{"id":20316,"date":"2015-09-15T22:14:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T05:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20316"},"modified":"2015-09-15T22:16:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T05:16:16","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-late-night-centaur-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20316","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm: Late Night Centaur Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. TV\u2019s diversity problems go far beyond Stephen Colbert \u2014 and any single late-night host – Vox<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Mitchell: Rape case sends mixed messages on prostitution | Chicago Sun-Times<\/a> This actual column written by an actual (and in some ways liberal, I’m embarrassed to say) columnist actually argues that it’s not actually rape if the victim is a prostitute. AAARGH!<\/li>\n
  3. Oh Joy Sex Toy – Defective by Melanie Gillman<\/a> A lovely short comic about being genderqueer and trying to become a parent. Melanie Gillman is one of my favorite new cartoonists.<\/li>\n
  4. The Victim of a Scary Web-Shaming Speaks Out — NYMag<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Black children with appendicitis are less likely to get pain meds than white children | The Incidental Economist<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. The Death Of Victoria Gray: How Texas Jails Are Failing Their Most Vulnerable Captives | ThinkProgress<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Into The Black Closet | Rock, Paper, Shotgun<\/a> “For the trans woman who plays games like this or Gone Home there\u2019s a melancholic note of nostalgia behind every move: a longing for the childhood or the girlhood you never had, all the while recreating it in digital pantomime to weave a sense of memory for a never-happened history.”<\/li>\n
  8. Crumb, Racism, Satire, and Hyperbole \u00ab The Hooded Utilitarian<\/a> “In that sense, racists who have embraced some of Crumb\u2019s imagery aren\u2019t confused; they\u2019re not stupidly getting it wrong. They\u2019re reacting instead to a failure of his art.”<\/li>\n
  9. Do people know which social interventions work just from hearing about them? To do a test, we made the following game.<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Poldark-style six-packs ‘smack of vanity’, says Matthew Macfadyen | Media | The Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. When your stupid wizard parents force you to make the bed.<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. “I feel like a lot of frugality is very deeply intertwined with class privilege; you can get by with so little because you have social capital which was secretly very expensive to acquire.”<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. Ben Carson Month Is in Full Swing | Mother Jones<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Hungary Shuts Borders, Refugees Left In Limbo | ThinkProgress<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. Mike Huckabee (Apparently) Thinks the 14th Amendment Applies to Fetuses but Not to Black People<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. The devastating argument against prescription drug cost shifting | The Incidental Economist<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. Why concentrating on exactly what words are used is not the best or most meaningful form of pro-disabled activism<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. I admit this photo is a mildly clever gag. <\/a>But it\u2019s also a way that Wil Wheaton tells me, a liberal fan of his who probably agrees with him on 99% of issues, that if he ever meets me I\u2019ll have to wonder if he\u2019s inwardly feeling contempt for me for the way I look.<\/li>\n
  19. Identities Are Not Arguments | Thing of Things<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. How to Manufacture a Statistic | SINMANTYX<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. Millions of Americans have been married three times or more – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  22. The Katrina disaster that hasn\u2019t ended<\/a><\/li>\n
  23. McDonald’s and Franchising<\/a> – McDonalds is trying to have it both ways – not being an employer when it comes to employee rights, but acting like an employer when it comes to employment conditions.<\/li>\n
  24. Teachers\u2019 unions do not hurt student outcomes. | Jared Bernstein | On the Economy<\/a><\/li>\n
  25. The most unrealistic thing about Hollywood romance, visualized – The Washington Post<\/a> I’ll save you a click – it’s the age gap between male and female leads in movies.<\/li>\n
  26. If You Disagree With This Post, You’re Joining A Bullying Lynch Mob | Popehat<\/a><\/li>\n
  27. How lower family wealth means Black college graduates get fewer benefits from their degree than their white counterparts.<\/a><\/li>\n
  28. “Replace girls <\/em>with readers <\/em>and nerd <\/em>with conservative<\/em>, and you have the entire Sad\/Rabid Puppies issue in a nutshell.”<\/a><\/li>\n
  29. Bartolo Col\u00f3n<\/a> is pudgy, the oldest player in the National League, and awesome:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n