3 good articles

[ironphoenix]

Researcher illegally shares millions of science papers free online to spread knowledge (Fiona MacDonald) (short) Halelujah, and more power to her. The paywall sites are charging exorbitant amounts given how low the real costs of publication are.

Attention Fellow Introverts: It's Time to Stop Beating Ourselves Up (Ashley Lauretta) (medium-length) I'm not an introvert (I'm a moderate extrovert), but I know and love many, and this article rings true to me.

The opposite of rape culture is nurturance culture (Nora Samaran) (long!) This is a really good synthesis of a lot of ideas about masculinity, development, and relationships. Highly recommended, but don't be in a rush. For people who are wondering how masculinity can fit with feminism, this is a really good place to look.

Comments

[khall.livejournal.com]

Last one. Neat article. But...feminism-as-politics has too much shaped her view of rape. I wonder how to study it honestly, without the skein of politics. The idea that rape is about violence, not sex, is...inherently flawed. It posits that someone can be so selfish as to not care about damaging you for a lifetime, and yet, so other-focused that they are intentionally doing so to damage you. It's a huge cause of cognitive dissonance and I feel, harms people who have been assaulted, as a result. At least she didn't randomly flip back and forth between stranger-rape and acquaintance-rape like they're the same subject or that conflating the two is not intellectually dishonest. So many people work so hard to be experts...

I think she has a lot of valid points. I just don't think...the instance of someone 'accidentally' raping someone, because they didn't get the social/emotional cues exactly explains the 95-98% of rapes that are not done by a stranger.

K.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

In the third article, I twitched a bit at the use of the phrase "attachment science" rather than "attachment theory". But, otherwise, an excellent article.