Saturday Link Love: 5th Grade, Race, and Pickup Artists

Saturday Link Love is a new feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.

Note: Inclusion does not imply full agreement. 

A 5th-grader wrote 7 rules for talking to girls — but grown-ups could learn from them too, on Upworthy—“Specifically, she is fed up with a boy in her class named Noah, who, like many fifth grade boys, hasn’t quite figured out how to flirt with girls in a way that’s not intrusive and obnoxious.”

It’s Not About Race, on Those People—“Sometime later, a man said that he hoped we could “rise above emotions.” He wanted an “intellectual discussion” using logic so we could “really get to heart of the matter” without getting “derailed by emotions.””

Christian fundamentalist schools ‘performed exorcisms on children and beat pupils in religious rituals’, on The Independent—“The former pupils told The Independent such treatment of children was a “terrifying” part of life at schools in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s in an environment where they felt too afraid to complain for fear of retribution from school staff, evangelical parents and their close-knit Baptist faith community.”

The Idea That Women Use Guns For Self-Defense Against Men Is A Big Lie, on The Huffington Post—“The report found that in 2014, over 1,600 women were killed by men. The most common weapon used was a gun. During that same time period, there were only 15 instances of women using firearms to kill a man in self-defense.”

Police Are Not the Problem, on Medium—“If we understand that since enslavement the job of the police has been to protect and serve white supremacy, then we start understanding the root of the problem.”

Pickup Artists Preyed on Drunk Women, Brought Them Home, and Raped Them, on The Daily Beast—“Alex Smith and Jonas Dick considered themselves part of the elite. The two men were instructors in the community of pickup artists—men who obsessively study and practice methods of meeting and sleeping with as many women as possible.”