Interesting Links for 11-07-2018

[andrewducker]

India breastfeeding magazine cover ignites debate

(tags: breastfeeding india )

Theresa May will be PM til after Brexit

(tags: Conservatives uk politics )

PETA wants staffies added to the Dangerous Dogs Act

(tags: dogs PETA OhForFucksSake )

Picky Refugee Just Expects To Be Reunited With Exact Same Family As Before

(tags: immigration satire )

The U.S. Abortion Debate Isn’t As Partisan As Politicians Make It Seem

(tags: usa abortion )

EU negotiator Michel Barnier says 80% of Brexit deal is agreed

(tags: uk europe thefuture )

Why Russia is far less threatening than it seems

(tags: Russia economics thefuture )

Please don't pirate books before they've even been released!

(tags: books publishing piracy OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )

Psychology, Numeracy and Biases in Brexit Voters

(tags: referendum Europe UK psychology personality )

What If Trump Has Been a Russian Asset Since 1987?

(tags: Russia politics usa republicans conspiracy )

Netflix's The Dragon Prince: A New Animated Series From Avatar: The Last Airbender's Head Writer Announced

(tags: Netflix animation )

How peopleare misreading the end of Return of the Jedi

(tags: StarWars )

Brits are a _lot_ more in favour of immigratns than they were five years ago

(tags: immigration polls uk GoodNews )

These Bizarre Glasses Promise to Cure Your Motion Sickness

(tags: sick vision glasses )

Turns out you can fight corruption by informing the populace of their rights

(tags: corruption fraud GoodNews food )

Performing meaningless rituals boosts our self-control through making us feel more self-disciplined

(tags: self-control psychology )

Lesbians have better sex than straight women

(tags: sex lesbians lgbt )

Comments

I'm not angry at you, but at the Grauniad, and patriarchy apparently

[redbird]

It's not clear from that Guardian article whether the author (and editor) have once again forgotten bisexuals exist, or whether all the studies being described here did, though she does mention one study that asked respondents several demographic questions including religion, but not sexual orientation.

What the article hints at is that sex with people who actually listen to you, and pay attention to what you like, is better than sex with people who either care only about their own pleasure, or are so sure they know what everyone likes that they let that script override what their actual partners do or say. But "lesbians have better sex because other women know what a clitoris is" is in some ways less of a challenge to patriarchy than "lesbians have better sex because men are less likely to care whether their female partners have an orgasm, and less likely to listen when a woman tells them what she likes, rather than assuring them that whatever they're already doing is great.'" When I got to the bit about "we don't know whether women really talk more than men, in words per day, but it may be true that women care more about communication," I was thinking "or maybe women use more words because we need to, and men get listened to the first time."

Re: I'm not angry at you, but at the Grauniad, and patriarchy apparently

[andrewducker]

Oh yes. Communication is key, and I do think that most people could stand to do more of it in the bedroom.

[e_d_young]

That Onion article is exactly what was needed to lighten up my morning.

I've been a lurker for a while, more or less, and now's as good a time as any to say Thanks for these Interesting Links posts.

[andrewducker]

*waves*

We need all the lightening we can get in these dark times!