Here’s this week’s open thread for discussion and our regular round-up of some of the articles and blogs we’ve noticed over the last week or so, but not had time to post about.
If you have a link or comment that doesn’t fit anywhere else and would like to share it, feel free to drop it in the comments here.
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- Child of gay parents sends protest to MP (Independent)
- Transnational Data on Gender and Science Aptitude (The Society Pages)
- Oppressive beliefs and breast size preference (Feminist Philosophers)
- Organisers say Pride in London 2013 could be cancelled (Pink News)
- Council tax benefit cuts: the expense of getting people with no money to pay up (Guardian, Cif)
- Murders Without Murderers: Reeva Steenkamp And The Myth Of The Sudden Snap (The Gloss)
- How ‘personal choice’ drove feminism and now stalls it (Blue Milk)
- Knope and change: Lessons from the women who are leading the sustainable cities movement (Grist)
- *CONTENT WARNING* (transphobic violence): London police accused of mocking a sick trans woman in ‘brutal arrest’ (GayStarNews)
- IDing Sex Assault Victim ‘Alarming’ says PCC, Daily Mirror Fined (iMediaEthics)
- Oscar Pistorius and the Global System of Deadly Misogyny (The Nation)
- Take action on the unnecessary imprisonment of women in the UK (The Women’s Resource)
- 5 Ways to Make Progress in Evolutionary Psychology: Smash, Not Match, Stereotypes (Scientific American)
- China’s ‘leftover women’, unmarried at 27 (BBC News, Magazine)
- *CONTENT WARNING* (rape; misogyny in comments): Second ‘infidelity check’ attack ruled to be sexual (The Local)
- An Inconvenient Truth (Bananas are not the only fruit)
- Our regressive, insensitive and cultish attitude to breastfeeding (New Statesman)
- Oscar Pistorius granted bail in Reeva Steenkamp case (BBC News, Africa)
- Hysterical, Oversensitive Harpies (this ain’t livin’)
- Report finds shocking absence of women from UK public life (Observer, Politics)
- The ‘Language’ Gene and Women’s Wagging Tongues (Scientific American)
- It’s Tough to be a Reporter in a War Zone, for Both Men and Women (The Atlantic)
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This week’s closing video is a live performance of “Gentleman Jack”, a song about Anne Lister, by O’Hooley & Tidow from their album The Fragile:
Image attribution and description: The image at the head of this post is called AmphitheaterNPS1; it is a public domain pictogram for an amphitheatre and was found at Wikimedia Commons.