[Linkspam] Wednesday, October 5
Oct. 5th, 2016 07:39 pmA bit late, because I've been on vacation. But linkspam doesn't take a vacation!
The Psychology of Victim-Blaming by Kayleigh Roberts for the Atlantic (2016-10-05). Good outline of how the just-world fallacy causes people to blame victims.
Protect Your Irritated Nervous System by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sonia (2016-10). Good stuff about understanding chronic stress.
The Importance of Paying Attention in Building Community Trust, bymjg59 (2016-10-03). If your community doesn't handle the little things, no one will trust you to get big things right.
It’s Not About Race!, by John Metta (2016-09-18). 'When a white person says “It’s not about race,” they are pretty much always saying it when a Black person, or a Latino person, or a Muslim person is not acting the way a white European would act or wants them to act.' (I probably would have cited this in "The Filter of Unemotionality" had I read it sooner.)
Language in Emergency Medicine: A Verbal Self-Defense Handbook, by Suzette Haden Elgin (1999). I am thinking about this approach to communication and would like to read and think more about it. "In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true, and try to imagine what it could be true of" isn't advice I follow all the time, or even most of the time, and I especially don't want to assume that what somebody is saying is true when what they're saying is that I don't deserve to live. However, there might be more times when it's useful than I've accounted for.
A Health Benefit of Roller Coasters, by James Hamblin for the Atlantic (2016-09-26). Now this is the kind of science I love: "So I used real urine … to avoid criticism."
The Sexist Response to a Science Book Prize, by Thomas Levenson for the Atlantic (2016-09-30).
Some links about weight and fatphobia. CWs apply to all of them, but particularly the two articles by Gina Kolata, which are quite wrong-headed and pathologizing (having a body size and shape that some people find sexually unattractive isn't a "disease", folks), but still contain some useful information.
The Mythology Of Trump’s ‘Working Class’ Support, by Nate Silver for FiveThirtyEight (2016-05-03).
A Pox On Your Box: The Problem of LELO Hex, by Lorax of Sex (2016-09-25) -- about a supposedly-revolutionary new condom design that's anything but.
Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless, by Laurie Penny for The Baffler (2016-07-08):
The Psychology of Victim-Blaming by Kayleigh Roberts for the Atlantic (2016-10-05). Good outline of how the just-world fallacy causes people to blame victims.
Protect Your Irritated Nervous System by
sonia (2016-10). Good stuff about understanding chronic stress.The Importance of Paying Attention in Building Community Trust, by
mjg59 (2016-10-03). If your community doesn't handle the little things, no one will trust you to get big things right.It’s Not About Race!, by John Metta (2016-09-18). 'When a white person says “It’s not about race,” they are pretty much always saying it when a Black person, or a Latino person, or a Muslim person is not acting the way a white European would act or wants them to act.' (I probably would have cited this in "The Filter of Unemotionality" had I read it sooner.)
Language in Emergency Medicine: A Verbal Self-Defense Handbook, by Suzette Haden Elgin (1999). I am thinking about this approach to communication and would like to read and think more about it. "In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true, and try to imagine what it could be true of" isn't advice I follow all the time, or even most of the time, and I especially don't want to assume that what somebody is saying is true when what they're saying is that I don't deserve to live. However, there might be more times when it's useful than I've accounted for.
A Health Benefit of Roller Coasters, by James Hamblin for the Atlantic (2016-09-26). Now this is the kind of science I love: "So I used real urine … to avoid criticism."
The Sexist Response to a Science Book Prize, by Thomas Levenson for the Atlantic (2016-09-30).
Some links about weight and fatphobia. CWs apply to all of them, but particularly the two articles by Gina Kolata, which are quite wrong-headed and pathologizing (having a body size and shape that some people find sexually unattractive isn't a "disease", folks), but still contain some useful information.
- After Transitioning, No One Calls Me Fat Anymore, by Liam Lowery for Buzzfeed (2016-09-24).
- Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don’t See Past the Fat, by Gina Kolata for the New York Times (2016-09-25).
- What Obese Patients Should Say to Doctors, by Gina Kolata for the NY Times (2016-09-25). (Of course, I would rather see an article addressed to doctors about how they should treat fat people.)
The Mythology Of Trump’s ‘Working Class’ Support, by Nate Silver for FiveThirtyEight (2016-05-03).
A Pox On Your Box: The Problem of LELO Hex, by Lorax of Sex (2016-09-25) -- about a supposedly-revolutionary new condom design that's anything but.
Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless, by Laurie Penny for The Baffler (2016-07-08):
When Penny writes, "There is an obvious political dimension to the claim that wellbeing, with the right attitude, can be produced spontaneously," it reminds me of the blog post I want to write about the political uses of cognitive-behavioral therapy.
'Can all this positive thinking be actively harmful? Carl Cederström and André Spicer, authors of The Wellness Syndrome, certainly think so, arguing that obsessive ritualization of self-care comes at the expense of collective engagement, collapsing every social problem into a personal quest for the good life. “Wellness,” they declare, “has become an ideology.”