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Happy almost-the-weekend, everybody! Here's what's been blowing up the Interwebs.

• At the Guardian's Comment is Free, Jill Filipovic wrote about straight women who change their names upon marriage, asking, modest-proposal–like, that men be expected to do the same. Twitter freaked out. [The Guardian]

• An anonymous mother wrote about outsourcing the diaper-changing of her youngest child to her older children. Mommyish readers freaked out. [Mommyish]

• The first video in Anita Sarkeesian's now-notorious Kickstarter-funded "Tropes Vs. Women: Video Games" series is up at Sarkeesian's site, Feminist Frequency. Zillions of trolls are freaking out right this very minute. [Feminist Frequency]

• Jezebel offered its own special take on the time-honored journalistic tradition known as False Feminist Death Syndrome, asking whether feminism is "nearing her expiration date." Let's not freak out, because seriously? Oldest trick in the book. [Jezebel]

• Forest Whitaker was recently frisked and accused of shoplifting at a New York City delicatessen. Are you surprised by this blatantly racist treatment of an Oscar-winning actor? Perhaps you shouldn't be, says Ta-Nehisi Coates. [New York Times]

• Happy International Women's Day! At PolicyMic, Roxanne Kristalli writes about the crucial need to look deeply at gender—not simply "women" and "men"—in global advocacy work. [PolicyMic]

• At the Root, Nsenga K. Burton writes about the disturbing uptick in public policing of women's clothing, whether on the red carpet or on the streets of their home cities. [The Root]

• And speaking of clothes, fashion legend Vivienne Westwood is not feeling Michelle Obama's fashion choices. Bold talk from a woman who made her name with studded dog collars and unwalk-inable platforms. Your move, FLOTUS. [New York Times]

• Finally, Joss Whedon has adapted Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, and everyone seems psyched about it. [AtlanticWire]

Have a great weekend, all! And be sure to note anything we missed in the comments.

Mother's Day is this Sunday, and while we're sure your mom can't wait to spend some quality time with you, one organization is hoping you'll do a little more than shell out for brunch and a movie with your own maternal unit. Bay Area microcharity Help a Mother Out was formed when two local mothers — one of whom is former Bitch editor and eternal Friend of Bitch Rachel Fudge — began hearing about the growing numbers of homeless women and children in the state, and the difficulty of women's centers and shelters in affording diapers and other hygiene necessities.

Behold the teaser from an article in this morning's Chicago Sun Times: "Football tough guy Brian Urlacher dresses his son in pink Cinderella diapers and paints the 3-year-old's toenails blue, the child's mother charged in Will County court Tuesday."

What?