The, uh, Late Sunday Linkfest

[jhameia]

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Anti-Racism: What Went Wrong? (Namely, too many white people took over. Oh irony!)

Columbus, Go Home!

PhDork fisks this "feminine-ist" article

A timeline of Geocities services. Epic.

The Pornography of Non-Rejection, or, why the fuck is Twilight so goddamn popular?

Ten Webcomics You Should Read and more recommended in the comments!

In Defense of using the term "Douchebag" as an insult, because you know, women aren't allowed to choose insults we use.

John Cho goodness. John Cho totes gives my Asian brothers hotness cred <345678

What is "authentic" Americcanness?

Ian McKellen on religious bigotry, out actors, and his epitaph.

Shakers of Shakeville had varying but great conversations on the Nova Scotian forms

Cripchick warns allies about the term "professionalism".

This just in: Family Friendly Workplace Politics Enhance Competitiveness. NO REALLY?

Adorable little video on the fall of empires

Horrible advice given to a woman who got ditched by her husband after she decided to keep her baby conceived when she was raped by her boss. Because, you know, men are assholes, apparently. Hugo Schwyzer, M. LeBlanc, Amanda Hess and Amanda Marcotte weigh in.

Here's a random academic sentence generator! Still Life with Cat has a an interesting take on what it does.

How Not To Be An Asshole, by the Czech

A quote on the loss of 'membership' to a group once you start speaking out against its -isms.

Zuzka on some academic chick who excludes feminists even though feminism is what gave said woman the right to belong in academia in the first goddamn place.

Comments

[ardwynna-m.livejournal.com]

I've only in the last month or so realized that 'douchebag' was meant to be a gendered insult. Like one of the commenters mentioned, my first thought was of anal douching (who says reading all that yaoi is unproductive?;P). I'd long known vaginal douching to be a big no-no and considered it a silly practice of days long gone by the time I first heard the word used as an insult.

Yay for John Cho! The ads for 'Flash Foward' were barely getting a rise and then all of a sudden, THERE HE WAS! What's that, Airbender casters, about Asians not drawing in an audience?

[fantasyecho.livejournal.com]

I consider "douchebag" to be gendered only in the sense that it is anti-woman. But then, we know that even women can have anti-woman tendencies, so it works really well, all 'round, as an insult for people of both genders.

Shakesville used to have a funny in-joke where they would cry, "Release the douchehounds!!" It's funny only because of its sheer absurdity, though.