Via Maire, stop telling women that they can fix their problems by changing how they talk. This article feels like the long-awaited second half of a psyc class twenty years ago about gendered language, which introduced some of these ideas but didn’t seal the logic and consequences down like this does. Highly recommended.
Via hix, a (mostly) gender-swapped live reading of the script for ep 1 of Dawson’s Creek. Feat. showrunner Kevin Williamson, Dawson alum Kerr Smith covering Michelle Williams, Arrested Development’s Mae Whitman in the Dawson role, and other semi-familiar faces. I enjoyed the heck out of this because after all I just blogged about Dawson.
Via Cal: father vs. daughter beatbox contest. She kills it.
Piketty tells Germany where to get off in their condemnation of Greek debt. This interview is great – both sides so blunt with each other.
Not the typical “I lost lots of weight” story. A thoughtful account of losing weight, interrogating motives, gender, privilege, a bunch of other stuff. For the most part, a rebuke to most other weight-loss stories, which as a genre are… problematic.
37-minute video breaking down why Ghostbusters is really that good. Via someone on G+, if this was you, thanks.
The great John Clarke explains New Zealand. Of a key incident in the 70s when NZ rugby was told they couldn’t visit apartheid Sth Africa: “They saw this action by the government as a direct threat to the way the country was run.” So good.
Via Dylan Horrocks, on McSweeneys: Nobel Prize-winner Peter Higgs regrets fielding your physics-based Dungeons and Dragons questions.
And finally, a shovel plays Nirvana
Great round-up. That beatbox competition is a thing of beauty, wow!
i know, right? so good!