Saturday Link Love: Lambs, Dolls, and Pandas

Saturday Link Love is a 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.

The Silence of the Lambs, on New Republic—“Kim gave the pastor only a partial, fuzzy account of what had happened to her; as a child raised in a fundamentalist ‘haven,’ she lacked the vocabulary to describe sex acts, let alone understand them.”

Why Doll Make-Unders Make Me Uncomfortable, on Feministing—“The make-unders were met with nearly universal praise; everyone loved these dolls as soon as they were rid of their trashy, heavy-handed makeup. Their lips got thinner. Their eyes got rounder. It all made me pretty uncomfortable.”

Behind Wonder Woman Is a Great Man, on New York Times—“I’ll take a fantasy of a supportive man over a fantasy of a domineering one any day. Such fantasies affect us; they help us know what we can ask for.”

To Understand White Liberal Racism, Read These Private Emails, on KUOW—“A Black Lives Matter day was too militant, too political and too confusing for their young kids, they said.”

What Happens When You Take the Clothes Off the Pandas, on Awesome Thoughts—“The first thing my daughter did was take the clothes off the pandas. I suppose that makes sense, since, as we all know, Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing.”

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