{"id":2681,"date":"2006-09-08T00:14:16","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T07:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/08\/link-farm-open-thread-37\/"},"modified":"2006-09-08T00:14:16","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T07:14:16","slug":"link-farm-open-thread-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2681","title":{"rendered":"Link Farm & Open Thread #37"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been listening a lot to the cast album of Urinetown <\/a>lately, and it’s grown on me. The musical has a sly way of pretending not to understand the stupidity of its cliches, even while it earnestly makes them two steps stupider, which I just find hilarious.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, that’s what’s on my mind right now. Please use this thread to post whatever’s on your mind, including links to your own stuff, or to someone else’s, if you’d like.<\/p>\n

Redemption Blues presents<\/em>: Carnival of the Feminists #22!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Blackfolk: Study Shows That Darker-Skinned Blacks Face Increased Discrimination<\/a><\/strong>
\nWhich makes hash of the right-wing theory that deficiencies in black culture explain the race wage gap, and discrimination based on skin color has nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n

Mothers Movement Online: Response to “Don’t Marry A Career Woman” and “Working Wives Are Unhappy” Arguments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

BrownFemiPower: Being Trans, Being Poor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

…So the two of us started comparing notes and really getting into the nitty gritty of what it is like to survive and negotiate the welfare and health care industrial complexes as a poor woman of color and a white trans man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Majikthise: As ARMs Adjust Upward, More Americans Will Lose Their Homes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Many of the option ARMs taken out in 2004 and 2005 are resetting at much higher payment schedules — often to the astonishment of people who thought the low installments were fixed for at least five years. And because home prices have leveled off, borrowers can’t count on rising equity to bail them out. What’s more, steep penalties prevent them from refinancing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Did I Miss Something: Illness Versus Impairment<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Feminist Law Professors: Driving While Female<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

…Researchers found that sexual misconduct was the most common type of police abuse of citizens, more prevalent than thefts or beatings. That statistic was buried in the records and had to be teased out. In some cases, they found, police demands for sex had been labeled as a form of bribery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Feministing: In Pakistan, Islamic Fundamentalist Legislators Threaten To Resign If Rape Law Is Reformed<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe phrase “good riddance” is such <\/em>an understatement.<\/p>\n

Majikthise: Artist Improves Paris Hilton CDs Before Customers Buy Them<\/a><\/strong>
\nAs Lindsay points out, it’s a victimless crime. Even the folks who thought they were buying a Paris Hilton CD, instead got something they can sell for many times what they paid.<\/p>\n

Obsidian Wings: Labor Day Post (With Lots Of Graphs!)<\/a><\/strong>
\nUPDATE<\/strong>: Originally, this post contained a state-by-state map allegedly showing rises and falls in median income. I’ve been persuaded by Jane Galt<\/a> that the map is unreliable, and so I’ve removed it from this post. Thanks to Nobody.Really, who linked to Jane’s post in comments.<\/p>\n

Rudd Sound Bites: Peanut Allergies Are Doubling, And No One Knows Why<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Shakespeare’s Sister: Critique of Article About “Involuntary Virginity” Among Women<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In a rare glimpses of non-hyperbolic reason in the article, a study by two Georgia State University associate professors of sociology is cited, which found that \u201ca big part of sexual development comes from dating as a teenager and that involuntary virginity is a combination of shyness, body-image issues and getting a late start\u201d\u2014a conclusion, by the by, which was drawn after interviews with \u201c34 male and female<\/em> involuntary virgins.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Feminist Law Professors: In Most States, It’s Legal For Employers To Discriminate Against Job Candidates For Being Married Or Having Children<\/a><\/strong>
\nI’m sure the so-called “marriage movement” will get right on the case. Suuuuure they will.<\/p>\n

Persephone’s Box: What Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Freud, Mill, Rand, And Hitler Have In Common<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Reappropriate: Why People Of Color Hate The “What Are You” Question<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mombian: Book Review of Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice<\/em><\/a><\/strong>
\nThe American family has changed and is changing; we have a choice of either adapting to a changing reality, or fruitlessly trying to mau-mau everyone back into the 1950s. This book, which sounds excellent, is definitely taking the former approach.<\/p>\n

Big Queer Blog: Reading This Plot Summary Of An Off-Broadway Play Just Cracked Me Up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Last night I had the fortune to see “Laura’s Bush,” an Off-Off Broadway play that could not be more timely. In the midst of articles and discussions in that exciting intersection of sexuality and politics, this satyricial lesbian farce follows the story of a repressed librarian (played by Hilda Guttormsen) who discovers that Laura Bush (played by Laura Lebleu) has been blinking “Help me” in Morse code, and therefore embarks on a mission to rescue Mrs. Bush.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Feministing: New Study Shows That Elective C-Sections Have Higher Rate Of Infant Death Than Vaginal Childbirth<\/a><\/strong>
\nMaybe this news will finally break American doctors’ addiction to needless Caesarean births.<\/p>\n

Workplace Prof Blog: Wanna Reduce The Gender Pay Gap? Get More Women In Upper Management<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

American women earn substantially more money and narrow the long-standing gender gap in income if other women in their workplaces reach the ranks of senior management, according to a new national study presented here. By contrast, the study found, increasing the number of women managers in junior positions makes no difference to the gender gap — women on average continue to earn about 20 percent less than men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BeaucoupKevin(dot)com: If Stan Lee Had Written Watchmen<\/em><\/a><\/strong>
\nNot everyone is geeky enough to appreciate how brilliant this parody is. But I am.<\/p>\n

\"KatieNew Moon: Katie Couric Loses 20 Pounds in 20 Seconds!<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe CBS publicity department did some photo-retouching. Because the fact that women who aren’t model-thin exist is a deep dark secret<\/em> that must never <\/em>be given away.<\/p>\n

Majikthise: The Case Against Nutpicking<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lately, the established media have acquired the nasty habit of nutpicking. I’m sorry to say it’s a vice they probably picked up from us bloggers. Nutpicking is when critics attempt to discredit a blogger by selectively citing the most extreme or offensive comments on that blogger’s site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

YouTube: 1970s Batgirl Was So Cool<\/a><\/strong>
\nCurtsy: Feministing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Angry Black Woman has a new URL. Update those blogrolls!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

UK Metro: The Growing Squirrel Menace<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Metro is the only paper that’s covering this story (note the list of links to other squirrel menace stories, at the bottom of this story). But why do the squirrels hate us so?<\/p>\n

[Crossposted at Creative Destruction<\/a>, where the mottos fly like bullets. If your comments aren\u2019t being approved here, try there.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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