Misconception Linky

The world’s most contagious falsehoods – things that ain’t true that keep getting spread around… (via Steve Ellis)

Newsweek has a short piece on the Swedish pre-school adoption of a gender neutral pronoun. (via Jenni)

Nate Silver with some wisdom:

Adventure Time gets a gritty reboot that apparently tugs at the heartstrings if you know Adventure Time

New Yorker writer eagerly tells us why the Twin Peaks revival will suck: because every other revival sucks. Crucial flaw in his argument: no other revival has ever been entirely directed by David Lynch.

Cool comic by Toby Morris on just going out and creating stuff. His inspirational example: Flat 3, which I raved about last linky.

If you have some questions about feminism, the Womansplainer can help you. Very reasonable rates.

Anita Sarkeesian’s talk from XOXO, about the crazy harrassment she was subjected to for the crime of being a woman on the internet, is now up. It’s well worth watching. Not pleasant viewing, although there’s a positive atmosphere in the room and even a few jokes.

That leads into this piece – an epic no-holds-barred account by Kathy Sierra, who was targeted by online trolls, and one in particular. Essential, and somewhat bleak, reading.

And finally, this just got announced and it cheered me right up: Archie vs Predator

3 thoughts on “Misconception Linky”

  1. “Crucial flaw in his argument: no other revival has ever been entirely directed by David Lynch.”

    I wish to declare my undying love for this sentence.

    (Also, hello, Doctor Who? I’m not mad keen on the revival myself, but it’s clearly been immensely successful both in popular and critical terms.)

  2. Doctor Who is maybe not so great a counterexample, as it’s a pretty unique case. It’s a TV show that survived for 26 years by utterly reinventing itself every three years or so. This means you get to have your nostalgia cake, but you also get to eat it, because the revival is basically obliged not to recapture the old style exactly but to do something new, as long as it has the trappings of the old. There’s really no other show like it.

  3. You’re not wrong that it’s a pretty glaring omission from his piece though, it’s hardly unknown in the US these days!

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