Brought to you by the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre (a must-see for all Sherlock and/or Doctor Who fans).
dcg @ Dead Cow Girl | Fifty Shades of Grey. A Review from the Dungeon. I asked, and dcg answered: Fifty Shades is crap at consent. Also,as someone points out in comments, if you want to read it check out the fan fiction version for free.
Marianne @ xoJane | Sex Isn’t Trashy – And Neither Are Sexy Books. Why do novels that include sexually explicit material get such a bad rap? Particularly the ones marketed to women? (via Feministing)
Tom Cox @ The Guardian | How to reorganise your bookshelves using the honesty system. “Of course, some of these excesses are simply a by-product of that elastic thing that can happen to time when we are in a bookshop, where our sheer good intentions and excitement overrule everything we have previously learned about how many hours there are in a day. ”
Lyla Cicero @ Role/Reboot | My Husband Does Do That: My Journey Out of the Equal Parenting Closet. “No one has the perfect marriage, but it was the gendered aspects of the husband-bashing which eluded me most—husbands not ‘helping’ around the house, never ‘watching the kids,’ oblivious to routines and childcare tasks.”
Fannie @ Fannie’s Room | But But But Men Are Better!!!. Musings on why it’s so hard for some men to give up the male-as-default way of seeing the world (with examples from ESPN’s coverage of the NCAA tournament).
Eyder Peralta @ NPR | Study: Conservatives Trust in Science at Record Low. This story leaves a lot of questions about the study unanswered, but it’s still interesting food for thought.
s.e. smith @ Wandering Stars | Some thoughts on the responses to the passing of Adrienne Rich. Why it’s still sometimes important to speak ill (or at least honestly) of the dead.
Emily Nagoski @ The Dirty Normal | anti-sex-positive feminism? and if I were FOOD positive …. Two thoughtful posts on the political positioning of sex positivity and those who oppose those who identify as sex positive.
What have you been reading/writing Harpies? Share links in the comments!
Online, I’ve not been reading anything terribly interesting lately (Harpyness aside, of course).
Offline, I’ve been having an Antarctica moment – to coincide with the centenary of Scott’s last expedition, the Oates Museum (as in Titus ‘I am just going outside and may be some time’ Oates) has had a revamp which I’ve visited, and I’ve read Cherry, by Sara Wheeler ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cherry-A-Life-Apsley-Cherry-Garrard/dp/0099437538/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333641051&sr=8-1 ), a biography of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the explorers.
I’ve always been a bit obsessed with these guys, and the more I read and find out about them, the more humbled I am by their endurance and what they went through.
Other interesting things about this:
The Worst Journey In The World, by Apsley C-G: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Worst-Journey-World-Vintage-Classics/dp/0099530376/ref=pd_sim_b_1
Scott’s Journals: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Journals-Captain-Scotts-Expedition-Classics/dp/0199536805/ref=pd_rhf_se_shvl2
Oates Museum: http://www.gilbertwhiteshouse.org.uk/the-oates-collection/
London Natural History Museum exhibition for the centenary (which I will be going to this summer) : http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-exhibitions/scott-last-expedition//index.html
@anna, the piece on Adrienne Rich is fantastic.
Being able to celebrate the great things that a person does/has done does not negate or should stop people from talking about the aweful things that have also been done.
I didn’t know that Rich engaged in transmysogyny. And now I have mixed feelings about her passing. For all her work on inclusion, there was one group that wasn’t allowed inside the tent..
I could only read as far as the women-blaming sentences in the “My Husband Does Do That: My Journey Out of the Equal Parenting Closet” piece.
Sorry