linkspam (last of the bookmarks)

[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."

Comments

[dodger-sister.livejournal.com]

The link - Five fallacies that medical TV shows use all the time that have never happened to me - is everything I have been feeling my whole life but most urgently in the last six months, when I have been mysteriously ill and no one knows why. I was just sent home from the hospital after three days and left, as sick as I was, to follow up on my own with specialists and tests that I had no energy for and with doctors who couldn't even be bothered to call me with th test results, let alone say, "That test showed nothing. Let's see what we can try next."

My sister keeps saying, "If only Dr. House were real," but sadly for me, he isn't and I am just left to my own devices.

Thank you for the link. (the first link was very interesting too and the one about the swingers in texas, as depressing as it was).