I am having my toddler godson over to my house later today to PARTY PARTY PARTY, and our agenda includes playing on my main bed, which goes up and down with a remote control, and my spare-room bed, which is a loft bed that you climb up to sit upon, and my fancy bean bag chair, which Toddler Godson enjoys to be thrown upon from a distance. I did not deliberately set up my life to have a ton of furniture that’s fun for a toddler, but I do find it curiously validating. Anyway, here are some links!

These GE workers are absolute heroes.

Tiger King represents something fundamental — and grim and doomed — about American culture. Also it’s deeply weird that the show wants to make Carole Baskin the villain. (Except it’s not that weird, because: misogyny.)

HISTORY OF MURDER BALLADS. I love murder ballads. Please share your favorite murder ballad in the comments.

I’m not as mad as some about the How I Met Your Mother finale but it was dumb and unfair and Cristin Milioti deserved better.

“To be a teenager is to be a testing ground for the assembly of your person; to be a young adult is to have free rein to make mistakes. At some point, we make a plan that reflects the self-knowledge we’ve accumulated thus far — I am this, I like that, here are my intentions.” On learning to swim.

Black scholars discuss the film of The Color Purple and its complicated legacy.

Emily VanDerWerff tried Quibi so you don’t have to.

Elizabethans dug true crime. (Sort of.)

“Hoelscher said she’d submitted the puzzle with no men, but wasn’t surprised when the Times editors changed that.” Once again, the white dudeness of crosswords.

“You’re Paul Kinsey, you pretentious fucking fraud.” That “what character are you” personality test has been confronting for some.

Amazon’s self-publishing platform has been a welcome home for white supremacy.

Happy belated Passover if you celebrate Passover! Happy early Easter if you celebrate Easter! Stay safe and stay inside, and one day we will be free of this!

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A personal account from a former teaching assistant to Avital Ronell, the NYU professor accused of harassment.

The brilliant Carol Anderson recommends books about democracy and its challenges.

Okay, maybe — MAYBE — I will consume this Sherlock Holmes property. MAYBE.

Design a spaceship: Some instructions.

Over at the Book Smugglers, Foz Meadows reminds us to critique the critics when we’re talking about problematic elements in media.

Constance Grady goes in on redemption narratives for men in Hollywood, versus women. Guess who gets the benefit of the doubt.

I absolutely love this piece about the jokes comedians regret making. The people who aren’t white dudes generally have more interesting, thoughtful things to say.

Deadspin and Jezebel understand how hard this time is, and they have accordingly switched out their editors. Two Jezebel writers attend a football game, and a Deadspin writer covers a fashion show.

Why the Serena Williams thing was so viscerally upsetting for black women.

I don’t know what this partnership between Sony and the owners of The Ripped Bodice but I am ALL ABOUT IT.

I just adore this piece about how authors dress their characters — with accompanying fashion images!

Want to know how Crazy Rich Asians managed to look so, like, crazy rich? The Wrap has you covered!

How to fart when sharing a bed.

Here’s some measurements and statistics about how stupid and useless the pockets in women’s clothes are WHEN WE EVEN GET TO HAVE THEM.

Women retell myths from classical antiquity: a top ten list.

Is social psychology in a replication crisis? Professionals differ on the answer.

What women really want from Jian Ghomeshi. Also: a conversation with the editor who decided to run the Jian Ghomeshi piece, in which Isaac Chotiner gives no quarter to bullshit, and which I believe led to the editor being fired/resigning. Also: Rebecca Solnit on the tradition that men are objective and women are subjective. Also: Mo Ryan on abusive men rewriting their stories (badly). Megan Garber on the question of (vis-a-vis Kavanaugh) whether sexual assault is Just How Things Are. Jia Tolentino on dudes being not very sorry at all. Also Lili Loofbourow on Kavanaugh because Jesus Christ this fucking week.

Are we in a romcom renaissance? God I hope so.

Willa Paskin reviews (with spoilers) the show Forever, and gets into some of the reasons I find it frustrating when the whole marketing push for a thing is KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS THING GOING IN or it will be COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY RUINT.

Everything you know about obesity is wrong.

Have a great weekend! Cuddle up with blankets and gin and good friends, as I will be doing.

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Anyway, here’s a quick run-down on the Stanford Prison Experiment and its many problems. I’m so excited this is in the news. Be mad about it. Tell your friends.

This article has a bad headline, but it’s spot-on about the way our literary canon perpetually asks everyone, women included, to care deeply about the sexual frustration of men who hate us.

Kekla Magoon on heroism and community. PS y’all should read The Rock and the River and How It Went Down because they’re extraordinary.

This deep-dive into Sherlock conspiracy fandom is absolutely weird and fascinating.

“Come on in; the water is sickeningly warm.” Rebecca Traister on Bill Clinton’s indignation about being asked to discuss his behavior towards Monica Lewinsky in the context of #MeToo.

Coming of age stories for girls in movies are overwhelmingly white (and wealthy).

Ellen Oh has some thoughts on writing while white and how to receive criticism.

Who gets to talk? Rabih Alameddine on purveyors of comforting myths.

The trouble with researching a historical novel is knowing when to stop, and what details to pare away.

Fighting fake reviews — in literature, in the restaurant world, on YouTube — has never been trickier.

I finally took a deep dive into that sex cult that one of the actresses from Smallville was in, and gosh, what an experience. Cults are WILD. Content note for abuse.

Here’s what you need to know about the world’s scariest scary film, Hereditary — whether you want to see it or not! See also: How to participate in horror movies when you are scared of horror, an article that is written by a totally separate human than me but it might as well be an excerpt from my autobiography.

Women use true crime as emotional catharsis and danger practice. (Not me though. I don’t fuck with true crime. No indeed.)

Have a wonderful weekend, internet friends!

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