Danielle Uhlarik posts another “Advice to Young Girls from a Cartoon Princess” video.

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Section: Art

Popeye fanart.

Mark reads Twilight. I still haven’t, and I’m not about to. Warning, though: Mark constantly insults fanfiction by comparing Twilight to it.

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Section: Privacy and Social Networking

Livejournal’s pingback feature reveals locked posts to people who they link to, and their Facebook Connect reveals your LJ details on Facebook. The pings also reveal long excerpts of your hidden posts. Here’s Cleolinda on the subject. Boo!

Kate has put up a Dreamwidth Starter Kit, links to useful info to those new folks migrating over from LJ due to the above controversy – or any new DWer, really.

Women Reading Comics In Public, for those of you who think we’re made up.

New Zealand refuses tax exempt status for an organization working to “cure” gayness.

AuntySarah deconstructs the trans toilet debate.

All trans people in Texas may face loss of their legal sex status.

The Woman and Mary – Sherlock Holmes fanfic by Tibby, Mary/Irene.

Crazy and disturbing Halloween costumes compiled on Cracked: Japan – Germany – World Over

6 Ways Your Office Is Literally Killing You

A fake tattoo pen for kids that Cracked linked to as an example of a dreadful toy but that is actually kind of awesome.

It Took Me 5 Minutes To Become a Minister

Hollywood’s 5 Saddest Attempts at Feminism

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Section: Manipulation

Photo tampering through the ages.

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Section: Other

Amazon Syren on why she is for decriminalization of sex work.

Help Pakistan – a creative exchange whereby individuals buy and sell services in exchange for donations.

“No excuse” for a sleeping man leaning on another man. What the…?

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Section: Jackals

Predatory Lending and Health Services, a report by abby jean on FWD/Forward. A pair of barely competent LA doctors are aggressively marketing a life-threatening weight-loss surgery for people who don’t need it, saying they “accept” health insurance coverage which won’t cover unnecessary surgeries anyway, and looks like it’s actually all a scam to get people to sign up to a predatory lending scheme. I’d rather stay fat, thanks.

While on the subject, here’s Diet Products analyzed on Cracked.com.

Also, 6 Devious Ways Farmville Gets People Hooked, also on Cracked.com.

Since we’re linking to Cracked now, here’s also 7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail. This makes me feel strangely safe; not just from zombies, but from nature in general.

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Section: Coding

Mr Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book is a handy introduction to Ruby for coding newbies.

Ralph Lauren and Ann Taylor photoshop stick-thin models to be… even thinner?? Disney Princess Recovery has photos. Jezebel has more.

Pole-dancing for little girls! If it really is a sport now and not an erotic tease, where are all the little boy pole dancers?

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Section: Transformative Works

First of all…

No, I really don’t think that was too big.

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Section: You’re Just Trying To Be Politically Correct Now

The character of Nico Minoru of “Runaways” could become the first Asian American lead role in a Marvel movie, except Marvel is not looking for an Asian American actress for the role. They just want someone “uniquely beautiful”. (Link via Havoc the Cat.)

Via the Wayback Machine and Das Dingsi: The Greatest Cliché: The Unexamined Propaganda of “Political Correctness”

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Section: Things of Joy

Ryan North finds love.

Tom Scott offers warning labels for sloppy journalism. You are encouraged to print them out and leave them on the papers you share.

Serenity crew join the Starfleet.

40 U.S. Billionaires Pledge Half Wealth To Charity! (Of course the U.S. government is likely to just take this as another excuse not to protect their citizens themselves…)

Even this Fox News article is saying opposing gay marriage is kind of stupid.

Woman quits her job over boss’s sexism, emails entire office (33 Photos). It’s a hoax, but oh, what a delightful dream it was!

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Section: Should Be Obvious But Still Needs Pointing Out

Men Can Stop Rape awareness campaign.

An overview of the same sex marriage debate in a handy graphic.

The Importance of Teaching Children About Homosexuality

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Section: This Is Not The Reality You Were Looking For

Stuff That Didn’t Make Me Trans on Tumblr.

“Tongues of Serpents,” bringing the Australia fail – Lizbee dissects Naomi Novik’s depiction of AU-historical Australia.

J.K. Rowling on thinness.

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Section: Now Let’s Look At The Pretty

Why They’re Hot on Tumblr.

