Today's links, rounded up for your pleasure.

A link roundup of interesting information from across the Internet abyss.

Eileen Shields on deserving nice things, and sometimes buying them, and what kind of older woman you want to be.

Mo Moulton brings the history to improve your Downton Abbey viewing experience.

Warby Parker is throwing a Texts From Jane Eyre party in San Francisco and you should be there.

"Maybe words, after centuries of use and abuse, can’t be separated entirely from history. They can’t be erased, and yet they must be acknowledged."

These stories absolutely could be true.

A collection of things ("spiderbite fetish communities," etc.) that Matt Morain suspects probably are, indeed, on the internet.

Dads love talking about weather, broadly speaking.

Second time in a row I've remembered to do a link roundup; I'm unstoppable.

The author on the street harassment she faces when she goes running, and how she feels she must respond.

From Orpheus to Marat, here are some women murdering men in Western art history.

Society tries to tell us that fat people aren’t desirable, but that’s just not true.

On racism and friendship, and when and where to draw lines.

We talk so much about fedoras, but what of the gentleman who sports a leather golf hat?