Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
NEW YORK (WABC) — Former tennis star James Blake is calling for the firing of the officer who tackled him in an arrest mix-up Wednesday morning. “It’s not debatable if he should be out there ever again,” said Blake Saturday morning, noting that the officer has other civilian complaints against him. “You can’t let that…
In an editorial published in yesterday’s Chicago Sun-Times, writer Mary Mitchell essentially argued that sex workers cannot be raped. Mitchell is in disbelief that Chicago-area authorities have charged Roy Akins with aggrevated criminal sexual assault, rather than theft because he raped a sex worker. According to a report from Mitchell’s own newspaper, Akins solicited a…
On several occasions at WordCamps or other similar tech events, I’ve been asked (almost always in a thoughtful manner) what my experience has been like as a female web developer in this largely male-dominated field. My answer hasn’t changed much over the 6 or so years I’ve been doing this professionally, aside from the addition of…
No matter why a woman is seeing a doctor—be it for a headache or for a broken toe—she can reliably expect to be asked the date of her last period within the first minute of her consultation. Because of the confused looks I get when I reply with “May 2012,” I started prefacing my answer…
The folks behind How It Should Have Ended have gone and parodied Taylor Swift’s crazy music video Bad Blood, dumping in just about every reference that you can think of and ignore what made the original great. This sort of proves the point that I think that Bad Blood was trying to point out (as…
Joshua Goldberg posed as an Islamic radical and allegedly encouraged a terrorist to attack on September 11. That’s just one of his online personas though. When Joshua Goldberg wasn’t posing as an Islamic radical, he was pretending to be a white supremacist—and is accused of impersonating a Jewish lawyer. Goldberg had several online personas: an…
Yesterday, Vox published a first-person essay detailing the anachronistic existence of two insufferably twee hipsters who live as if they were insufferably twee 19th-century urban gentry. Fuck these people. Please read the article first, but in summary: Two assholes decided to live like extras in The Knick, and defend themselves against their haters by espousing…
Never ever ask Serena Williams why she isn’t smiling. NEVER. Al Bello / Getty Images Really, don’t ask anyone why they aren’t smiling. Some people just don’t want to smile! A reporter got the answer he deserved when he asked Serena, “What’s wrong?” Facebook: Squintz83 / BuzzFeed And for a split second you can see Serena…
START “AMERICAN DREAMS BUG” BOX v. 1 END “AMERICAN DREAMS BUG” BOX v. 1 Three years ago, my wife, Anne-Marie Slaughter, wrote in these pages about how difficult it remains for women to “have it all”—a family and a career. She’d recently left a high-powered job in Washington, D.C., to return to our home in…
“Let me just say up front: I hope that this conversation can be as much about humanity and dignity as it is about politics and polling, because I want to try to better understand to the extent that I can…the motivation behind your rhetoric and that of Donald Trump and some others,” is how Tavis…