Round-Up: July 28, 2015

• Why are mass shootings overwhelmingly committed by men? And why do they happen more often in America than anywhere else? Tristan Bridges and Tara Leigh Tober at The Society Pages take a look at research on American masculinity and how it relates to mass shootings.
• Victoria Law writes at Bitch about the deaths of Sandra Bland and Kindra Chapman and what they tell us about how the justice system sees black women.
• Anne Theriault has important things to say about Christie Blatchford’s misleading and dangerous columns about the criminal harassment case against Gregory Alan Elliott.
• Nike’s “Girl Effect” to empower adolescent entrepreneurs around the world sounds like an okay idea in principles, but Maria Hengeveld has a great article at Al Jazeera about how, in fact, Nike “funnels girls and the NGOs that work for social change into a web of corporate dependency.”
• A new study shows that older women are having a lot more sex than people might think (Jezebel).
• Regina Mahone was part of a protest at Netroots Nation in support of black lives and ending structural racism. At RH Reality Check she writes about why she took part and what it felt like.
• Why are people of colour so underrepresented in mainstream journalism? Alex T. Williams at the Columbia Journalism review took a look at the reasons for underrepresentation and what needs to change to make newsrooms more diverse.
• Sabrina at The F Bomb argues changing your Facebook profile to a rainbow isn’t enough to show solidarity with LGBTQ struggles.
• With the recent release of Jurassic World, Lindsey Ellis at Women and Hollywood argues it’s high time for Hollywood to retire the “loveable misogynist” character.