Links

[truepenny]

kateelliott (Kate Elliott) interviews sartorias (Sherwood Smith).

rachelmanija is talking about PTSD, specifically with an eye to improving its representation in fiction.

elisem linked to Spamusement. We applaud the reappropriation of annoyance into humor. This one is my favorite.

via both oursin and matociquala: Zoe Williams on support undergarments: In short, just because you're a woman, and something makes you feel good, that doesn't necessarily add up to feminism - like pretty much every ideological structure apart from hedonism, feminism is slightly harder work than that.

And if anyone's wondering how the revisions are going ...

Comments

[gardensoil.livejournal.com]

No, no! you're not a red kitty in a fish tank! Swim, red kitty, swim! Someone will haul you out, there's alwas an unexpected saviour who saves the day.

[smills47.livejournal.com]

Support undergarments make you feel good?? I can still almost hear my Granny's sigh of relief once she got her stays off.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Actually - yes, for some of us. If you are large-breasted, using a corset to cantilever the weight over your hips rather than a bra (which supports everything with the straps) makes a great deal of sense. Also, they're wonderful back support. The elastic bike-shorts thingies keep your thighs from chaffing, so you're kind of picking your discomforts there.

-Nameseeker

[(Anonymous)]

That Spamusement link doesn't seem to work, it just shows the html. I think there's something wrong with their site or something. I saw something similar on design observer the other day though -

http://www.designobserver.com/archives/029744.html

"Every day for two and a half weeks this past spring, I decided to create a comic strip based on a spam text I received that day."