Signal Boost: Becky Thompson‘s new book is out!
Signal Boost: Really fantastic discussion of the pitfalls of OWS.
Signal Boost: Michelle Murrain is looking for funding for her novel.
Signal Boost: Help underprivileged you have a safe space to read.
Rates of abuse in lesbian households –> 0%.
Women banned from speaking at an OBGYN conf.
Thank goodness this woman was able to get her abortion funded.
A bit of help for the bicycle-riding ladies.
Not everyone is laughing, but that MIGHT be because they suck.
A critique of the mental health industry
<3 RuPaul! <3
From Casey:
Here’s something from Clutch Magazine (I found the link on Womanist
Musings) about black women’s biopics we’d love to see.
My personal choice: Biddy Mason. She’s remembered now as a philanthropist, but to be one of the first black land owner, a business woman, etc., in nineteenth century CA suggests to me she was hardcore.
“Education cuts aren’t smart”
Why don’t women care that Common is ignorant? <– Not so sure how I feel about this: from what I remember, several black feminist bloggers did some really great posts on the misogyny in progressive rap. I can’t find them right now, because I’m still unpacking/moving in, but someone help me out here.
Oh, Christ.
From Casey:
Courtesy of SF_Drama on Livejournal:
, controversial journalist Jim Sterling wrote an article on Destructoid about why
Nathan Drake of the Uncharted game franchise would make for a
fantastic homosexual character. Somebody on N4G liked it and re-posted
the article, which resulted in an eruption of comments along the lines
of “Homosexuality is just as bad as rape and murder”, “homosexuality
is a sin”, “just because I don’t want a character to be homosexual
doesn’t make me a homophobe” and “WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO BE GAY WHEN
FEMALES ARE SO MUCH MORE ATTRACTIVE THAN GUYS!?”
Hooray for Snowy Day!
From Spartakos:
I have been hearing a bit of flap about whether the portrayal of
Irene Adler in the new updated version of “Sherlock” is sexist or not.
From what I’ve heard, I think it pretty clearly is, but Moffat appears
to be defending it.
Watch out, pregnant ladies!
A review of the American version of Girl With a Dragon Tattoo
A review of The Dovekeepers
The last Rosewood survivor remembers.
From SunlessNick:
One brother sticks up for another’s preference for a female character-centred game (and female-gendered coloured controller for it).
From SunlessNick:
equally heart-warming as it is heart-breaking. The little kid is
choosing his identity, the older brother is helping him, and the
father — obviously deeply entrenched in the type of false narrative
that Jennifer was talking about — cannot appreciate his son for what
he is.
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Jennifer Kesler,
I think what Shawn was getting at is that regardless if it actually makes sense or not someone with NPD could try to spin the story around to make it yet again all about them and how they have it so hard because of that diagnosis and can we please now continue worshipping them!!?11
While I haven’t seen a post like that by Schwyzer himself there are actually some of his fans accusing critics of ableism and how dare we criticising one of the bestest feminists of all time, yadda yadda. /facepalm
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Sabrina,
I know that’s what Shaun was getting at, and that’s what I responded to…? Sorry, I’m not clear on why you’re pointing this out.
I’ve lived with NPDs, and the behavior you describe is pretty much 24/7 (except most aren’t diagnosed – they just have it hard because no one understands them, everyone is jealous and out to get them, etc.). The solution? Get the fuck away from them.
I was offering talking points for Shaun to use when discussing NPD with people who might possibly be reasonable (unlike NPDs, who are never reasonable) and just not quite grasp that diagnosis does not equal disability.
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Jennifer Kesler,
Sorry, must have misunderstood then. It sounded like you were correcting him/disagreeing. D:
Sabrina(Quote) (Reply)
Sabrina,
No, I was disagreeing with the people Shaun has encountered who support the idea that NPDs are helpless in their decisions to commit crimes… carefully, without witnesses, while employing multiple forensic countermeasures.
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Jennifer Kesler,
Haha, yes, I get it now.
“that NPDs are helpless in their decisions to commit crimes… carefully, without witnesses, while employing multiple forensic countermeasures”
From what I read recently Schwyzer himself noted that he has (“had” in his book of course!) a kind of “Jekyll and Hyde” personality – he’d be a totally nice guy in public but very different in private. He fits your description to a t. *schudders*
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Something’s only just hit me, regarding the manner of Hugo bringing up his attempt to murder an ex-girlfriend – that he was comisserating with a guy who was feeling guilty for shutting his dog out of the house. The anger I’ve seen at that is about the comparison of a woman with a dog. But presumably the guy shut his dog out accidentally, while Hugo’s description of the attempted murder was clearly one of a deliberate crime, and deliberate attempt to cover it up after. So hidden behind the comparison between woman and dog is an equivalence of crime and accident. Hugo invoked the same logic that’s used to equate rape victims to people walking in traffic. I can’t possibly be the only person who’s made that connection, but I’ve not seen it made elsewhere, and it seemed to be worth voicing.
TansyJ,
But it’s annoying beyond all belief to me that we’re finally having decently faithful portrayals of Dr. Watson after years of “portly comic relief” and they just can’t let a woman beat Holmes.
They managed it decades ago in the Jeremy Brett series. They should be able to manage it now.
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SunlessNick,
Good catch. Equating accidents with deliberate crimes is a classic NPD strategy. It’s worth mentioning that no one has ever been cured of NPD.
There’s an online writer called Sam Vaknin who (plausibly IMO) claims to have NPD, to have found motivation to treat it, and to have had some success with that treatment. He doesn’t talk like Hugo. He hasn’t “worked his ass off to overcome” and all that glory talk. He says flat out he’s still a narcissist, even if the PD part has been improved via therapy, and he always will be, and writing about the disorder is his narcissistic supply – finally, an excuse to talk about himself ad nauseum! And yet, he expresses that for the harm he’s done in the past, which he’s now able to regret intellectually if not emotionally, he hopes his writing will help people understand this disorder, whether they’re trying to treat NPDs or just figure out how to get away from them.
Vaknin, I find plausible. Schwyzer still sounds rather narcissistic to me – which is a problem if he’s not aware that he still has a lot of work to do in that area, and is cultivating himself a little audience of fans who don’t get it.
As for Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, I think that portrayal still wins hands-down for me. I really like a lot of elements in Sherlock (particularly the lead actors), but even the first series had enough problems to make me rate the Brett series higher. It’s just the best, and Jeremy Brett REALLY had a handle on the character.
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