>>Nostalgia For Infinity

A small list this week because Chrome’s delicious plugin appears to be broken and I am a lazy, tired man.

Del.icio.us links for September 26th:

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Del.icio.us links for September 21st through September 25th:

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Del.icio.us links for September 4th through September 11th:

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There have been no genocides targeting people who like Dungeons & Dragons. Liking comic books does not mean you are at a vastly higher statistical risk of domestic violence or rape. Playing video games will not result in your being legally disallowed to marry your partner, and nobody has suggested a constitutional amendment restricting the rights of people who read fantasy paperbacks. Nobody has ever murdered a sexual partner and subsequently given, as the legal defense for said murder, “I found out that he liked Doctor Who.” America is not built on a history of enslaving people because they attended Comic-Con.

I could go on here, but you get the point. Social snottiness is all over; there are jokes about nerds, there are jokes about hipsters (and whole blogs based around goofy pictures or mean blog posts about hipsters), there are jokes about frat-boys and bros and Dave Matthews fans, there are jokes about Goths and metal doodz and everyone else. People judge each other on grounds of taste. That’s life. But — crucially — these are jokes based on choices. Nobody chooses to have a marginalized, oppressed identity. And the historical consequences of having a marginalized, oppressed identity are far more serious than belonging to a subculture that people make jokes about.

(From the comments)

TigerBeatdown.com is my new favourite blog. It is the best. I cannot get enough of funny, right-on feminist writers.

That is all, thanks for reading.

Del.icio.us links for August 21st through August 28th:

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Del.icio.us links for August 8th through August 21st:

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Del.icio.us links for July 11th through July 16th:

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Del.icio.us links for June through July 3rd. This one’s a bit of a smorgasbord as I was away for half of June:

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Del.icio.us links for May 30th through June 5th:

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Del.icio.us links for April 4th through April 10th:

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