Skepchick Quickies 8.22
- Thin women: I’ve got your back, could you get mine? – “Thin-shaming and fat-shaming are not separate, opposing issues—they are stratifications of the same issue: Patriarchal culture’s need to demoralize, distract, and pit women against one another.” From Mindy.
- What it’s like to grow up in a country that doesn’t hate sex – More awkward breakfasts, less sex in cars.
- Software that exposes fake photos – “To demonstrate the software, the researchers ran an analysis of a picture of the 1969 moon landing. They determined that the image was not a fake.” From Ryan.
- Tips for improving street harassment – Brilliant, funny, comic on how the world should be.
- Fashion tips from nature – Here are the names of the critters. Via.
Featured image from the Boston Public Library’s Flickr collection, which I can get lost in.
The full Bird and Moon webcomic (from the fashion tips from nature one) It’s like Cute Animal Friday came early this week!
You’re so right! I need that turkey vulture poster.
What is happening, your avatar is Rebecca and so is Will’s in a different comment thread. Everybody here is really Rebecca Watson! I knew it!
It would be nice, but I’m still a little doggie after all.
And I, just a negative image of my own shadow. Le sad.
Really? Because thanks to the Unicornify app, you all look like unicorns to me: http://unicornify.appspot.com/use-it
biogeo, I love it! I see Amanda still has two different unicorns tho.
sorry, we are going through a server migration, things may be a little wacky for now :)
Ah well looks like I need to get my conspiracyometer realigned. ;)
And all this time I thought Denmark was the happiest place on earth because of all the LEGO they must have.
Well sure, but that happiness is negated by the ratio of foot-to-Lego mash-ups, but the dance moves are better because of it.
That Lindy West article on body shaming was great. I have yet to read anything by her that was not awesome.