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It’s been one of those weeks where I’ve read a lot of fascinating stuff online, so I thought I’d start a weekend links series on Quite Irregular. Below are some things I’d recommend, and please feel free to leave your own links – including stuff you’ve written, if you like – in the comments.
I Was A Misogynist – Laura Buttrick writes brilliantly, and with painful honesty, about growing up in a society which encouraged her to hate women – and herself for being one.
Christian Feminism Is Not An Oxymoron – Vicky Beeching launches her new online project with an article about feminism and the church. (Some of the comments are…interesting)
Safer Spaces Within Feminism – Stavvers talks about the need to think hard about the notion of inclusivity within feminism
Reading Hick-Hop: The Shotgun Marriage of Hip Hop and Country Music – Tressie McMillan Cottom discusses race, class, genre, culture and resistance in the musical hybrid. (Worth a read even if you don’t listen to any of the genres mentioned…)
Isn’t Religion Largely Homophobic? – Vicky Beeching interviews Rachel Mann, the philosopher, priest, and gay trans woman. (If this piece gets you interested in Rachel’s work, her blog is here and I reviewed her book “Dazzling Darkness”)
The Hairpin Talks To Mikki Kendall and Flazia Dzodan – about the #solidarityisforwhitewomen hashtag, its origins and implications
Of Course All Men Don’t Hate Women – but, argues Laurie Penny, all men must know they benefit from sexism.
I Hate Strong Female Characters – Sophia McDougall finds the flattening of female fictional representation boring and restrictive.
Kill All Hipsters – Rhian E. Jones suggests that hipsters are more the symptom than the cause. Though they are nonetheless shit. (NB: I should like to point out that Rhian has publicly declared that I liked her work before it was cool. At the time I was pleased, but I now fear I am only just getting the joke, just in time t be assassinated…)
Looking forward to your reading suggestions and self-promotion in the comments…!
quiteirregular 
Well, if it’s self-promotion you want, I had a look at Prof. Pinker’s two cultures essay here and then concluded all the ideas had actually been explored much more interestingly by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace in the Documents in the Case so I wittered on about the latter, instead.
Wow, what a piece! I was rereading Documents last week – that’s the most compelling interpretation of a detective novel I’ve ever read.