Article Roundup 10.21

Another week, another roundup of articles that had me thinking, fuming (or the comments on the article had me fuming), laughing, etc. Happy Weekend!

A Stress Free Manifesto

Don't lecture black women about marriage

The Tits Have It: Sexism, Character Design and the Role of Women in Created Worlds

10 Questions for Anti-Choice Candidates

Winter Comes to Town

For China's Educated Single Ladies, Finding Love is Often a Struggle

Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies Established at Columbia Law School

Love Stories by Phoebe Connelly (via Feministe)
(a highlight: "We spent the next two years courting each other with words—our own, but also those of any writer we thought might impress. We certainly weren’t the first to go this route. But like every romance, and every reading list, it felt like our own.")

And some music & video clips to get other senses going:

Some Colbert, some more Colbert, and some excellent Maddow

The Making of Passenger (Lisa Hannigan on making her new CD...and in case you want to hear a track and see someone get covered in paint: Knots)