Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
A few months back I got into a Twitter argument about the uselessness of complaints about cultural appropriation, in particular a muscular form that takes it as offensive to consume the goods of cultures to which one does not belong — food, clothing, music, and so on. I pointed out the usual problems with this thinking. All…
Buried in the manufactured drama around last night’s finale of “The Bachelor”—in which Bachelor Ben Higgins ended up proposing to Lauren Bushnell, after an agonizing period in Jamaica where he claimed to be in love with two different women—was a far more significant and broad-reaching story: that of which Americans are allowed to become America’s…
Welcome to Big Time Small-Time Dicks, a regular column on The Slot that explores local politicians, small-town scandals, and everything else making life miserable on a local level. Know a small time person who is a big time dick we should feature? Email us. An Idaho sheriff isn’t sure why the state is so hellbent…
Bimbo. Dog. Fat pig. These are just a few of the things Donald Trump has called women. And the big political ad making waves this week in the 2016 presidential primary, featuring Trump quotes recited by women on screen, didn’t leave it there. A full 60 seconds elapse of horrifying, misogynist nonsense, and as…
In a study published online March 14 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers looked at four widely-used tech assistants to try and find out how the increasingly ubiquitous tools responded to various health crises. Apple’s Siri, Google Now, Samsung’s S Voice, and Microsoft Cortana were evaluated on how well they recognized a…
Hillary Clinton pauses while speaking during her primary-night rally in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Tuesday. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images Hillary Clinton pauses while speaking during her primary-night rally in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Tuesday. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images …
For the past few years, an anonymous actress calling herself Miss L has been tweeting every sexist comment she encounters during casting calls. It’s quite a collection. It’s not clear when they are all from, but it doesn’t really matter; the timeline reads like an unending stream of misogyny and terrible production ideas. Casting: ‘The…
Had Bernie been Bernadette — The heartbreaking truth about American patriarchy When I was 22, I got a death threat in the mail. I was the co-president of the Wisconsin chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). It arrived at our one-room office. My name was chicken-scratched on the envelope. He heard me interviewed on the…
/end .figure To my enduring surprise, responses and reactions to this piece continue to trickle in — some in the form of emails and tweets and pending comments, some in the form of essays on related topics. Most of the people who’ve reached out to me personally have been supportive, and many have shared similar stories. As for the people who…
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