The historical accuracy defense
Fairly often in discussions of sf, especially in discussions of epic fantasy, fans use the idea of historical accuracy to...
Archive for Improving Society
Body autonomy
Here's a simple guideline that I wish more people in our society would follow: Don't touch other people without their...
Some notes on harassment
I just happened across a 2012 chat among female Rookie magazine staffers, discussing and listing a few dozen instances of...
The scariest threats are the invisible ones
Three items that feel thematically related to me: I've been concerned for a decade or so about the possibility of...
Some notes on Card
Some notes toward the blog entry that I'm probably not going to manage to write about Orson Scott Card and...
Hidden speech of the powerless and the powerful
A while back, someone pointed me to a book called Domination and the Arts of Resistance, by James C. Scott....
Group discussion can result in extreme views
In 2000, the Yale Law Journal published a fascinating article by Cass R. Sunstein titled “Deliberative Trouble? Why Groups Go...
How to help fix the “American novelists” problem on Wikipedia
The “American novelists” category on Wikipedia is apparently theoretically supposed to be just a list of subcategories, but it currently...
Some harassment and rape links
I've been meaning for a long time to write something coherent about some of the stuff I've been reading about...
The transparent society: arriving soon?
I read only an excerpt from David Brin's 1998 nonfiction book The Transparent Society, but the gist of its argument...
Mary Anne on graceful exits
Good stuff from Mary Anne about how to leave room for a polite no when flirting or otherwise expressing interest...
Half-amusing juxtaposition
I get spam now and then from the IGN Games website. I think I tried to unsubscribe at some point...