlift workout.

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catoclock 115p · 524 weeks ago

I'm behind on Justified because my dumb boyfriend is out of town and I can't watch without him because I would like to continue having a boyfriend and I'm VERY SAD about it.

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Frumiosa 141p · 524 weeks ago

I'm no expert on Catholicism, but I don't think the whole douse-the-homeless is exactly in line with the teachings of a certain hippie Jewish carpenter.

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elsajeni 114p · 524 weeks ago

Hi Toast. I know this isn't an open thread but my cat is going to the cat neurologist today, to determine whether the cause of her back-leg weakness is, basically, the Least Possible Problem (herniated disc) or the Worst Possible Problem, and I am miserably stressed that a) it could be the Worst Thing and also b) I can't be there to pet her and talk to the vet because this is the ONE WEEK that I have a huge amount of actual time-sensitive work to do. Please either send me distractions or tell me about that time when your cat had spinal problems and everything turned out to be totally fine.

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AmazingSandwich 109p · 524 weeks ago

Tocos has gotta be tocopherols, i.e. Vitamin E

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StillT 103p · 524 weeks ago

Well, this is the post that finally made me type "what the fuck is bulletproof coffee" into Google.
And the expected result was right there - a load of total overhyped fad diet bullshit.
ETA: Wow. Apparently I am in A MOOD this morning.

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mollyculetheory 111p · 524 weeks ago

Boy awakes from coma addicted to cheese and swearing.

"He was screaming, "Fuck! Bastard! Shit!"... and chowing down on a wheel of cheese." I'm like, I don't recall being in a coma but I must have at some point because same.

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BSharp · 524 weeks ago

I may be the only person who likes bulletproof coffee. In my defense, for health reasons I have REALLY HIGH needs for high-quality fats in my diet, so I'm a fan of any way I can get more coconut oil and happy-cow butter. In related and significantly-cheaper news, avocados+honey+lime+coconut milk = key lime smoothie. Enjoy.

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paddlepickle 119p · 524 weeks ago

I like bulletproof coffee :(

Just sometimes and with coconut oil instead of MCT but it's kinda yummy when you blend it up and good if I don't feel like eating a whole breakfast.

That dude took a fairly decent thing to drink sometimes and turned it into an insane fad diet, so I understand all your disdain, though.

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BSharp · 524 weeks ago

Also, why is butter in coffee icky, but not cream in coffee? Butter is cream that someone beat up, minus a little liquid (the buttermilk). Yay, supercream!

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beakbreath 131p · 524 weeks ago

The most offensive thing about the existence of bulletproof coffee, which I learned about from this post, is that I'm certain places that sell it don't have pastry.

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Ethylbenzene 119p · 524 weeks ago

Ethiopian cooking uses a clarified butter called niter kibeh that is spiced and is freaking amazing and easy to make on your own and has vastly improved my life.

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Ethylbenzene 119p · 524 weeks ago

I was wondering if it might be that they make different proportions of the types of fats, which would make more sense I think?

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Unreadaethel 127p · 524 weeks ago

Things I will accept as sweeteners in lieu of sugar:

Honey
Agave nectar

There, that's it, that's the list.

EDIT: response to either_ada

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Unreadaethel 127p · 524 weeks ago

Ok, this isn't the open thread, but one of the (formerly) office dogs is now up for adoption, and everybody seems to want a dog.

So this is Rachel, and she's a sweetheart. This is her smiling, because she's not trapped in an office with a person who yells at her all the time. She also has a sister (Rebekkah, also a darling), and they'd probably be happiest adopted together, but one elderly dog is a hard enough sell, let alone two.

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bookwormV 119p · 524 weeks ago

The story about the San Francisco cathedral reminded me of this, which is about defensive architecture in general: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/18/de... Apparently quite a few places use sprinklers to deter homeless people. I found it really upsetting to read, and the sprinkler part was one of the worst elements - if you're getting people and their belongings wet, and they have no dry clothes and nowhere warm to go, you essentially run the risk of killing them through hypothermia. People are monsters.

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