Blogaround

1. Thank you to all the readers who have taken my 2022 Reader Survey! It is still open (until June 30) so go ahead and take it if you haven't. I really appreciate all the feedback.

2. “Acing” Sexual Purity (posted 2015) Very cool to find people writing about being asexual in purity culture even before I was. A lot of their experiences are totally the same as mine.

3. This Twitter thread (go read the whole thread)

There are things I so wish people understood about what sexual abuse can do to an individual. Please know that I am not speaking for all or even most survivors here. I speak only for myself and some others who have shared their journeys with me through years of women’s ministry.

— Beth Moore (@BethMooreLPM) June 13, 2022

As I said in my previous blogaround, I don't feel like the "sex" part is the most evil part of sexual abuse. This thread from Beth Moore is sort of along similar lines.

4. Star Trek: Discovery’s latest episode makes a rare point about male rape survivors (posted 2017) [content note: rape] "What makes this scene all the more significant is how it deviates from historical depictions of rape survivors; Tyler is not only a man, but a highly trained soldier, capable of killing multiple Klingon warriors in hand-to-hand combat. In a battle training simulation with Lorca, he takes out 36 foes with tactical precision. He’s unquestionably strong, brave, and trained to defend himself at an elite level. And yet none of this saved him from sexual assault. Faced with a situation where someone had enormous power over him and decided to prey on him, he did what he needed to do in order to get out alive."

5. NHTSA Finds Teslas Deactivated Autopilot Seconds Before Crashes (posted June 15) Yeah this is suspicious. As this article says, let's not jump to conclusions and say there's some nefarious plot and that's the reason for the autopilot turning off just before a crash- but clearly *something* is wrong.

6. MTG Oddly Familiar With Satan's Conversations With Prospective Abortion-Havers (posted April 30)