Links #166

If you wake at night and see her, her clothes be blowing back, even in a room where there is no wind.  And you know she’s marked you for killing.  –  Anonymous Miami child, describing the she-demon called “Bloody Mary”

Just in case you’ve ever wondered who provided links that aren’t credited (and I’m sure at least a few of my more academically-inclined readers may have):  either they’re ones I found myself while doing my regular scans for material, or else I received them directly from their authors (whose names appear on said articles, natch).  Top honors this week go to Aspasia, who contributed not only the links above the first video, but also tomorrow’s guest column.  The first video was provided by my husband, and the links below it by Cthulhuchick  (“headline”), Lucy Steigerwald (“Dyatlov Pass”), Popehat (“welcome”), Jillian Keenan (“Hamlet”), Jasper Gregory (“nutritionists”), Cliterati (“boobies”),  Thaddeus Russell (“government”), Cop Block (“hijab”), and Jolene Parton  (“mythology”).  And if you don’t know who Harrison Bergeron is, this will help.

• If World War I and World War II had been barroom brawls.
• A Grey’s Anatomy for mythological creatures.

• Headline of the week.
• Paging Harrison Bergeron!
• The Dyatlov Pass Incident.
• The nannies never know when to stop.
• Welcome to our world, gays and lesbians.
• A choose-your-own-adventure version of Hamlet.
• Yet another reason to ignore nutritionists and their claims.
• Facebook bans birdwatching ad for phrase “juvenile boobies”.
• Government is just a word for things we choose to do together.
• Cops attack girls for wearing hijab, then attack boys who protest.
• The amazing mythology which has arisen among homeless children.

From the Archives

• Buzz Aldrin, police brutality, sexting, Bigfoot, animal sex, face-recognition technology, ludicrous fines, progressivism and prudishness.
• What sort of warped mind could produce the phrase “vulnerable to economic opportunities”?
• The “most stressful jobs in America” don’t include any form of sex work.
• Another study discovers the truth of what whores have always said.
• Private Dancer, A Woman’s Story, Hot Child in the City and La Grange.
• Swedes try to reconcile “whore as criminal” with “whore as victim”.
• Cops spouting neofeminist rhetoric is like lipstick on a pig.
• “End demand” schemes actually increase prostitution.
• A few politicians’ uncensored opinions about whores.
• Lulu White, one of Storyville’s most famous madams.
• How feminists cut off their noses to spite their faces.
• French intellectuals ridicule sex work prohibitionism.
• Inspiration for the movie Taken is exposed as a liar.
• In the UK, bureaucracy is a shield against sex rays.
• One runs into former clients in the oddest places.
• Not the wisest way to deal with an extortionist.
• The inevitable result of trying to stop sex work.
• A bizarrely backward news report from India.
• A bioethicist asks, “Is Prostitution Harmful?”
• Somehow, I doubt he thought this through.
• Quality is far more important than quantity.
• Florida prefers to keep fornication criminal.
• A place where 14% of women are whores.
• Dr. Ronald Weitzer on “trafficking” myths.
• A minor setback for Michael Weinstein.
• An open letter to Australian feminists.
• My very first professional conference.
• A picture is worth a thousand words.
• Workers’ paradise vs. gold diggers.
• An introduction to Laura Agustín.
• A glossary of sex work terms.
• Another Asstoon photo op.
• The bottleneck effect.
• A Pete & Pete reunion.
• Planet of the Apes.
• Nevada Rose.