On HU
Featured Archive Post: Joy DeLyria on long fictions.
Me on slow, cheerful doom.
Me on whose gender is artificial.
Phillip Smith on Darna, the Filipino Wonder Woman.
Chris Gavaler on Raskolnikov and the problem with Hollywood super dudes.
Kim O’Connor on why we need to take the sexual harassment allegations against Louis CK seriously.
Me on Game of Thrones and comics to change your gender.
Kate Polak on sexual violence and implicating the viewer in Game of Thrones.
Utilitarians Everywhere
At the New Republic I wrote about Game of Thrones and how critics write about all the same things all the time.
At Playboy I
—wrote about why B.B. King is the King of Rock, not just blues.
—interviewed Dianna E. Anderson about purity culture and creating a better Christian sexual ethics. .
—wrote about Game of Thrones and the complimentary media portrayals of sexual violence against women and violence against men.
—8 Minutes and why sex workers don’t need to be saved.
At Ravishly I wrote about how erasing male victims of domestic violence hurts both men and women.
At Splice Today I wrote about books for white guys.
Other Links
Chris Blattman on that faked gay marriage study.
Barry Ritholtz on how the minimum wage doesn’t kill jobs; it just reduces corporate profits.
Rex Huppke on how the Mad Max movie is a feminist trick.