5 Stupid Stupid, Unfair and Sexist Thing Expected of Men on Alternet.org.

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Section: Won’t Someone Think Of The Children

Want to talk about black women and abortion?

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Section: The Way Normal People Live

Catalog Living – a look inside the lives of people who live in your catalogs.

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Section: Why Are You So Angry All The Time

Being gay is what I am, not what I do by Sparky.

UK law changed to mark transsexual people as not women, and not men, but “transsexual persons” who have diminished rights, and it will be legal to refuse to hire or serve them based on their trans status. !!!

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Section: And Other Stuff

Humon Comics – finally free of the clunky mess that is DeviantArt!

ColorSchemer gives you colours that go together well. Good for website design.

Four ways to write disabilities well on Bitch.

Toys”R”Us scolded for gender discrimination by Swedish school children. Oh Sweden! Everything is forgiven!

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Section: Fan Creations

The Porn Battle machine has begun producing smut and will churn on till Sunday. Anyone can submit! But read the rules.

Law & Order fans have created art based on the show’s episode synopses and made it into a gallery showing in Boston. More. Not QUITE fanart, is it? Except for those among them that clearly are. HMMMMMMMM.

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Section: Oh My God Brilliant

Huffington Post’s Why didn’t I think of that? A look at the sheer brilliance of humanity.

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Section: Geekery and Gender

Male geeks reclaim masculinity at the expense of female geeks – Restructure! on GeekFeminism.org.

FinallyFeminism101′s essentialism FAQ.

Again on GeekFeminism.org, links to some articles about the game Hey Baby.

“Hardcore” (masculine) vs “casual” (feminine) gaming – article by Rowan Kaiser on Escapist Magazine. Possible rape trigger (but then this is about gaming).

As we all know, Google is taking over the world, but they have also introduced me to CAD modelling, so here’s a link to their free CAD app SketchUp.

Access-Fandom has announced its first fanworks festival, looking for fanworks based on characters with disabilities. How To Train Your Dragon fic, yes/yes? :D

Art of Manliness posted covers of vintage men’s magazines, which are hilarious.

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Section: Sociology and Those Infamous Mommy Blogs

Via Lotesse: Disney Princess Recovery. A psychotherapist specializing in children’s play therapy writes about how she is trying to wean her little girl of Disney Princesses. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about trammeling a child’s fandoms, even when they’re stupid. I’d be more likely to try and subvert the original reading. Anyway, interesting blog! There’s also other stuff about commercialism and how women are perceived and presented in media.

Read this at the very least: Filling the void, which features an audience member having to provide what the lecture promised.

Contexts is a great online magazine and Sociological Images is an endlessly fascinating blog. No, really. Give them a go.

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Section: Signal-Boost

There’s a serial stalker by the name of Lohr Miller, also going by fort_kanji, targeting young women over at Livejournal, pretty much en masse. Here‘s Emigree’s full warning about this guy.

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Section: Things God Hates

God hates geeks! Westboro Baptists mean to picket Comic-Con? They’re going to be eaten alive. Link via FanGirlSays.

Depictions of Disability That Make Us Happy: How To Train Your Dragon on FWD/Forward. As if that movie wasn’t already insanely happifying.

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Section: Yet More Perspectives

The veto, or fear by any other name – Sex Geek on the prevalence of jealousy and its equivalence with a much less hallowed emotion, fear. Discusses monogamy and polyamory.

Feminist SF and George R.R. Martin have yet more to say on fanfic.

Juliet Jacques writes a series for the Guardian: A Transgender Journey.

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Section: Language

Why trans is funny but tranny is out, a Guardian article by Roz Kaveney.

Ableist word profile: special on FWD/Forward.

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Section: Action

Jade Lennox offers tips on how to fight ableism in a concrete way.

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Section: Films

Since The Last Airbender recently opened in the U.S., here’s a link to Racebending.com to remind you what’s been wrong with it from the start. Here’s also Glockgal on the path of the origin of fail. And it apparently sucks, too. 9% on Rotten Tomatoes. If that’s not enough, here‘s some links compiled by ReflectedEve.

On the other hand, I am SO looking forward to Despicable Me!

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Section: For Writers

Verb Noire is a new small press looking for stories focusing on heroes we don’t get to see often enough – people of colour or people who are LGBTQIA. Awesome.

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Section: One More Section

When is a woman “asking” to be raped? Not ever. Scottish awareness site – link via Curvature.