New Yorker magazine alert thread

by the time the transgender teens piece had gotten around to talking about YouTube I had already been sucked away from the article and down a 2-hour k-hole of trans teen vlogging

bolshoi acid attack piece this week was great, also the crazy dudes diving into florida sinkholes and spending 21 hours underwater

that reads like criticism but its meant to be praise

Can someone summarise the Urban Honking piece about Lane? I mean, I might agree, but it was too annoying to actually read after a para.

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by the time the transgender teens piece had gotten around to talking about YouTube I had already been sucked away from the article and down a 2-hour k-hole of trans teen vlogging

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, March 12, 2013 9:53 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i.. sucked.. trans.. teen... hole ― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080)

just read the larissa macfarquhar piece on aaron swartz. so damn sad.

i read the first half of that, felt like i got the idea and stopped

I get what you are saying gr80, I have a strange fascination with teens these days, and their feelings, and trans teen vlogging can be pretty powerful and encouraging.

havent read the article but teenagers are monsters

otm

The Urban Honking piece is a prime example of awful internet writing. Lane may indeed be an insidious misogynist but she mounts a half-assed case drizzled with lazy snark.

Read the rest of the Swartz piece k3vin - it gets richer as it progresses.

i support the causes of trans teens, but i will oppose to the death their right to use "transition" as a verb

that is a fairly common verb

a. intr. To make or undergo a transition (from one state, system, etc. to or into another); to change over or switch.

1975 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 6 Jan. 43/3 Transitioning to the advanced displays from the basic dial indicators found in standard aircraft sometimes causes minor confusion.

originally aviation jargon!

also, apposite:

1986 New Yorker 19 May 28/2 There can be something almost quaint, in our meeting here like this talking about Texas in transition, when the overriding question..is whether there will be anything to transition to.

slocki did u know irregardless is in the dictionary

no

all words are words

end of story

made up of words

Words all the way down.

great features this week i thought: lepore's history of the legal system & torture was one of her best pieces, transgender teens piece was v informative and even-handed, & the russian ballet story was riveting! i'd missed that on the news

also i'm finally starting david grann's "the devil and sherlock holmes", thanks max

i liked the bader ginsberg profile; she seems like a chill lady

tbh there was some language in the trans teens piece that some trans folks and queer theorists would probably take issue with

how unusual

lol

just read "trial by fire" and wow

As I said in the SCOTUS thread, I thought the Ginsburg piece was kind of puffy, the legal stuff didn't seem that sound and Toobin seems to be overstating her influence(?) (e.g. does Ginsburg's dissent in the Ledbetter case genuinely represent some noteworthy break with traditional SCOTUS roles?), but the human interest stuff was engrossing.

The ballet article vis-a-vis the acid throwing, threatens to look very one-sided, because Filin seems far too reasonable for someone in his position. I do like the brief history of ballet in Russia/USSR, though, esp. Kruschev perving on the ballerinas.

I enjoyed the ballet/acid-throwing article quite a bit. I didn't think it was too one-sided, but then again, I don't know anything about ballet, so maybe Tsiskaridze is right and Filin is really ruining the Bolshoi. I guess the article did make him seem sort of a pompous nut-job, but one with a gift for morose Russian snark and great hair.

why the hell won't this thread bookmark

i laughed at the marv albert shouts and murmurs

lena dunham writes about dogs

yeaahhhh i'm skipping that one

I'll read anything about the doggehs.

who dont want to read abt dawgs

cats

Purell piece was great! I say this as a germophobe. Though like someone said up thread, would've loved a few extra pages. Best parts for me is the paragraph that points out the trade off of the hygiene hypothesis, and how alcohol based sanitizers don't promote microbial resistance.

lol yes "it's like humans developing a resistance to bullets"

I liked the Dapper Dan profile

very few articles feature Fat Joe, Sonia Sotomayor and Mike Tyson

lol yes "it's like humans developing a resistance to bullets"

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, March 19, 2013 6:51 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loved this & it totally busted a lot of myths i believed in

Yeah, that Purell article converted me from a skeptic to a believer when it comes to hand sanitizers. Not that I intend to start carrying some around with me.

same here. Always thought it was crazy. I was like "where does the dirt go?!?!". But that's not really what it's for.

Been telling EVERYONE all about how bad tongs are since reading that.

I actually liked most of the Style issue--Dapper Dan, the crazy billionaire aussie lady, the punk fashion article had some Richard Hell stuff, even the Lena Dunham, though way beneath NYer's standards, did have a circle of puppies sucking each other's dicks.

Post Purell article, I walked down the street and bought four to scatter around the house. My wife was a little miffed, but on the other hand, we will never get sick again!

The Dapper Dan article was excellent.

ugh I am not getting along very well with the digital edition on my laptop. Gonna try a free sample for the Kindle.

it only works in internet explorer for me (on a computer)