Blogaround

Tony Stark testing the Iron Man hand blasters in the 2008 Iron Man movie. Image source.

1. Elizabeth Warren rolls out plan to reward hospitals that make childbirth safer for African-American women (posted April 24) "Both Warren and the questioner pointed to the fact that those disproportionately high mortality rates transcended the economic status of the women in danger. The issue recently made headlines outside of medical and political spheres after tennis great Serena Williams went public with her own near-deadly experience in childbirth, saying both a doctor and nurse dismissed her concerns over potentially life-threatening blood clotting -- conditions that were subsequently confirmed with a CT scan."

2. How Thanos Fits Into Real-World Myths of Overpopulation and Scarcity (posted April 24) [content note: does not have spoilers for "Avengers: Endgame", but has spoilers for "Avengers: Infinity War"]

3. Women Did Everything Right. Then Work Got ‘Greedy.’ (posted April 26) "This is not about educated women opting out of work (they are the least likely to stop working after having children, even if they move to less demanding jobs). It’s about how the nature of work has changed in ways that push couples who have equal career potential to take on unequal roles."

4. Epic Christian Fails: The Cross and the Clitoris (posted April 23) LOL!

5. The disabled Christians reinterpreting the Bible (posted April 28) "When I was about 12 years old, I felt God didn't love me as much as other people because I am in a wheelchair and because I can't do lots of the things that other people can do. I felt this way because I did not see anyone with a wheelchair in the Bible, and nearly all the disabled people in the Bible get healed by Jesus - so they are not like me."

6. The Absent School Board Prayer I Never Noticed (posted April 29) "As a teen ensconced in the Christian Right, I had thought leaving prayer out of local government meetings of this sort was akin to making a statement—in other words, I had thought that it was something that would be noticed."

7. Avengers Endgame Spoiler Review (posted April 26) From the Super Carlin Brothers.

8. ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Had a Fat Joke Problem (posted April 29) [content note: spoilers for "Avengers: Endgame"] "All these jokes underline an idea that fat people are told again and again: fat people cannot be heroes."

9. Joseph's Fabulous Technicolor Dreamcoat (posted 2006) "I mean, he’s got this fabulous rainbow-colored coat, everyone comments on how cute he is, and he refuses to sleep with that Egyptian hottie. He’s totally gay."

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