{"id":2109,"date":"2006-02-17T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T22:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2006-02-17T15:00:02","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T22:00:02","slug":"link-farm-and-open-thread-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2109","title":{"rendered":"Link Farm and Open Thread #10"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 8th is Blog Against Sexism Day<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Why March 8?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because it’s International Women’s Day. Because it’s the Global Women’s Strike. Wimmin in more than 60 countries will be participating in the global strike. Why not add dozens or hundreds or thousands of more voices to this struggle through the growing world of blogging?<\/p><\/div>\n

Only 2 or 3 Days Left To Submit To The Next Carnival of Feminists!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Suffragettes and Disability Rights<\/strong><\/a>
\nMichael B\u00c3\u00a9rub\u00c3\u00a9 discusses the historic ways suffragettes were abused with, and committed abuses with, anti-disabled rhetoric. This is a must-read post, imo, as is an earlier post discussing the intersection of race and disability in American history<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Greatest Hits from Antonin Scalia’s “living textualist originalism”<\/strong><\/a>
\nTerrific post from LGM reviews some of Scalia’s more striking hypocrisies.<\/p>\n

How To Steal An Election<\/strong><\/a>
\nEntertaining and historically-informed article actually an excerpt from Andrew Gumbel’s book Steal This Vote!<\/em><\/a> about cheating in American elections. Gumbel is a lefty, but that doesn’t prevent him from recognizing that the “Bush stole the 2004 election” claims don’t have much substance to them.<\/p>\n

Walking Women To Their Destination After Dark<\/strong><\/a>
\nHappy provides an excellent feminist analysis of this social habit.<\/p>\n

One Good Day<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

I felt like I had to cram six years of talking to him into this one day, because I didn’t know if I’d ever have it again. I had one day to find out if he liked Tae Kwan Do, if he had any friends at school, what he did in gym class, if he was having difficulty in any area. One day to help him with reading and tying his shoes, one day to tell him how much I loved him before he disappeared back inside himself. Which he did, today. That sweet little stranger that curled up in my lap yesterday morning and sang “Rich Girl” and showed me his fancy dance moves and looked right into my face and laughed and smiled is gone today. Is that what parents of normally functioning children have every day? And, if that’s what you have every day, why would there be a rush to put that kind of kid on Ritalin? <\/div>\n

Why Health Savings Accounts Will Suck<\/strong><\/a>
\nHilzoy of Obsidian Wings makes the case very well.<\/p>\n

Comparative Funerals: Coretta Scott King and Betty Friedan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The turnout of politicians to one funeral and not another was not a measure of either woman. It was a matter of whose followings could do more for the politicians in the future.<\/div>\n

About Those Danish Cartoons. No, Really – About The Cartoons Themselves.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Offensive Cartoons From America<\/strong><\/a>
\nWho’da thunk it? Something funny in Cracked<\/em>. Curtsy: Crooked Timber<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Dark Side of Public Sectarian Schools<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

So the question is whether Christians who are pro-sectarian public schools are honest in their desire for mere democratic choice, or are fair-weather fans of the doctrine who support it only when it yields Christian majorities.<\/div>\n

White Teacher Suspended For Saying “Niggah” In Classroom<\/strong><\/a>
\nI think the suspension is justified – not because the teacher is necessarily racist, but because he displayed such staggeringly bad judgment. Incompetence is justification enough for the suspension.<\/p>\n

Cathy Young on False Rape Accusation<\/strong><\/a>
\nGood post discussing the implications of a beyond-any-doubt false rape accusation.<\/p>\n

Mary Schweitzer has a webpage on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome<\/strong><\/a>
\nAlso known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.), or Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS). Mary Schweitzer, a CFS sufferer’s advocate, is one of the best writers about CFS on the internet; even if you think you have no interest in CFS issues, her essays may change your mind.<\/p>\n

Sweden Plans To Be “Oil-Free” by 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Keeping Men’s Jobs Male<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

How do you prevent more women from becoming firefighters, police officers, etc.? You refuse to hire or promote them. You compel them to take physical tests unrelated to job qualifications, such as requiring women to lift more than the Occupational Safety and Health Administration permits. You refuse to train women, subject them to hazing or hold them to higher performance standards than their male peers. Curtsy: Feministe<\/a><\/div>\n

