• If you're bummed out at Oscar nominating five white guys for Best Director yet again, check out Cannonball's list of five women that should have been nominated instead.
• Break out your see-through visors and cigars and support this Kickstarter campaign for feminist playing cards.
• From inter-office email: "We're probably all sick of Doucho Schwyzer, but this Global Comment piece is pretty good."
• Check Colorlines' wonderful obituary for Etta James.
• We all know Pariah's pretty darn good, but did you know the twenty-year history of black lesbian filmmaking?
• Today in Rick Santorum: pregnancies from rapes are God's will. Cue the sound of a thousand long, drawn-out sighs.
• Here's what Charlize Theron was missing when she silenced Viola Davis at the Oscar roundtable last week.
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In popular fiction, savant skills and autism are almost synonymous. Portraying a character as a savant has become a way of driving home the fact that the character is autistic. The savant archetype is glaringly problematic because of the cultural baggage associated with idea of the "savant," because of the roles that autistic savants are relegated to in fiction, and because the stereotype of the autistic savant is enormously misleading. While "autism" and "savant" may go hand-in-hand in popular consciousness, the vast majority of autists are not savants and not all people who have savant skills are autistic.