Super Linkspam Brothers (12th June, 2012)

June 12th, 2012 by spam-spam

Hey E3, It’s Time to Have a “No Booth Babes” Policy: It’s a “dinosaur that should be extinct”
SF anthologies: the (almost) unrelenting sausagefest | Alex Dally MacFarlane “Diverse stories by diverse authors about diverse futures are sorely lacking.”
“It’s Amazing the Things We Know, That Are Actually Wrong” by Kate Elliott | A Dribble of Ink “It begs the question: More realistic than what?”
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal : Toys boys get vs Toys girls get … and the result
The Fabled Land Of Equality: Yet another tale of “girls don’t really play videogames” as a girl tries to pre-order a game and the idjits try to either ignore her or steer her to “girl” games

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Thanks to everyone who suggested links.

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7 comments on this post.

Alan:

June 12th, 2012 at 10:36 pm

You might want to replace the “Thoughts?” post with the original source at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1883#comic . iwastesomuchtime appears to be yet another scummy site built on copyright infringement and stripping attribution.

Dina:

June 13th, 2012 at 5:07 am

Thanks Alan – was about to say the same!

ellie:

June 13th, 2012 at 6:57 am

Thanks! Fixed.

C:

June 13th, 2012 at 7:31 am

Just wanted to say thanks for the linkspam posts, much appreciated.

John:

June 14th, 2012 at 6:02 am

The BBC mentions mediaeval female protestors having been written out of history: Peasants’ Revolt: The time when women took up arms

Some historians now suggest that sexist attitudes permeated medieval history. By translating Latin court records, Sylvia Federico, Associate Professor of English at Bates College, was able to establish that women were often at the heart of the revolt.

From records held at the National Archives in Kew she discovered they did “almost everything” that men did – they incited crowds, chased their enemies and marched into London alongside the men.

“They were not shy to pick up staffs, sticks, and staves and wield them against perceived oppressors,” says Federico.

Mercury:

June 16th, 2012 at 11:51 am

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is a great webcomic. Point taken as to the gendered toy industry, but I would argue that playing with dolls encourages imagination just as much as building robots does, just in a different direction. A doll is a very open-ended sort of toy that encourages roleplay in all sorts of situations. True, many dolls are geared towards imagining scenarios revolving around fashion, but when I played with my Barbie dolls as a kid, they had all sorts of adventures. They went shopping, yes, but they also had large multi-generational families, fought kidnappers, went on quests a la Lord of the Rings, wreaked havoc, rode horses, went to the hospital, etc.

Jennifer:

June 17th, 2012 at 11:05 pm

Thanks for the linkspam, I always get some great reading out of it. You might like this link:

http://www.geekinsydney.com/2012/06/18/its-crime-woman-internet/