Quickies: Gamergate Trolls Strike Again, “Women-Friendly” Restaurants, and the Fear of Immigrants

• Restrictions on Women’s Health Force Women to Self-Induce Abortion, Study Finds – “TxPEP estimates that somewhere between 100,000 and 240,000 women age 18-49 in Texas have ever tried to end a pregnancy on their own without medical assistance. The study outlines four primary reasons why women attempted to self-induce their abortion: financial limitations to travel to a clinic or pay for the procedure, the closure of their local clinic, the suggestion from a close friend or family member to self-induce, or to avoid the stigma or shame of going to an abortion clinic, especially if they had prior abortions.”
• When trolling crosses dangerous lines: This writer’s selfie transformed into a terrorist portrait shows how far online abuse can go – “The image was debunked early, but a new investigative report from Vice traces the act back to Gamergate supporters.”
• Gray-Haired Granny? An 85-Year-Old Writer Goes Punk Rock Instead – “Along about the time I became a great-grandmother I dyed my white hair blue. Not a wussy “blue-rinse” blue, but eye-stabbing, punk-kid blue. At the time, I didn’t do any soul-searching. I just thought, What the hell, why not?”
• What Women Want, According to “Female-Friendly” Restaurants – “Do women pay 77 percent of the list price, to account for the national wage gap? Can women servers take orders from customers without sexually charged comments attached? Nope. There are salads, though!”
• This Chemist Discovered How to Salvage Useless Photos with a Dash of Radioactivity – “When NASA hired chemist Barbara Askins to salvage the photos they were getting back from astronauts, they never expected she’d revolutionize how to restore details to underexposed photographs.”
• When People Flee to America’s Shores – “We are a nation of immigrants and refugees. Yet we always fear who is coming next.”

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