it's lonely here, there's no one left to torture

[hawkwing_lb]

Life is interesting. I have broken open blood blisters on both my big toes, courtesy of a karate training session yesterday evening, and thanks to a climbing session tonight, my stiff-for-a-week shoulder has graduated from achey to Actually Fucking Sore and interfering with my range of motion.

In lieu of what passes for brains, have some links.

Cat Valente on The Future is Gender Distributed over at Charlie Stross' blog.

Brit Mandelo on more of Joanna Russ' nonfiction over at Tor.com: Reading Joanna Russ: Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts.

Patrick Rothfuss shows an oddly specific attachment to virgin/whore dichotomies. More comments at James Nicoll's LJ.

Neil Gaiman versus antisemitism

Lavie Tidhar at the World SF Blog rounds up on some recent conversations in the genre blogosphere: Editorial: Season of Silly?

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I was very disturbed by that Rothfss piece, I have to say, and for that very reason. SO not a good metaphor.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Really not. Really, really not.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

The comments are disturbing, too. So many inappropriate rape metaphors. Sigh.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

This is why we can't have nice things. Sigh.

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

oh, dear. I didn't read the comments. * fears *