Then I said that a woman’s right to choose was nobody else’s goddamn business. This got their attention.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Western Union Quits the Telegraph Business<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Past Bush Administration Cheerleader Admits Guantanamo Is Inexcusable<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Bush has pledged that the Guantanamo detainees are treated “humanely.” At the same time, he has stressed, “I know for certain that these are bad people” – all of them, he has implied.<\/p>\n

If the president believes either of these assertions, he is a fool. If he does not, choose your own word for him.<\/p><\/div>\n

Housework Blogging<\/strong>
\nBelle<\/a>, Pandagon<\/a>, Ezra<\/a>, Lawyers Guns and Money<\/a>, Matt <\/a>and Majikthise <\/a>weigh in. Apologies to those I missed. Of all of these, Amanda’s<\/a> is the most “must-read,” in my opinion.<\/p>\n

PrisonSucks.com: Links to research about abuse of women in prisons<\/strong><\/a>
\nI’m putting the link in here because I think there might be a future post in it, and I don’t want to lose the link.<\/p>\n

Holocaust Denier Professor Creates Stir at Northwestern<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Theorizing Breasts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

My breasts, in and of themselves, have no meaning. They are not inherently sexualized. They are not inherently beautiful. Or objectifiable. They, themselves, do not say, “Hey, I’m a female! Come, objectify me, rape me, fuck me, look at me, stare at me, penetrate me!” Outside of the discourse, they mean nothing. <\/em>They’re just lumps of fat and tissue and muscle and nerve endings and whatnot.<\/div>\n

On Ambivalence Towards Critical Thinking<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

When I teach moral theory to students or critical thinking skills for that matter how to spot fallacies, construct valid\/sound arguments, evaluate evidence, I rarely change a student’s perspective on the world, or make that student more empathetic to other peoples’ situations. I usually make them smarter at articulating the worldview that they inchoately held before. […] My sense is that critical thinking doesn’t make people better people, it just makes them better at playing the game. (Curtsy: The Reaction<\/a>).<\/div>\n

Israel plans to build ‘museum of tolerance’ on Muslim graveyard<\/strong><\/a>
\nAre they really that clueless, or just incredibly sarcastic? Via Jesus’ General<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Happy Feminist on “Ladies First” and the Titanic<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

New To The Blogroll: Beyond Choice<\/strong><\/a>
\nAlexander Sanger Margaret’s grandson has an interesting blog about abortion politics.<\/p>\n

Michael B\u00c3\u00a9rub\u00c3\u00a9 Rips Apart David Horowitz<\/strong><\/a>
\nIf I were a better person, I wouldn’t have enjoyed it so much.<\/p>\n

Warren Ellis and Joss Whedon Provide Fan Service, Oh My Yes They Do<\/strong><\/a>
\nIf you don’t know who both those people are, then I’m geekier than you. Curtsy: Crooked Timber<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FAT RELATED LINKS<\/strong>
\nWhat the heck, there were a bunch of these – mostly swiped from Big Fat Blog – so I thought I’d give ’em their own section.<\/p>\n

New JAMA Study Finds No Link Between Obesity and Lifespan In Americans Over 50<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The State of The F-Word<\/strong><\/a>
\nInteresting article takes a look at the various books that have used the word “fat” in the title in the past year. Curtsy: Big Fat Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FatShadow on Celebs Who Lose Weight<\/strong><\/a>
\nYet another smart, sensitive, and annoyingly difficult to sum up in a single sentence post from Tish.<\/p>\n

The Average Sized Privilege List<\/strong><\/a>
\nAKA “The Thin Privilege List.” This isn’t new, but I’m not sure I’ve ever linked to it, and I should have.<\/p>\n

A Modest Proposal: The Next Viagra<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“We have perfected the weight-loss drug. Enipaznalo not only takes off those excess pounds, it makes you beautiful. Movie-star beautiful. There’s just one catch; it also makes you crazy.”<\/div>\n

“Obesity Epidemic” Overblown, Conclude UCLA Sociologists<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The link is to a press release about this interesting and nuanced study pdf link<\/a> by Abigail Saguy<\/a>. Her webpage includes links to a number of interesting-sounding papers, including a few about sexual harassment and this one pdf link<\/a> about media coverage of fat and health issues. Curtsy: Big Fat Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New To The Blogroll: Fat Chicks Rule<\/strong><\/a>
\nHow did I not know Lara Frater had a blog?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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