Linkspam wears women’s underpants (16th December, 2009)

2009 December 16
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by Terri
  • We’re a bit late with the link, but the latest Feminist Carnival went up at Undomestic Goddess on December 9. Submissions are open for the next carnival, out December 23.
  • Training bar staff to intervene to reduce the risk of rape — without any victim-blaming. As in, there’s less “watch your drink at all times, ladies” and more “we’ve noticed your inappropriate sexual behaviour towards other patrons; get out.”
  • Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants “James” outs herself as a woman, then explains how she wound up posing as a male writer, and how different her experiences were when writing under her own name. There have been several interesting followups:
    • Kate Harding drew parallels with the use of male pseudonyms by book authors in the past and, perhaps less well-known, in the present.
    • Amanda Hess observed that Chartrand had cultivated a very masculine writing persona, including using naked women to illustrate posts, describing one of her employees as “the team’s rogue woman” in “a good ol’ boys club”, and buying into stereotypes when writing about women.
  • We linked to Part 1 of Arachne Jericho’s series of posts on fictional portrayals of PTSD, but there aren’t forward links from that to the later posts. Check out the rest of the series: Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. A wrap-up post is planned.

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Terri is a web security researcher, open source developer, teacher, amateur photographer, geek, gamer, and yes, a girl. She blogs/tweets under the name terriko, and maintains a web security blog at WebInsecurity.net.


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6 Responses
  1. Timm! permalink
    December 16, 2009

    Interesting article from CNN about how web accessibility isn’t an afterthought anymore

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/15/cnet.web.accessibility/index.html

  2. Alex permalink
    December 17, 2009

    Every feminist should come. We will meet at 7:00 PM Los Angeles/ Hollywood. I know this is a short notice, but I just found your page.
    You can add topics to our discussion.

    http://www.meetup.com/la-feminists/calendar/12074558/.

  3. FoolishOwl permalink
    December 17, 2009

    Mark Shuttleworth will be stepping down as Canonical’s CEO. Taking over will be Jane Silber, currently the COO for Canonical.

    http://blog.canonical.com/?p=307

    http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/295

    http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/168-brian-proffitt/266007-shuttleworth-stepping-down-as-canonical-head-silber-new-ceo-in-2010

    http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/17/1958251/Shuttleworth-To-Step-Down-As-Canonical-CEO-In-2010

  4. FoolishOwl permalink
    December 17, 2009

    Jane Silber, currently Canonical’s COO, will be taking over as CEO, as Mark Shuttleworth is stepping down.

    http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/17/1958251/Shuttleworth-To-Step-Down-As-Canonical-CEO-In-2010

  5. Brinstar permalink
    December 19, 2009

    Internalised sexism and gaming: http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=791

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