Friday Links

• Lisybabe: ♫...So scared of breaking it that you won't let it bend...♫
• Phillipa Willetts at The F-Word: 1 in 6 women would rather be blind than fat - so?
• Zero at the Bone: Who is “we”?
• [trigger warning] s.e. smith at Tiger Beatdown: Getting Some Nuance Up In Your Reproductive Rights and ‘But, his reputation will be ruined! And what about France?’
• Gwen Sharp at Sociological Images: Institutional Encouragement of Gender Norms
• eastsidekate at Shakesville: Women: Should they have autonomy?
• Diary of a benefit scrounger: Why Labour still have it wrong on ESA
• [trigger warning] Two whole cakes: So Michel Foucault and Jeremy Bentham walk into an elementary school cafeteria*
• Complicity: Free sex change and relationship breakup, thanks to the census
• HarpyMarx: Stop demonising disabled people and To disclose or not to disclose that is the question…..
• [trigger warning] The Curvature: New Congo Rape Statistics Inspire Competitive Headlines, Not Much Else
• [trigger warning] Spark in Darkness: On GBLT genocide
• [trigger warning] Ethar El-Katatney at Muslimah Media Watch: The Sexy Business of Political Uprisings: Sijal Hachem’s “Khalas”
• Latoya Peterson at Racialicious: How to Debunk Pseudo-Science Articles about Race in Five Easy Steps
• [trigger warning] Discipline and Anarchy: The DSK Affair – An Angry Rant
• [trigger warning] Diary of a Goldfish: Abstinence, Victim-Blaming & Female Empowerment