linkspam (last of the bookmarks)
Feb. 23rd, 2012 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nilchance- Depression-proofing your home: This is less about suicide prevention than about how to maximize your space for comfort, light and easy maintenance.
- Approximate directions to a burial: A son remembers his father's death. "My father’s mortician was a careless barber. Stepping up to the open casket, I realized too much had been taken off the beard."
- He who casts the first stone: Swinger parties in Texas are protested by Christian fringe groups. Scary and rage-inducing story about the threats faced by non-traditional couples.
- Sometimes being rude is the acceptable response: "When we engage in reasoned debate we, by inference, present our opponent as having a position due some level of respect."
- Five fallacies that medical TV shows use all the time that have never happened to me: "I find that doctors *hate* difficult-to-diagnose patients, and tend to label them with emotional problems faster than your head can spin."
- Chronicles of mansplaining: Professor feminism and the deleted comments of doom: "It’s not just random dudes going “THAT’S NOT SEXIST,” as they do every time a woman says the word “sexism” in relation to anything. It’s a dude appropriating feminism in order to silence women who identify things as sexist."
- Why I didn't just call the cops: Trigger warning for sexual assault and its dismissal by critics. "Formally report or you have no right to complain... Like it's that easy."
- Approximate directions to a burial: A son remembers his father's death. "My father’s mortician was a careless barber. Stepping up to the open casket, I realized too much had been taken off the beard."
- He who casts the first stone: Swinger parties in Texas are protested by Christian fringe groups. Scary and rage-inducing story about the threats faced by non-traditional couples.
- Sometimes being rude is the acceptable response: "When we engage in reasoned debate we, by inference, present our opponent as having a position due some level of respect."
- Five fallacies that medical TV shows use all the time that have never happened to me: "I find that doctors *hate* difficult-to-diagnose patients, and tend to label them with emotional problems faster than your head can spin."
- Chronicles of mansplaining: Professor feminism and the deleted comments of doom: "It’s not just random dudes going “THAT’S NOT SEXIST,” as they do every time a woman says the word “sexism” in relation to anything. It’s a dude appropriating feminism in order to silence women who identify things as sexist."
- Why I didn't just call the cops: Trigger warning for sexual assault and its dismissal by critics. "Formally report or you have no right to complain... Like it's that easy."