{"id":487,"date":"2015-01-25T22:28:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T03:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=487"},"modified":"2015-01-25T22:28:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T03:28:57","slug":"jeneral-finds-week-2015-01-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"Jeneral finds of the week: 2015-01-25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the good\/interesting\/provoking finds\u00a0I\u2019ve stumbled across this week: 2015-01-25<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/ http:\/\/mommyshorts.com\/2015\/01\/parenting-speed.html\">post from Mommy Shorts<\/a> has an honest account of guilt I\u00a0feel being a momager getting from deadline (start of school) to deadline (extra-curricular, dinner, bedtime), each day craving for the kids to be asleep so I\u00a0get some Me time. &#8220;When they&#8217;re awake you wish they were sleeping, and when they&#8217;re asleep you&#8217;ll want to wake them up to cuddle.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I spent some time last week reading some more of the background into &#8220;GamerGate&#8221; that erupted in certain parts of the internet world last year, as I had only read\u00a0the headlines before. It was depressing. The vitriol some gamers\u00a0out there who heaped such vitriol on anyone, in particular Anita Sarkeesian, who deigned to put together a series of\u00a0critical analysis on video games&#8217; use of female tropes, is astonishing. The intent of the critical analysis is to challenge the industry to do better. These gamer &#8220;opponents&#8221; took it as an attack on their core belief system and way of life. More than just rude and shocking misogynist comments, the behaviour displayed by these &#8220;opponents&#8221; of these critics have ranged from outright bullying, harassment, and cyber assault. \u00a0At least it was responses from some prominent voices such <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/11\/17\/rage-against-gamergate-s-hate-machine-what-i-got-for-speaking-up.html\">as this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/badassdigest.com\/2014\/08\/26\/video-games-misogyny-and-terrorism-a-guide-to-assholes\/\">this<\/a> that affirms there is some sanity out there. I just don&#8217;t know how it will end well. Sarkeesian&#8217;s\u00a0critical series? Very thought provoking, and well worth the viewing.\u00a0[su_youtube url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X6p5AZp7r_Q&#8221; width=&#8221;480&#8243; height=&#8221;300&#8243;]<\/li>\n<li>Who knew that modern-day archery has veered so far from its original roots? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk\">Lars Andersen of Denmark knows<\/a>. The skill he displays here is truly amazing, regardless of whether there is some film doctoring (he splits an <em>incoming<\/em> arrow with one of his own!). I wonder if Torontonians will start practicing this technique at this new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archerydistrict.com\/\">archery tag\u00a0centre<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>~Jen<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Jeneral finds of the week: 2015-01-18\" href=\"http:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/2015\/01\/jeneral-finds-week-2015-01-18\/\">&lt;&#8211;previous week&#8217;s finds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the good\/interesting\/provoking finds\u00a0I\u2019ve stumbled across this week: 2015-01-25 This post from Mommy Shorts has an honest account of guilt I\u00a0feel being a momager getting from deadline (start of school) to deadline (extra-curricular, dinner, bedtime), each day craving for the kids to be asleep so I\u00a0get some Me time. &#8220;When they&#8217;re awake you wish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=487\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jeneral finds of the week: 2015-01-25<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[47,141,233,236,264],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jeneral-findings","tag-archery","tag-feminism","tag-misogyny","tag-motherhood","tag-parenting-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/clothespins-e1474432379380.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}